The Centennial, July 4, 1876
by Charlotte Fiske Bates�(1838�1916) |
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HERE stands the Nation's mighty Thought,
With look
and attitude sublime;
Both her colossal arms stretched
out,
Seeking two equal bounds of time.
One hand
rests on the very day
When Freedom struggled from the
womb;
The other, groping on its way,
Finds all this
multitude a tomb!
The eyes of Thought, first backward
cast,
Send fiery p�ans from their deep;
But, searching
all her country's past,
Some great, immortal tears they
weep.
The eyes of Thought now onward tend,
Peopling the far, white mystery
With life that shall from
ours descend,
And treasure all our history.
Here
stands the Nation's mighty Thought!
A hundred years
behind, before,
Her arm and eye have reached, and brought
What make us one forevermore.
This centre of the
Keystone State
Locks many nations in its hold,
And all
the clashing notes of fate
To harmony has Peace
controlled.
Great City of Fraternal Love,
How well
the worlds have met in thee;
So, whither all the nations
move,
God's Peace-built City let it be! |
By Charlotte Fiske Bates�(1838�1916)
Listed June 25, 2014 |
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