Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1876-06-22
COLUMBIA WELCOMING THE NATIONS
[From Harper's Weekiy.]

''Sow welcome to these Western shores" behold,
A glory round her star-.rt brow and in her beaming
eyes,
Her arms outsreched, her head uprsised her banner
high unturled,
She grce- the nations as they co1ne-a Congress of
the World.
She waits in gentle majesty upon the soil where Penn
First taught the troubled Western World the brother
hood of men.
His spirit fingers in her look, his tones within her
That calls aloud throughout the earth 'Come ye with
rejoice.
Come We like armies but without the slow and meas
ured tramp:
Nor rank file; forgotten all the insignia of the
camp
Come We in peace; war-cloud casts shadow
DER the land;
No thought of strife like host and guest we meet with
casped hands"
Behold. they come their steeds are fire. outspread
the swelling sail;
Their footstcp. touch eager shores; the Nation
cries. "Al hall"
A shout of rapture cleaves the air. thousand wei
They come! the strangers foot is set friendships
hailowed ground.
Amid the ittcring array fair Spain claims greeting
The bands of ignorance her sons had strength to
When locked within watery world none other dared
to brave,
the wave.
The Queen had manned the deck he trod to triumph
Thou land of sunshine, thine the praise-A hail to
thee, . Spain.
To England thcn whose pilgrim band first reared
Their affairs sacred to the names OF Liberty and God
Thine impress lies upon life England, proud and
bold,
Foremost among thy chidren's names own is still
enrolled.
Thou woudst have curbed the adult strength that
struggled to be free;
Yet srown-up children cannot cling around mothers
knee.
We only shook thy shackes loose that we might clasp
thy hand,
Az their sres when, side by side of equal height
they stand
Nearest of all who come we spring to thv en-
Our mother England. we are not strange or alien
Thou leavst to visi, to-day thy proud ancestral
dOmes,
AS who journeys to behold her children in new
homes.
Hail to thee, France! Thy noble sons did many
valiant deed
Thine arm sustained failing strength in hour of !
drest need.
Behold the of Lafayette we write it side by side
with his the Father of our land, her savior and her
Baptized with fire, the war-cloud since has darkened
oc thy brow:
Yet. like giant MANNED awhile thy strength return
eth now.
True to ysct as true to U.S. the furnace seven times
hot
Through which thy suneing feet have trod ere long
shall be forgot.
And since tor in days gone by thy left song and
Columbia grcets thee of DID, thou great and glorious
France.
All hail, Germania. from thy seat beside the castled
The language that learned beside the River of the
Vine
a W,,cn fEo oir ito |
The children OF the Fatherand they spring to meet
thee here.
Columbia knows thy \ e of old. Behold, she bids
thee stand.
With foreign soil beneath thy feet no stranger in the
land.
The tidings of thy warlke deeds have sounded DER
the sea:
Mighty in war, thou lowest peace Germania. hail to
thee.
Thus one by one before her eyes they pass in proud
The Nations of the earth arise the Old World and the
New, ~ ''~
With trophe. from the glowing South and from the
From Orient anl Occident-behold they hasten forth,
Columbia bows her stately head younger land can
With all the stored wealth that glows beneath an
Eastern sky,
The fabrics spun by Europes looms she NAV not match
in hue;
der sons wore homespun many year; her sken
robes are new.
Md We who come from Europes shores expect not to
behold =.
Within the New Worlds borders all the wonders of
the Old;
,nr Nation is of yesterday and all but Nature young
rom forest and rom wilderness our towns and cities q
sprung;
40 gorgeous palaces have to match your stately
piles 8
"therals old and gray with time, in whose dim f
lighted aisles -
lie feet of many centuries have worn the craven
stones. 4
bones '
canlo boast tI2 treasured art of Athens and of
Rome n
'ot these offer to your gaze in Freedoms Western
home.
'ur ahors are of sterner mould; Columbia NAV not a
boast. ' 80 7
ut yet may point with n,edesty that cen becomes =
host - e /
' no leads guest throughout hs halls-one who d.