Walt Whitman Quote

O Banner!
Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;
You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;
May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.

Drum-Taps. Song of the Banner at Daybreak - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)