The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-13
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC.

(Rcad by Edward Sanford Martin lc-
fore the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa at
Cambridge, June 80, 1921
Call us utilitarian those who will
A warrant for our Yankee impulse still
Stands in the immemorial decree
That linked with labor human life shall
be.
For liberty and progress hand in hand
With pushing thrift have gone in many
a land.
And mastery of earth and nature brings
The key to endless stores of precious
things.
Full purses foster art; letters nave Hour
ished
In times when even poets were we'll
nourished.
Wealth earned, not filched, power not
usurped, but based
On frcemen's choice, are mighty tools
that, placed
In fitting hands. spread civilizations
And speed the dawning of millcnnium's
day.
BE honor, then. to him who makes the
TO wiser tillage further harvests yield;
Who harnesses the lightning, and con-
strains
In GOclle steer 10 save the lHStlS pdliS'
Who teaches US new wants, and, turn
about
Supplies these things we cannot do with
out,
And makes us hope. so much do wares
abound,
There'n some time be enough to go
around.
To those devoted souls be honor, too.
Who steadfastly the quest for truth
pursue:
Who rihng history's treasure-house,
The futures hopes and perils from the
past
Who seek creations darkest. depths to
plumb
What man has been. and is, and may be-
come.
Whence brought, and by what trail and
whittier bound,
Asking, they wrest its secrets from the
ground,
The depth of earth and sea, the celes-
tial vault;
They dredge and sift and span in an
assault
So fierce and steady that the hosts of
night
Fall ever back before it's fervent might,
And Sol each morning rises with shout,
Surprised at what those fellows have
found out
But honor more be his whose instincts
own
The truth. MAN cannot live by bread
alone"
Who sees in righteousness far more
than wealth,
The prime essential to a nations health;
Whom neither ease nor quest, sublime
or base.
Makes inconsiderate OF his brothers
case:
Whose effort is come plenty or come
dearth,
Gods will TO learn, and see it done on
A lack of sturdy men whose aims are
high
No surging tide of plenty can supply.
Doomed is the state, whatever it's avaiIs
Where probity falls down and conscience
fails.
Not gold nor iron, grain nor ships nor
Can make a nation great that lacks a
This above all, then, brethren, we should
know.
How by our growth to make our country
grow
In that true glory whose foundations lie
In justice, freedom and integrity
Our country whose we are, and in whose
Our stake is so immeasurably great,
Whose honor ours involves her fame our
fame.
Her misdirection our remorse and shame
Manila's guns, reverberating still,
Witness how well her sons can do her
will.
Beleaguered Cuba's marching hosts at
test
How swells the love OF freedom in her
breast.
Whate'er befall, God grant her flag may
fly
In sign of righteousness and liberty.
Ne'er at ambitions beck 10 be unfurled
In triumph DER the weaklings OF the
world.
Ne'er borne in battle save in mercy's
cause
To spread the realm OF peace and honest
laws.
May Heaven, who gave us strength, give
wisdom, too
Our duty teach us, and what not to do:
And so on force may moderation wait
So match our men OF war; our chiefs OF
state
That the chief fame our victories shall
produce
May be the high renown OF victory's use:
So be our arms, our flag, our future
blest--
God save the Great Republic Of the West!