Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
\nNo bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
\nNo sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
\nIt establishes the universal ideas in language,
\nAnd guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice
\nWith capital letters, lie and oppression with small.
\nIt puts what should be above things as they are,
\nIs an enemy of despair and a friend of hope.
\nIt does not know Jew from Greek or slave from master,
\nGiving us the estate of the world to manage.
\nIt saves austere and transparent phrases
\nFrom the filthy discord of tortured words.
\nIt says that everything is new under the sun,
\nOpens the congealed fist of the past.
\nBeautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia
\nAnd poetry, her ally in the service of the good.
\nAs late as yesterday Nature celebrated their birth,
\nThe news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
\nTheir friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit.
\nTheir enemies have delivered themselves to destruction.<\/p>\n
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