What Our Country Needs

This is a wonderful poem that a friend of mine had on her blog a few days ago. I have been reading So Much More, and this poem really brought out some of the things that book talks about.
~Brooke

             What Our Country Needs 

What does our country need? Not armies standing 

With sabres gleaming ready for a fight; 

Not Increased navies, skillful and commanding,

                                         To bound the waters with an iron might;

                                            Not haughty men with glutted purses trying

                                             To purchase souls, and keep the power of place;

                                             Not jeweled dolls with one another vying

                                           For psalms of beauty, elegance, and grace.

                                             But we want women, strong of soul, yet lowly

                                           With that rare meekness, born of gentleness;

                                                   Women whose lives are pure and clean and holy,

                                        The women whom all little children bless;

                                                          Brave, earnest women, helpful to each other,

                                                           With finest scorn for all things low and mean;

                                                  Women who hold the names of wife and mother

                                       Far nobler than the title of queen.

                                          ~Unknown