Sonnet To Liberty
OT that I love thy children, whose dull
See nothing save their own unlovely woe,
Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know,—But that the roar of thy Democracies,
Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,
OT that I love thy children, whose dull
See nothing save their own unlovely woe,
Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know,—But that the roar of thy Democracies,
Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,
When liberty is headlong girl And runs her roads and wends her ways Liberty will shriek and whirl Her showery torch to see it blaze
When liberty is wedded wife And keeps the barn and counts the byre Liberty amends her life
She drowns her...
New Castle,
July 4, 1878or a hundred years the pulse of
Has throbbed for Liberty;
For a hundred years the grand old
AT flower is this that greets the morn, Its hues from Heaven so freshly born
With burning star and flaming band It kindles all the sunset land: Oh tell us what its name may be,— Is this the Flower of Liberty
It is the banner of the free,...
AG of the heroes who left us their glory, Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame, Blazoned in song and illumined in story, Wave o'er us all who inherit their fame
Up with our banner bright, Sprinkled with starry light, Spread it...
excuse me but lady liberty needs glasses
and so does mrs justice by her side
both the broads r blind as bats
stumbling thru the system