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Show TO AMERICA AND BRITAIN. J (Moses Teggart in the Springfield Republican.) Re-publican.) What are ye doing, ye American people, In the far off islands of the sea, Whilo your bells, sweet-pealing from tower and steeple, Breathe the anthem of the free? Spilling and pouring out blood, like water. Fighting like beasts, as in centuries gone; .! i Spain has been humbled, and yet the j I slaughter i i And cruel slaying and strife goes on. I For ye hunt and butcher our poor brown "brother; 1 With bulelts ye slaughter the great and small. i While here, as there maid, wife and mother Are crying and praying alike, for all. j What are ye doing, ye hosts of Britain, In corries of one great continent. While in another your fever-smitten Perish in millions, famine-spent? O Libertv! thv torch uplifting! Shake it to all the madden skies. And show the nations, to ruin drifting. How dear life is in heaven's eyes! J Ye ar.glo-Saxons, in time take warning- : If by the sword ye would not fall. Let Peace shine here, as shines the morn- i ing. A joy and a blessing to each and all. ; From bay and bower and tower and i steeple. Do you hear the Voice that startles me, i Asking aloud why a rich, proud people I Murtler his bairns beyond the sea? 1 I !) 1 ! |
