Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-26
COLUMBIA WELCOMING THE Ma
TTONg.

"Now WELCOME to these Western shoresl" be.
hold, Columbia cries:
glory round her star-girt brow and in herbeam-
ing eyes
Her arms 6uistretched, her head appraised, her
banner high uniurled,
She greets the nations as they come-a Congress
OF the worldl
She waits in gentle majesty UPON the coil where
Penn
First taught the troubled Western world the
brotherhood of men.
His spirit fingers in her look, his tones within
her voice,
That calls aloud throughout the earth, Come ye,
with me reioicel
Come yo like armies, but without the slow and
measured tramp;
Nor rank 1le forgotten all the insignia OF the
eCome yc in peace no war.coud now casts shad-
No thought Of strife; like host and guest, we
meet with clasped hand.
Behold they come; their steeds are frc, out
spread the swelling sail;
Their Footsteps touch our eager shores; the Ma
tion cries, "All hall"
A shout of rapture cleaves the air; a thousand
welcomes sound;
They comel the strangers foot is set on friend
ships hallowed ground.
Amid the glittering array, fair Spain claims
greeting first;
The iron bands Z 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 secret
from the wave
! Thy Queen had manned the deck he trod to tTi-
umph DER the main;
Thou land Of sunshine, thine the praise-Al hail
10 thee, y spain
To England, then, whose pilgrim band first
reared upon our sod
Their altars sacred to the names Of Liberty and
God.
Thine impress lies upon our life, England,
proud and bold.
Foremost among thy childrens names our own
il still enrolled
Thou woulds't have curbed the adult strength
that struggled to be freei
Yet grown-up children cannot cling around a
mothers Knee
We only shook thy shackles loose that We might
clasp thy hand,
AS sons their sires, when, side by side, OF equal
height they staLd.
Nearest 70 us of all who come, We spring to thy
embrace,
Our mother England! we are not a strange or
alien race.
Thou leav'st to visit to-day thy proud ancestral
dOmes
AS one who journeys to behold her children in
new homes.
Hail to thee, France! Thy noble sons did many a
Thine arm sustained our failing strength in hour
of direst need.
Behold the name of Lafayette! wo write 1t side
With his, the Father of our land, her savior and
her pride.
Baptized with fire. the war-cloud since has
darkened DER thy brow
Yet, like a giant, manned while, thy strength
returneth now.
True TO thysef, as true to us, the furnace seven
Through which thy suffering feet have trod, ere
long shall be forgot
And since for us In days gone by thy sons left
Columbia greeis thee as OF old, thou great and
glorious France!
All hail Germania from thy seat beside the cas-
tied Rhine;
The language that was learned beside the river o
Rings out u welcome on the air; its accents greet
thine ear;
The children OF the Fatherland, they spring TO
meet thee here.
Columbus knows thy voice of old. Behold! she
bids thee stand,
With foreign soil beneath thy feet, no stranger in
The tidinrs of thy warlike deeds have sounded
Ger the sea;
Mighty in war, thou lowest peace. Germania
hail to tnee!
Thus one by one before her eyes they pass in
proud review;
The naiioss of the earth arise, the Old World and
the New,
With trophies from the glowing South and from
From Orient and occident-behod they hasten
forth
/
land can vic
With ali the storied wealth that gows beneath an
Eastern sky,
The fabrics spun by Europe's loom she may not
match in hue
Her sons wore homcspun many year-her silk-
en- robes are new.
And ye who come from Europe's shores, expect
not to behold
Within the New Worlds borders oll the wonders
Of the Old;
Our Nation is OF yesterday; and all but Nature
young;
From forest and from Wilderness our towns and
cities sprung;
No gorgeous palaces have we to match your
stately piles
Cathedrals old and gray with time, in whose dim
lighted aises
The feet OF many centuries have won the craven
stones
Beneath whose scuptured efigies sleep many a
heroes bones;
We cannot boast the treasured art Of Athens and
! of Rome;
Not these we offer to your gaze in Freedoms
| Western home.
| not boast,
But yet may point with modesty that e'en be.
comes host
| Who leads guest throughout his halls-one who
desires to know
What OF the richest and the best their master has
10 show.
Behold our lands, their wide extent; and yet
| from sea 10 sea
Our steeds of fire on paths Of steel sweep on tri
umphantly.
Behold the lightning chained and bound, whose
flash can well reveal
Each impulse Of the Nations heart that guides
! the common veal
| And threaded by the silver streams traced out by
mans own hand,
The produce of our prairies wide flows forth to
all the land.
A thousand cities fleck the plain their towers
and steeples high,
They simmer in the gittering sun, and point
Our ships ride on the swelling wave, and each one
as IL goes
Reveals The story of the wealth with which our
Our tasks were homely; but whom sure the firm
foundation lies.
NauGht lacks but time; the years shall see the
glorious fabric lise.
hundred years of veal and woe; and thus oul
work has sped,
And yet within the century that o'er her life hai
fed,
Three times Columbia barred her breast to meet !
mortal shock;
Three times her pure and peaceful brow the war
| god rose 10 mock
She bent beneath the discipline OF blood and fire
| and sword;
And, purified, like saints Of old her voice ring
out abroad,
"Send 70 tn your suffering and your poor" TC
them the SUNNI ms goes;
Behold TO them the Wilderness shall blossom al
the rose;
The forests yield, the wheat fields rise the rock
And richest haryests crown the land in Freedom't
dweling-place;
IT sons, like Judah's, sit beneath the fg-tre,
and the vine;
The olive and the Sharon Rose around our homei
entNine.
o ye that journey from afar, from every cline o
earth,
Who come to join a sister land in her Centennia
mirth,
Take to your heart the welcoming that heartfelt
we extend,
And hail the auspicious reign of peace, Goo
grant may never end
flushed the brazen throat OF war; the battle
flags lie furled
The light that beamed from Bethlehem's sta
shine over all the world
The gracious message that was heard OF old II
Gailees
Re.echo now from pole to pole, and ring from SET
TO seal
United now as ne'er before, since Times d s
cycles ran,
Earth learns the Faiherhood of God, the broth
erhOod OF mani
-Hdrper'S Weekly.
HANNAH ARNETT'S FAITH.
GanfannhaI SlorV.