Welcome, Brazilian brother -- thy ample place is ready; A loving hand -- a smile from the north -- a sunny instant hail! (Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles, impedimentas, Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;) To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck -- to thee from us the expectant eye, Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning well, The true lesson of a nation's light in the sky, (More shining than the Cross, more than the Crown,) The height to be superb humanity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF EOGHAN RUADH (OWEN ROE) O'NEIL by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS HAIL COLUMBIA by JOSEPH HOPKINSON INTO THE TWILIGHT by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 45. A LITTLE WHILE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE KING OF YVETOT by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER |