(With apologies to William Shakespeare, King Henry V, and St. Crispin)

Those who are here this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast their neighbors,
And say “Tomorrow is Inauguration Day.”
Then they will strip their sleeves and show their scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Inauguration Day.”
This story shall they teach their children,
And Inauguration Day shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
Be we in it shall be remembered –
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers and sisters,
Two million strong,
For they today who are with me
Shall be my brothers and sisters, be they ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle their condition;
And those in this nation now abed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That were with us upon Inauguration Day.