The record-union., 1899-07-05

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And yet God held in sweet reserve
The better half of earth.
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OF Christ to second birth
TIL u breaking saln track s in unknown seas,
Columbus FORCES destiny.
And brings the halves together.
The play upon the patience Of the race,
Through king and lordling Of the feudai
Forbsds that they should write upon the
OF this new earth their monody Of
tears.
And i Puritan sn q, HIzuguenot and celt
knelt :
They built as race had never built before,
And wisely welded liberty and law.
Tney struck the ), face of kings with
And ceased ali tribute to the feudal
Then m farn, against all nraoaa.nt thew
In fundamental law the creedless creed
In absolute equality Of vote
Man should be measured only by his
That every man should worship as he
And shrine his conscience as he thought
him best,
That church and state should ntigate as
And never clash the purpose of the
west.
Thus first Of the great triad, Liberty
cTwas only that the dominant were free)
Yet all the stars were witness of its
And heaven forefended as the fathers
And sinewed giants for the grand en-
Condoning thus our heritage of guilt
And writing prophecy across our skies.
True unity still waited on the land
Til the last feudal heritage was gone,
Till slavery tottering from her CEN
Fell to it's death from it's self-driven
hand.
The second of the triad thus enthroned,
Unfettered every energy of life,
Made sacred and lncarnadined in strife,
And in fraternal sacrifice atoned
Great was the cost, the compensation
great
Since ali republics hung upon our fate,
Fixed every star upon the hammered
West.
We. filled our. century with wine and oil,
We grew plethoric with our grain and
gold,
The Sa ass. had given all our hands could
And We waxed fat upon our sun and soil.
Our cr;owIning purpose was yet unat-
We hardly noticed as the world went
The grind of other nations, and the cry
which told Of sweating millions still un-
chained.
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Close to our doors Humanity appealed,
When dark-eyed Cuba at our threshold
kneeled,
Demanding in Gods name tn avenging
stroke.
The cry of precedent had held US back
should we
Z Make wage of war for bare humanity?
Why turn our backs upon the timeworn
track?
Yet 1t was urgent and our human hearts
And ali Internationally Sc a we ciusched out
AS parcel of the race in ali its parts
But soon a closer thrust has driven home
Our dalliance. With start and pain
We hear the story of the good ship
Maine,
And every voice of history says, Gomez
Come to your clo lose, destiny, great name
Your torches on the hill tops! Die!
If to your duty you cannot ., arise EN- ,o,r
Your opportunity is en- the skies,
And further dalliance is your dis
And how we met the cry is easy told
! How Dewey wrote engagement in
One bright May morning placed our cloth
Above SPANS hulks in old Manila Bay.
How the Rough Riders rode to glory,
How Hobson gave himself to song and
The knell that sounded DER cervera's
How three short stately moons had made
complete
The conquest of old spain-How over all
Her islands of the sea Old Glory waved.
Her. stars made. brighter and much
How North and South together filled the
call.
God,
AS mountain, scars where thunderbolts
Or as the earthquake marks the native
sod.
And He who gave the widows mite
It's heavenly rating, at the call
Shall name the bravest in the fight
We name few names, the nameless dead
Fall always closest to the throne,
And richest is the blood they shed,
So like the nations very own
They freely merge each life and name
Into the nations name and story
Crown jewels of their country's fame
Blent with the colors of Old Glory
The third great era comes at last,
Comes with a majesty that shakes the
EARTH
Comes not so much from fevered trumpet
blast,
As from. the very logic of our birth.
The era of responsibility
First freedom, then that freedom uni
fled,
.'vox populi vox Del" furnace tried:
Then destiny till all the race is free.
Press down the eyelids Of the fading
years! 49,
.GQANn :. :. !.