The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-07

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From her they caught at primal right and
And touched the meanings OF Omnipotence.
They never sought in sooth.
The Eden visoned in Columbus mind.
| Nor Icons fount Of youth.
| Nor cared II Raleigh's golden city CLEAN
Affair in maze OF misty hill ami stream.
Nur wished to voyage after Hudson's Ind.
They us ana did te praise the
| sword:
They kept the laws they made:
They hated privilege. and laughed at birth
They suffered. and submitted to tho Lord,
And when occasion rose.
Each frankly pledged his honor. fortune, life.
| Against oppressive foes:
And fusing into loving brotherhood
~, In flame Of sacrifice and smoke Of blood.
| There came n nation from the happy strife.
In ali things brave and new.
| With renl Inns of mountain. lake. and sky bound
And to this teaching true;
| Mans dignity equality OF men
A sovereignty in every citizen.
The peoples good the guara nty to reign.
| o sailors. bold and brave.
| or olden time. that took the wandering spray
And eli mbed the unknown wave.
| Although we give to each due need OF fame
And wreath with laurel every sea-sweet
Ye did not mud nor make America:
The hope. the love. the thought
or millions joined to nouri sh as it grew:
The toll of ages wrought
Through natures ample dover OF mine and
And many a soldier fell across his shield
Ere we could pause to find your sea dreams
Lo. many costly bale
Beyond tho scope Of Asi an caravan:
"A fountain in the vale
A golden city in the distant hills:
Almost an Eden for regenerate man!
No wonder we rejoice!
hrAa linn l. ha II al m IN
There comes warning voice.
The tale Of those that won. but could not hold.
or those that rose with steel and fell with
The great republics OF tho ancient days.
touch Of selfish greed.
The faint OF luxury in social health.
The hates Of class or creed.
The lure in politics to civic guilt
Might sap the stately home the Fathers bnilt
And take the household spirit as by stealth;
And in some comm time,
gene alton might arouse In fear
And sense Of loss and crime,
The Old Worlds standards ruling in their
stead.
And nothing but another Europe here!
Due honor to the lands
From which we sprung, all hail the ancient
OF Kindred hearts and hands,
But we began with all that they had won
A counsel OF perfection calls US on
10 do no more than they have done were
shame.
-, 'Twere better far. hold.
fse 9hs t the Hd once more
From hili .girt Hudson's current broad and
TO where. 'twixt Erie apd Ontario.
Leaps green Niagara with a,giant's roar:
BY commerce with her ilying charioteers
Tangled with solitude.
The Indian, trail unc!il among the trees.
u, The council runners torch against the breeze
To have the wigwans rise
BY summer-h haunted HORIZON so fair:
Fruit blooms and grain gold dyes
The miii-csowned cliffs OF Gencsee made bare.
=, 'Twcre letter far desire
To SEQ Manhattan's sol: laid desolate.
.Droar az another Tyre.
Her palaces in ruins orerset
Mer shores besirl with weed and md drying net
Yea. and her rival here
Arising like the domes OF kuhla Khan
Dissolved as swift again, along the. strand
To grassy swamps and dunes OF siited sand.
spurned by the scornIul Stray OF Michigan.
., Such things must come again,
wherever in their hope and virtue rlse
A race OF wise irec men
Or golden ornament. or gallant feet.
he Tho made whose Sei service &c, S
In plain. or mart. or by his factory wheels,
Or on tho crowded wharf,
SiEce not the mountain. In his cloudy stole
Nor the great sea outrankS the conscious
soul
That knows their glory and their beauty feels!
But out on dreams OF dread!
In him nut my waking faith and trust
w A king in heart aud head.
Who masters forces. shapes material things.
Who loves his kind, whose common sense
~ has wings.
The true American. tho kindly Just
Full prompt in word and deed.
And ready. to make good some human hope.
In time Of utter need
To cross at Delaware the lees gorge,
Or tread blood bolte snow at Valley Forge.
Or keep at Gettysburg the gun.shook slope!
>, And greater faith | ask
For that mysterious power that watches DER
- The workman at his task
That shapeR his effort IL the higher aim
And will not let his Btraying fingers frame
a craven thing. to worship and adore
JOSEPH OCoENoR