All your strength is in your union, All your danger is…

All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord;
Therefore be at peace henceforward,
And as brothers live together.

Sourced, The Song of Hiawatha
(1855)

Pt. I, The Peace-Pipe, st. 13

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