"What Has Become"
For Whom The Troubadour Sings (2010)
“What unseen pen etched eternal things
on the hearts of human kind
but never let them in our minds?”
My Exit, Unfair.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
Dedication, later published as "A Prayer in Time of War"
A Belgian Christmas Eve (1915)
Dedication, later published as "A Prayer in Time of War"
A Belgian Christmas Eve (1915)
Context: p>Grant us the single heart once more
That mocks no sacred thing,
The Sword of Truth our fathers wore
When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell
Our deep unspoken prayer;
For, while our souls in darkness dwell,
We know that Thou art there.</p
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
“We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
2008, A World that Stands as One (July 2008)
Context: People of Berlin — and people of the world — the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again.
“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.”
