A forgotten verse from America the Beautiful
Posted September 5th, 2007 by tz
O beautiful, for Pilgrim feet, - whose stern impassioned stress, / a thoroughfare for freedom beat - across the wilderness! / America! America! God mend thine every flaw / Confirm they soul in self control, thy liberty in law!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A currently under-appreciated poet and the first woman to win the Pulitzer for poetry.
Personally, I'd like to see a Paul ad/bumper sticker/whatever that uses the last line from her poem "Not for a Nation" which is as good an anti-imperialist, natural rights work as I've found. The whole poem is relevant today, but the end is especially prescient.
Ron Paul,
President.
If Still These Truths Be Held To Be,
Self Evident.