England To America

By Katharine Lee Bates

And what of thee, O Lincoln's Land? What gloom

Is darkening above the Sunset Sea?

Vowed Champion of Liberty, deplume

Thy war-crest, bow thy knee,

Before God answer thee.

What talk is thine of rebels? Didst thou turn,

My very child, thy vaunted sword on me,

To scoff to-day at patriot fires that burn

In hearts unbound to thee,

Flames of the Sunset Sea?