New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-02

or multitudes who found themselves in thee,
Whom thou hast shown the sunrise of thy face,
And taught to live and love in amplitude
Surprising all their bravest dreams of grace
Fer they could know thine Eldorado brood
Thy wavs have been the gallant ways of peace;
Thy gates have been the highways of the world.
Where'er oppression sought release,
Thy banners of deliverance stood unfurled.
From pole to silent pole thy name has passed
To presage with thy torch of surety
The universal union at the last
OF liberty and civic purity. s.
Our love for thee has been patriots love,
Due homage to thine honor in all lands,
The living answer of thankful hands
To bear thy shining emblem high above
The clutch of circumstance and greed of power,
The Offering of home-contented hearts
Steadfast to theeward TO protect the flower
OF thv rich virtue in all peaceful arts.
Wboe'er has known thee is thine acoyte:
Thy moods are many as thy charm is wide,
And each more lovely than the one beside;
Nature and man conspire to lend thee might
Thy hills and valleys, fertile artistries,
Thy luxury of lakes and waterways.
All thine exuberance of fruits and trees
Give accent to the splendor of thy days!
Happy have been thy gifts to every man.
Thy clorics have been set full lavishly;
pleasant thine ASPECT as the eve could scan;
And all thy sons have loved thy ministry.
As they for thee have left all else behind
81 tbou hast blessed been in blessing them:
he Of a manknd
The browning star in freedoms diadem!
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Such was thy tale Of unexamped love
When all the world friendly unto peace
To-day new madness for the golden fleece
OF bvpcr-emiacnce and power above
What is the way of justice threatens swift
Destruction 70 the enemies of hate:
The billowing clouds of battle slowly drift
To hide the lucent things celebrate.
So thou must enter the prevailing strife
To keep this name of thine from infamy;
To pinnacle thine honor, chance thy life,
Proving the purport of thy husbandry
In former time of those things which abide,
The exemplary. the beautiful, the good,
The rock-bound truth that lives whateer betide,
And the firm faith for which thy name has stood
To-day and Yesterday have seen thee great
In all the quiet glories strength can lend;
To-norrow shall behold how these defend
Their constancy before the storms OF hate;
Tomorrow shall behold thee steadfast still,
Yet flashing forth as silver to thy war
As thv peace found thee golden, Ger 10 XIII
Became the idol thou woudst not adore!
Thy garments will be torn with suferlng'
Thy name will be the sport of hapless lips;
But thou shalt have within thee the clean sung
And certainty of hope blazed on the Scrips
OF past prophetic and of future sure!
safe on thy finger thou wilt know the sign
That marked thy mating with the freeborn tru'"'
And thou shalt conquer in knowledge me
As these ideals which prompt thy present ruin
How big with beauty is thy promise now
How high ineffably thy countenance
BEFORE these horrors How do they enhance
Thine inward peace! For they can but endow
Thy former glamour with new emphasis
To grant thee infinite in noble AIMS
Boundlcss in sympathy! The Judas kiss
R,t scaled Cbrst's wonder, perfecting his shameS'
CO. az thou rocst to battle, fierce 10 stem
This rolling tide Of agony, mayest thou prove
Thy martial music terror's requiem!
And ybep men seek once more the paths OF love-
Cod Gran, thee still TO raise the torch on high
AZ ,bou hast always done and dost to-day
p. ,bou the first to let thine anger die -
And ever last to leave the shining way
4. .u. f-'.~-
rb. brosd hereafter OF the times to come
Shall he again thine own to inyocate'
Communicating the subtle ways OF Sta'c
With equal portions and an honest sum
For all the world Thine to preserve the ''ou''
t,,e;rcbng heart for better need of grace
To fashion from the universal rout
Continuance of thine immortal race
Then. NAV thv feet be straight upon the pa'n'
Tbv hands both white and firm, and thy deep eyes
Silent in all their dreams, clear In 'he'r "'''"'
10 share the blue immcnsity OF the Skieo'
Until that day shall come when wars are done'
Fny,4s and borrd strfes far banished ana Suo'''"'
P,lness Of faith and amity new begun
Az wide A. Freedom and as long as Time