Chapter LXXV

But hold—I rave—
I know, I know—no matter, so would you.—
But find your soul’s ideal, and you would find,
If common-sense be reason, you would rave,
Till you forgot that common-sense could be—
Though I forget it not. My tale is told.
Why talk I more? I know one household now
All radiant through its mistress! Where she dwells
A sweet content pervades the very air,
And genial sympathy smiles on to make
Each whole long year one summer of delight.

PATRIOTIC.

AMERICA, OUR HOME.

Sung, to music composed by the author, at the anniversary of the battle of Concord, at Concord, Mass., 1898.

This land of ours, we love it.
’Tis Freedom’s own, where reign
No tyrants throned above it
O’er serfs that wear their chain;
Where birth and wealth to worth give way,
And none in camp or court have sway,
Except as all ordain.

CHORUS:

O Land that leaves the true man free
For all the soul would do or be,
Thank Heaven for life that gave us thee,
America, our home!

Kind homes are ours that wake us
To life whose morn is bright.
Free schools are ours that make us
Believe in truth and right.
Our churches all are churches taught
That conscience guides the wisest thought,
And love wins more than might.
CHORUS: O Land that leaves, etc.

We love the rule that trains us
To duty, self-control’d,
And honor’d toil that gains us
What order helps us hold;
Where never, save for threaten’d right,
Our starry flags, like stars at night,
O’er war’s dark storms unfold.
CHORUS: O Land that leaves, etc.

We love the life that bears us
Toward all that seers can see,
And, led by hope, prepares us
The whole world’s hope to be,
When, in the day that war shall cease,
Our GOLDEN RULE shall keep the peace,
And all mankind be free.
CHORUS: O Land that leaves, etc.

HAIL THE FLAG.

Sung, to the music of “Marching through Georgia,” at the anniversary of the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution, held in Columbia Theatre, Washington, D. C., Feb. 22, 1899.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Oh, how oft, to right
Wrong that war alone could end, that flag has led the fight,
Streaming on with fire and shot till, through the smoke, the light
Burst on the victory of freedom!

CHORUS:

Hurrah! Hurrah! beneath the flag to be!
Hurrah! Hurrah! its loyal wards are we!
Where the STARS AND STRIPES are flying over land or sea,
Under the flag there is freedom.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Peace is in each hue;
Storms are signal’d not by stars, or skies red, white, or blue;
Peace is in it e’en in war, for, when the war is through,
That which has won then is freedom.
CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. In its blue more bright
Shine the stars to guide our way than in the dome of night;
Higher aims the hope that sees them, for their spotless white
Symbols the pure light of freedom.
CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Nature never knew,
In the dawn’s red ladder-bars where daylight climbs to view,
Stripes that brought as fair a day as these anon shall do,
When all the world turns to freedom.
CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

EXPANSION.

Not mountain chains, nor streams that cleave the plains,
Nor the wide ocean that around them rolls
Can bound the realm of Freedom’s loyal souls
Who serve the Spirit that above it reigns.
Not the mean few who snatch for selfish gains
Through pathways opening toward the noblest goals
Can shake Heaven’s children’s faith that Heaven controls
That life the most which Earth the least enchains.
O ye who see but lust for wealth or rule
Where love would end one more wrong’d people’s thrall,
As your sires ended yours, how blind are ye!
Who says there is no God is no more fool
Than he who hears not God’s voice in each call
To loose man’s bonds and let the oppress’d go free.

A PRAYER FOR PEACE AND GOOD WILL.

Creative Spirit, Source of Life,
And Father whom we trust,
Keep us and keep our state from strife
Through deeds to all men just.
Teach us that each, though poor or base,
Is yet a child of Thine,
And born, whate’er his rank or race,
Or wheresoe’er his dwelling-place,
To destiny divine.

Let not one nation’s pride of might
On other nations prey
With brute-like hosts that boast a right
To plunder and to slay.
If one land’s war-lord claim his own
To be Thy Spirit’s call,
Teach men that no God so made known,
No God of but one land alone,
Was ever God of all.

Grant all, oh Lord, through lives of love,
A glory to attain
As far as heaven’s could be above
What earthly battles gain.
Grant all, wherever patriots view
Their country’s flag unfurled,
The right to think that service due
God’s country calls for patriots too
Whose country is the world.

END

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