Polynesian., 1844-07-27
For the Poiyncsian.

There 1t mad been since first the East began,
And still unknown, untrod by naughty man
There it had Knocked in solitude sublime,
Improvements strides-thc lofty march Of time.
Long had proud Europe slept in ~starless night,
Old Greece and Rome were gone and withthem light
Fair wisdom wept in solitary glen,
With monks retired from the paths of men;
And science buried in those awful cells,
No sweeter praise she heard than chime of bells.
And there, recluse, full oft she mourncd the hour.
When conquering ignorance bound her magic power.
But age on age at length had rolled away,
knowledge resumed her proud and ancient sway,
And now fair wisdom, that celestial maid,
Had fled from monks and burst the clustered shade,
When bold Columbus left his native land,
To seek another world-another strand.
He leaves his kindred and his native shore, .
Trsads in q path that none had trod before;
And fearless tempts the perils Of the deep,
The winds, the waves, the storms, that never sleep,
Hope swells his s~ail-ambition steers his bark
Fame 10 the prize-a distant world the mark.
The dangers past. the heightened voyage DER,
Triumphant now he treads Columbia g shore.
And now the thought exulting heaves his breast,
That he from peril here has found 4 rest
That he has turned the shafts Of scorn aioof,
With truths strong buckler-all-protecting proof;
That he has given with unsparing hands,
To princes empires. and to peasants lands.
Nor was forgot in that exulting hour,
The leading hand Of an Almighty Power:
For, bending low he worshipped on the sod,
And breathed with pious lips a thank to God.
Now sec wide-spreading to the astonished view,
A world around Us how sublimely new.
See lofty hills in slow graduation rise,
Until At length they seem to pierce the skies;
See many q stream flow on through many a plain.
Still gathering strength until they reach the main;
Ger many q br ak see mountain streamlets bound,
And lofty forests nodding all around.
Here oft 10 heard the long and mad'ning howl.
OF savage men and savage beasts that prowl;
Here stalks the Indian in the midnight deep,
Dreams of revenge or waking or asleep;
Here Oft these wilds have known the bloody scene,
When life runs out in many q crimson stream;
And Oft they'd known the fierce and awful hour,
When weakness family gaspcd in savage power.
W s"S sVuuSoSu 0tu LAG ulISuty uOOuS
o Nature made thee in her widest mood!
Land Of the forest and the mighty lake,
Man calls on thee-from solitude awake
Inc world goes on-see change succeed to change,
How trifing some, and some how passing strange;
Zee now Columbia smile from shore to shore,
a desert waste three hundred years before;
Where forests stood see mighty cities rise,
Whose lofty domes aspiring reach the skies;
See farm and village spread DER many a plain,
Where solitude once held her ancient reign;
See science shine, see flourish every art,
And trade and commerce thrive in every part;
her sons ne'er bow to proud oppression's nod,
Ihey fear but one-they worship only God.
Favored Of Heaven!-Land Of the brave and free!-
The oppressed from every country fly to thee;
II once they reach thy hospitable shore,
of dangers past and tolls, they dream no more;
nut there in peace they tic the social knot,
The present unperplexed-the past forgot.
with thee Columbia my native land,
May gracious Heaven deal with gentle hand;
May 1t avert from thee the storms Of State,
And every woe that latent may await;
May some kind Angel guard thy boundless shore,
Alike from foreign and intestine war;
May the hot blood Of fierce and lswless broil,
Ns'er impious stain thy consecrated SOIL
Out u my country's violated laws,
Urn fair fieedom's ever sacred cause,
Demands imperious the ivenging sword;
o. then may victory be the just award
!hen' then in triumph may thy banner wave.
AND ito bright star to glory guide the brave.
Honolulu. July 4, 1914. z.