Show lo m I erne AMERICAN EAGLE I All hall thou grand and great ancestress of thy glorious brood of half a i hundred hallowed states I Extending thy expansive form across a continents i wide fields One wing deep dipping In Atlantics brine the other Ji oer Pacifics bosom spread I f fI1 1I t t Low trailing thy tailfeathers In the frozen ocean of 4 I the north I I And heaving thy pulsating breast above the torrid waters wa-ters of fair Mexicos broad gulf K Within thy talons bearing for the friend the olive branch of peace > 7 And weapons of destruction for the foe that would assail f t as-sail the smallest of thy progeny I Well Holdest thou thy haughty head aloft within the starry sky For though but young thou art a giant grown of conscious might acknowledging acknowl-edging few peers Mayst thou forever tranquil dwell In harmony with all thine own And unmolested by the powers of eartnrespected by the strong and honored by the weak v And mayet thou never know defeat nor learn to bow thy head In shame J |