The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-02
ELECTION DAY.

Before the Sun-god rose to light
The woods of Maine with gold and red.
Chasing the vestiges of night,
The eastern seas that guard her shore
Sent wavelets tapping to her feet
Bearing sweet messages galore
or hope and courage. and to greet
The Nation on the day she rose
To cast them out who wrought her
shame,
PIedging her promise which they chose
To break or bend to suit their aim
AS daylight broke through forests grand
The lark arose. took up the cry:
Thou shalt to-day redeem thy land"
Which echoed as he flew on high,
Failing on soft November air.
Amid the pines and cedars tall;
The woodmen left their axes there
And went to answer duty's call.
The cry sped westward with the sun
Ger hill and vale with hamlets coy,
Where Kennebec's dark currents run,
Where salmon leap for very joy.
Thus on and on the message sped.
BY Washington and Lafayette,
Those mountains of the living dead
That guard the Nations honor yet.
The sun climbed higher In the blue
And kissed the shores of sweet Cham
plain;
Redemptions call the stronger grew
BY Berkshire naples all afame;
Down noble Hudson's mighty stream
And past the homes of countless
throngs
az
Our land from self-determined
wrongs!"
They Joined 1t as the day wore on
From where the Bell of Freedom rang.
From sylvan dales, from shop and loom !;
They came from where the ceaseIess
clang
OF hammers and of anvils sound
Monongahela's furnace flare
Was lowered, as with purpose bound
They came into the MONDAY glare.
The Sun-god bearing on his wings
The advent of the wondrous Day.
Niagara welcomes him and filings
The message broadcas. from her spray.
She roars and thunders in her might
May God give us a leader true
To guide us in the way of right.
All paltry self may he eschew;
A nerve of steel. a heart of gold,
A courage that unhinching bends
To none but as in days OF old,
When Lincoln shaped the peoples
ends,
May our great nation In her choice
Take no false step on this proud day (;
May her adopted children voice
Her will, and loving her, obey"
The farmer in the purple haze
OF Indiana mops his brow,
From duty's furrow never strays.
But straightway goes and leaves his
plough.
From where the grain in plenty falls
To wigwams in the Redskins land,
Beyond the plains where coyote calls,
Where snowy rocks alone command,
The Nation FASTENED 10 forestal
The peris of the years to come,
To see the feeble fabric fal!
Which drew her near the fate of Rome.
On high above the cloudess peaks.
Nigh motionless the eagle floats
With outspread wings. his keen eye
seeks
Through space the world beneath, and
notes
The pettiness of man how mean,
How small he seems. his aims. his
wants;
His greatest works are scarcely seen
From attitudes the eegle haunts.
SO man has made him his ideal
At heights he can't himself attain
Thus satisfied with matters real,
The eagle treats him with dsdain.
Therefore we must loo! up to him,
This eagle emblem of our land,
To guide each purpose and each whIm
With calm restraint md self-command.
And thus the day drew to close,
The sun sank down toward his rest,
He tinted pink Nevada's SHOWS,
He touched with gold the glorious
West
And with the purple shades of night
The stars came out above the Dove
That noble edlfice OF white
Wherein Columbia has her home.
Awaiting to behold her choice,
The People stood eXpectant there.
They welcomed her as with one voi'e.
She looked so young. so strong, so fair.
Toward them all she led man.
She held him firmly by the hand:
A good and true American,
One all the world can understand