Excerpt from The Present Hour: A Book of Poems

Posterity alone can correctly estimate and apportion the right and wrong of the great war in Europe.

At the present hour, we who look on from neutral America can but judge the war's issues by the facts and arguments laid before us by the press and spokesmen of all parties in the conflict.

By such evidence, the sympathies of our citizens, by overwhelming majority, are with the cause of the Allies.

In thus sympathizing with the Allies, we do so, I believe, whole-heartedly in the faith (based on the declared policy of English leaders) that they are waging against militarism a fight to lessen world armament and the political oppression of small nations. If they win and the stipulations of peace should prove otherwise, our revulsion of feeling would surely be commensurate.

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