THE WORLD IS A BETTER WORLD.
Joaquin Miller
ye, the world is a better old world to day! - And a great good mother this earth of ours;
- Her white to-morrows are a white stairway
- To lead us up to the star-lit flowers—
- The spiral to-morrows that one by one
- We climb and we climb in the face of the sun.
- Aye, the world is a braver old world to day!
- For many a hero dares bear with wrong—
- laugh at wrong and will turn away;
- Will whistle it down the wind with a song—
- Dares slay the wrong with his splendid scorn!
- The bravest old hero that ever was born!