Shapes and Shadows — Under the Stars and Stripes
Under the Stars and Stripes.
High on the world did our fathers of old, Under the stars and stripes, Blazon the name that we now must uphold, Under the stars and stripes.
Vast in the past they have builded an arch Over which Freedom has lighted her torch.
Follow it!
Follow it!
Come, let us march Under the stars and stripes!
We in whose bodies the blood of them runs, Under the stars and stripes, We will acquit us as sons of their sons, Under the stars and stripes.
Ever for justice, our heel upon wrong, We in the light of our vengeance thrice strong!
Rally together!
Come tramping along Under the stars and stripes!
Out of our strength and a nation's great need, Under the stars and stripes, Heroes again as of old we shall breed, Under the stars and stripes.
Broad to the winds be our banner unfurled!
Straight in Spain's face let defiance be hurled!
God on our side, we will battle the world Under the stars and stripes!
MADISON CAWEIN.
From "_Poems of American Patriotism_," selected by _R.
L.
Paget_.
* * * * * SHAPES
and SHADOWS
POEMS by _Madison Cawein_ NEW YORK: _R.
H.
Russell_ MDCCCXCVIII
_Copyright, 1898, by R. H.
Russell_ * * * * * To HARRISON S.
MORRIS
* * * * * A Table of Contents _The Evanescent Beautiful_ 1 _August_ 2 _The Higher Brotherhood_ 4 _Gramarye_ 5 _Dreams_ 7 _The Old House_ 8 _The Rock_ 10 _Rain_ 12 _Standing-Stone Creek_ 13 _The Moonmen_ 15 _The Old Man Dreams_ 19 _Since Then_ 20 _Comrades_ 21 _Waiting_ 23 _Contrasts_ 24 _In June_ 25 _After long Grief and Pain_ 26 _Can I forget?
_ 27 _The House of Fear_ 28 _At Dawn_ 29 _Storm_ 30 _Memories_ 31 _Which_ 32 _Sunset in Autumn_ 34 _The Legend of the Stone_ 36 _Time and Death and Love_ 40 _Passion_ 41 _When the Wine-Cup at the Lip_ 42 _Art_ 43 _A Song for Old Age_ 45 _Tristram and Isolt_ 46 _The Better Lot_ 47 _Dusk in the Woods_ 48 _At the Ferry_ 50 _Her Violin_ 52 _Her Vesper Song_ 54 _At Parting_ 55 _Carissima Mea_ 56 _Margery_ 59 _Constance_ 61 _Gertrude_ 63 _Lydia_ 64 _A Southern Girl_ 65 _A Daughter of the States_ 66 _An Autumn Night_ 67 _Lines_ 68 _The Blind God_ 69 _A Valentine_ 70 _A Catch_ 71 _The New Year_ 73 _Then and Now_ 75 _Epilogue_ 76 * * * * *
