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1899 · PDF PAGE 8

An Appeal to the American Republic

…verers are found Who will deliver. Mountain, stream, and brake, Lone wood, and sleepy lake, Are peopled with bright shapes that sing for freedom’s sake. Rocks, and pale fountains, and tall trees that quiver, And all the clouds that deck the sunset sky Move like the music of a mighty river Where ripples break, and rapids gleam and shiver, And calm rebuilds her empire bye-and-bye. For joy of this alliance all the earth Forgets her day of dearth, In her new birth forgets, and maddens into mirth. The stars swing censers of pale gold to God, Whose i…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 14

An Appeal to the American Republic

…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 to the end. O child of freedom, thou art very fair ! Thou hast white roses on thy eager breast, The scent of all the South is in thy hair, Thy lips are fragrant with the blossoms rare Blown under sea waves when the white wings rest ! Come to our warrior breast, where victory Sits passionate and free— Ring out the wild salute ! Our sister over sea ! CHISWICK PRESS CHARLES …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 3

An Appeal to the American Republic

… beneath you and your foe. O race of men that slay the slaves of kings ! We, whom the foam-crowned ocean still enrings, We, whose strong freedom never brooked a blow, Hail you now victors, hail you of the sword Proved in the west the lord, Hail you, and bid you sound quick friendship and accord. T I

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1899 · PDF PAGE 7

An Appeal to the American Republic

… of admirable peace ? Ye are our brothers ; ye have spurned the power That bound the islands of your eastern shore ; Ye have restored to freedom that fair flower, Cuba, in her most agonising hour, And east and west have thundered with red war. We freed us from the slavery of Spain, And laid upon the main Our hand three centuries back—and ye have struck again. 5

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1899 · PDF PAGE 6

An Appeal to the American Republic

…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

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1899 · PDF PAGE 11

An Appeal to the American Republic

…sphere, And all ye caves their murmurs who repeat ; Your music throbs in unison with mine ; The world is flushed with wine Bubbling from Freedom’s well, warm, luminous, divine. 9

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