A Poem A Day from the George Hail Library ~ Selected by Maria Horvath: A Nation’s Builders
Excerpt:
Today is Veterans Day in America (known as Remembrance or Armistice Day in the Commonwealth and other countries), when we honor those who so loved their fellow countrymen they were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.
A NATION’S BUILDERS
Not gold, but only men can make
A people great and strong —
Men who, for truth and honor’s sake,
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly —
They build a nation’s pillars deep;
They lift them to the sky.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American poet and essayist
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