Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-04
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We give thy natal day to hope,
country u our love and prayeri
Thy way +, down no istal Stops,
But up 70 freer SUI aud air
Tried as by furnace fires, and vet
b Gods grace only strong = made,
To meet new tasks before thee set
Thou shalt no. lack the oid-tin1e all.
TIE fathers sleep; hat menTenain
AZ wise, IS true ard brave % shey.
Why count the loSs and not the gain
The best is that va haze to-cAy.
Tbateer Of folly, shame or crime
NitIin thy mighty bounds tr@nsrires,
with speed defyng space and time
CJces 70 Is On III accusing wires:
While OF thy wealth Of noble deeds,
Thy homes Of peace, tiny woes uHs1lds
The love that pleads Tor human needs,
The wrong redressed, but hat 5 told
Each poor wretch, in his prison cell
Or gallows-noose, is iateryie NED
We know the single sinner we'll,
And not the nine and ninety g0o1.
Yet, II on daily scandals fed.
We seem a. times TO doubt thy worth,
We kaoW thee still, when all is said
The bess and dearest spot on earth.
From the warm Mex;c Gull, or where,
Belted with flowers Los Angeles
Bssks in the semitropc air,
TO where Eatahdins Cedar trees
Are dwarfed and bent by Northern winds.
Thy eniy's horn is yearly filled;
Alone, the rounding century finGs
Thy LIBERAL soil by free hands Il I'D.
A refuge for the wronged and poor,
THY ,rauHrpfI9 heart has horne me bauc
That, with them, through thy opeu door
The Old N,rla's evil outcasts came.
But, with thy just and equal rule,
and labor's need and breadth OF lands,
Free press and rostrum, church and school,
Thy sure, Il slos, transforming handa
Shell 1aeld even them to thy design.
NJ king { blessing OF the ban
Aud Freedoms chemistry combine
The alien elements Of man.
The power that broke their prison blt
ana set the duskv nj lions fee,
And welded in the lms Of wa.
The Union last 90 Lioeriy,
Shall it not deal with other ills,
Redress the RED mans grievance. break
The C,rcean cup which names snd Kills,
And Labor iul reQait.i ra-kcI
Alone to such As ftl7 bear
Thy civic honors lid them faii
Ard call thy daughters forth 10 share
Tne rights and duties pledged to all.
No lack was in thy primal stock.
No weakipg founders buiided here
Thine were the men Of Plymouth Rock,
The HnSueaot and Cavalier
And they whose firm endurance gained
The freedom Of the souls Of men,
Whose hands, uustliaed with blood. naintainet
The swOrdless commonwealth OF Penn.
And thine shall he the power OF all
To do the work which duty bids,
And make the peoples council hall
As lasting ms the Pyramids
Well have thy liter years made good
Thy brave-sad word g 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 il turn 10 thee,
Aud read upon thy flag uniurled
The prophesies OF destiny.
The great world lesson all shall learn.
The nations in thy school shah sit
Earth's far hest mountniE-tops shall burn
With watch-ires from thy own uplit.
Great without seeking to be great
By fraud or conquest, rich in gold,
But ric- er in the large estate
OF virtue which thy children hold,
With peace that cones Of purity,
And strength to simple justice due
So Iuns our loyal dream OF thee;
God Of our flthers make it truei
o lanl of lands to thee we give
Our prayers, our hopes, our service free;
FOR thee thy sous shall nobly live.
All al thy need shall die for thee