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Poem by Sydney Thompson Dobell


America


Nor force nor fraud shall sunder us! O ye
Who north or south, on east or western land,
Native to noble sounds, say truth for truth,
Freedom for freedom, love for love, and God
For God; O ye who in eternal youth
Speak with a living and creative flood
This universal English, and do stand
Its breathing book; live worthy of that grand
Heroic utterance—parted, yet a whole,
Far yet unsever’d,—children brave and free
Of the great Mother-tongue, and ye shall be
Lords of an empire wide as Shakespeare’s soul,
Sublime as Milton’s immemorial theme,
And rich as Chaucer’s speech, and fair as Spenser’s dream. 



Sydney Thompson Dobell


Sydney Thompson Dobell's other poems:
  1. The Army Surgeon
  2. On Receiving a Book from Dante Rossetti
  3. The Market-Wife's Song
  4. Under Especial Blessing
  5. Czar Nicholas


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Bayard Taylor America ("FORESEEN in the vision of sages")
  • Henry Van Dyke America ("I love thine inland seas")
  • Ella Wilcox America ("I am the refuge of all the oppressed")
  • Claude McKay America ("Although she feeds me bread of bitterness")
  • Lucretia Davidson America ("And this was once the realm of nature, where")
  • Arlo Bates America ("FOR, O America, our country!—land")

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