THROUGH calm and storm the years have led Our nation on, from stage to stage -- A century's space -- until we tread The threshold of another age. We see where o'er our pathway swept A torrent-stream of blood and fire, And thank the Guardian Power who kept Our sacred League of States entire. Oh, chequered train of years, farewell! With all thy strifes and hopes and fears! Yet with us let thy memories dwell, To warn and teach the coming years. And thou, the new-beginning age, Warned by the past, and not in vain, Write on a fairer, whiter page, The record of thy happier reign. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOHN WINTER by LAURENCE BINYON THE LOST SHEEP by ELIZABETH CECILIA CLEPHANE ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A LITANY OF ATLANTA by WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS ONE LIFE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES by ROBERT HERRICK THE CITY MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY [OR, GARDEN] MOUSE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |