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Show A PATRIOTS SUPPLICATION. Come back. Columbia, from unholy quest. And hateful conuuest in the Orient isles! Hast thou, proud guardian of the gracious gra-cious West, Become enamored of the lecherous smiles Of kings who sit on crumbling thrones afar? Wilt thou trade virtue for the imperial star? Time was when thou aloft the widening light Of liberty upheld through storm and V, stress. Whose ravs, far-flaring, bloom instead of blight Conferred, and nations rose thy name to bless! Eut now, for shame! God's sacred fields to sforch. Wither and blast, inverted is the torch! 'To gur.r-1 the home and haven of the oppressed. Lead Progress farther in a century's spa.ee Than all the past: confer Invention's best On every people: unify the race By wires that speak and ships that speed the seas Iladst thou not enough glory thou ia these? Away with this hysteria of pride In sudden finding that the giant's strength Is thine to overreach and override The pycrmy peoples lest thou find at length Some righteous Davids pebble shall strike down The puffed Goliath coveting a crown! Come back, Columbia, all thy children cry. Who are not drunk with vanity! Conns back. Mother, say all the legion:? sons who lie In soldiers' graves, who not for buzzard sack And pillage fought, but died to "make men free Else what must these thy heroes think of thee? Robertus Love, in Springfield Republican. |
