Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — Imperial Mother! [ARTICLE]

Imperial Mother!

Imperial Mother, from whose breasts We drank aa babea the pride whereby We question own behest*. And Judge thee with no flinching eye:— Oft Mow to hear when thou float call. Oft vext with a divided will. When once a rival seeke thy fall. We are thy sons and daughters still. The love that halts, the faith that veers. Are then deep sunk as In the sea; The sea where thou must brook no peers And halve with none thy sovereignty. —William Watson.