The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1894-02-01
Our Country.
BY HENRY S. WEBSTER.

AIRY %, 1894.
| Let other subjects blush and disappear,
| One theme alone BELTS Columbian year.
Let not Romance her gaudy colors show
| Nor Satire strike his swift and stinging blow J;
| Let not the Pun attempt-a thing absurd
| TO ape true wit by monkeying with a word
| At other times, o Muse abuse the sex
| Whose fitfll soul the whims Of Fashion vex ,
| Tell how she humps it with some strange de-
| sign,
Now on the shoulders, now upon the spine,
| Or how she varies from a spinding pole
| 70 a hooptd bulk almost prepared to RON.
But On this day, if song or thought there be,
| That song, that Thought, our Country, us
of thee.
| Upon thy lap, d Freedoms late-horn chila,
| See an the gifts Of Wealth and Science Piled;
| See Commerce wing her conveys To thy
| shores,
And Art a,lorn tlee with her priceless stores
At thy command see the White City rise,
| With towers that mount and fires that mock
the Skies
There people meet Of every race ana zone,
| To add their gathered splenaurs to thine
Whatever Art with finest slSil! l:sA wrought
| Or Genius had conceived with holdest
thought
There might in radiant display
| Till Vision. haiiied, turned her gaze away.
! But Mother-C Country, if to deck thy pride
| ''i'N S''s'' ~ ''''- AN''' '''t
Piled,
we should behold despite '-e heapen-"P
Ptil
One thlng more ialr' more "ohaerta'-thy-
stii
In ,iavs Of old thv solemn vastness stood.
A fair expanse of prairie, lake and WOOD
| Like IA great organ OF whose NOitrleSs keys
| NO hand mad walked the heavenly harno-
nies.
| of granite and of marble We're thv beams
| lhy pipes tht channels N hnnnmhertd
streams,
my stops the bolts OF heav n-asprlng pines,
/ my reeds the riches of thy slillnberlnS
mines,
! Thy Keys me Ner'lnre of thy bonndless
plans
| Rich With the centuries nngarntrtd gains.
80 stood Tht organ, every part complete,
Prepared 10 ltttr SOUNDS An strangely sweet
~ those OF Paradise ere man hal sIlined,
'plld ~ receive IlAt nhe tnllR Htfulul-Winh'
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