England to America

  NOR force nor fraud shall sunder us! O ye     Who north or south, or east or western land,     Native to noble sounds, say truth for truth,   Freedom for freedom, love for love, and God     For God; O ye who in eternal youth   Speak with a living and creative flood   This universal English, and do stand   Its breathing book; live worthy of that grand   Heroic utterance—parted, yet a whole,     Far, yet unsevered,—children brave and free     Of the great Mother tongue, and ye shall be   Lords of an empire wide as Shakespeare’s soul,       Sublime as Milton’s immemorial theme, And rich as Chaucer’s speech, and fair as Spenser’s dream.