what matters in the end is you were kind even to those you thought far in the wrong which brought its wisdom and it made you strong when the all the shouters said you undermined goodness itself while you cursed them for blind unpatriotic fools chanting their lone song always so eager to make pain last long while you desired to open up each mind now that is in the past and what is left is wisdom recollect gentle words and soft suggestions made without pretence or guile we see so clearly how all ends in theft of those things we have held highest aloft but we will all get to there in a while