What is the name of the freedom poem read by gene tierney's character Haoli at the end of the 1942 movie china girl?

Answer 1

How small are we beside the king.

How little is our hand to raise

Against the awful bludgeoning

Of wicked men who rack our days.

How tiny is the voice we own

Beside the tyrant's Trumpet blare.

How unheard is the little groan

We utter in our great despair.

We are the easily slain. Death calls

Us everlastingly to him,

And yet it is our hand that holds

The light aloft that none can dim.

No tyrant's dream of earthly might,

No canon roar, nor battle toll,

Can quench this small but holy light

Of freedom rising from our soul.

The little glow of love that keeps

The face of mankind always fair,

Out of our agony it leaps.

It died and died and still 'tis there.

Above the graves where heroes lie

There gleams the light of victory.

For freedom's soldiers when they die

Hand down their spirit to the free.

[The question was about the title of this moving poem. A blogger on another site states the following: "No credit is given to the poem's author, other than a reference in the script that it was written by a famous writer on the other side of the world. The movie was written by Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's greatest writers and an early advocate of America's entry into the war against Hitler. I suspect the poem was his."

If that be true, that Hecht, the screenwriter, wrote the poem for the film, then it would appear to be untitled.]