Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — FREEDOM'S GREETING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FREEDOM'S GREETING

O stars erf Freedom*s laaacr bright That clustered steoe in field of bine. From faint, far depths <rf heaven’s height Your constellated fires you drew! From starry ways <rf ages down You bring the fight <rf old renown! Greece first your dawn-bright radiance _ knew When Freedom’s star rose <fer the And Athens’glory full orbed grew When Parthenon crowned the Acropolis steep. The fame <rf Greece then briefly shone With splendor since through ages known. But kindled by Promethean fire O’er other lands rose Freedom's stars. Unquenched by blood, they stiß aspire Where far beyond the old world bars They rose above flie new world bright And blent as one their kindred fight. Long may these stars nafiassed stiß shine In Freedom’s glorious galaxy! Long may our land sta be the shrine To all the world of Liberty, Whose statue stands at Freedom’s gates And for the coming mffions waits! —H. nSMMteAfcwYwtIFMUL