Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-22

the brotherhood of men.
His spirit hngers IN her look, his tone
within her voice,
That calls aloud through ont the earth
'-6one ye. with me rsJoleet
Come We like armies, but without the SLOW
and measured tramp;
Nor rank nor file, forgotten all the Inslgni
of the camp.
Come We in peace; no war cloud now cast
shadow Ger the land,
No thought of strife, like host and guest
we meet with clasped hand.
Behold they come; their steeds are fire
outspread the swelling sail;
Their footsteps touch our eager shores; The
Nation cries ':All IIailT
A shout of rapture cleaves the air; thou
sand welcomes sound;
They come! the strangers foot is set or
friendships hallowed ground.
Amid the glittering array, fair Spain claim:
greeting first;
The iron bands of Ignorance her sons had
strength to burst;
When locked within a watery world none
other dared to brave,
Columbus rose in might and wrung the Sc
cret from The wave.
The Queen had manned the deck he trod
to triumph o'er the main;
Thou land of sunshine, thine the praise
All hail to thee, o Spain!
To England, then, whose pilgrim band first
reared upon the sod
Their altar sacred to the names of Liberty
and God.
Thine impress lies upon our life. O Eng
land, proud and bold,
Foremost among thy children's names my
own is still enrolled.
Thou wouldst have curbed the adult
strength that struggled TO be free;
Yet grown up children can not cling around
a mothers knee.
We only shook thy shackles free that We
might clasp thy hand,
As sons their sires. when, side by side, oi
zzs eeaual height they stand. - -;
Nearest to-us Of all who come, we spring
81 tOthy Embrace %FE
I Our mother England I've are not strang'
or alien race.
Thou leav'st to visit us to-day thy PROUD
ancestral dOmes,
As one who Journeys to behold her child
ren in new homes.
Hail to thee, Francel Thy noble sons die
many valiant deed.
Thine arm sustained our faith strengthinG
in hour of direst need.
Behold the name of Lafayette! we write i
side by side
With his the father of the land, her saviol
and pride.
Baptized with fire, the war-clOud has sinc'
darkeDed DER thy brow:
Yet, like a giant, mained while, tn,
strength returneth now.
True to thyself, as true to US, the furnace
seven times hot
Through which thy suffering feet havt
trod, ere long shall be forgot.
And since for us IN days gone by thy SON
left so gand dance,
Columbia greets thee as of old, thou greai
and glorious France!
All hail, Germanial from thy seat besid
the castled Rhine,
The language that was learned beside tn
+ e, River Of the Vine
Ring out a.wslcome on theaiE its accent
greet thine ear;
The children of the fatherland, they sprinl
to meet thee here.
| Columbia knows thy voice of old. Beholt
she bids thee stan1.
! With foreign soil beneath thy feet, n
stranger in the land.
The tidings of thy warlike deeds hav
sounded DER the sea;
| Mighty in war, thou lov'st peace. GeI
mania, hail to thee!
lThus one by onelbefore her eyes they pas
Ia in proud review I :.
The Nations Of the earth arise, the Ol
| World and the New.
With trophies from the glowing South, an
from the frozen North,
From Orient and 0ccident-behold, the
hasten forth.
Columbia bows her stately head; no young
sr er land can vie
With all the storied wealth that glows be
--0' '' meath an Eastern sky.
The fabrics spun by Europe's looms sh
may not match in hue;
Her sons wore homespuns many year, he
d - silken rpbes areineY.
IN II b AZ
AMI We who come from Europe's shore
expect not to behold
Within the New. Worlds borders al II
ss % wonders of the Old;
Our Nation is of yesterday, and all but N
ture young;
From forest and from wilderness our tow
and cities sprung;
No gorgeous palaces have we to match yo'
stately piles
Cathedrals old and gray with time,
whose dim-hghtedaisles !,
The feet of many centuries have worn u
craven stones j .sl H-
y Beneath whose. sculptured ethgles sle'
-LA many a heroes bones;
1 We cannot boast the treasured art
Athens and of Rome:
Not these we offer to your gaze IN Ere
dom's Western home.
Our labors are of sterner mold; Columt
may not boast,
But yet may point with modesty that e.
becomes host T..
, Who leads guest throughout his halls
one who desires to know
Whatof the richest and the best that ms
J ~ ter has to show.
Behold our lands, their wide extent; a.
yet from sea to sea
!. Our steeds of fire on paths OF steel swe
on triumphantly.
Behold the lightning chained and boun
whose flash can well reveal
Each impulse Of the Nations heart tn
guides the common veal,
And threaded by the silver streams trac
out by mans own hand, ~
The produce of our prairies wide no
forth to all the land.
-EEa GnA JIL
A thousand cities heek the plain: tn
towers and steeples high,
4 They simmer in the glittering sun, a
point toward the sky,
Our ships ride on the swelling wave, a
each one as it goes
Reveals the story of the wealth with viii
our land o'erfiows.
Our tasks were homely; but when sure
firm foundation lies,
Naught lacks but time; the years shall
the glorious fabric rise.
! + .sSIt = aaHG ll p '-Ilf-r'
A hundred years of veal and woe7 and I'll
our work has sped,
r And vet within the century that DER
1 life has fled,
q Three, times Columbia barred her breast
y meet mortal shock;
Three times her pure and peaceful br
the war god rose to mock,
She bent beneath the discipline Of bic
e3L and fire and sword;
And purified, like saints OF old, her vo
rings out abroad,
"Send forth your suffering and your poo
Z .[ Tothem the summons goes,
: Behold! to them the wilderness shall b
IF. -4 e SON as the rose; A
n The forests yield, the wheat fields rises