III
Ainsi, peuple aux efforts prodigieux enclin,
Ainsi, terre de Penn, de Fulton, de Franklin,
Vivante aube d'un monde, ô grande république,
C'est en ton nom qu'on fait vers l'ombre un pas oblique !
Trahison ! par Berlin vouloir Paris détruit !
Au nom de la lumière encourager la nuit !
Quoi ! de la liberté faire une renégate...
White wings of commerce sailing far,
Hot steam that drives the weltering wheel,
Tamed lightning speeding on the wire,
Iron postman on the way of steel,—
These, circling all the world, have told
The loss that makes us desolate;
For we give back to dust this day
The God-sent man who saved the state.
When black the sky and...
Father! whose hard and cruel law
Is part of thy compassion’s plan,
Thy works presumptuously we scan
For what the prophets say they saw.
Unbidden still, the awful slope
Walling us in, we climb to gain
Assurance of the shining plain
That faith has certified to hope.
In vain: beyond the circling hill
...
Summer for thee, grant I may be
When Summer days are flown!
Thy music still, when Whipporwill
And Oriole — are done!
For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
And row my blossoms o'er!
Pray gather me —
Anemone —
Thy flower — forevermore!
