On a more serious note, it's interesting to reread his poem _America_, which was certainly written more as an aspiration than a description at the time. However, this election makes you wonder whether the aspiration is even there anymore (from either side, if we're being honest).
| Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
| All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
| Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
| Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
| A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
| Chair’d in the adamant of Time.
Is that what he will be known as from now on? :)
On a more serious note, it's interesting to reread his poem _America_, which was certainly written more as an aspiration than a description at the time. However, this election makes you wonder whether the aspiration is even there anymore (from either side, if we're being honest).
| Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, | All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, | Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, | Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, | A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, | Chair’d in the adamant of Time.