The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-18
The Flag Over schools.

The breeze is fresh from river woodf.
Is balm and sweet with prairie flow
ers,
Is spiced with wondrous travels thro'
The oak and elm and apple bowers
Kissed DER the gray Galena mine,
Ger gold of Wabash, Tyrianblue,
Ger bluffs in sandy, stony hoods,
1t blows through shadow and through
shine,
And folds in Illinoisian air
The nations banner lifted there.
The Flagstaff cleaves the loyal air,
A gilded ball of fire on high,
Whose atlas on his shoulders bent
Upholds a newer world in sky,
With Newtons laws all underspread, d,
With Hersche1s star-worlds over
blent,
While midway in the heavens there
With feet upon the gable red
Of schools from lake to river wave
He holds the ensign of the brave.
Fit is it that the hands who guide
The youth and children of the state
| Unfurl the banner when with them
Lies largess of the nations fate
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Run up the waving diadem
Upon the mornings undern-tide.
Put star to star as best you can,
And stripe of red and stripe of white
Across the FURNISHED east of light.
Train up the manly, earnest boys,
Lead up the maidens blossom-sweets
Till toward the crest of Bunker, then
fnaf
Send them DER Lookout, to the sea,
Till they shall whisper: I'VE are
men,
AS said the ersten Illinois,
20 strange invaders! We are freep'
Teach them how much it cost that there
We give that banner to the air.
Some country boy, who, eventime,
Let's down the bars for lowing kline,
| And crops aside the golden-rod
With careless switch of f1shing-line
! And gathers up a wayside rose
/ From hidden shade and messy sod,
For mother. with an unsung rhyme,
May hold the nations war and woes
Teach well that boy that part, and
whole
He. be American at soul.
| Had Scion read the laws made just,
From man to man within the state;
Had Pericles beheld in view
| The logic where they Iegislate,
What had it been for Hellas then?
| But, stay, no olden nation knew
| The sacred, all-abiding trust
| Of law of Man for good of Men,
| Then float and fold DER rampant gray
! n
/ The fires of Smithfield shine in thee,
And older still the jewels rare,
| Of cid Cornelia-Gracchi b1est-
! Shine in the all, enpulsate air;
Saranarola's crown, and these,
| Brave Barneveld and they, the best,
| Who looked through fire at Liberty,
And held to all that heals and frees.
Till from the silent, speeches. dust,
They freight thee with their holy
trust.
Lake Michigan, the blue, is thine
Thy glad aurora sunrise led:
/ The dim, old Mississippi's breast
Is lambient in sunset-red.
! And always unto thee are stars.
When lowered to thy even-rest
The Stars, 0 Flag, come out and shire
And watch thee over golden bars
For thou hast one sweet shield of sky
Emblazoned on thy banner high.
UnfurI and leap and wave in breeze,
Another Grant may somewhere be;
| Another Lincoln reading now
By pine-knot flame, by cabin-tree;
Another Logan, loved of men,
With courage resting on his brow.
Keep tune to wild birds woodland
glees,
Keen time to olden battles, when
The great battalions of the right
Followed thy colors up the height.
Minnie Adella Hansen, Franklin
Grove, Ill. C1illside SCHOOL,