Arizona republican., 1902-03-10

Then high and apart He set her, And bade the gray seas guard. And the lean sands clutching her gar
 Tents hem
 Keep stern and solemn ward. What dreams she knew as she waited What strange keels touched her
 shore! And feet went into the stilIn1-s, And returned 10 the s-a TO more. They passed through her dream like
 shadows
 Till ehe woke one pregnant morn, And watched Magellan WhitsWinged
 ships
 Swing round the ice-bound Horn, She thrilled to their masterful presage. Those dauntless sails from aiar And laughed as she leaned to the ocean Till her face shon= out like star. And m7a who toiled in the drudsing
 hives
 Of q world as flat as q floor I'm iileI in their souls to her laughter. And turned with hand 10 the door; And creeIs as hoary as Adam, And feuds as old as Cain. Fell deaf on the ear that hardened And caught that far refrain: Into dungeons by light forgotten. And prisons of grim despair, Hope came with the pale reflection Or her star on the sNoon-ug ar; Ind the cld, hedged. human whirlpool. Witn it's seething misery. Burst tflcugh-2s pent-up river Breaks through to the healing sea. CGIling-calliHc-c calling
 Resistleas. imperative, strong Sol6ier and priest and dreamer She drew them. 2 mighty thronE. The uamarped sras took tribute Of many q CaGutless band. And r7"1y brave hope measured But 1T. bleaching bones in the sand; Y5t fer one that faIi. hundred Srrang out to i'll his place. For death at har call was sweeter Ta=n fife in q tanner race. SinaH and bone she drew them:
 steel-thewed and tha weddings
 shank
 CTin-wr7uGht of granite and iron Were the men Of he foremost rank. Stern as the land before them. -t1d strong as the waters crossed: Men who md looked on the -ace of de-
 feat
 Nor counted the battls lost; UncrcHn1d rulers and statesmen, Shaping their daily need To the law Of brother with brother. Till the world stccd by To heed; The siils of a great empire
 They hewed and hammered and
 turned.
 And the torch oe a larger freedom { From their blazing till-t9ps burned: i Till the old ideals that led them 1 Grew dim as d childhuods cream. And Caste went down in the balance, ] And Manhood stood supreme. ] The wanderers of earth turned to her 1 Outcart Of the older lands With 3 promise and hope in theii
 pleading, ! And she reached them pityinG hands: And sae cried to the Old-World cities That drowse by the Eastern main: "send me your weary. house-worr
 brooGs
 And I'll send you Men again! Lo. here in my Wind-swept reaches, By my marshalled peaks of snow. l. room for a larger reaping
 Than your o'er-tilIed fields can grow Geei cf the Man-Seed srlinging
 70 stature and strength in my sun, Free with 2 limitless freedom
 No battles of men have won" For men. like the grain of the corn
 fields.
 Grow small in the huddled crowd, And weak fer the breath of spaces
 Where ? soul may speak aloud: For hills, like stairWays to heaven,
 ShamiAe the level track: Ard sick with the clang of pavcments And the marts cf the tramckinS pack Greatness IS born Jf grea tness.
 And breadth of a breadth profound; The old Antaedn fable
 Of strength renewed from the erour Was human truth fer tho ages:
 Since the hour of the Elen-birth That man among men was strongest
 Who stocd with his feet on the earth