The Alhambra and Other Poems By F. B. Money-Coutts [i.e. F. B. T. Coutts-Nevill] |
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE,
DECEMBER, 1895 |
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE,
DECEMBER, 1895
Yes! it was well, and passing well, that we—
To do their pleasure—for so small a thing,
Refused to set wild war upon the wing,
Or to defile that unensanguined sea,
That flows between our Countries of the Free,
With freight of fratricide! We let them ring
Alarum; kept us crimeless; and shall bring
White record to the days that are to be!
To do their pleasure—for so small a thing,
Refused to set wild war upon the wing,
Or to defile that unensanguined sea,
That flows between our Countries of the Free,
With freight of fratricide! We let them ring
Alarum; kept us crimeless; and shall bring
White record to the days that are to be!
The time will come, when they will look with shame
On that time-serving message of their Chief;
His use ignoble of their noble name
For paltry purpose, must be charged with grief
For the harvest of their Age, when every sheaf
Is garnered of their folly and their fame.
On that time-serving message of their Chief;
His use ignoble of their noble name
For paltry purpose, must be charged with grief
For the harvest of their Age, when every sheaf
Is garnered of their folly and their fame.
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