Grose, Howard B. (Howard Benjamin), 1851-1939 / 2008-06-12 00:00:00
EBOOK ALIENS OR AMERICANS? ***
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[Illustration: COMING AMERICANS]
FORWARD MISSION STUDY COURSES
EDITED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
ALIENS
OR
AMERICANS
?
HOWARD B. GROSE With Introduction BY JOSIAH STRONG
NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM
COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT NEW
YORK
UNGUARDED GATES
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates,
And through them presses a wild, motley throng--
Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes,
Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho,
Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Celt, and Slav,
Flying the old world's poverty and scorn;
These bringing with them unknown gods and rites,
Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws.
In street and alley what strange tongues are these,
Accents of menace alien to our air,
Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew!
O Liberty, White Goddess! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast
Fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of fate,
Lift the downtrodden, but with the hand of steel
Stay those who to thy sacred portals come
To waste the gifts of freedom.
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