The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.
Rest if you must, but never quit.
Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.
And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.