Bears on to ruin. War's most hideous crimes Besmirch the record of these modern times. The death throes of a giant evil fill The air with riot and confusion. Pregnant with promise is the hour, and grand The trust you leave in my all-willing hand. As one who throws a flickering taper's ray To light departing feet, my shadowed way You brighten with your faith.
Faith makes the man.
For thought has leavened the whole unthinking mass. And man looks now to find the God within. In this new era. We are drawing near Unatlassed boundaries of a larger sphere. With awe, I wait, till Science leads us on, Into the full effulgence of its dawn.