Verses of the Philippines . BACK Back, to the Aryans place of birth, to theEasts elusive charm. They come who have tasted the ease of lifewhere the ardent sun rays warm The blood of a race that age by age has battledthe bitter cold. And circled at last the stern old Earth in thefierce, hot fight for gold. H IMMlMMJMMPMI^M^HMflMl^MlMMMI^dMfMM 11. —of the farthest loneliest spot. Back, from a land where rampant wrong causeth the heart toquail And tremble for fear that the Goddess Right may not in theend prevail. To a land where ever the highest test to the soul must beapplied. Or the task, self-
Verses of the Philippines . BACK Back, to the Aryans place of birth, to theEasts elusive charm. They come who have tasted the ease of lifewhere the ardent sun rays warm The blood of a race that age by age has battledthe bitter cold. And circled at last the stern old Earth in thefierce, hot fight for gold. H IMMlMMJMMPMI^M^HMflMl^MlMMMI^dMfMM 11. —of the farthest loneliest spot. Back, from a land where rampant wrong causeth the heart toquail And tremble for fear that the Goddess Right may not in theend prevail. To a land where ever the highest test to the soul must beapplied. Or the task, self-set. will fail, at the last, and humble theWorkers pride. Back, where the wave-kissed, green-crowned shores of thesunlit, tropic isles. Reach out with the strength of a mute appeal and the graspof the Orient wiles. And grip the heart of the pioneer of the farthest, loneliestspot With a hold thats deep as the roots of life and broad as theWhite Mans lot.
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