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A hundred times the bells of Brown	A
Have rung to sleep the idle summers	B
And still to day clangs clamoring down	A
A greeting to the welcome comers	B
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And far like waves of morning pours	C
Her call in airy ripples breaking	D
And wanders to the farthest shores	C
Her children's drowsy hearts awaking	D
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The wild vibration floats along	D
O'er heart strings tense its magic plying	D
And wakes in every breast its song	D
Of love and gratitude undying	D
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My heart to meet the summons leaps	E
At limit of its straining tether	F
Where the fresh western sunlight steeps	E
In golden flame the prairie heather	F
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And others happier rise and fare	G
To pass within the hallowed portal	H
And see the glory shining there	G
Shrined in her steadfast eyes immortal	H
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What though their eyes be dim and dull	H
Their heads be white in reverend blossom	I
Our mother's smile is beautiful	H
As when she bore them on her bosom	I
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Her heavenly forehead bears no line	J
Of Time's iconoclastic fingers	E
But o'er her form the grace divine	J
Of deathless youth and wisdom lingers	E
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We fade and pass grow faint and old	K
Till youth and joy and hope are banished	L
And still her beauty seems to fold	K
The sum of all the glory vanished	L
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As while Tithonus faltered on	M
The threshold of the Olympian dawnings	E
Aurora's front eternal shone	N
With lustre of the myriad mornings	E
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So joys that slip like dead leaves down	A
And hopes burnt out that die in ashes	E
Rise restless from their graves to crown	A
Our mother's brow with fadeless flashes	E
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And lives wrapped in tradition's mist	O
These honored halls to day are haunting	D
And lips by lips long withered kissed	O
The sagas of the past are chanting	D
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Scornful of absence' envious bar	P
BROWN smiles upon the mystic meeting	D
Of those her sons who sundered far	P
In brotherhood of heart are greeting	D
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Her wayward children wandering on	M
Where setting stars are lowly burning	D
But still in worship toward the dawn	Q
That gilds their souls' dear Mecca turning	D
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Or those who armed for God's own fight	R
Stand by his word through fire and slaughter	F
Or bear our banner's starry light	R
Far flashing through the Gulf's blue water	F
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For where one strikes for light and truth	S
The right to aid the wrong redressing	D
The mother of his spirit's youth	S
Sheds o'er his soul her silent blessing	D
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She gained her crown a gem of flame	T
When KNEASS fell dead in victory gory	U
New splendor blazed upon her name	T
When IVES' young life went out in glory	U
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Thus bright forever may she keep	V
Her fires of tolerant Freedom burning	D
Till War's red eyes are charmed to sleep	V
And bells ring home the boys returning	D
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And may she shed her radiant truth	S
In largess on ingenuous comers	E
And hold the bloom of gracious youth	S
Through many a hundred tranquil summers	E

John Hay

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