Show It 2 UNGUAHDEO GATES I T B Aldrich In the Atlantic Monthly Month-ly for April1S92 published the following follow-ing poem r iVldlopon and unguarded stand our I paltM Nunifil of the four winds North South I I Eust nnd UV U Portals thru lead m an enchanted land Of cities rorsis IkIda of Uvlnjc gold I j I Vast pralrlca lordly summits touched with snow rnjuailc livers sweeping proudly print F The Arabs date palm and the Norseman r Norse-man g ylne o A realm wlnrolii arc fruits of every zone I Airs of all climes for 101 throughout the year The red rose blossoms somewhere rJch v I I land J t A later Eden planted In the wilds J With not an Inch of earth within Its I j bound > j 1 I But fc If a slaves foot press It sets him IIlIeSLhi written Toll shall have ItM I p wagt1 I And 1J until honor and the humblest man Stands level with the highest In the law r Of such a land have men in dungeons dniimcd And with the vision brightening In their eyos Gone smiling lo tho fagot nnd the sword Wide OIHVI and unguarded stand our pates I And ihiough them preses a wild n motley mot-ley throncf Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Fentiirolcss figures of HoaiifrIIo Malayan Scythlali Teuton Celt and Slav vivinn the Old Worlds poverty and scorn These bringing with them imknown gods nnd rites Those tiger passions here to stretch their claws I III street and alley what strange tongues r are these Accents of menace alien to our air Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew O Liberty White Goddess la It well To loavc the gate unguarded On thy I breast Fold Sorrows children soothe the hurts of fntr Lift th downtrodden but with the hand 1 of utcol Stay llioss who to thy sacred portals I I rrtmo rIo I waste the gifts of freedom Have a I care Lest from thy brow the clustered stars bo toni And tramplfl In the dust For so of old The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome And where the temples of the Caesars stood I The lean voit unmolested made her lair That is rather a gloomy view but It I is all right The gates have been opened from the first and the host has I been assimilated and while there have 0 been some had ones the good have greatly outnumbered the bad and out I of that mixture the great American Nation has rounded into form The country is big enough to stand It all I All that Is needed Is a HUb more care In defining the laws where liberty leaves off and license begins and to make arrangements to stop the license I but not to curtail the liberty It Is true the Goths and the Vandals over Iran I-ran the glories oC Home but Rome was a harsh old nation Her delicate women could give the signal to have the gladiator kill his victim A slave was chained at every rich mans gate The only law Rome ever appealed to was the law of might and when the Goth and the Vandal came they too fought under the same law and broke the power of Rome Our country was framed on a different plan It was that If full liberty and an opportunity to forge out for himself a living was given to even a bad man the blessings would soften his heart and make him a good citizen It generally does but when it falls then the law must Intervene Inter-vene and that class must he stopped singly and In the multitude But the I old plan must prevail absolute liberty under the law with justice as the arbitral and It will win at last because be-cause freedom and Justice and mercy when It Is possible will subdue wi more turbulent souls than will the sword or tho gun |