THE EAGLE'S WINGS
Dresbach, Glenn W.
The Eagle's Wings GLENN W. DRESBACH I.—Conservation. THE Eagle's wings are spread from sea to sea, One flushed with morn and one with sunset gold Across the trails our fathers broke of old With...
...Unchanged the powers o'er us and our rights, Nor God has changed his one great evening star...
...The Eagle's eyes are fearless as the sun, As keen, they glance from east to wind-wild west, And cities rise beneath their bold unrest, And pageants pass to silence one by one...
...The forests whisper to him from the heights, The rivers greet him thundering afar...
...Ours is a nobler end than brazen throne In whose gemmed trappings Fate's hoarse raven sings, Our fathers left us more than gold and stone— O lyric master, sing of Eagle's Wings...
...The slaves that sought us over seas were fed The food for hearts that starved beneath the sod, They found their freedom and the freeman's God, Nor all our gold could win them whence they fled...
...II.—Nobility and Patriotism...
...THE Eagle's wings are spread from sea to sea, One flushed with morn and one with sunset gold Across the trails our fathers broke of old With bleeding feet and hearts that dared be free...
...O can we mar for gold these wild delights, The Eagle's kindred of the days that are...
...We need no worlds to conquer but our own— The greed, the spite and all the ill of things...
...THE Eagle's wings are spread from sea to sea, One flushed with morn and one with sunset gold, Yet men have chosen often as of old To hide their souls and let their greed go free...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 13
