This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...dominions. "We meet," he said, "upon the open highway Of broad good will, and honest faith and duty; Let love fraternal brighten every by-way, And peace inviolate be thy way as my way, Till all the forest blossoms with new beauty." So spake their friend, and they revered his teaching; They said, " We will be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...dominions. "We meet," he said, "upon the open highway Of broad good will, and honest faith and duty; Let love fraternal brighten every by-way, And peace inviolate be thy way as my way, Till all the forest blossoms with new beauty." So spake their friend, and they revered his teaching; They said, " We will be true to thee and thine." And through long seasons toward their future reaching, No act was shown their plighted faith impeaching--Marring the compact, loving and divine. 0 thou, like noble Penn, who truth adorest, A priest at her great shrine in Freedom's temple, While o'er this gift in thoughtful mood thou porest, Point to the faithful children of the forest, And bid the nations learn from their example. THE ALLIANCE. Here is an oaken relic from a bark, That speaks of olden scenes and ocean mystery, --An anchor from the Kevolution ark, Dropt to the present through the twilight dark, Linking the troubled periods of our history. It may be that the sapling of this wood, Crowned on the coast with vines inviting inland, Was swaying to the seawind's fitful mood, Learning the rocking motion of the flood, When roving Norsemen stood agaze at Vinland. Or, did it feel the westward-sweeping gale--The wind that still of God and freedom hymneth--Which landward drove the saintly hero's sail, Until the sea-tossed pilgrims, worn and pale, Were landed on the icy rock of Plymouth? Where'er it grew, the woodman found the oak, It knew the teamster and the hewer's trestle, It felt the hammers, snuffed the pitchy smoke, Then seaward, like a steed from stall, it broke, While Salisbury hailed her favorite warrior vessel. Those were the days wherein we flung defiance Unto a tyrant monarch and his henchmen. We asked for friendship, France...
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