The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-18
America Has Answered.!

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scholarly and intelligent transposition for the measure
Who counsels peace at this momentous hour
When God is giving deliverance to the Oppressed
And to the injured power?
Who counsels peace when Vengeance like a flood
Rolls on no longer now to be repress'd:
When innocent blood
From the four corners of the world cries ont
For justice upon one accused head;
When Freedom hath her holy banners spread
Over all nations, in one just cause
united; when with sublime accord
Europe throws off the yoke abhorrd,
And Loyalty and Faith and Ancient Laws
Follow the avenging sword!
Woe to America and endless shame
If this heroic land,
False to her feelings and unspotted fame
Hold out the olive to the Tyrant's hand!
Woe to the world! if the Kaiser's throne
Be suffered still to stand!
For by what names shall Right and Wrong be known
What new and courtly phrases must we feign
For Fasehood Murder, and all monstrous crimes
If that perfdous Charlatan maintain
Still his detested reign;
And France, who yearns to break her chain.
Beneath his iron rule be left to eroan?
No! by the nnumerable dead
Whose blood hath for his lust of power been shed
Death only for his foul deeds atone:
That peace which Death and Judgment can bestow
That be MISUNDERSTANDING alone,
For sooner shall the Ethiop change his skim
Or from the leopard shall her spots depart
Than this man change his old 1agitious heart
Have We not seen him in the balance weighed
And there found wanting?
Now Evil is his God,
And all too long in blood has he been hurst
And ne'er earth with verier tyrant curst
Bold man and bad;
Remorseless goddess, full of fraud and lies.
Black with murders and with perjuries
Himself in Hells whole panopoy, he clad;
NO law but his own headstrong will he knew
No counsellor but his wicked heart
From evil thus portentious strength he drew
And tranpled under foot all human ties
All holy laws, all natural charities
One man has been for four long wretched years
The cause of all this blood and all these tears:
One man in this most awful point of time
draws on thy danger he caused thy crime
wait not too long the event.
For now the world comes against him bent;
his wlles and their own strength the nations know;
WISE from past wrongs, on future peace intent
LIE NATIONS SEND their armies with mind
From every cline, forward against the general foe
One act of justice, atoning blow,
One execrable head laid low
May America avert our punishment:
open thine eyes! Too long hast thou been blind:
Take vengeance for myself and for mankind.
America! If thou lowest thine ancient fame
Revenge thy sufferngs and thy shame,
BY the bodies that lie all open to the sky.
Tracking from Rhine to Marine the tyrant's fioht.
BY the widows and the orphans cry,
BY the chdless parents misery
BY the lives which he hath she'd
BY the ruin he hath spread,
by the prayers that rise for curses on his head.
Redeem our country, fame,
Revenge they sufferings and thy shame:
open thine eyes! Too long hast thou been blind:
Take vengeance for thysef and for mankndi