Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The First American, and Other Poems
The freedom that is ours, and won of late, Not license is, but law-bound liberty, To lay their hatred by, put strife aside And seek to know how righteous is our law.
Gaze on his face! 0 take him for your guide And see our country's kindness, as he saw.
Written for the Lincoln centennial exercises held by Bowdoin College, February 12, 1909.
And ye who are suspicious of the State, Who know the cruelty of restless task, Who look upon the rich with eyes of hate, And feel that power and wealth, under the mask Of perjured justice, rule and sway the land, 0 lay not to our country this sin's charge. Gaze on his face! And strive to understand How righteous is her mission and how large.
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