Show Liberty What man is there so bold that he should say Thus and thus only wopld I have the sea For whether lying calm and beautiful Clasping the earth in love and throwing back I The smile of heaven from waves of amethyst Or whether freshened by the busy winds I bears the trade and navies of the world To ends of use or stern captivity Or whether lashed by tempests it gives way To elemental fury howls and roars At all Its rocky barriers in wild lust Of niin I drinks tint blood of livincr thlntrs And strews its wrecks oer leagues of desolate shore Always it is the sea and all bow down I Before its vast and varied majesty And so in vain will Umeorous men essay To set the metes and bounds of Liberty For Freedom is Its own eternal law I makes Its own conditions and n storm Or calm alike fulfills tho unerring Will Let us not then despise It when It lies Still as a sleeping lion while a swarm Of gnatlike evils hover round its head Nor doubt It when in mad disjointed times tmc I shakes the torch of terror and Its cry crJ Shrills oer the quaking earth an in the flame fame 3f riot and war we see its awful form Rise by the scaffold where the crimson ax Rings down its grooves the knell of shuddering shud-dering kings For always in i thine eyes 0 Liberty Shines that high light whereby the world is saved save And thee though thou slay us we will trust in John Hay |