Freedom monologue — "Lexington": A Pageant-Drama of the American Freedom

Out of the east, Into the west, A vision of empire, my people, A vision of rivers and prairies, Of western mountains and a western ocean. And of a wider Freedom! New cities sleep unborn On the shores of the lakes and the rivers, Cities to be erected In a loftier image of Freedom, Cities, whence new generations, Forgetful of all save courage, Shall in their turn set out Into further western regions, Building cities and cities, Building always for Freedom, Building, renewing, creating.... Westward, westward, and westward, Over the walls of the mountains, Over the blight of the desert, To the urgent, star-scattered horizon, Where the stars and the sun and the moon Rise into the wind and the heavens, Out of the western ocean, Out of the west and the east, People, my people, set forward, For Freedom! For Freedom! For Freedom!