Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-05
GARIB

Blow! Let the blaring trumpets tell his name,
Who with armed hand hath grasped eternal fame;
Who, with the mightSstne, with elashing strife
And gave the nations of the earth to see
His race no more a word for tears and shame,
But babe again It's olden greatness be
And made for aye his lustrlous Italy
A marvel and an everlasting name.
Shout, Let your shouts, ye nations. tell his praise,
He with the strength of right and justice came
And swept the land, a fierce devouring flame.
To the foul evil of its evil days,
1hroning high right for rule in the worlds won
derlng gaze.
Rejoice, old Earth, thou hast not lost
The God-like of thy earlier time,
When Nation makers mighty shadows crost
The radiance of thy prime,
And with their grandeur made thy years sublime.
High let their names be tost.
Tost and retOst upon the thunderous voice
OF peoples who in their great acts It joice,
Who in their deeds grow greater in each cline
Feeling themselves, through them, of nobler
Yes, let the tongues of men their grandeur swell
Who gave the dOwn-tFod and the chained to dwell
Henceforward freemen upon chainless earth
And this, our greaS one, he shall live through
With Bruce and vasa, Washington and Tell;
His name the tongues of glory shall love well.
Not from the throned who bear
State and dominion, majesty and rule,
Came he. Him did God bid ~affliction school
In rude abodes where want and labor dwell,
Giving his youth and toiiing years to wear
Inc rOOeS OF poverty. ana breathe the air
OF bracing action. Ever God does well.
Oft does the lap ofluxury breathe the fool.
Oft strength and greatness have been nursed by
Tell it, We peoples, tell,
His glory is your own. From you he springs,
He who. Gods vengeance, swift hath hurled down
And given their crowns for juster brows to wear,
Bidding the baser hee-the nobler rule;
Therefore in poer mems homes his grandeur
He, of them. for them, dared such deeds to dare.
Him did,st thou see, 0 Romei in other years,
From his loved lands eyes he should wipe the
tears,
And bid its children's wailings all be stilled.
Flashing to smiles and hopes the soul-felt fears
With which the aliens hate their days had filed.
Him did'st thou changeless see,
Great with the greatness of adversely.
Born nobly, in unwavering purpose grand,
Losing no jot OF faith that, by Gods hand,
lands great destiny would be fulfilled;
Nor is the future dumb.
His swerveless faith, and awful prophet cry,
Shall not in nothingness and silence die.
Thou once world-ruler, he again shall come
And not alone thy voice
Italy, shall in his name rejoice
Thy triumphs other lands %exulting see:
They, gagged and fettered now,
Know they are but as thou
Vert, and laugh loud in thought OF what they yet
shall be
When meath armed wrong they. too, no more
shall bow,
But nObly live, freemen among the Tree,
Lo, Hungary thinks upon thy battlefields,
And knows her own again shall soon be red.
not with blood, like that untimely shed
With thine when last she knew defeat with thee,
her, too, God a chainless future yields.
Lo! Germans, know they yet shall have one head,
Like thee: France knows her hope, too, is nst
dead.
his unstained renown
On ali the centuries sets a priceless crown;
And man may glory in the worth it gives
The added worth-to our ennobled blood.
all our veins it pours a purer flood;
And every life, through ii, more nobly lives.
Glory to him his is that worthie t praise,
Not for himself his mighty need he wrought,
Of power and rank and weslth he took no thought, |
Like lesser great ones OF our story days.
with this service, but toe hearts love bought, |
Of the freed-land he would have died to raise.
Careless, if unto him the world dealt praise,
Dr. scorn, he moved to his great end, to be
One from whore name new splendors shall be
caught
The guide and glory OF eternity.
GREENWICH, 1861.