Henry Timrod Quotes
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.
Timrod, Henry. "Charleston." The Poems of Henry Timrod, edited by Paul H. Hayne, E. J. Hale & Son, 1873.
This would be like an American President firing the congressional chaplains. However this is only one small, but telling, example of Atatuk’s secularization of the nation which had a great deal to do with Turkey becoming a modern great power—by far the strongest and most developed of the Islamic world.
Henry Timrod was an American poet, often called the poet laureate of the Confederacy.
