The Mentor

The Mentor: Italy Under War Conditions, Vol. 6, Num. 23, Ser. No. 171, January 15, 1919

You had to choose 'twixt liberty and guilt; There is no half-way house for human kind If human kind is still to breathe God's air. And so you placed your lips upon the hilt Of Freedom's sword, devoted soul with mind To this great task which frees sad Europe from despair.