Fraternity-Testvériség, 1941 (19. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1941-07-01 / 7. szám

TESTVÉRISÉG

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TO KOSSUTH

Oh! Euler of the soul of Hungary,

Let not delay, or doubt, thy great heart chill;

Remember, whate’er formalists may say,

This nation’s mighty pulse beats with thee still.

I will not pause to gather here one flower,

One laurel leaf, with which to deck thy name;

I know one thought of hope for Hungary Is dearer to thy heart than all thy fame.

And shall we see the eagle and the bear

Flash their fierce talons in thy country’s heart,

And coldly tell thee we have nought to do

In this far quarrel — from our shores depart?

Oh, no! too deep our country’s heart is stirred,

To lull away, and strive for nothing more;

God will provide, and open out the way,

And we shall see his fire-cloud move before.

For Heaven surely means that thou once more To victory shalt lead thy country on,

And thou shalt conquer, with the sacred badge And spirit sanction of our Washington.

Washington, Jan. 1, 1852. Mrs. C. E. Howard.

From: “The National Era” Washington, D. C. June 24, 1852.

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STANZAS

Written after reading the speech of the Hon. William H.

Seward on the Kossuth Resolutions of Welcome, delivered in the Senate of the United States.

Champion of Right! success attend thee,

In trampling down oppression’s cause;

And may that Power on high defend thee,

Before which cowering tyrants pause!

Stern in their path all armed they find thee,

With sharpened brand and dauntless eye,

Droop not — the name thou’lt leave behind thee, Starlike, will shine in memory’s sky!

The sorrowing exile sadly wanders On far Columbia’s wintry strand;

And, as in musing mood he ponders Upon his down-crushed fatherland,

The memory of thy voice shall cheer him,

And urge him onward to the fray,

Where the grim Czar shall learn to fear him,

And brightly dawn young freedom’s day!