Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-07
OUR COUNTRY.
BY JOHN eREKSLEAF WHITTIER.
lREAD AT RosELASD PARK. WOODSTOCK. COIN
 JULY4 Iss3

kEAD IfVNkLANl fAkh- W nOQnSLNNks AONE
 JULr {, lss5.l We give thy natal day Co hope,
 O Country of our love and prayer Thy way Is down no fatal slope, But up to freer sun and air Tried as by turnace-hres. and yet By Gods grace Ouly stronger made. To meet new tasks before thee set Thou shalt not lacK the old-time aid. The fathers sleep but men remain As wlse, as true and brave as they. Why count the los and notthe gain The best Is that we have to-day. what'er of folly. shame or crime Within thy mighty bounds trsn-pires, Wi h speed defyIng space and time Comes to us on the accusing wires; While of thy wealth of noble deeds, Thy homes of peace. thy votes uneold, The love that pleads for human needs, The WrOng redressed. hut half IS told Each poor wretch. in his prison cell O. gallOws-noose. IS intervleSed; We know the single sinner well,
 And not the nIne-and-niuety good. Yet, if on daily scandals fed.
 We seem at times to doubt thy worth. . The best and dearest spot on earth. From the warm Mexic gulf. or where. Belted with flowers, lee Angeles Basks In the semi-tropic air.
 To where kAtahdin's cedar tree. Are dwarfed and bent by northern winds. Thy pleuty's horn is yearly filled Alone, the rounding century finds
 Thy hbera1 soil by free hands titled. A refuge for the wronged and poor. Thy generous heart has borne the blame That. with them, through thy open door. The old wOfld's evil outcasts came. But. ~ith hy just and equal rule
 And labOr's need and Or adth of lands. Free press and rOstrum, church and school, Thy sure. if slow. transforming hands Shall mold even them Co thy design, Making blessing of the bun And Freedom chemistry combine The alien elements of Han. The power that broke their prison bar And set the du-ky millions free. And welded in the flame of war
 The Union fate tu liberty. Shall 1t not deal with other ills.
 kedre- the red mans grievance. break The Circean cup which shames and kills. Anu 4ADof lulA illtAl lAAkes Alone to such as ftly bear
 Thy CIVIC hOnors bid them fall And call thy daughters forth to share The rights and duties pledged Co all No lack was in thy primal stock.
 No weaklng founders builded here: Thine were the men of Plymouth Rock, The HugueuOt and cavalier, And they whose firm endurance gained Tne freedom Of fhe souls of men, Whose hands. unstaIned with blood, maii
 tained
 The sworlless commonwealth of Penn. And thine shall be the power Of all To do the work which duty blds, And make the peoples council hall As lasting as the pyramids Well have thy later years made good Thy brave-saId word a century back, The pledge of human brotherhood, The equal claim of white and black, That word still echoes round the world. and all who hear It turn tO thee, And read upon thy flag unfurled The prophecies of deslny. The great wOrld-lesson all shall learn The nations m thy sshOOl shall sit, Earth's farthest mUuntAIn-tops shall burn With watch-tires from thy own uplit. Great without seeking Co be great By fraud or conquest, rich m gold. But richer in the large estate
 or virtue which thy children hold, With peace that comes of purity, And strength 10 simple justice due: So runs our loyal dream of thee; God of our fathers make it true c land Of lands 10 thee we give Our prayers our hopes. our service free; For thee thy sons shall nObly live. And st thy need shall die for thee