THE NEW PRESIDENT.
Joaquin Miller
ranite and marble and granite, - Corridor, column and dome!
- A capitol huge as a planet
- And massive as marble-built Rome.
- Stair steps of granite to glory!
- Go up with thy face to the sun;
- They are stained with the footsteps and story
- Of giants and battles well won.
- Stop stand on this stairway of granite,
- Lo! Arlington, storied and still,
- With a lullaby hush. But the land it
- Springs fresh as that sun-fronted hill.
- Beneath us stout-hearted Potomac
- In majesty moves to the sea
- Beneath us a sea of proud people
- Moves on, undivided as he.
- Yea, strife it is over and ended
- For all the days under the sun;
- The banners unite and are blended
- As moonlight and sunlight in one.
- Lo! banners and banners and banners,
- Broad star-balanced banners of blue
- If a single star fell from fair heaven,
- Why, what would befall us, think you?