Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . hoir of our Swedish Churchwith their director, the rectors wife in the centre Countrymen, bend and invoke Mercy for us blasphemers, For that we spat on these marvelous folk, Nations of daxers and dreamers, Sdons of singers and seers, Our peers, and more than our peers. Rabble and refuse, we name them And scum o the earth, to shame them. Mercy for us of the few, young years. Of the culture so callow and crude. Of the hands so grasping and rude, The lips so ready
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . hoir of our Swedish Churchwith their director, the rectors wife in the centre Countrymen, bend and invoke Mercy for us blasphemers, For that we spat on these marvelous folk, Nations of daxers and dreamers, Sdons of singers and seers, Our peers, and more than our peers. Rabble and refuse, we name them And scum o the earth, to shame them. Mercy for us of the few, young years. Of the culture so callow and crude. Of the hands so grasping and rude, The lips so ready for sneers At the sons of our ancient more-than-peers. Mercy for us who dare despiseMen in whose loins our Homer lies;Mothers of men who shall bring to usThe glory of Titian, the grandeur of Hus;Children in whose frail arms shall restProphets and angers and saints of the West Newcomers all from the eastern us incarnate dreams like , and forgive, that we did you wrongHelp us to father a nation, strongIn the comradeship of an equal the wealth of the richest bloods of earth—Robert Haven SHIPS OF SAINT ANSGARIUS Scandinavians I do not think that anyone who knowsthe Swedes or Norwegians or Danes,would speak of them as the scum ofthe earth. Though treated very oftenas foreigners, they have become asolid, often leading part of our popula-tion. In the 70s a large number of Scan-dinavians came to this country, andevery year since they have averagedabout 50,000. Thus it may be seen thatthey belong equally to the older andnewer immigration. There are something like 4,000,000 in this country, about halfSwedes, the rest Norwegians and are setted in the mid-West and onboth the eastern and western coasts, andin a few states make up the majorityof the population. Many are wealthyfarmers and experts in various to literacy, only a small fraction ofone per cent is classed as illiteraite, farless than those of original Americans
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