The record-union., 1896-07-05

Come Valley Forge, whose bloody prints
stamp hperty's unfading line.
lney came and passed. Our fathers wrote
Sucn history as never dies
Inc unfading Sanscrit of the stars
The blazoned Scripture of the skies.
one day outmeasures all the rest
Ihe grandeSt council of the world
orsed Its hTe-printed thunderbolt
Whlcn straight at Englands throne was
hurled
one name outShineS the galaxy
one star, the only center SUM-
The Sirius of all the sky
fames summit crown-of Washington.
| stand racing with unfinching eyes
Ine futures untold destinies-
The passing of a century
And have we riDened with our years?
! Las All our harvesting of grain,
Do an our ministries of pain,
SuI1ke balance as the cycle nears?
Most graciously we have received,
! ana graciously have heroes given
Ihelr added seraphim to Heaven,
ana surely we are not deceived.
The world has been to school with US.
And we, as teachers of the race
Have all our tutorings to face;
have we not brought life's overplus?
Our task was hard. Twas ours to prove
| Great liberty's experiment:
But All the outcasts hither bent
1 Brought hearts of loyalty and love.
We met all tests that tried the years
The worst was fratricidal war;
ana yet we yoked it to our car,
through surfeiings OF burning tears.
In spite of sneers from feudal States,
We proved our sovereign right to be
A nation still and still be free
tn ha fat
TO prove that we could all be kings,
Ana yet pay tribute to nc crown;
Ihat sceoters held in hands OF brown
Are the most potent of all things.
Great lives went out, new stars were
I born,
/ Burned into baldric of the sky
Glints of her Immortality
For still the flag remained untorn.
The cost was great-above the flame,
IN letters blazed on Heavens SCROLL
FLASHED one imponderable SOUL
The summit of our later fame
Great Lincoln, gentlest of the race,
Yet side by side with Washington;
| Hls heavy task as nobly done
| NO Sculptors chisel e'er can trace
| The deepening lines of his plain face,
But feels the marble whittier grow
With every vain attempt to show
His rounded life, his matchless grace.
Ihucn nave We overcome in war
| God grant from all the gains of peace
We reach the ultimate surcease
! With added luster to our star
There still remains. aye, still remains,
The test of our prosperity
| For We are fiated like the sea
And fat ming on our boarded gains;
And Liberty, no longer lean,
| Stands forth the opulent of earth,
| Antithesis of her hard birth
! God keep her garments ever clean!
We cannot fail. The guiding hand
| That rocked our infancy at birth
| Marks us the potency of earth
The all-enduring Promised Land"
! Our centuries shall count as sands,
| And we shall stand as Others fall
! To answer the archangel's CALL
And fail in line" at GODS command.
More music by the Foresters' Band
followed, and then came an excellent
| Grafton delivered by Hon. Frank n
Gould, the Orator of the Day, who sue
| ceeded in infusing into a Well-worn sub
ject a degree of interest that held his
hearers attention to the last word.
The quartet then sang America, -
and the audience joined in swelling the
chorus, after which Rev. T. H. B. An
derson delivered the benediction and the
assembly dispersed.