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Title: Peace and patriotism; selections from poetry and prose
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Elva Sophronia, 1871-
Subjects: Patriotic poetry Recitations Patriotism
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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" My name is Liberty!
From out a mighty land I face the ancient sea,
I lift to God my hand;
By day in in Heavens light,
A pillar of fire by night.
At oceans gate I stand
Nor bend the knee.

" The dark Earth lay in sleep.
Her children crouched forlorn,
Ere on the western steep
I sprang to height, reborn:
Then what a joyous shout
The quickened lands gave out,
And all the choir of morn
Sang anthems deep.

44 PEACE AND PATRIOTISM

" Beneath yon firmament,
The New World to the Old
My sword and summons sent,
My azure flag unrolled:
The Old Worlds hands renew
Their strength; the form ye view
Came from a living mould
In glory blent.

" 0 ye, whose broken spars
Tell of the storms ye met,
Enter! fear not the bars
Across your pathway set;
Enter at Freedoms porch,
For you I lift my torch,
For you my coronet
Is rayed with stars.

" But ye that hither draw
To desecrate my fee,
Nor yet have held in awe
The justice that makes free, —
Avaunt, ye darkling brood!
By Right my house hath stood:
My name is Liberty,
My throne is Law."

0 wonderful and bright.
Immortal Freedom, hail!
Front, in thy fiery might,
The midnight and the gale;
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LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD.

PATRIOTISM 45

Undaunted on this base
Guard well thy dwelling-place:
Till the last sun grow pale
Let there be light!

UNMANIFEST DESTINY

RICHARD HOVEY

To what new fates, my country, far
And unforeseen of foe or friend,
Beneath what unexpected star,
Compelled to what unchosen end,

Across the sea that knows no beach
The Admiral of Nations guides
Thy blind obedient keels to reach
The harbor where thy future rides!

The guns that spoke at Lexington
Knew not that God was planning then
The trumpet word of Jefferson
To bugle forth the rights of men.

To them that wept and cursed Bull Rim,
What was it but despair and shame?
Who saw behind the cloud the sun?
Who knew that God was in the flame?

Had not defeat upon defeat,
Disaster on disaster come.

46 PEACE AND PATRIOTISM

The slave's emancipated feet
Had never marched behind the drum.

There is a Hand that bends our deeds
To mightier issues than we planned,
Each son that triumphs, each that bleeds,
My country, serves Its dark command

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