I walk through monuments to
Ideas that shaped history
Reading the marble words anew
The roots of justice there to see
They thought they knew what was at stake
They thought they understood the task
They could not know what lie in wait
The scope of questions they would ask
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And I wonder as I read at fate
Where are the great men found?
Whose ideas will we venerate
Two hundred years from now?
And would they all be dismayed
To know what they have wrought?
At choices their ideas made
And the power of their thoughts?
My generation lives our lives
In sleek and silken luxury
So few speak and so few strive
Where can the great ones this time be?
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dedicated to the memories of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Abraham Lincoln