Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-05-03

Was he called to preside, as a Ruler, still high
He, leader in battle and foremost in peace,
At the head Of Affairs, babe all enmity oease,
Then. our Nation, new born, with HIS hand at
| the helm,
In confidence rested, when storms would DER
whelm.
| Our liberties. civil and sacred, we hold
still dear to our hearts, as they wider unfold,
We rejoice, as we know that with consciences
free,
We may ANYWHERE bend devotional knee.
Out, on the wideiocean, our vessel Get sail,
Though 1t oft has been toss'd by the wave and
the gale,
Yet, her timbers. unsplintered, tornadoes out
rode,
And, on her proud deck, now, is freedoms
abode!
It's Citing. this Nation, one hundred years old
One Jubilee, joyous, should willingly hold,
And the deeds OF our honorsd forefathers re-
call,
When our being began in old Federal Hall,
The eyes OF the world lock with wondering
faze,
ho Jul PahAVh-hACs aiu INV lauHcu 70 u UihLo.
While the scenes Of the long ago pass in review,
Our fealty to country to-day we'll renew,
Let sectional feelings no longer annoy
Political hatred our peace will destroy,
Let friendship wave wide now her magical
wand,
o'ereverr assembly to-day, through the land!
Let duty TO country. on bosoms inspire.
IA ua ra iaat tina gi al anthanna af froadnt, atm
higher,
In sops-that down coming ages may trili,
And the bosom OF every American thrill,
In the sweep OF your vision, look back on the
past
When our country's fair face was a wilderness
vast
Its solitudes echoed the boot of the owl
And, by brook-watered wales did the savages
prowl.
Map the outline Of things, when OUR voices
are dumb,
Glance down the long line Of the MKT hundred
years,
Then enter on record of thought, what appears,
As ages. uncounted. roll up into view,
UAborn generations may do rs we do,
May meet every century here to display
Their wond'rous achievements, as we do to-
day!
Like tide on the ocean. hlgh-rolling and
grand,
Migration turned westward to people the land,
Till our borders have widened with State after
state,
And New York has Joined hands with the far,
Golden Gate.
sixty millions and over are treading our soil,
Some busy in business-some happy in toll,
Law reigns to protect us and anarchy hides
When Righteousness rules and when honesty
guides.
Though sometimes we seem to ''pass under the
rod,n
Yet, confidence still is reposing In God.
While our songs Of thanksgiving go up, in ac-
claims
We will form new resolves, and stiil loftier
No Undiscovered ruins, me kinks will be found
HERE, mingiing lost grandeur again with the
ground.
Our cities and fsrms and our beautiful lawns
win be found here, perhaps, when Eternity
The fame OF our chieftsins stands second to
none,
For intrepid daring and victories won,
In our vaults aud our tombs will be gathered
the dust
OF the great and the good, who proved worthy
OF trust.
wide-open were flung all our gates, to the
world,
shelter-twherever our nag was unfurled)
Was offered the strangers who knocked at our
doors, ttr,s
From the Gulf to where loudly Niagara roars.
By the axe of the pioneer, forest-trees fell,
Where once loudly echoed the Indians wild
yell,
From the hum ofmsshinery the panther has
fed
And cities are built where the buffalo fed,
ourrivers are plowed by the paddle wheel
Where once shot, in silence, the ''birch- bark" |
canoe,
The train and the engine. with ponderous
weight,
Rush and roar like storm. with their burden |
OF freight,
by the work OF the piekaxe the mountain has
bowed,
The spark has been caught from the thunder
ing cloud
Till now human thoughts fash along on the
wire,
Betting ocean and earth with a language OF
fire!
The buzz of the spindle, the forge and the loom
Have walked the wild echoes OF primeval gloom.
The smoke of the fact'ry, in wreath curls, now
rise
Like siIver-tipp'd pillows, festooning the
skies.
Events, 80 momentous, like mile stones along,
Stand, ever enduring, in story and song,
Down the long-coming ages will history glow
With Our records, for all other nations to
know,
AS further, our pure civilization extends,
Let It deepen and widen till monarchy ends,
Till liberty flaps her glad wings DER the world,
And her banners Of peace, universal, unfurled!