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While countless generations pass away. (1913)

PANAMA HYMN*

WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD
[On the opening of the Panama Canal.]
We join to-day the East and West,
The stormy and the tranquil seas.
O Father, be the bridal blest!

The earth is on her knees.

Thou, Thou didst give our hand the might

To hew the hemisphere in twain And level for these waters bright

The mountain with the main.

*Reprinted by special permission from the author and The Atlantic Monthly.

From poisoned jungle and strand,

Where the crumbling wrecks of failure Lay sunk in the torrid sandDerelicts of old desperate hopes

And venal contraband:

ΙΟ

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