Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-30
The Virginia OF Sagadahoc.
BY Harry lyman Koopman,
Librarian of Brown University.

n. Librarian Of Brown University.
Where the land reaches out long arms in
\. welcome or farewell,
What is ynn tiny bark that dips With the
a octaE'S swell?
The sur Of June is bright on the waves
by the w"St-Wind tost,
But a shade hangs over the bark. not
.s even at noon-tid,H lost.
Figures crowd its deck, but tic faces.
blank and wan.
Tell of defeat and retreat, Of Hope that
49, lureI and is gone
Nor a backward look they cast on tho
low. receding shore.
As If less than tho ills endured they deem.
49, are the ills before
y @ first Of the myriad keels to lear from
a New World strand
Jplifted in Oceans arms. is 1t thus, by
49, the shurc-Wlnd famed
! Thou soeedeSt Ger the surge to EmGliSl.
hands that await
From the New " orld's forests and mines
the larGesS of thy freight?
Where are thy furs: thy gems, rich orc
Thy wonders out q the deep, o Virginia
of Sagadahoc?
20 Voice from the far To-Ee. no stately
treasure | bear.
Put the dead. cold form of Hope AMI n
living. fell Despair
And the En.licS of men whose souls arc
laII with their Hope allow.
WHO stakcd their lives on tie New
Worlds promise ana lost the throw.
All that men might do they deem they
have stri'rn and done
For faithfully they wrought what Fore
thought had begun.
In righteous laws they laid the ground :
work Of their state.
And hallON ed it-with prayer. vet 50 it
/. pleased not Fate.
D Now to the Old Worlds outwOrn life they
III lre tufning back.
a ~ a,v man In his md on
H, only deeper his track
ssAsa beast that vas born for the Wild but
III 3 is nent for a masters pride;
kWhe.r life is an anchored bark. which is
~ rugged in vain by the tide"
= But the promise was only n dream. its
"a fruit nut the Dead Seas mock"
I So between sigh and sroan spoke Virginia
q of SaSadahoc.
I Nay. ore report hath an hour. but an
III other the rounded day:
Not such the freight thou brinGeSt not
such thy word to say.
4 Despair not Hone. is dead;-ln, wher"
49, aofi she flies
kClearer than thou or the sun Of thy noon
Hers the lading thou Dearest. hers the
~ WAITING breeze,
ANA hers the eyes unrlouIed that dance
with the dancing seas.
For now tho lessor is learned. mhn's
greatest and his last.
That the Future belongs hut to those who
have turned their hacks on the Past.
ana over the yielding seas thou SpeedeSt
70 proclaim
E n New World waiting for man in mans
and the Futures name.
world where man shall he man for only
the daring to he
Where man shall I've free from all but the
duty to he :rcn:
Where every day shah smitc new streams
from the yelling rock
fof the thirsty soul of man. O Virginia
OF SaGadahoc.
TIL" old world is heavy with ruins vet
~, H"clS not thcir warming tai".-
nc abbey r"n'lcss archcs Wondering
in the vale
The caStlr proud On its craC. but
~, "runl ing lnur IT,. hour
lheir y" Of ~" future alike "f selfish
r2ith ana Power.
FOR IhiS is IN" part d man. not to flee
from a would Of strif"
~ :" stay. ard strive with the Evil. and
= cas- II ont Cf | Is life
-\of ono Should j." lrnuNd on the height
w., Will" 4 thousand toll in the fen.
fu1 az should serve ana he SerVCn. as all
aliN" are mon.
Yet still mon faii Of the lesson so plain
70 eve AM ear:
iut thinc arc the things Of 10Y that an
w., other world is here.
Whose vast arl welcoming spaces and
=, sunny lilies invite
The WANDERING world NJ last into wars of
1nStic" and right
And 10 the norta, is TrnoGom which
Encvs not har nor lock.
and tho" "rt its herald 10 mon. . Virgin
ii If Sacldahon.
% ,v"c" f,on" tho Future what si'-0
cos thou grant me. that men may
hnlicvr.
And ~" world rcr'w its hope. ard its
~ wasted vcar" retrieve"
Fair FINANCE. take this for 4 sign. TIN:
"r "V"" vnar ~ DER
FSain'S'H'i tiou GROSS tho ocean. Cour1.ys
:, 70 'riuC anil store
To I."r ~ English hood. who urd"r ,
- flew SIN
snail faint ut thci" lightly task on tho
threshold of empire won
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