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Page 1 of 11899 · PDF PAGE 14
…he free nations put aside their scorn For friendship, rock no sundering surge may climb, When their strong hands gripped hard across the sea, Flushed with fresh victory, Lands royal, leal, and great, vast beautiful, and free. Our children’s children shall unsheathe the sword Against the envy of some tyrant power, The leader of your people and our lord Shall join to wrest from slavery abhorred Some other race, a fair storm-ruined flower ! O fair republic, lover and sweet friend, Your loyal hand extend, Let freedom, peace and faith grow stronger …
1899 · PDF PAGE 5
…at quickens to abide, A bond of justice, light, and liberty, To make the wide earth free As the wild waves that slake the passion of the sea. Let all the world keep silence and behold The wrath of two great nations that are friends Against who bartered Poland, and who sold Italy, weighed out Hungary for gold, And shattered Greece to serve no noble ends. The traitors and the peoples and the kings That love not righteous things, They shall behold our wrath, and find our anger stings. White slaves shall look up and behold a light Grow in the islan…
1899 · PDF PAGE 8
…s the love-song of the free ; Angels with mercy and with beauty shod Move in the mazes of an Eden, trod Not by the seemly spirits of the sea, But by brave men built wholly of desire And freedom’s mystic fire, To clothe its habitants with glorious attire. 6
1899 · PDF PAGE 9
…iana to Hong Kong, In your new love made strong, Shall last while earth is glad because of sun and song. And O ! ye desert places of the sea, Ye plains and mountains rugged with the wind, And all ye hollow caverns whence there flee Foam-heads and blusterous waves, give ear to me, And O thou thunder, follow hard behind ! O womb of night, reverberate these chords, Ye clouds, ye stormy lords, With clamour and shrill voice as of ten thousand swords. 7
1899 · PDF PAGE 6
… we Strove to compel you to a cruel thong ? What, though the stronger did defeat the strong ? Both, wild and patient as the steep strong sea ? What matter that some strive to waken hate, Traitors to either state, Hang them in chains ! Our way to Freedom cannot wait ! 4
1899 · PDF PAGE 4
…eir ally : you stirred our hearts at home. The fire of love no waters shall devour ; The faith of friendship stands the shocks of time ; Seal with your voice the triumph of this hour, Your glory to our glory and our power, Alliance of one tongue, one faith, one clime ! Seal and clasp hands ; and let the sea proclaim Friendship of righteous fame, And lordship of two worlds that time can never tame. Stoop not and tender not an hour’s regret For those wild words in trivial anger passed : Forget your fools, as we their words forget, And join our wo…
1899 · PDF PAGE 11
…Of living water on their strand, live through With million flames candescent as the dew, Red flowers too queenly for a mortal name ! The sea is pregnant with green stars ; the land, The sky, like lovers stand With kiss half-consciously exchanged, hand fast in hand. O lovers fair and free, the wings of peace Bear this voice onward ; linger as your will By moon-wrought glades, and softly murmuring seas, Lands white with summer, and the quiet leas ! Linger, and let no word of music thrill Your hearts ; young love is all the harp ye need : Your kis…
1899 · PDF PAGE 12
…d this shall be ! Speak and accomplish, let no ardour slip, A sullen hound, ad be brought shamefully Back, and resurge the tremor of the sea, And spoil a perfect kiss from free land’s lip. Of fair free sister country, for our sake, Who at thy side would break All bars, all bonds, and bid the very dead awake. 10
1899 · PDF PAGE 13
Are not our veins made purple with our blood, And our dominions touch they not afield ? Pours not the sea its long exultant flood On either’s coast ? The rose has one same bud, And the vine’s heart one purple pledge doth yield. Are we not weary of the fangéd pen ? Are we not friends, and men ? Let us look frankly face to face—and quarrel then ! For by the groves of green and quiet ways, And on the windy reaches of the river, In moonlit night and blue unbroken days, And where the cold ice breaks in pallid bays, And where dim dawns in frosty fore…