Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SONG OF THE FOREIGN-BORN, by ROBERT EMMET CARROLL


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THE SONG OF THE FOREIGN-BORN, by                    
First Line: We came, and you bade us welcome
Last Line: The stars and stripes unfurled.
Subject(s): Freedom; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Liberty


WE came, and you bade us welcome,
You gave of your golden store,
When oppressed in the lands of our fathers
We thronged through your wide-flung door
The Celt from the Isle of Sorrow,
The Teuton and Frank as one
We followed the gleam of a hopeful dream
To the Land of the Setting Sun.

They lie, who would brand us ungrateful,
And false to a nation's trust,
That stooped like a loving mother
And lifted us out of the dust.
Please God, you will never need it
But if cause there should ever be,
Our blades like flame will defend your name
And our cherished Liberty.

We will gather like clouds of the tempest
At the threat of a mailed hand,
And the tread of our marching millions
Shall thunder across the land.
The flash of our righteous lightning
Shall illuminate the world,
Where flying free our foes will see
The Stars and Stripes unfurled.





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