Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
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From whom the Father of the Waters came!
Far to the north a thousand streams ant
lakes,
In her strong hands the mighty mother takes
And into one great river gives them form,
Then pours it southwark, like bridled storm
Here, at our side, it thunders down the Fall,
And far. off rivers hear the mighty call,
And from q Thousand miles come sweeping
free,
To Join the glorious march toward the sea!
And give their all to swell one rlVer tide,
Where the vast commerce of the world may
ridei
Far TO the north again, net of lakes
And thread-lke streams the mighty mothe
takes, $3.50
And into une WASH river spins them all,
The grandest stream on this terrestrial ball!
Which. flowing down the world toward the east
And by thousand afauents still Increased,
Expands its tide TO i've stupendons lakes,
Aad four great rivers in its progress makes,
Till far away it leaps the worlds great Fall,
And meets the sea at stored Montreal!
Nor yet content to call the South and East
To her own free yet sumptous water feast
The Mother of the Waters gives the West
Another river from her teeming breast,
Which to the vast Pacific rolls away
Through chains of lakes and through the icy
bay.
Here, as was said by wiser men than l,
Shall the great seat of future empire lie.
Here springs the Dual City which shall fill
The plain for miles and cover every hill
Plsymates in childhood, hand in hand they
went,
And grew and loved till their glad youth was
spent.
Soon shall the nuptials come and man and wife
Go forth one flesh to one illustrious life,
And nations see the twain to wedlock given,
And say, Behold marriage made in HeavenP p
Now, while the Muse withdraws the veil, ]
see
The wondrous vision of what is to be:
For miles and miles along the river banks
The blocks of Commerce tower In massive
ranks,
A thousand domes are flashing in the sun,
thousard streets between the structures
ran,
Down winch see human ocean pour
With rush and surge and heat and stormy roar,
And far around the river wharfs and slips,
Like a dead forest, rice the masts of ships;
Fer now, through channels made by human
hand,
The seas and lakes and rivers of the land,
Are linked together. and, with flags unfurled,
The ships como up from all the busy world
And now the scene expands beneath my eyes,
see, far out, mile long depot rise.
Where, with great and never-ceasing din,
Inc lOnS-uTaWn TRIMS lrOLn OH the WOIIU COH6
inl
Far to the north l see great train glide,
And sweep across to the Pacific side,
And turning northward through the Polar gate,
Third long tunnel under Behring's Strait,
Then shout to Asia and go laundering down
Through many an old and many-peOpled town,
And fleeing westward through an hundred
States,
Ger CLASSIC streams and under tunneled straits,
Rise screamInp frum the prOund on Britain q
shores,
And London, sea-hke, round it breaks and
roars!
Around these Falls, if We believe the wise,
The worlds great Capital may yet arise!
One constitution then shall join mankind,
And rights befOye obscure be well defined,
And here from year to year, in all mems cause
The world shall meet to frame its general lawsl
The day dawns now in which your sons shall
view
The place you bullded better than You knew;
For You snail build the City of the Free;
The heart of Mans Great State which is to be,
The Capital of Men and not of Kings,
Where Toll and Merit are the honored things,
Whose halls of learning and of art shall rise
Free as the air to me Ike the many wise.
And o. r whose domes the flag shall be unfurled
Of one United States of Ali the World!
At the conclusion of Mr.. MilIer's reading,
after music by the Great Western Band.
General Sherman was respectfully called for
from the audience, and Gen. Sibley, remark
ing that it would not do to interfere with
the regular exercises, and that Gen. Sher-
man would soon speak, adding an explana
hon that some of those present who had
been expected to make brief addresses, had
requested as particular favor not to be
called upon.