Helmsmen of nations, choose your craft! where you sail, I sail,

Yours is the muscle of life or death—yours is the perfect science—in you I have absolute faith.

3. Great is To-day, and beautiful,

It is good to live in this age—there never was any better.

4. Great are the plunges, throes, triumphs, downfalls of Democracy,

Great the reformers, with their lapses and screams,

Great the daring and venture of sailors, on new explorations.

5. Great are Yourself and Myself,

We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,

What the best and worst did, we could do,

What they felt, do not we feel it in ourselves?

What they wished, do we not wish the same?

6. Great is Youth—equally great is Old Age—great are the Day and Night,

Great is Wealth—great is Poverty—great is Expression—great is Silence.

7. Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination,

Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?