THE NEW MORNING

 [3]"THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES"

[3]

THIS is the song of the wind as it came

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Tossing the flags of the nations to flame:

I am the breath of God. I am His laughter.

I am His Liberty. That is my name.

So it descended, at night, on the city.

So it went lavishing beauty and pity,

Lighting the lordliest street of the world

With half of the banners that earth has unfurled;

Over the lamps that are brighter than stars.

Laughing aloud on its way to the wars,

Proud as America, sweeping along

Death and destruction like notes in a song,

Leaping to battle as man to his mate,

Joyous as God when he moved to create,—

Never was voice of a nation so glorious,

Glad of its cause and afire with its fate!

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