Fraternity-Testvériség, 1997 (75. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
1997-04-01 / 2. szám
FRATERNITY Page 17 TRIBUTE Continued Hungarian influenced the course of European literature of his time; because I know Madách and have read his “Tragedy of Man,” the soul of which was the clarion message of his life sent out to all etemity-“struggle, man and trust”; because I know and love Maurice Jókai, the Hungarian Shakespeare, who has filled the world with hundreds of the matchless masterpieces of his mind-and, Mr. Speaker, they have my sympathy and admiration, because I know Petőfi, a “fallen star in the Magyar sea,” who of all the singers of the first half of the nineteenth century, brought to poetic creation an inextinguishable glow of passionate patriotism. He lived a life of meteoric glory that has not faded, nor will it die. He vanished like a dream in manhood’s morn. The spot, where he has fallen, no man knows, and the pathos of his song, the wish of his life, that when all was over flowers might be scattered where he slept, must remain forever unfulfilled. But the bloom of his day shall fill the earth with the perfume of his immemorial glory. Yes, Mr. Speaker, they spring from a race of unrequited heroism; a people full of the genius that touches liberty with love and the state with serenity. They will people the future with a proud progeny. The sons of Petőfi must, and will glorify us through the generations - of Petőfi, who smote all the singing chords of that harp of a thousand strings, the Hungarian heart with deathless strains of immortal valor: “Upon our graves shall dawn a brighter sun, Our children rise to bless the natal earth; Here shall they kneel, and when our course is run, Bless the fair land that gave them a free birth. By the great God of Hungary we swear The yoke of slavery we will no longer bear!” Mr. Speaker, with that spirit in their blood, they will surely bless the fair land that gives them a free birth. I ask for a vote on the bill before the House.” Vasvári Ödön: “Brick képviselő beszéde, amelynek hatására megszavazták az egyesület kongresszusi charterjét” Református Újság 1935. augusztus, pp.3-5. inamati ! GEORGE MADARAS I ; -1 04 THOMAS MADARAS lj i ta7P, - 1907 i jKAÍHERI f [MADARAS! Marguerite &AR0Ö 11906 • 1934 j The HRFA paid tribute to Mr. Tamas Madarasi and Congressman Abraham Lincoln Brick. South Bend. Indiana, May 3, 1997.
