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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MENTAL HORIZONS: 4. COLONEL SPREADEAGLE-PATRIOTISM, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON
First Line: But I hear the tramp of a marching host
Last Line: "for the nation bought at the cannon's mouth!"
Subject(s): Patriotism; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States
First Line: But I hear the tramp of a marching host
Last Line: "for the nation bought at the cannon's mouth!"
Subject(s): Patriotism; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States
But I hear the tramp of a marching host;
Then look beyond our far-flung coast
As our spangled flag goes floating by,
And freedom's shout ascends the sky;
"America" we proudly sing,
And the orator bears us on the wing:
"No East, or West, no North, or South,
For the nation bought at the cannon's mouth!"
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