Out of the silence Author:John Vance Cheney 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: Blow the glad horn, This bright May morn, Stanch, undaunted measures blow, Gathering courage as they go. Strike up the martial stave : Say, where those colors wa... more »ve Believed and battled they Whose face was toward the day; Say, there nor cowl nor crown Strikes Freedom down; Say on till Hell itself shall hear, Men are that falter not nor fear ; Say, for the brave There is no grave." GEORGE WASHINGTON HE that came forth, and wrought, and passed, August, unfellowed to the last, Whether in peace or war the try, A mighty hand, a mightier heart, Pledged to the right —this was his art; His secret was the single eye. First of the deedful, giant few, So high in Freedom's grace he grew, To-day his voice she leans to hear Across a hundred noisy year, And, peerless yet, beholds him stand, The standard in his Samson's hand. TO THE AMERICAN FLAG FLOAT, O colors fair, Float out upon the air, Wide the infectious splendor spread ; Unto the four winds given, Wave the glad earth and heaven, Hope of the living, glory of the dead! Thus no colors wave But over hero's grave, The slumber of immortal sod ; The winds on land and sea, Let them have joy of thee, Emblem of warriors that remembered God. Stream above the night, Gleam on in endless light, With heaven's thy stars have empery; Let race-waves rise and fall, Time blot out tower and wall, The fatal hand shall not reach up to thee. THE POETS OF OLD ISRAEL OLD Israel's readers of the stars, I love them best. Musing, they read, In embers of the heavenly hearth, High truths were never learned below. chapter{Section 4They asked not of the barren sands, They questioned not that stretch of death But upward from the humble tent They took the stairway of the hills ; Upward they clomb, bold in their tr...« less