There will proud trees
Grow as they grow by streams.
There will proud thoughts
Walk as in warrior dreams.
There will proud deeds
Bloom as when battle gleams!
Warriors of Art,
We will hold council there,
Hewing in stone
Things to the trapper fair,
Painting the gray
Veils that the spring moons wear,
This our revenge,
This one tremendous change:
Making new towns,
Lit with a star-fire strange,
Wild as the dawn
Gilding the bison-range.
All the young men
Chanting your cause that day,
Red-men, new-made
Out of the Saxon clay,
Strong and redeemed,
Bold in your war-array!
The Jingo and the Minstrel
An Argument for the Maintenance of Peace and Goodwill
with the Japanese People
Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty: Jimmu Tenno,
ancestor of all the Japanese Emperors; Nikko, Japan's loveliest shrine;
Iyeyasu, her greatest statesman; Bushido, her code of knighthood;
The Forty-seven Ronins, her classic heroes; Nogi, her latest hero;
Fuji, her most beautiful mountain.
# The minstrel speaks. #
"Now do you know of Avalon
That sailors call Japan?
She holds as rare a chivalry
As ever bled for man.
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