While we have struggled patiently
Toward the larger good,
Friendship on every land and sea,
A world-wide neighborhood,
Space set its limits everywhere,
Its hedging curtains swirled;
But now we speed o’er land, through air,
And talk around the world.
Who is our neighbor? Yesterday
It was the man whose home
Was down the road or o’er the way
Where we might often come.
Today the golden tie that binds
Men’s souls in joy or care,
The word uniting hearts and minds,
Is vibrant everywhere.