The record-union., 1897-06-06

Immortal artl with the world made free,
| Great liberty's other self is thee!
| Thou hast never dallied in tyrantS' hand,
But the cry of Freedom is thy COM
mand.
God held a half of the world at bay,
For a better dawning, brighter day,
| That He might chriSten at early spring
A continent without a King;
Insuring to liberty half the earth,
The west three centuries took to learn
And a heated brand. The letters still burn
Where they tore the flesh with the brands
With fratricide, parlc1de, scourge and
sword;
The letters of liberty were impressed.
Through every crisis. every scourge,
Arts flaming banner has swung to urge
1t sharpened the edge of the patriots steel,
Before its fury the despots reel;
And first to utility its must yield,
And with Franklin's kite hold the starry
Then with Whitney come, and the cotton
And then with the power loom learn to
With Watt and Stephenson cross the sea
And wait for Fulton's dream to be
That shall teach the world on the Huosoh
stream
The vast invincible power of steam.
In times sweet fulness. queenly art
In the realm of letters always hrst
over the west ike AuTOfd puiSl
And broke the hush OF the human heart'
With Bryant in Thanatopsis breathed;
With Irving its poetry worked IN prose,
With Cooper and Prescott stately rose
And then on Hawthorne's brow was
wreathed.
Then Concord spoke with unquestioned
Not in mad conquest was it hurled
That mighty shot heard rouno the
To catch the ear of grim Carlyle,
When he heard "Concord'S voice aloHe
Wreathed in the sanity Emerson sfniiei
When Longfellow sought from an artless
Arts stately rhythmics to catch and trace,
And to hear the sob of Atlantic's water
In the mournful wall of Acadia's daughler.
To follow loves will-o' -the-wisp TIL age
And the deathbed shadows should I'LL the
Art never held kinglier hand
Than came to his verse at her command
To the Alpine nights of his early notes
He added the wealth OF ms rlpeneu
Gave life's full measure without a stain
His name in the highest ether floats
Without ambition he reached the crest.
And the East clasped hands with the lau-
relied West.
Then Whittier wove thee into song,
With his warning notes of nations
His white hand upward in stern appeal
Steadily indexed the nations veal;
And through the gloom of starless night
He blazed loves pathway to the right;
In simple pastorals touched the chords
That throbbed with Hberty's greatest
words.
Pure as his own New England snow,
Melting in springtimes overflow,
He washed the crimson from the sod
And gave his sountry back to COD 80
With the patient stars he pinned his falth,
And when he folded his hands in death,
He had fashioned his paradise on the earth
And arose full-robed to the second olrtn.
From the realm of letters standing apart,
Rose the stately poem of one great heart,
Artless in all things-the crown OF art.
Great Lincoln. always at his best,
Placed the brightest wreath on the lau-
relied West.
Without an aspirant thought of fame,
Art fingers the longest at his name.
From the humblest earth he reached the
stars,
And fell at the stroke of malignant Mars
Fell when the earth rang round with
praise,
And his name set the armament all ahlaze.
HIRAM HOYT RICHMOND.
Auh11rn Cal.