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![](http://images4.fotki.com/v42/photos/1/107747/420032/patriotic1-vi.jpg)
A Nation's Strength
What makes a nation's pillars high
And it's foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?
It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.
Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passed away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.
And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown
Has seemed to nations sweet;
But God has struck its luster down
In ashes at his feet.
Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly...
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.
...Ralph Waldo Emerson
15 posted on
12/01/2003 9:07:46 AM PST by
JustAmy
(God Bless and Protect Our Military. God Bless America!)
To: JustAmy
I like that pic Amy. (and poem)
27 posted on
12/01/2003 10:44:17 AM PST by
Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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