The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-06
AMERICA.
watrrxs By A LosesHonxxAx.


Columbia. fair maid. what means this sad smile1
Have tyTants aud traitors tried you 20 bcguile,
Or what means this sadness l see on your face
Where all once was beauty, gladness and peace;
What mean these chains zee on your arms,
Or do you wear khackies u adorn your charms;
Are they not too hesvyf They seem 80 TO me,
And should not DO worn ia the land OF the Tree.
With sad look she said: ''Its seldom see
Any casting glance or thought upon ms.
30. rs you have noticed me out OF the throng
My SORROW I'll tell you and won keep you long.
This shaokle you see here on my right
oncs seemed so ornament that would add charm
To nay beauty aud glory, statesmen did say.
For il came from Britannia, over the SEA
"in eighteen forty-nins IL was presented 10 ne
Britain at that time was Jealous. you see.
can zee It now, as time goes along.
Ny ornaments are shacklss that have panied me
long.
For they looked so beautiful, without q Jaw.
Were presented to me through sauaiity of Gags
law
Al that time my dag was all over the sea,
The emblem of liberty aud land OF the free.
my ships sailed the seas and oceans around:
There was no port where my Gag was not found.
They carried my exports ana imports, too.
Under nay flag. with an American crew.
The products that went out brought wealth In
10 me-
Then was prosperous on land and on sea;
But this shaekls has ssrangled my commerce to
death.
"My greatest industry vas stranslsd to death.
Ships built. the smarssst that sailed around
the earth;
But they took Of the protection that my fathers
gave me.
And now my fSs Is scarce seen the sea-
What have got for tue millions that l gaves
Through her carrying my products my farmers
cant I've.
Frse trade In foreign frsizhtlnr has ruined me,
And rny ships no longer are seen on tho sea
"Brstsunia now sings that she rule. the waves
Yet poor Ireland and fndia for Justice Graves
Belgium. Austria. Norway, with Portugal and
spaia,
Are all In her power By Welding Der chain.
They are riveted on me without faw
By jawsmiths OF international law
We can't east them ot, though our limbs they
goad:
That can only be done by blood and the sword,
'As Britannia gives nothing except By tia,
method.
Europe. ike me. With her chains she has fss-
tered.
And she wsI.. 20 rive; smother chain on me.
That my ships may never be seen on the SEA
Free trade, ft's called, and mean. 20 Eae death,
And TIE eyes 81 ell nations thass on the earth
Are cast on fay They are looking 90 ss.
II ny sous will unchalS rns and act me freq
"whsn they repealed shs law that my father.
tid sign.
Which gave them free trade in tie sorstxu
frslghttng line,
Tbs; the arst stab that Britsnni. rave M.
she afrsit tnat night be Queen Of the Sea
Has the spiris that rny fathers showed By ssssr
death.
whteh eonsecrsted this and At TIE time OF ruy
firth,
pspssiesT No. nsvssi / can bear IN the thna.
der.
America Ter the Ansficsnsl' and 'Rs,xn
Cnlgmhiaf
Eer isoe bnzatsssa up 40 these vert. .ns
spoke.
MY iataen ai.d hat wouia no, wear TIA
YOKE
or Az foreign po~sr tAst's OF ;his earth.
That wss the spirit hat xsvs ne ms hf,th
Pfosectoz and Esci proelty viii knock OF nv
chains
Ana TIE splris Of ny fsiasrs viii .rs,u hala g..
gstps
Which sill Euiss me, % isad snd OF sea
TEeSs were the scsds tass Columbia .s1a rn.a