[18]

[18]

 [19]REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND

[19]

(1912)

(Written after entering New York Harbor at Daybreak)

UP the vast harbor with the morning sun

U

The ship swept in from sea;

Gigantic towers arose, the night was done,

And—there stood Liberty.

Silent, the great torch lifted in one hand,

The dawn in her proud eyes,

Silent, for all the shouts that vex her land,

Silent, hailing the skies;

Hailing that mightier Kingdom of the Blest

Our seamen sought of old,

The dream that lured the nations through the West,

The city of sunset gold.

Saxon and Norman in one wedded soul

 Prev. P 21/149 next