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 Rh America and England knit together—

Offspring of one great Mother, Sister Lands—

Fear neither frowning fate nor boding weather,

When close are joined their hands.

Beneath the ocean-billow sways the cable

That gives them instant knowledge, each of each,

And were it sunk, their hearts would still be able

To find a way of speech.

The younger, who her virgin prairies planted

To bless the alien—Teuton, Latin, Gaul,

Welcomes the poorest, as to realms enchanted,

And makes them English, all!

And still, the elder, in the hour of danger,

The bond of kinship never quite forgot,