Recessional Quotes

What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages... The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional” really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around. (Herbert Hoover)
In the last moments of the great ship's doom, when all was plainly lost, when braver and hardier men might almost have been excused for doing practically anything to save themselves, they stood responsive to their conductor's baton and played a recessional tune. View quote
Steve Turner