AMERICA

AMERICA

SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH

My country, 't is of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing;

Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.

My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,

Thy name I love;

I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.

Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees

Sweet Freedom's song;

Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.

Our fathers' God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,

To Thee we sing;

Long may our land be bright
With Freedom's holy light;

Protect us by Thy might,

Great God, our King.

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CLARION

HAROLD T. PULSIFER

God send a prophet tongued with flame
To sear the Nation's self-content;
Lest writ in words of livid shame
Ye read, eternal banishment.

Dread banishment from those High Halls
Your fathers builded wide and deep.
Once, twice, and thrice the trumpet calls,-
How long shall ye lie bound in sleep?

The skies are dark with homing ghosts:
With Belgian blood the world is red:
Through the salt sea in piteous hosts
Still troop the phantoms of your dead!

Shrill-voiced your chosen leaders cry
The need of freedom for your gold.
Thank God the men at Concord lie
Too deep to know what ye have sold.

Was it for this the ancient hand
Carved out the riches of your soil?
Then let the sea blot out the land,
The storm blot out the wasted toil!

Blot out the dream of Washington,
Blot out the vision Lincoln knew,
Blot out their hope of air and sun,
Bring back the night they overthrew!

YE THAT HAVE FAITH

Once, twice, and thrice the trumpet calls,-
The sword is nigh, the sword is come!
Awake, O watchmen on the walls,
And lift your dead hands to the drum!

YE THAT HAVE FAITH

SIR OWEN SEAMAN

Ye that have faith to look with fearless eyes
Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife,
And know that out of death and night shall rise
The dawn of ampler life,

Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart,
That God has given you a priceless dower,
To live in these great times and have your part
In Freedom's crowning hour.

That ye may tell your sons who see the light
High in the heavens — their heritage to take-
"I saw the powers of Darkness put to flight;
I saw the morning break."

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THE MEANING OF AMERICANISM1

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES

We want something more than thrills in our patriotism we want thought; we want intelligence - -a new birth of the sentiment of unity in the nation.

My dream of America is America represented in public office by its best men working entirely for the good of the Republic and according to the laws and ordinances established by the people for the government of their conduct and not for the personal or political desires and ambitions; America working her institutions as they were intended to be worked, with men whose sole object shall be to secure the end for which the offices were designed.

And if one will throw his personal fortunes to the winds, if he will perform in each place, high or low, the manifest obligation of that place, we will soon have those victories of democracy which will make the Fourth of July in its coming years a far finer and nobler day than it has ever been in the fortunate years of the past.

When we are thinking of the ideals of democracy, we are thinking of the schools, and we deplore every condition in which we find man lower than he should be under a free government, and we want greater victories of democracy that the level of success shall be raised.

We are not a rash people; we are not filled with the spirit of militarism. We are not anxious to get into trouble, but if anybody thinks that the spirit of service and sacrifice is lost and that we have not the old

1 From the speech delivered at Easthampton L. I., July 4, 1916.