Collected Works (Vol. I)

AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC. 1899. THou fair Republic oversea afar, Their challenge you hurled back across the Where long blue ripples lap the fertile foam : land, Vienna and tall Rome Whose manifest dominion, like a star, Trembled for their ally: you stirred our Fixed by the iron hands and = swords of hearts at home. war,! Now must for aye, a constellation, stand— , The fire of love no waters shall devour; Thou new strong nation! as the eagle} The faith of friendship stands the shocks aspires of time 5 To match the sun’s own fires, Seal with your voice the triumph of this hour, Children of our Jand, hear the children of | Your glory to our glory and our power, your sires. Alliance of one tongue, one faith, one clime ! Seal and clasp hands; and let the sea pro- We stretch out hands to-day when the white claim wings . 4 Friendship of righteous fame, ol eace are spread heneath you and your And lordship of two worlds that time can oe. never tame. O race of men that slay the slaves of kings! __ | Stoop not and tender not an hour’s regret We, whom the foam-crowned ocean still For those wild words in trivial anger enrings, passed : We, whose strong freedom never brooked Forget your fools, as we their words forget, a blow, _And join our worlds in one amazing net Hail you now victors, hail you of the sword ' Of empire and dominion, till aghast Proved in the west the lord, ' The lying Russian cloke his traitor head Hail you, and bid you sound quick friend-. More close, since Spain has bled ship and accord. 'To wake in us the love that lay a century dead. The eagle of your emblem would not stoop — 7 ot all the world keep silence at our peace ; To the proud vaunts of that outrageous wing That Bismarck reared, and strengthened, Let France retreat and Russia step aside From their encroachments, bid their envy cease and bade swoop ta es Stricken by Fear, who see our strength in- Fierce upon France, whose pallid pinions crease droop | By comradeship that quickens to abide, To own an Emperor where she mocked a A bond of justice, light, and liberty, king : | To make the wide earth free 1 This poem was written shortly after the. As the wild waves that slake the passion of Spanish war. ; the sea. 136