Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1909-02-12
BY WALLACE BRUCE

} dwelling Of Lincoln Monument,
Edinburgh, Scotland, in NOM
Org of Scottish American
Soldiers.
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Another clasp Of loving hands,
Another link across the sea.
A living word from distant lands
To grace the soldiers Of the free;
Columbia at her Mothers knee.
Irnfolds the scroll OF Liberty.
A parchment born Of bitter years,
Red-lined with blood Of martyrs leal,
Dark stained and blurred by captives'
tears,
BY dungeon mould and rusted steel
A charter sealed beneath the star
That led the nations from afar;
To find a green girt island home,
With meat outlasting gates Of steel,
Whose bulwark was the ocean foam.
Whose drawbridge was the floating keel,
Whereon TO bear all round the world
The flag Of Destiny unfurled
Your Magma Charta rode secure
Within the Mayfower' $ marrow hold,
That invoice made the shipment sure
4 Britain poured in larger mould;
Your Gaenc-saxon- Norman blood
The yeast OF Times great brotherhood.
What complex forces strangely wrought
What lasting victories nobly won,
Since Sidney died and Hampton fought,
Or Milton dreamed Of Washington
Virginia voiced your stately creed
a scion true of Runnimede.
With tendrils reaching west to rear
The highest type Of manhood's power,
Born OF the soil, without a peer,
Our Lincoln stands the noblest flower
OF freedom in its widening course
From Chatham, Fox and Wherefore.
To whom an anxious nation turned
When gathering clouds the sky o'ercast,
A pilot brave with soul that yearned
To guide the ship before the blast;
10 hold the faith our fathers knew,
To keep the stars within the blue.
A genius stamped with sterling worth,
Despising juggling and pretence,
/ His story halos humble birth,
A parable of modest sensei
Endowed to see and do the right
The majesty Of moral might.
! Inspired to set in simple speech
The words that sway a peoples heart
Prophetic sentences that reach
Beyond the realm and scope Of art;
The humor of nations youth.
The wit Of plain and hoPely truth.
Twas this upheld the faltering arm.
When hearts were faint and bowed ir
prayer;
His honest face had power to charm
And ease the burden OF our careI
With will serene that masters fate
He taught the land 10 trust and wait.
With Bonded knee and listening ear
He watched the hour to speak and save
Harl1l Bells peal out an anthem clear
lie strikes the shackle from the slave
That deed completes the work begun
BY Jefferson and Hamilton.
Embodied here TO stand for aye
In memory Of soldiers brave,
Who stood in many bloody fray
In serried ranks our land to save;
To Scota's sons we proudly turn
Descendants true Of Bannockburn.
I'VE cannot consecrate this ground"
No deed Of ours the debt can pay;
The ray across each martyrs mound
Gets stronger purchase day by day
Each soldiers grave a fulcrum sod
The lever in the hand OF God;
To lift the world TO larger life,
To loftier dreams and noblef deeds,
To broaden faith and narrow strife.
To plant the rose and crush the weeds
Till jealousies forget their date
The cerements OF WORKOUT hate.
Through prismedNears let sunlight play,
Secure in JOY, redeemed in grief;
One song unites the Blue and Gray,
One glory binds the garnered sheaf-
Wars cruel reaping kindly sealed
BY brothers Of the martyred field.
And so Coluubia comes with cheer,
with outstretched hand from DER tn
sea,
To place a garland on the bier
OF those who died TO keep us free;
And here, beside her Mothers knee,
Unfolds the scroll Of Liberty.
Want Night Phone Service.
: GEORGETOWN, Feb. 12.-Witl
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