The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-10-14
Auditorium in St. Paul and at 1880 the
presidential party left for Duluth over
the Eastern Minnesota. 80.
Welcome to the Thirteenth Minnesota.

Welcome to the Thirteenth Minnesota.
From toll, from wars dread ordeal, well
come, beloved, home
Where, nlemory-bright, smiles vale and
hill and farm,
Where, from the mirrors of thousand
lakes, the dome
OF Minnesota's sky's rejecting all its
charm!
Full in the pride OF youth and health
and hope,
Blessed by tear-choked farewells and
sobbing prayer,
With patriotic hearts and spirits high,
to cope
With CHASTITY death; for others veal,
strong-nerved, to dare
The chance OF battle 'gainst tyrant
We marched away in bonnie ranks of
Each man a host, Columbia's priceless
dover,
Citizen-soldier, proud, unconquered, un-
afraid and true!
The ireedon1-nurtured soldier-has Brit
ain dared to claim
The honor of his valor, OF his record,
lone and high,
Slur his ancestors as vassals OF the
Anglo-SaNon strain,
Or say her lessons taught him how to
live or bravely die?
The chivalry OF time untold inspires his
thought and deed,
This heir OF all the nations, of all ages,
every blood
The Worlds composite hero! No sin
gle race or creed,
But all peoples look upon him and de-
clare: "Our seed is good!''
Peering out from blue Pacifc's troubled
isles,
Around whose tropic shores the tenn
pests scream,
Dusky people, through the night, ten
thousand miles
Saw Liberty's far halo, as sign God
given, CLEAN;
And yearning toward the light, they
called. An eagle shrieked
Their answer, and his challenge on the
main,
A Nemesis, God-chosen, his strong,
avenging beak,
Was crilnsoned in the proud old heart
OF Spain!
The tyrant overcome, the kingly eagle
Would grasp, in pride of power, the
Stripes and Stars,
And bring home the flag unsullied, while
people freed, again
To harvest titled their blood-soaked
field Of Mars!
He poised on homing wings, 'twixt
earth and Heaven,
The bright flag floating high, its mis-
sion done,
His keen ear caught the tempter's call,
winddriven,
An old-world robber-nation's call: "Ho,
brothers, now begun
The war, these islands, by might-right.
are your own
These people speak not English-they
are foreign. Colonize!
Behold your empire dawning! Do ye
as have done.
No other voice protests-ye will not
heed the Filpinos' cries?'
The eagle hedged in seventy-six, full
grown in sixty-two,
Astounded and disarmed OF right, in
shame was stricken dumb,
For the homeland heard the tempter,
: and the order came to you,
To wrest from Frcedom-dazzled men,
their liberty new-won!
True soldiers, though as freemen, in
judgment we demurred,
Still, obedicnt and valorous, We waged
the strange, new fight
Yours to die beneath the starry flag,
not asking who had erred,
Yours to hold to heart the motto: "My
country, wrong or right!'
How we obeyed is history, and in their
silence, they
Will testify, the comrades, from far,
hasty-shallowcd tombs,
Whom, unasllanned of manly tears, we
laid in love, away
There in the sullen moonlight, or in
tropic forest gloo1ns!
All details OF their martyrdom ye will
remember. Tell
How brave, how we'll he died, this loved
one or that
From slow, torturng disease, or from
bullet aimed too we'll
In high command or ranks, Major
Diggles or Sidney Pratt!