Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-02-01

before he was caught, in his wild pre-
English days, something of poet.
Certain of his productions in this
line perhaps would not pass muster
In Buckingham palace,--such as "Jim
Bludsoe.' "Banty Tim," and the like,
and it Is said that the author of them
never now voluntarily alludes to them
They are, however, accorded n place
in his collected works, we believe.
But John Hay, the American, once
did write n poem, which for chastity
of expression, dignity of conception
and piety of thought may well lay
some claim to the poets need of
genius. =, len it was written is some
what uncertain, although It's author is
not yet an old man, for it seems to
have been suppressed, at least in the
later editions of his works. The mar
vel Of 1t all Is how its tenderness,
pathos, benignity and lofty rhyme,
can be made to comport with the un-
feeling, not to say brutal, policy which
he has consistently pursued towards
the people of the Transvaal in their
heroic contest with the worlds great
est war power.
Let us appeal from John Hay, Eng
llshman, to John Hay, a former Amer
lean, with American sympathies,
American instincts and an American
heart, and read that which lie seems
anxious should not be read. 1t is en-
titled "Thy viii Be Done"
mot in dumb resignation
We lift our hands on high;
| Not like the rerveless fatalist,
Content to trust and die.
Our faith springs like the eagle
That scars to meet the sun,
And cries exulting unto Thee:
% Lord! Thy will be done!
When tyrant feet are trampling
Upon the common veal.
Thou dost not bid us cringe and
writhe
| Beneath the iron heel
| In Thy name we assert our rights
with sword and tongue and pen,
And cen the headsman's AK may
Thy message unto men.
Thy Will. II bids the weak he strong.
1t bids the strong he Just;
No lip to fawn, no hand to beg,
No brow TO seek the dust.
Wherever man oppresscs man
Beneath Thy liberal sun,
o God! be there Thine arm made
Thy righteous will be done"
Some woman In the West, noting the
enormous moral Lapse between tn,
spirit Of these inspiring lines and th,
performances Of John Hay i'm the
state department, and doubling
whether the two could have come
from the same kind of Hay, recently
sent copy of the verses TO the Secre
tary, asking If he were indeed the
author OF them, and pointing out the
incoDgruity between their words ant
his official policy.
She got an answer from the secrc
tary OF the Secretary, which sounded
like plea of guilty at an English bar
He admitted, rather shamcfacedly
the authorship, saying: 'The poem
was published in the Independent
some years ago" And he answered tn,
implied charge of change of front
thus: "'rhe Secretary Is unable to re
lieve the confusion of mind YOU seem
to he In In regard to the contradiction
you see between his words and his
acts"
In this inability the public shares
And 1t Is a pity that upon question
Involving the very humanity of the
nation and the community of dts sor.
row with that of a plying world for
the slaughter of the stricken and fail.
en- Republics In South Africa, our peo.
pie are officially mlsrcpresented IN the
eyes OF Chrlstendom. Congress Is ask.
cd to appropriate money to pay for
sending ambassadors To represent oul
government when Edward the Sev.
ehth, --thc man whose subordinate Is
the keeper of the concentration camps
Is 10 be crowned
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