Florence Earle Coates Guide-Book/F

"Respect the Future, which belongs to me!"
  So speak thy yearning and imperious will,
  Making the Present distant faiths fulfil,
And raised from falling kingdoms—Germany.

No idle name, no doubtful dream to thee
  That Future: actual, its clasp grown chill,
  It led thee, and thy soul sublimed it still,—
Heir of a more than earthly dynasty!

O didst thou think, untimely called to rest,
  The preparation of a life o'erthrown—
To lose what thou so bravely didst resign?

Forevermore the Fatherland shall own
  Her nobler liberties thy dear bequest:
  The future thy great spirit saw—was thine!