Identifier: peacepatriotisms00smit (find matches)
Title: Peace and patriotism; selections from poetry and prose
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Elva Sophronia, 1871-
Subjects: Patriotic poetry Recitations Patriotism
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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NATIONAL HYMN

DANIEL C. ROBERTS

God of our fathers, whose almighty hand
Leads forth in beauty all the starry band
Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies,
Our grateful songs before Thy throne arise.

PATRIOTISM 87

Thy love divine hath led us in the past,
In this free land by Thee our lot is cast ;
Be Thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay,
Thy word our law. Thy paths our chosen way.
From wars alarms, from deadly pestilence,
Be Thy strong arm our ever-sure defence;
Thy true religion in our hearts increase,
Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace.
Refresh Thy people on their toilsome way,
Lead us from night to never-ending day ;
Fill all our lives with love and grace divine.
And glory, laud and praise be ever Thine.


PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL GOOD WILL

To love one's country above all others is not to despise all others.

The Brotherhood of Man, the Federation of Nations, the Peace of the
World.

Between nation and nation, as between man and man, lives the one law
of right. Inscriptions for the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo R. W. GILDER
Text Appearing After Image:
Copyright by M. G. Abbey.

PENN'S TREATY WITH THE INDIANS.
From Mural Painting by Edwin H. Abbey.

PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL GOOD
WILL

VISION OF THE FUTURE
Extract from Locksley Hall

ALFRED TENNYSON

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that
would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic
sails.

Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly
bales;

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd
a ghastly dew
From the nation's airy navies grappling in the central
blue;

Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind
rushing warm.
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the
thunder-storm;

Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-
flags were furl'd;
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

91

92 PEACE AND PATRIOTISM

There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful
realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal
law.

VIOLENT DEEDS

Extract from the Odyssey
HOMER

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