The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
PANCENTENARY
Greeting from Her sisters to Tfi-
 Centennial Virginia.

Copyrighted and All Rights Reserved) Mother of States and statesmen! Moth
 Of many a long and far-descended
 line, No star has sent across our broidsrsd
 A gleam more lambert. lasting. clear
 than thine! Thy son."First RebelT-to that Flag
 uts symbol, US" shall aye for
 Union stand) Bars from his shield, with which its
 To prove red blood cements one common land. Peering the Future through a Past
 Prophetic speech of earlier sire we And echo words-he dreamed not for
 As justest measure of thy later Lee Three hundred years, since Smith and Raleigh beached Adventurous prows upon thy virgin
 sand,
 Their cycles spent: each pointing new heights reached
 By those who blend the useful with the grand
 Tripartite races--Briton. Gael and
 Won from the Redskin acres rich and wide: |, Reared on new soil, each old ancestral hall:
 In free, young air upheld the old
 world pride.
 mighty sires-
 KnightIy descended. with historic names.
 Glow on each altar. eyer-dying fires. That, Phoenix-like, themselves re- new their flames! First cross the South, from mother seat of thine, James Blair. Sent out the light of teachings high. benign.
 Through night of error to a dawning When thy fair form-white armored and with lance.
 The pure shield waiting motto high, Stood in the lists for freedom and ad- That 'scutcheon old was won, for
 statehoods youth. Then the young giant shook from shoulders broad Parental yoke that only bowed and And struck alike for honor and the
 Lord:
 To State. as Church. His guidance vouchsafed! Ne'er has our soil been threatened with the tread Of foreign foes but that thy vales and hills
 Have sent sons Hooking, who have tnI AIAA Mid scenes to which the Nations pulse yet thrillsl Through wars and peace-e'en Recon- structions stress Thy women with the men stood staunch and true: With urgence, tending, love-all acts
 And helpful tasks that only wom- en do. | Today, the Present rears upon the Past It's monument to devoir rightly done {; Its shaft self-graved with names that first to last Example Hist'ry for a Time begun. Too long the list for naming. one by
 That links Past. Present and the far | To-Be:
 Bland, Henry. Custis. Randolph. Wash
 Jackson and Maury touch Eternity, The teeming, soil of every war-piough- Holds storied dead within its sacred Dreamless. tiii Memry's cadmus bids
 It's legion crop, full armed. from the tomb.
 Signs in each breeze the dirge's tender tone,
 Shilling anon to clarion paean loud, i, Telling of pain and losses, all thine That make old foes of common kin ship proud, Arch o'er their sleep the Laurel and r The Oak that Triumph crowned, old Rome to glee-. wreathed by leal hands above the brave and true. Their leaflets reach to Immortality Now the scant remnant of that vet'ran van, That warred with brothers-as each deemed, for right Comes feebly marching, yesterday to
 And prate of morning. at approach of night.
 And now, thy crumbled City of the Sires,
 Across all wastes of Time and fields Rises mlrage-iike: with thought-fanes and spires, That to a world, and not one State. belong:
 While speeding navies from strange lands, of yore- Armored and armed for that whole worlds good Proclaim that peace, Good Will for eVermore
 Shall mold the White mans blood in brotherho0u!
 T. c. DeLeon. Mobile. April. 1907.