The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-05

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The lion that from out the desert
draws
The iron of his frame catches the fire
That kindles his awful eyes, his claws
and fangs
Whetted with want-well does he
symbolic
The mighty nation that engendered
thee!
Not as some insubstantial coral
strand
Describes its fronded curve in austral
deepS;
Nor as in shaken tracts of ocean
heaves
Some island from the seas volcanic
floor,
To crumble down beneath the grind
Not so didst thou, puissant realm,
arise;
But thou didst come forth, on the
neither based,
AS some vast continent, mounded,
sloped, and grooved
Before time was, never to pass away.
America, land of the true and
brave,
Freedoms far-sought eternal dwell
ing-place,
Toward thee the worlds long genera
tons set
Their faces from an immemorial past.
They heard her subtle summons and
filed on
BY Marathon, Bannockburn, and Val
ley Forge.
Leaving their cairns and oampfres as
a sign
TO mark their journey toward thy
capital.
Twas Freedom, in the wake of the
sinking SUM-
That led them through the mountains
deep defiles,
The forests friendless, wild, primeval
gloOmS,-
Turning to strike gray Tyranny, and
To plunge yet farther down the wild
erneSS;-
To take fierce stand beside the west
ern wave,
To steer straight for the chartless
main, where doomed
Many dim and visionary shore -
Drifting through CULTS forlorn, swept
on and on
BY trades and ocean-streams, until
she found
This continent wide as gates Of sun
set part.
Her children, following still the set
ting sun,
Oft leave the ancestral fields to bear
her torch
Around the circuit of the globe. Lo
youi
Where now it filings its glimmering
beams afar
Ger Australasiar seas, and flares in
gales
That rave through white Alaskan So
litudes
Her children's children yet shall pass
To hands that wait it on remotest
bounds.
Thou art our home, dear ocean
warded land!--
Not this sole state where first we saw
the light,
And where at eventide we fain would
sleep,
However far our feet may wander
hence
But ours from where Maine lifts its
northmost pines
And the Atlantic breakers moan, to
where
The blue Gulf dreams, trimmed with
it's silver dunes,
And the Pacific weaves it's fringe of
foam.
God of the nations, who didst call
to be
The barriers of our hills, and groove
our wales,
And pour round all thy vast, estrang-
ing MAN.
May we remember wherefore thou
dist look
Rome's proud, sun-gilded temples
into dust
~ 70 Ynya ,IOO,s /,
warned. 'tf"
Hold us beneath thy firm, benignant
rule
That ours may be the splendid des-
tiny
Forecast by the immortal Washing
ton.
Draw us together in fraternal bands
one people-east and west and north
and south
In all that make for justice, love and
truth!
Judge CIark's Joke.
Chief Justice Clark who was in
troduced to speak as per the pro-
gram met with a tremendous ovation.
but to the surprise of the audience.
he did not speak; he only told
joke.
THE Declaration" said the Judge.
has gotten past the preamble: it has
reached its conclusion at the hands
of the two eloquent speakers who
have preceded me. In Congress.
when a brilliant debate has been
fought out to it's logical finish and
some member rises to speak, the cry
goes up leave to print. | am in that
position and if | should speak / should
reel as the wheel-wright said of a
wheel:
THE longer the spoke, the larger
the tire
Some few laughed at this unexpect-
ed sally, and then there was
a pause, while the Judge stood and
smiled. Then, as Chauncey Depew
would say, 1.-THE joke got in on the
freight" and the crowd roared. The
incident was fraught with a delicious
charm of humor and, just at the
psychological moment, the Chief JUS
tice took his seat.
AND mere follows the good speech
that he could have made, but pre-
ferred to print.
My friends and Felowcitizens:
Chief Justice Clarl1's Address.
When the feet of those who bore
the ark of the covenant touched Jor-
dan it's waters stood still that the
chosen people might pass over into
the Promised Land and Joshua COM