The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
THEY WERE PAcIFIED.


In the land of the rising sun
where the Ieathered SongSters MARBLE
WI from ron t morn till the day is done,
where the gorgeous tangled festoons
Of vine and bud and flower
DTape ali the land and the forest grand
u, W ~ 4 the graceful bamboo tower
Falr freedom came for day to dwell
In That sweet enchanted bower
She lifted aloft her banner.
She planted a Christian state
And added it to the nations
10 grow both strong and great.
A beacon light in the ocean blue
At the very heathens gate.
ana the sore distressed by Spain oppress-
No longer for justice cried.
For their hungry hearts and their thirsty
By freedom were pacifed.
But from the calm Pacific
VIII me growl of the dogs Of war
By those sunny isles afar.
In the name of God and freedom
And Christian charity.
They Strewed the land, the invading band
-. With the wrecks of liberty
M NOV yield 70 foreign sovereignty,
For not till We bow to the alien yoke
Shall your land be pacified."
Then up arose Gods freemen,
Sons of a dusky hue,
In defense of home and country,
In the might of manhood true;
Creeping past Manila's wall.
And from Tarlacs weeping willows
To Malolos ere the fall
From Caloocan to the mountains
That rim in Laguna de Bay,
To the bosom of the forest
In the island of Panay.
Their lives they gave, but the crimson
The oppressor ne'er satisfied,
To make the land a wilderness
Was the way they were pacified.
And there went forth an edict
From the mighty men of war
To burn the towns and the people STAY
On he island of Samar
From the innocents of ten years old
Fen to three score years and ten;
And the West land free that would cause
the knee
r, Q: brother to bend. IN pride
Proclaimed to the cruel waiting world
That the island was pacified.
Weep for the islands helpless,
The lame, the halt the blind;
The new born and the dying,
What SuccOr could they find?
If from the burning dwellings
nv, They were borne twas but to meet
In the glare of the burning street
Stricken with awful terror,
In vain they for mercy cried,
By shot and SHE'LL by fire and sword
Weak and strong were pacifed.
And just on the edge of the city,
In a humble nipa cot,
Reposed the aged grandslre
Ana the grandam, dreaming not
OF the cruel fate awaiting
~, Ere they walked to sleep in death.
The morning broke amid flame and smoke
And silently side by side,
Two little mounds of ashes lay,
And old age was pacified.
Away from the burning city
A mother in wild despair
Fled, claSping her babe to her bosom, -
While bullet ranked there,
TIL her life blood stained Its forehead
And matted its dusky hair,
Away from the burning city
She turned to the ocean strand,
And there at the lonely midnight
Sank down on the wet sea sand.
Then, with a cry of anguish
70 the Christ who was crucified,
With prayer for the babe On her bosom
Inc mother was pacified.
And the babe on the mothers bosom
Walled through the livelong day;
Wept out its desolation
Till the light has passed away.
Then in the gloom and shadow,
Mid the signs OF the rising tide.
The babe on its mothers bosom
BY hunger was pacifed.
Over the ruined landscape
Wild shouts on the stiffness rise.
Three cheers for our starry banner,
For Old Glory, that proudly flies
Over q subject people
In the isles of the Eastern sea,
where the brown man gave his life to
For. his children a country free.
But the Christoa yelled with horror
His face in his mantle white,
And, shGddering, turned from the banner
Where the beauteous stars OF light,
Now set in a field of blood,
Had gore out in the clouds Of night
And the Nazarene's followers meek
Scented the crimson tide,
Nor needed the crown Of thorns,
Nor gazed on the wounded side,
But waded in human gore
TIL revenge was pacified.
Weep. o stricken Visayasl
Weep, sea -girt isles afar,
From the sun-kissed hills and the vine-
clad wales
OF LuZon to lone Samar.
Weep for the day when tyrants
With Christian charity CD ID
Marched through the land with an armed 2
band
Not til. the tears of ages
BY our Fathers hands are dried
Will thy sons, denied their freedom,
Be finally pacified.