The caged eagle Author:George Sterling Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Voices are crying from the dust of Tyre, From Karnak and the stones of Babylon— We raised our pillars upon Seif-Desire, And perished from the large gaze of the s... more »un. EDWiN MARKHAM ODE ON THE OPENING OF THE PANAMA- PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION Be ye lift up, O gates of sea and land, Before the host that comes, Not, as of old, with roar of hurrying drums, And blaze of steel, and voice of war's command! Legions of peace are at thy borders now, O California, and ranks whose eyes Behold the deathless star upon thy brow And know it leads to love. Wherefore, give thou thy banner to the skies, And let the clarions of thy conquest sound! For thine is holy ground, And from thy heavens above Falls tenderly a ram of life, not death. Thy sons have found Again the rivers of that Paradise And valleys where the fig and olive grow, Wherefrom, one saith, Man journeyed forth in tears, and long ago. Be ye lift up, O gates of many halls, That house, sublime, The trophies and the nobler spoils of Time! From where the Orient in friendship calls Across her ocean-roads,— From Africa's abodes,— From seas whose purple bore the keels of Tyre,- From islands west and north,— From lands that see the white Andean walls,— From those frontiers of thunder and of fire That compass Europe now, hath man sent forth The fruitage of his labor and his art. Behold the greatness of his mind and heart Who so can strive And, tho the earthquake rive, And War, with mailed hands at the race's throat, Confirm the terrors that the prophets wrote And all the stars have seen since Christ was born, Can so bear witness to the soul within! Yea! from Earth's mire of ignorance and sin He marches with the morn, And lays a new commandment on the sea, Bidding it set the con...« less