Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-06

Thought, skill, the earth's fruition,
faith hope. ail.
Shall science learning, art and Drawn
and brain.
And virtue, too. in sacrifice be slain?
With sentiment profrained by lust of
In wedlock. traffic plies for fortunes
STILL
Or drunk with surfelt plights wo-
mans wealth
And hand and virtue to a titled brute.
All, base betrayal of peoplc's trust
Shall not swift vengeance level to the
dust
Honor's assassins, in conspiracy
Against people brave and true and
free?
Shall manhood be the serf of avarlce.
Fair w2manhood; wealth's waiting
Where man is sovereign born, q regal
peer.
And woman in her gentle grace a
Shall money barons clutch nations
Rife its vaults, hold sole monopoly.
Exact eXtortion's tribute from their
And dhlamJt for shylocrs's usury.
Thou curst COMMUNICATING laws de-
OF anarchy red handed devotee!
Once more the nation girt in majesty
Swears by the sires forever to be free.
The NANTES of the patriot fathers rest
In bcnediction on their waiting sons
Blest sovoreigns of u heritage re-
nowncd-
Spirits OF noblemen cannot be bound.
The day dawn of oncoming glory greets
the hopeful gaze of her eXpectant sons.
The altar fires OF Liberty yet live,
And famed afresh with consecrated
OF her devoted SWANS, shall flame and
glow,
Irradiant DER fair and hallowed land.
Baptized by triune christening of blood.
In freedoms name and plighted TO her
veal.
Let bryan be the name ordained of
Whose magic. Nindling patriot fires
afrcsh,
Shall usher in the flood tide of the day.
a patient nation, hopeful, waits 10
greet.
Hail. knight of honor. valiant brave
and true,
Leader of men. courageous, pure and
strong,
Prophet of truth. apostle, bold. of right.
Scholar and patriot, hail thou gallant
1 nOu l0lTeSI OIL empires, oil, lana OIL the
free!
The chains of the slave shall not bind
thee again.
The rich fields of beauty, from noun
tains to sea.
: Shall echo the glores of Liberty's
reign.
The tyrant of greed shall be hurled
from his place.
The sceptre of treachery struck from
his hand
The vampires that feed on the blood of
their race
Are doomed by the sons of fair Lib
erty's land.
The air that we breathe is the air of
The free.
Thy rich, virgin landscapes scorp
tyranny's tread;
Thy mountains majestic thy fortress
shall be.
'Gainst the march of thy foe DER the
tomhs of thy dead.
The homes of thy sons are the thrones
of they kings:
Their hearts are the domain where
flourish thy queens
And rich are the gifts that frugality
brings;
Shall incarnnte Plutocracy blight
these fair scenes?
Rise. sovereign nations, rise!
Grid on the sword,
Whose stroke, in ages past,
Smote with resistless blast,
Expressions hoard.
Land where our heroes bled.
Fields of their fame
HallOWed by lnartyred dead
Dying where duty led,
In freedoms name.
Land where our fathers stood,
Home of our birth;
Mother of royal blood,
Realm of the great and good,
Queen of the earth.
Swear by the majesty;
OF Him who rcigns
Ever inmutably:
Freemen shall still be free
From tyrant's chains.
Ye sons OF noble sircs
Born to be free,
kindled with patriot fires,
Might which the right inspires
Thy strength shall be.
On, then, to victory,
Flag of the brave;
Ensign OF liberty,
Vanquish thine enemy
Evermore wave.
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