Fraternity-Testvériség, 1942 (20. évfolyam, 1-5. szám)

1942-01-01 / 1. szám

TESTVÉRISÉG

II

AMERICA AND THE KOSSUTH ERA

— Amerika és a Kossuth-korszak —

KOSSUTH AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS

Your patriot sword, your patriot lyre,

Thrilling the world by turns,

Beats high the soul’s immortal fire,

KOSSUTH and ROBERT BURNS.

Blest be for aye the glorious bond,

In minstrelsy or war,

That links the patriot mind to mind And hails, as of one kith and kind,

The Scot and Magyar.

Blest be for aye the patriot tie That joins the deathless brave,

And arches with one common sky The Cluden and the Drave,

That living man that standeth there And the dead man in the grave,

The gowans on the banks of Ayr,

The vines by Danube’s wave.

And far-off Hungary’s olives blend With Scotland’s haws and slaes,

And the wild Alps their greeting send In love to Logan Braes.

Ye “Scots wlia hae wi’ Wallace bled,”

Green be your wreaths of fame;

The torches of the deathless dead Still set the world aflame;

Down goes the tyrant’s shattered throne And breaks his dungeon chain,

The trampled Right bursts into light —

The land is free again!

The flag that waved in olden days O’er Scotland’s spearmen true Lights with its ancient glory blaze Carpathian mountains blue;

And the high heart and the strong arm The Pass of Brander (1) saw Meets in the wheel of reddened steel The legions of Haynau. (2)

The Braiulanes (3) were the Honveds’ (4) sires;

The Hapsburg tyrant spurn,

In Austria’s blood baptise Zegrad, (5)

The child of Bannockburn;

(1) The Pass of Brander, the famous dark gorge which narrows into the Pass of Awe, the scene of the desperate engagements between Wallace and the catarins of Macfadzean and Bruce and the Mac-dougalls of Lorn.

(2) General Haynau, one of. the most able and active of the Austrian leaders, inflicted a crushing and innal defeat on the Hungarians in 1849.

(3) Brandanes, the name given to the 10,000 Scottish archens, exceptionally tall and handsome men, who, in 1298, followed Sir John Stewart to the Battle of Falkirk. In that fatal engagement, after Which Wallace could never again bring an army into the field, Sir John Stewart was slain and the Brandanes annihilated.