The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence., Chapter 13: brotherhood., page 332

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One country¹

The author of this poem, it should be noted, is a native of South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union, and has long been connected with the Atlanta constitution.

After all,
One country, brethren! We must rise or fall
With the Supreme Republic. We must be
The makers of her immortality,—
Her freedom, fame,
Her glory or her shame:
Liegemen to God and fathers of the free!
After all—
Hark! from the heights the clear, strong, clarion call
And the command imperious: ‘Stand forth,
Sons of the South and brothers of the North!
Stand forth and be
As one on soil and sea—
Your country's honor more than empire's worth!’
After all,
'Tis Freedom wears the loveliest coronal;
Her brow is to the morning; in the sod
She breathes the breath of patriots; every clod
Answers her call
And rises like a wall
Against the foes of liberty and God!

Frank Lebby Stanton.

1 from ‘comes one with a song,’ by frank Lebby Stanton; copyright, 1898. used by special permission of the publisher, the Bobbs-Merrill Company.

Review of Reviews. New York. 1912.

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Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ed.

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Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ed.

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