Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-08-08 | Page 47 | Freedom

I FREEDOM. I I j Here la the forest now, As on that old July When first our lathers took the vow. The bluebird, stained with earth and sky. Shouts from a blowing bough In green, aerial freedom, wild and high, And now. as then, the bobolink . Out on tho uncertain brink Of tho swaying maple swings, Loosng his song out link by golden link. Whllo over tho wood his proclamation rings. A daring boast that would unklngdom kings! 13vcn so tho wild birds sang on bough and wall That day tho bell of Independence Hall Thundorcd upon tho world the word of man. The word of God uttered when tho world began Thnt day when liberty began to be And inlghly hopes were out on land and sea. But Freedom calls her conscripts, now as then; It Is an endless battle to be free. As the old dangers lessen from the skies New dangers rise. Down tho long centuries eternally, Again, again will rise Thermopylae; Again, again, a new Lconldas Must hold for God tho Imperiled pass. As the long ages run New Lexington will rise on Lexington And many a valorous Warren fall Upon tho Imperiled wall. Man Is the conscript of an ondless oiiost, A long divlno adventure without rest, A holy war, a battle yet unwon When he shall climb beyond the burnt out sun. Each hard-earned freedom withers to a bond- Freedom forever Is beyond -beyond! Edward ilarkham in the Independent.