The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-26
..ooLumsIA WELCOMING THE NATIONS.


abe greels the Nations they come-a Congress of
the World
she waits in gentle majesty upon the soil where
First taught the troubled Western world the brother
H& srit fingers in her look, his tones within her
That oans aloud throughout the earth, " Come ye,
With rejoice
sssAe " like armies. bu. without the slow and
Nor rank nor Ale; forgotten oil the insignia of the
camp.
oos.e ys in peace no war-cl0ud now casts shadow
No thought OF strife; like host aud guest, We meet
with ciasped hand"
Bsholdl they Gomez their steeds are fire. outspread
the swelling sail /;
Their footsteps touch our eager shores; the Nation
shout of rapture cleaves tho air; thousand well
comes sound;
Ehey comet the strangers foot s set on friendships
hAiiowed ground.
Amid ne giittering array. fair Spain claims greet
ing first:
Tue irun bands of ignorance her sons had strength
to burst
Whom locked within watery world none other dared
Iossmoia rose in might. and wrung the secret from
Inc wave.
Thou land of sunshine, thine the praise--al hail to
thee, o Spain!
Their altar sacred TO the of Liberty and God.
Thne impress lies upon our life, o England, proud
EoremosI among thy children's names our own is
still enrolled.
Thou wouldst have curbed the adult strength that
Tet grown-up children can not cling around
nIother's knee.
M. atANlr Inv aha
clasp thy hand,
As Sous their sires when, side by side of equal
height they stand.
Nearest To of all who come, we spring to thy
embrace,
Cur mother England we are not strange or alien
Thou eavst to visit us to-day thy proud ancestral
AS one who journeys to behold her children in new
homes.
SIan to thee, FranceI Thy noble sons did many a
valiant deed.
Thine sustained our failing strength in hour OF
direst need.
Behold the name of Lafayette! we write it side by
side
With his the Father OF land her savior and her
pride.
cBapsaEod with fire, the war-cloud since has dark
ened DER thy brow;
Vet, like giant, MANNED while, thy strength re-
turneth now.
True 70 myself, as true to us, the furnace seven
Through which thy suffering feet have trod, ere
long shsu be forgot.
And snoe for in days gone by thy sons left song
and dance,
Columbia greets thee as of old, thou great and
glorious France
All hail, Germana! from thy seat beside the castled
Rhine;
Tho language that was learned beside the river OF
the Vine
Rings out a welcc me on the air; its accents greet
thine ear;
Tue children Of the fatherlapd they spring to pee
thee here.
Columbia Knows thy voice of old Behold she bids
thee stand,
With foreign soil beneath Thy feet, no stranger il
the land
The tdings of thy warke deeds have sounded o'e
the sea;
Mighty in war, thou lowest peace. Germanial hal
TO theei
'rhus 10y before her eyes they pass in proud
review;
Tho Nations of the earth arise, the Old World ant
tho New,
With trophies from the glowing South and from
The frozen north,
From Orient aud occdent-behold, they haster
forth.
Columbia bows her stately head no younger Lane
can vie
With all the stored wealth that CLOVIS beneath al
Eastern sky.
The fabrics spun by Eurepe's looms she may no
match in hue;
Her sons wore homespun many year; her silkei
robes are new.
And 20 who come from Europe's shores, expect no
Within the New Worlds borders all the wonders o
tho old;
Our Nation is of yesterday. and all but nature
young;
From forest and from wilderness our towns anc
cities sprung;
No gorgeous palaces have we to match your state
Oattedrals old and gray with time, in whose dim
lighted aisles
The feet of many centuries have worn the gravel
beneath whose sculptured efhgies sleep many
hero Fbones;
We can no tboast the treasured art of Athens ant
OF Rome;
Not these we offer to your gaze in freedoms West
ern home.
Our lsbers are OF sterner mold; Columbia ma,
not boast,
But yet may point with modesty that cen become
ahost
' VINO leads guest throughout his halls-oue VIII
desires 90 know
What Of the richest and the best their master has 4
show
= D hold our lands their wide extent and yet from
sea TO sea
ar 4teeds of fire paths Of steel sweep on triumph
utly.
Yicnold The lightning chained and bound whose
ha Ia car we'll reveal
y Bach mp,,e of the Nations heart that guides tn,
common veal,
And threaded by the silver streams traced out b,
mans own hand,
The produce of prairies wide flows forth to al
the land.
thousand cities neck the plain their towers anc
stecpes high,
They simmer in the glitterng sum- aud poin
toward the sky.
Our ehps ride on the swelling wave, and each on,
as IL goes
Reyee's the story of the wealth with which our lane
oerfowa
Our tasks homely but when sure the firm
foundation lies.
e. Hsught lacks but time: the years shall see tn,
glorious fabric rise.
- hundred years of veal and woe; and thus or
work has Sped
And yet within the century that her life has aed
Three times Columbia barred her breast to meet .
mortal shock;
Ihrco times her pure aud peaceful brow the god
rose Co mock.
sJsve bent beneath the discipline of blood and frc
aud sword
Aud purified like saints of old, her voice rings ont
abroad,
s'Seud forth your suffering and your poorl" To
them the summons goes
Behold 60 them The wilderness shan blossom the
rose;
The forcsts yield the wheat fields rise, the rocks
retire apace
.And richest harvests crown the land in freedoms
dwelling place;
Our SOMA. like Judahs sit beneath the fig tree and
thc vine;
The olive aud the Sharon rose around our homes
cntwine.