Excerpt from The Human Brotherhood and a Psalm of Faith
Proem
Whoe'er thou art whose eye may scan our page,
Prepare thyself to wrestle with the truth;
And if she throw thee, own the mastery
And thenceforth love her ardently, and serve.
Be thou a self-appointed censor, if
Thou wilt. Apply thy square and compass to
Our work; yet know its aim and purpose, and
Its architectural order, at the start.
We stand upon a promontory and
Behold the billows of a world, and fain
Would rear a lighthouse, that the nations may
Avoid the reefs where countless corpses lie.
We copy not the pyramids, nor Greek
Nor Gothic forms, but, building for the years
To be, with the materials at our hand,
Create an order of utility.
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