Poetry Collection: What Rules The World by William Ross Wallace

Burritt Museum - Small Cabin ca 1850

A Mother’s Influence

What Rules The World
They say a man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty scepter
O’er lesser powers that be;
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world

– William Ross Wallace, 1865

William Ross Wallace was an American poet with Scottish ancestry.  Read more about him on Wikipedia.


Copyright 2012 Kathryn Depew


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