The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-07
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And the untutored sons Z,
D combine Y
To make up the victim.
and whose blood -
Have darkened and crimso...
rible line.
And foremost tss St, of those who har, !.
or drawing the pigment and sur...
: stain
ls-chief of deceivers and Abser, =.
The vampire nation, the Kinrdosw
While millions are longing ).
glad day
When nation with nation YIN
contend,
when wars are forgotten ~
shall hold sway. -
Each man be brother. each \.
There seems in the heart Of m
remain
All evil unconquered, all barh.r,..
All courage of cruelty, pleasure a
That ever found place In her ~
creed.
Iberlan wildness and Celtic uu,s
fhenecian aggression and com
/
| Proverbial perfidy Carthage ~.
| And Roman ambition aud M.
peace.
The fierceness of VandaIs ~.
Goths
And barbarous- bent OF the Turl,
Moors,
Have joined In alliances, pll,h,.,
| troths
And gendered their seed on BI,.
shores.
Along In this line that coms
thro' the years
Are dark "inquisitions" ami !,
cries black,
And signs, groans and heart.
bereavements and tears.
AND dungeon and gibbet and \
and rack
And but from Hispania's recora.
stream
Foul murders and massacres sherlh
tell,
And pillage, and perfidy, intrim
scheme,
AS dark as the orgies of ptiless hall
The Christians by thous lads fslI
her stroke,
And thousands of Hebrews wen
ished or slain.
And armies Of Indians under her
or cruelty, died by the sanctIa
Spain.
So deep Into Spain are these eyA
wrought
That civilizations meridian sun
Hasn't scattered their darkness nor
their blot,
Nor the on march OF nations her mai
undone.
For years she has held from her y
their right.
And stole by taxation the fruits d
TIL outraged humanity rises ID b
Resenting her rule of oppression
spoil.
And Cuba, the gem of the Antilles,4 {
Ablo3m with beauty exceeded BY ND
And blessed with a fruitage az rich u
rare
AS answers the kiss of tropical sun
And Cuba, fair Cuba. down.tres4i
oppressed.
As she lay near the land Of the T.
and the brave.
Felt the spirit Of liberty swell b
breast
As 1t foated to her on the crest 4 [
wave.
Then she held out her manacled handi
the sea
And smote at her letters and plead In \
And pointed the sons OF this land q {
free
To her land devastated, her citizens d
Columbia woke from her moments !
pose
And shook out the folds OF the his
the free,
And list'd to the wall of distress
rose
On the wings of the wind floating n
the sea.
o. pitiful wall of a father who plead
For the life of an only son, noble
brave.
VI hunger-pinched children that pH
for bread,
VI mother for daughter she'd pefin /
save.
Columbia paused as she looked q
scar
From the wound scarcely healed D
ointment Of years.
And she thought of the wreck ana
ruin of war
TIL her fair eyes we're misty
gathering tears.
But she waited not long, for her mn
strayed
\ back TO her days OF oppression and ~
When with manacled hands she for ll'd
prayed
And struggled, as Cuba, the weak win
strong.
Then wiped she her tears with -
shackled hand.
Then spoke she in accents unfalts,
to Spain,
And hade her from Cuba take on s
hand
And vacate at once with her heet
her train. ]
3ut Spain, as If drunk with the blooa
had split.
iirt on her old armor and STROBE
field
}, sight to move pity! All covered
guilt,
Zoo feeble to stand and too hausnV
yield.
And then fair Columbia called 2
sons,
Her star bestud ensign she hung
breeze,
And gathered her ships. her mup'p
and guns,
And marshalled her hosts on inc
and the seas.
he boys came trooping from the mOS
and plain,
md gave their young lives to wnse
might be.
md said, as they shouted defiance
wen never come back until o'
free."
And so let 1t be. Let the req =
wave
Till the last Spanish warship y
in the deep.
And the graveyard of nations c0