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Title: Days of the colonists
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Lamprey, Louise, 1869-1951
Subjects: United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The American nation was born. . SHADOW AND FLAME The sunset flares where the pavements blendWith river and shore at the long streets end In a luminous mist of gray.Under the walls of our canyons deepThe souls of the past awake from sleep,Haunting the ways that their hearts have known-Their dreams are living in steel and stone, And we dream on to-day. Their keels are dust and their sails are furledWho anchored here in the Port of the World, New squadrons are challenging Fate.Forgotten storms wrecked their crowding spires,We prison the lightning in weaving wires.Our caravans burrow under the earthWhere the heart and the brain that gave us birth Dreamed of a mighty State. Into a city of marvelous mold They wrought their souls as they cast their gold, They won for us name and fame.Shadows are they—but their dreams are stone.Woven about them our world has grown.Magic that lurks in our battlement-wall,Crowns it with stars when the white stars call, Write us our dream—in flame! 0 ■ Hi
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