These lines came to mind when I saw the iconic picture of Jack Hughes, bloody and jubilant:
“O strong-winged soul with prophetic
Lips red with the bloodbeat of song!
With tremor of heartstrings magnetic
With thoughts as thunders in throng,
With consonant ardors of chords
That pierce men’s hearts as with swords,
And hale them hearing along.”
—Algernon Charles Swineburne, from “To Walt Whitman in America”:
The beauty of Israel, the power of the New World.