Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-05-14

Tide mOun tains tall and grand,
The bay: and rivers picturesque
In Italy bright land.
There are beautiful old cathedrals,
Fine music and works of art,
In the HISTORY OF the nations, we'll
Has Italy borne her part.
The ancient nations trembled
AT the power of mighty Rome,
And the brave>t soldiers in the world
Made Italy their home.
LIBERTY.
And Rome is still mighty power,
But not Ior Liberty.
Those who to rome do homage paw
Are far from being free.
IRELAND.
There's green jewel affair in the ocean
Where all the people love Liberty's name
Ancient Ilibernia twas called by the
Romans,
st. Patrick himself to this island once
came.
There grows the green little shamrock,
beloved
Emblem of Trinity, plucked with smile,
There are the beautiful lakes of Killarney
Lovely indeed is the Emerald Isle.
Poor are my people, but lovers of freedom,
Long have they struggled for fair liberty,
Some day, we hope, in the years that are
coming
Erin, indeed, may be land OF the free.
LIBERTY.
Press on! Press ON! Fair Erin,
Some day thou shalt be free,
Worthy of Liberty
Iberia claims the crown of laurel,
Fair and queenly nation she.
Once fair lands across the ocean
Unto her did bow the knee.
1t was Spain who sent Columbus
And Magellan DER the main,
DeLeon, Cortez, Nenendez,
DeSoto, all were sons of Spain.
Spain's land of dark eyed beauties,
And OF naughty, handsome men,
Once on earth the reigning power,
Iberia yet may reign again.
LIBERTY.
Thy power will never come again.
Thou lowest not liberty, o Spain!
Thy name, as read i'm history,
Coupled is with cruelty.
Where are all those fair lands now
That before thee once did bow?
They indeed loved Liberty,
They are now homes of the free.
JAPAN.
In the vast Pacific Ocean
Many, many miles away,
Lies little island empire
That is noticed much to-day,
For it had a war with Russia,
And that nation, vast and great,
BY the japanese was beaten,
Humbled from its high estate.
Patriotic are the people
Who in that small empire live.
Dearly do they love their country
And for her their lives will give.
Coward" is their motto ever,
They're progressive, true and brave,
A worthier nation never yet
Was washed by ocean wave.
LIBERTY.
Press on, Japan! Press bravely on
Toward light and liberty,
Open thy doors TO light and truth,
And thOult be pure and free.
SCOTLAND.
Let Bourbon exult in her gay gilded Lilies,
And England, triumphant, display her
proud Rose.
A fairer than either adorns the green
valleys,
Nhnro narop r,r,aot no,o,, oIo~s,r,
flows.
LIBERTY.
0 Scotia! For thee my warmest wish to
Heaven be sent!
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toll
Be blest with health and peace, and sweet
content!
And Oh! may Heaven their simple lives
prevent
From luxury's contagion, weak and vile!
Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be
rent,
A virtnous populace may rise the while,
And stand wall of fire around their
much-lov'd isle.
AMERICAN INDIANS.
Forth then issued Hiawatha,
Eastward, wandered Westward,
men the use of symbols,
And the antdotes of poisons,
And the cure for all diseases.
Thus was first made known to mortale
All the mysteries of Mondamin,
All the sacred arts of healing.
LIBERTY.
Lovely art thou, Hiawatha,
A beautiful race, in truth,
And Liberty Forever!"
Is the watcwOrd of thy youth.
Oh, teach them that truth and honor
Are better than power and fame;
So shall thy race always be
Worthy of Liberty's name.
HOLLAND.
All the world knows how brave Holland
with the ocean tide,
dikes so strong and mighty
That the whole world gazes on with pride.
In this land her sons and daughters
Work and play below the sea.
Conquerors of the mighty ocean,
Surely We claim Liberty.
LIBERTY.
Press on! Press on, Oh, Holland!
Some day thou shalt be free,
And teach thy people ever to be
Worthy of Liberty.
GERMANY.
United Germany am l
A nation proud and grand
No fairer country in the world
Than this, the fatherland.