English poem
The America
by Morley Roberts (1857–1942)
WHATEVER penman wrote or orator Declaimed, I could not, for the soul of me, Deem that the West had lost of liberty All but the name, and feared the sounds of War: Of them and theirs I was not ignorant, nor Had failed to learn what impulse set them free When alien kings held England's realm in fee, And what, in conquering, they had battled for.