"THIS day is holy" -- so sweet Spenser wrote, Giving to Love the world's one bridal-song. Ah! Could he see these flags together float Where the gray pinnacles of England throng, What bridal-song of nations would he sing! How Shakespeare -- through whose pageantry of State Trumpets of Freedom and of Justice ring -- Our "true minds' marriage" now would celebrate! My country's poets, foes of tyranny, For great and generous England raise your voice; Be yours the apocalypse of Liberty -- A vision that shall call us to rejoice. Divine the omens of the glorious years From these free flags -- if you can see for tears! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LIVING DEAD by RALPH CHAPLIN TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE [1611] by MICHAEL DRAYTON ODE ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER by JORGE MANRIQUE OUR MASTER by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE CRY by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN |