THE EAGLE AND THE LION.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2229, 7 October 1898, Page 3

THE EAGLE AND THE LION.

(Lines on the growing cordial relatione between England and the United States.) Alone on his rock nigh a hundred years He has drowsed with the sun in his eyes. Dumb watch o'er the yellow sand ffl» his care. Far we.«l to the far sunrise. But now he stretches his tawny lengthThere is stir in the dusk of the hundred years - Distant tie- pound and great hi* strength. So h- dux.- s again with listening ears. Alone the young eagle above the rockSwings hither and thither, to and fro. Watching th<- smoke and the dust of the earth. Watching tie- fierce wind blow, Drowsed too—but now he ruffle;? his crown, And the evening light in his eyes groweth red As he mounts to mark the sun go down. A century's sun, 'ueath the thunderhead. "Be we brother:- or be we not?" To him on the rock com,-.- down th* cry. And he ai;-u. >v: "Y-a, we are kin am? kin. Twain kinss of the earth and sky. Thou of the lightning* of heaven !*vat ward. T of th poxvus of Cod's great deep. Gather the thunders? Bare men's chi!,1:-. n tie- sword? •Tis linn- thai w<- reuse us from our sleep." Win- wh<:: lie •■ agie seeds cry to heaven And stoops to the cloud where the: tempest lies' And wee win i: :h" Ibm shall rise on k'r? rocK Storm-wind in his mane and wrath irt his eyes: Then broth, r >v:th brother and blood with blood YVt shall stand. "Alt- r: people, b?wat--: Hold v.. iii■• >ir--ad po .■ ts of lire arri lie -d, or o-u-th. and of .<• a. and of air." _(; l „„ Lr ,, Krotlerick, in "Leslie's Weekly."