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Normale Version: Rossetti, William Michael: EMIGRATION.
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EMIGRATION.

WEAVE o'er the world your weft, yea weave your selves.
Imperial races, weave the warp thereof.
Swift like your shuttle speed the ships, and scoff
At wind and wave. And, as a miner delves
For hidden treasure bedded deep in stone,
So seek ye and find the treasure patriotism
In lands remote and dipped with alien chrism,
And make those new lands heart-dear and your own.
Weave o'er the world your selves. Half-human man
Wanes from before your faces like a cloud
Sun-stricken, and his soil becomes his shroud.
But of your souls and bodies ye shall make
The sovereign vesture of its leagueless span,
Clothing with history cliff and wild and lake.