English poem
The
by George Washington Clark (1836–1880)
LIBERTY MINSTREL.
"When the striving of surges Is mad on the main, Like the charge of a column Of plumes on the plain, When the thunder is up From his cloud cradled sleep And the tempest is treading The paths of the deep-- There is beauty. But where is the beauty to see, Like the sun-brilliant brow of a nation when free?"