03.05.2012, 20:31
To the People of the United States
MEN of our blood and speech! O let us be
Brothers once more as in the former time,
When Chaucer shaped for us his sturdy rhyme,
Or Howard swept the Armada from the sea:
Men of our blood and speech! If ye did flee
For God and freedom to an alien clime,
Forget not them who, resolute, sublime,
Grappling with kings at home, made England free;
And if in your red blood and if in theirs,
Yea, even in ours, who wax in Southern peace,
There runs a redder strain that brooks not wrong,
But hot, unquenchable, the veins along,
Burns for the right until its pulses cease
From one dear source we are alike its heirs.
MEN of our blood and speech! O let us be
Brothers once more as in the former time,
When Chaucer shaped for us his sturdy rhyme,
Or Howard swept the Armada from the sea:
Men of our blood and speech! If ye did flee
For God and freedom to an alien clime,
Forget not them who, resolute, sublime,
Grappling with kings at home, made England free;
And if in your red blood and if in theirs,
Yea, even in ours, who wax in Southern peace,
There runs a redder strain that brooks not wrong,
But hot, unquenchable, the veins along,
Burns for the right until its pulses cease
From one dear source we are alike its heirs.