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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SPAIN - A LAST WORD, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poet's Biography
First Line: Iberian! Palter no more! By thine hands
Last Line: Debt be paid!
Subject(s): Maine (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898)
First Line: Iberian! Palter no more! By thine hands
Last Line: Debt be paid!
Subject(s): Maine (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898)
IBERIAN! palter no more! By thine hands, thine alone, they
were slain!
Oh, 't was a deed in the dark --
Yet mark!
We will show you a way -- only one -- by which ye may blot
out the stain!
Build them a monument whom to death-sleep, in their sleep,
ye betrayed!
Proud and stern let it be --
Cuba free!
So, only, the stain shall be razed -- so, only, the great
debt be paid!
Other Poems of Interest...
THE COLOR SERGEANT by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
THE PHILIPPINE CONQUEST by EDGAR LEE MASTERS
SPAIN IN AMERICA by GEORGE SANTAYANA
YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS by GEORGE SANTAYANA
WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN [AUGUST 20, 1898] by GUY WETMORE CARRYL
THE CALL TO THE COLORS by ARTHUR GUITERMAN
THE RUSH OF THE OREGON by ARTHUR GUITERMAN
THE CHARGE AT SANTIAGO by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE