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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Father Abe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Song of the American Sons of Labour)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Song</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O WE knew so well, dear Father,<br>When we answered to your call,<br>And the Southern Moloch stricken<br>Shook and tottered to his fall —<br>O we knew so well you loved us,<br>And our hearts beat back to yours<br>With the rapturous adoration<br>That through all the years endures!<br>Mothers, sisters bade us hasten<br>Sweethearts, wives with babe at breast;<br>For the Union, faith and freedom,<br>For our hero of the West!<br>And we wrung forth victory blood-stained<br>From the desperate hands of Crime,<br>And our Cause blazed out Man's beacon<br>Through the endless future time!<br>And forgiven, forever we bade it<br>Cease, that envy, hatred, strife,<br>As he willed, our murdered Father<br>That had sealed his love with life!<br>O dear Father, was it thus, then?<br>Did we this but in a dream?<br>Is it real, this hideous present?<br>Does our suffering only seem?<br>Bend and listen, look and tell us!<br>Are these joyless toilers We?<br>Slaves more wretched, patient, piteous<br>Than the slaves we fought to free!<br>Are these weak, worn girls and women<br>Those whose mothers yet can tell<br>How they kissed and clasped men god-like<br>With fierce faces fronting hell?<br>Bend and listen, look and tell us!<br>Is this silent waste, possessed<br>By bloat thieves and their task-masters,<br>Thy free, thy fair, thy fearless West?<br>Are these Eastern mobs of wage-slaves,<br>Are these cringing debauchees,<br>Sons of those who slung their rifles —<br>Shook the old Flag to the breeze?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+William+Lauderdale+Adams">Francis William Lauderdale Adams</a><div class=q>
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The Song

O WE knew so well, dear Father,
When we answered to your call,
And the Southern Moloch stricken
Shook and tottered to his fall —
O we knew so well you loved us,
And our hearts beat back to yours
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