Classic Poem

Clear the field for the grand tournament of the nations!
The struggle to think the best thought, and to express it, in tone and color and form and word;
The struggle to do the greatest deeds, and lead the no-blest and most useful lives;
The struggle to see clearest and know truest and love strongest.
Your other blood-and-bludgeon contests but postpone the real fray.
The true knights are yearning to enter the lists, and you block the high festival with your brawling.
Is it possible you mistake this for the real event of history?
Away with your brutal disorder, and clear the field for the tournament of Man.

Clear the field for the grand tournament of the nations!
The struggle to think the best thought, and to express it, in tone and color and form and word;
The struggle to do the greatest deeds, and lead the no-blest and most useful lives;
The struggle to see clearest and know truest and love strongest.
Your other blood-and-bludgeon contests but postpone the real fray.
The true knights are yearning to enter the lists, and you block the high festival with your brawling.
Is it possible you mistake this for the real event of history?
Away with your brutal disorder, and clear the field for the tournament of Man.