<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">America Resurgent</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">She is risen from the dead!</p><p class="line">Loose the tongue and lift the head;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Let the sons of light rejoice.</p><p class="line">She has heard the challenge clear;</p><p class="line">She has answered, "I am here";</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">She has made the stainless choice.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Bound with iron and with gold --</p><p class="line">But her limbs they could not hold</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">When the word of words was spoken;</p><p class="line">Freedom calls --</p><p class="line">The prison walls</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Tumble, and the bolts are broken!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Hail her! She is ours again --</p><p class="line">Hope and heart of harassed men</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the tyrants' doom and terror.</p><p class="line">Send abroad the old alarms;</p><p class="line">Call to arms, to arms, to arms</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Hands of doubt and feet of error!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Cheer her! She is free at last,</p><p class="line">With her back upon the past,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">With her feet upon the bars.</p><p class="line">Hosts of freedom sorely prest,</p><p class="line">Lo, a light is in the west</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And a helmet full of stars!</p></div><p class="byline">-- Wendell Phillips Stafford.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> Washington Evening Star. </p></body></html> · Great War