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We meet in peace though from our native East	A
The sun that sparkles on our birthday feast	A
Glanced as he rose on fields whose dews were red	B
With darker tints than those Aurora spread	B
Though shorn his rays his welcome disk concealed	C
In the dim smoke that veiled each battlefield	C
Still striving upward in meridian pride	D
He climbed the walls that East and West divide	D
Saw his bright face flashed back from golden sand	E
And sapphire seas that lave the Western land	E
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Strange was the contrast that such scenes disclose	F
From his high vantage o'er eternal snows	F
There War's alarm the brazen trumpet rings	G
Here his love song the mailed cicala sings	G
There bayonets glitter through the forest glades	H
Here yellow cornfields stack their peaceful blades	H
There the deep trench where Valor finds a grave	I
Here the long ditch that curbs the peaceful wave	I
There the bold sapper with his lighted train	J
Here the dark tunnel and its stores of gain	J
Here the full harvest and the wain's advance	K
There the Grim Reaper and the ambulance	L
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With scenes so adverse what mysterious bond	M
Links our fair fortunes to the shores beyond	M
Why come we here last of a scattered fold	N
To pour new metal in the broken mould	N
To yield our tribute stamped with Caesar's face	O
To Caesar stricken in the market place	O
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Ah love of country is the secret tie	P
That joins these contrasts 'neath one arching sky	P
Though brighter paths our peaceful steps explore	Q
We meet together at the Nation's door	Q
War winds her horn and giant cliffs go down	R
Like the high walls that girt the sacred town	R
And bares the pathway to her throbbing heart	S
From clustered village and from crowded mart	S
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Part of God's providence it was to found	T
A Nation's bulwark on this chosen ground	T
Not Jesuit's zeal nor pioneer's unrest	U
Planted these pickets in the distant West	U
But He who first the Nation's fate forecast	V
Placed here His fountains sealed for ages past	V
Rock ribbed and guarded till the coming time	W
Should fit the people for their work sublime	W
When a new Moses with his rod of steel	X
Smote the tall cliffs with one wide ringing peal	X
And the old miracle in record told	N
To the new Nation was revealed in gold	N
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Judge not too idly that our toils are mean	Y
Though no new levies marshal on our green	Y
Nor deem too rashly that our gains are small	Z
Weighed with the prizes for which heroes fall	Z
See where thick vapor wreathes the battle line	A2
There Mercy follows with her oil and wine	A2
Or where brown Labor with its peaceful charm	B2
Stiffens the sinews of the Nation's arm	B2
What nerves its hands to strike a deadlier blow	C2
And hurl its legions on the rebel foe	C2
Lo for each town new rising o'er our State	D2
See the foe's hamlet waste and desolate	E2
While each new factory lifts its chimney tall	Z
Like a fresh mortar trained on Richmond's wall	Z
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For this O brothers swings the fruitful vine	A2
Spread our broad pastures with their countless kine	A2
For this o'erhead the arching vault springs clear	F2
Sunlit and cloudless for one half the year	F2
For this no snowflake e'er so lightly pressed	U
Chills the warm impulse of our mother's breast	U
Quick to reply from meadows brown and sere	F2
She thrills responsive to Spring's earliest tear	G2
Breaks into blossom flings her loveliest rose	F
Ere the white crocus mounts Atlantic snows	F
And the example of her liberal creed	H2
Teaches the lesson that to day we heed	H2
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Thus ours the lot with peaceful generous hand	E
To spread our bounty o'er the suffering land	E
As the deep cleft in Mariposa's wall	Z
Hurls a vast river splintering in its fall	Z
Though the rapt soul who stands in awe below	C2
Sees but the arching of the promised bow	I2
Lo the far streamlet drinks its dews unseen	A2
And the whole valley wakes a brighter green	A2

Bret Harte

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