And what of thee, O Lincoln's Land? What gloom <br />Is darkening above the Sunset Sea? <br />Vowed Champion of Liberty, deplume <br />Thy war-crest, bow thy knee, <br />Before God answer thee. <br /> <br />What talk is thine of rebels? Didst thou turn, <br />My very child, thy vaunted sword on me, <br />To scoff to-day at patriot fires that burn <br />In hearts unbound to thee, <br />Flames of the Sunset Sea?<br /><br />Katharine Lee Bates<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/england-to-america/
