The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-05-25
WELCOMING THE NATIONS.

"a Ss1OAJ AONlN 49, oSN- 90
Ger arms outstretched, her head appraised her ban
Che greets TIE Nations as they come-a Congress of
the Worldl
She waits in gentle majesty upon the SOIL "here
rst taught the troubled Western world the brother
yz;s sysTit ngers in her look his tones within her
That calls aloud throughout the earth, "Come ye,
.1on,o va like armies. but without the slow and
measured tramp;
Nor rank nor file forgotten aH the insignia OF the
camp
Come vein peace no War-cloud now casts shauo"
Ger the land;
mo thought of strife like host ana guest, we mees
with clasped hand
Behold they cone: their steeds fire, outspread
the dwelling sail
Their footsteps touch our eager shores the Nation
cries. 6 ALI hail ~
shout of rapture cleaves the air; thousand vel
Tev come the strangers foot is set on friendships
hRiiowed ground.
Amid She glittering array, fair Spain claims greet
ghe iron bands of ignorance her sons had strength
to burst:
When locked within watery world none other dared
Columbia rose in might and wrung the secret from
Inv Queen had manned the deck he trod to triumph
DER the main;
Thou land of sunshine thine the praisean hail to
thee, Spain!
To England, them whose pilgrim band first reared
upon sod
Their altar sacred to the of Liberty and God.
Thine impress lies upon our Iife England, proud
and bold
still enrolled.
Thou wouldst have curbed the adult strength that
struggled to be free;
Yet grown-up children can not cling around
We only shook thy shackIes loose that we might
clasp thy hand
AS sons their sres, when, side by side, of equal
height they stand.
Nearest to us of all who come, we spring to thy
embrace,
Our mother England! we are not strange or alien
Thou leav'st to visit to-day thy proud ancestral
dOfnes,
homes.
d8an TO thee, France! Thy noble did many a
valiant deed
hine arm sustained our falling strength in hour of
direst need
Behold The name of Lafayette we write it side by
side
with his the Father of our land her savior and her
pride.
Baptized with fire, the war-cloud since has dark
ened DER thy brow;
Yet, like giant, manned a while, thy strength re-
True to myself, as true to us, the furnace seven
Through which thy suffering feet have trod, ere
long shall be forgot.
And since for in days gone by thy sons left song
and dance,
Columbia greets thee as of old, thou great and
glorious France
All hail Germania! from thy seat beside the castled
Rhine;
The language that was learned beside the river OF
the Vine
Rings out welcome on the air its accents greet
thine ear;
The children of the Eatherlapd they spring to meet
thee here.
Columbia knows thy voice OF DID, Behold! she BIDS
thee stand,
With foreign soil beneath thy feet no stranger II
the land.
The tidings of thy warlike deeds have sounded Ger
the sea;
Mighty in war, thou lowest peace. Germania! hail
TO theeI
Thus one by one before her eyes they pass in proud
review;
The Nations of the earth arise, the Old World and
the New,
With trophies from the glowing South, and from
the frozen north,
From Orient and Occident-behold, they hastef
forth.
Columbia bows her stately head no younger land
With ali the storied wealth that glows beneath al
Eastern sky,
The fabrics spun by Buropes looms she may no
match in hue;
Her sons wore homespun many year; her silke1
robes new.
And We who come from Buropes shores, expect no
TO behold
Within the New Worlds borders ali the wonders o.
the 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 stated!
piles
GasEedrals old and gray with time in whose dim
lighted alSIeS
The feet Of many centuries have worn the graver
stones
Beneath whose sculptyred effgies sleep many
hero tbones
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 iabors are of sterner mold; Columbia ma!
not boast,
But yet may point with modesty that cen becomes
host
Who leads guest throughout his halIs-one wht
desires to know
What of the richest and the best their master has
show.
j hold our lands, their wide extent; and yet from
sea TO
Our steeds of fire paths of steel sweep on triumph
utIy.
s58ehold The lightning chained ana bound, whose
ia II car well reveal
Each Impulse of the Nations heart that guides tht
And threaded by the silver streams traced cut by
mans own hand.
The produce OF our prairies wide flows forth to al
the land.
"a thousand cities Aeck the plain; their towers ant
steeples high,
They simmer in the glittering sun, and poin
toward the sky.
Our ships ride the swelling wave. and each one
as ie goes
Reveals the story Of the wealth with which land
0erdows.
Our tasks were homely; but when sure the firm
foundation lies.
4Naught lacks but time; the years shall the
glorious fabric rise.
"A hundred years of veal and woe; and thus or
work has sped,
And yet within the century that DER her life has fed
Three times Columbia barred Der breast to meet
mortal shock;
4bree times her pure and peaceful brow the war GOO
rose to mock.
sshe bent beneath the discipline of blood and IRE
aud sword;