Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . tell what high emprise Is the goal that gleams When Italys dreams Spread wing and sweep into the skies. Caesar dreamed him a world ruled well; Dante dreamed Heaven out of Hell; Angelo brought us there to dwell; And you, are you of a different birth?— Youre only a dago,-^and scum o theearth! IV Stay, are we doing you wrong Calhng you scum o the earth, Man of the sorrow-bowed head. Of the features tender yet strong,— Man of the eyes full of wisdom and mystery Ming
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . tell what high emprise Is the goal that gleams When Italys dreams Spread wing and sweep into the skies. Caesar dreamed him a world ruled well; Dante dreamed Heaven out of Hell; Angelo brought us there to dwell; And you, are you of a different birth?— Youre only a dago,-^and scum o theearth! IV Stay, are we doing you wrong Calhng you scum o the earth, Man of the sorrow-bowed head. Of the features tender yet strong,— Man of the eyes full of wisdom and mystery Mingled with patience and dread? Have not I knowtn you in history, Sorrow-bowed head? Were you. the poat-king, worth Treasures of Ophir unpriced? Were you the prophet, rtPT-Honre. whose art Foretold how the rabble would mock That shepherd of spirits, erelong, Who should carry the lambs on his heart And tenderly feed his flock? Man—lift that sorrow-bowed head, Lo! tis the face of the Christ! , The vision dies at its birth,Youre merely a butt for our a sheeny—and therefore despisedAnd rejected as scum o the AMERICANS OF SCANDINAVIAN STOCKThese fine American boys and girls are the choir 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 inc
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