People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — A WORLD’S FAIR ODE. [ARTICLE]

A WORLD’S FAIR ODE.

The following ode, suggested by the forthcoming Chicago exhibition, has been written by Mr. Swinburne and set to music by Prof. Stanford: HAST TO WEST. Sunset smiles tin sunrise; east and west are, one, , Face to face in Heaven before the sovereign sun. From the springs of the dawn everlasting a glory renews and transfigures the west, From the depths of the sunset a light as of morning enkindles the broad sea's breast, And the lands and the skies and the waters are glad of the day’s and the night's work done. Child of dawn, and regent on the world-wide sea, England smiles on Europe, fair as dawn and free. , Not the waters that gird her are purer, nor mightier the winds that her waters know. But America, daughter and sister of England is praise of them, far as they flow; Atlantic responds to Paclfio the prais rhe days that have been and shall be. So from England westward let the watohword fly. So for England eastward let the seas reply; Praise, honor and love everlasting be sent on the wind's wings, westward and east, That the pride of the past and the pride of the future may mingle as friends at feast, And the sons of the lords of the world-wide seas be one till the world's life dia —A C Swinburne, in Pall Mall Gaietta