The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-06

eyes.
ALI panoplied in fire, blszed I'D the skies
The prayerful Persian bent, his vows t.
pay
Unto his deity, the god of Day.
As dawns upon the east this day Of days
Each year this nation wakes its hymn o.
praise;
When on the sky there warns the first
faint trail
OF coming light, and nights great Ian.
terms pale,
Tie anthem wakes-the pecan clear and
high
OF millions chanting hymns TO Liberty.
Where 'gainst the coast of Maine, with
foam and roar,
Old Oceans surgas lash the rJck-ribbed
shore,
The song is Weakened. and on startled
wing
The hours take up the echoes MS they
ring,
Bearing them westward 10 their womb
rous flight
Hailing the day and diving back the
night
Until grown resonant beneath the strain,
The whole broad land rocks to the deep
refrain;
Until the tones are, lost 10 the wild war
Which stormy seas wake on Coium bias
bar.
With cheers, with roaring guns, with
trumpets blare,
With bright flags lighting all tn Joyous
air
With songs and all halls to this sacred
The millions of our land their deep VOWS
This day. which MARKS the epoch, when
TO man
The thought took form, to try an untried
plan,
To frame government where heart and
brain
By their own splendors should their
honors claim;
Where. when Gods angels bent them
down and smiled,
UpSE the cradle If the humblest child,
That smile should not be 10 t; but with
its grace
Should light the way to honors, powers
and place;
Where men should make their own laws,
where the knee
should bend alone 10 God and Liberty,
This day which folds the msnte sof. of
Around the forms of oil The worlds OPP
pressed,
This day OF days, which TO the troubled
earth
Came with the blessings of second
Trf
And on this day each year the tale is
teld
What there was wrought Gin the brave
days of old, j.
Bow, after men through ciIcling GEN.
turtles pressed.
Finding no spot where weary souls could
rest,
How. after nations one by enc were
reared
And ran their course, then sank and dis
appeared,
Leaving no sign on ea:th's bare breast to
tell
Why they had toiIed, or why at length |
they fell;
How with the years, when Hope was |
well nigh dead,
Beyond-the seas mariner was led
Who found & New World, there the sea
beside,
Waiting in virgin sDlepdor. like bride,
To be possessed; fsir land where should |
be
A throne uDreared sublime to Liberty,
Where shaking of the chains which
bound him fast
Il an should stand forth sovereign at
last.
The tale goei on. how Ger that ocean
Brave spirits came in vessels small and
frsil,
And how, though met by Famine. Want
and Cold,
With souls inspired AM hearts contained
and bold,
they entered on tbs conquest of the wild;
At want they laughed 81 suffering they
SMILED;
they felled the forests, titled the stubborn
glade,
Fought savage foes, and toiled and sang
and prayed;
And while the work of conquest they
pursued,
They for their children built the school
mouse ruQe;
Until one morning all the world grew
bright
Beneath the radiance of Eond'r eus light
Which in the west had kindled been,
sheen
Such u, no mortal e'er before had seen;
and all the Nations beard IN fearful
aye
70 Freedom consecrsted and to Law
a Nation bad been launched upon the
plan
d equal sovereignty to every man
The tale proceeds from that tremendou
hour
With DEEPER pa.hos and With added
power,
And tells how first our fig, that
''hsughly scrOr,'
Was halted by her es; how, with so!eml
toll,
The bells called up the toil3rs; how they
came,
\ band immortal, all their hearts aaame,
and tireless fought till seven long yeRrs
had fed,
And then. above their sorrows aud their
dead,
Their vlclOiy came, and Peace, her gentle
reign,
j!rpto he'd Ger the land and made it her
domain.
hen, Progress folio we'd, slow, with eau