Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
On the Hundredth Anniversary of the French Revolution
By George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930)[From The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems. 1890.]
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And when the Fates would stay victorious France,
With her own conquests must they dull her lance,
And legions worn with fadeless battles smite.
O laughter at the shocks of time, her might
Rejoiced in more than arms! the great advance
Through Europe of her triple ordinance
Man owes to her.—O Century, born to-night,
Scourged by the Turk, mown by the Scythian car;
Siberia, more rich in heroes’ graves
Than the most famous field of glorious war,
Yet waits; and by the bloody Cretan waves
Man suffers hope, and pleads his woe afar.