StoryTitle("caps", "To America") ?>
America," included by permission of the Poet Laureate, is a
good poem and a great poem. It is a keen thrust at the common
practice of teaching American children to hate the English of these
days on account of the actions of a silly old king dead a hundred years.
Alfred Austin deserves great credit for this poem.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What is the voice I hear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "On the winds of the western sea?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sentinel, listen from out Cape Clear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And say what the voice may be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis a proud free people calling loud to a people proud and free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And it says to them: \"Kinsmen, hail!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "We severed have been too long.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Now let us have done with a worn-out tale—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The tale of an ancient wrong—", "") ?>
PagePoem(336, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And our friendship last long as our love doth and be stronger than death is strong.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Answer them, sons of the self-same race,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And blood of the self-same clan;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let us speak with each other face to face", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And answer as man to man,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And loyally love and trust each other as none but free men can.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Now fling them out to the breeze,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Shamrock, Thistle, and Rose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the Star-spangled Banner unfurl with these—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "A message to friends and foes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wherever the sails of peace are seen and wherever the war-wind blows—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A message to bond and thrall to wake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For wherever we come, we twain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The throne of the tyrant shall rock and quake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And his menace be void and vain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For you are lords of a strong land and we are lords of the main.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yes, this is the voice of the bluff March gale;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "We severed have been too long,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But now we have done with a worn-out tale—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The tale of an ancient wrong—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And our friendship last long as love doth last and stronger than death is strong.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Alfred Austin.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>