English Poetry. Henry Van Dyke. Might and Right. Генри Ван Дайк.

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк)

Might and Right

If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts’ cage;
If Right made Might, this were the golden age;
But now, until we win the long campaign, 
Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.

Henry Van Dyke’s other poems:

1. The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
2. The Wind of Sorrow
3. Spring in the South
4. Patria
5. Nepenthe

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