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51
REVIEW
ADDITION TO "AMERICA."
supplemental urban stanza as candidate for a place
to sing in the historic choir of Dr. Smith:
A "City Stanza" Suggested by Dr. William
I hail thy cities great,
Hiram Foulkes.
Rock pillars of the State—
The throne of men.
The "America" hymn written by good Dr. Sam-
There
would I fight the wrong;
uel F. Smith, says the Continent, was composed in
There labor with the strong;
a day when the goodly land whose name it sang
There crown earth's struggle-song
was very much smaller than it is now and decid-
With heaven's "Amen!"
edly different in a good many other ways beside.
It is no wonder then that those who sing it as a
JAPANESE WAR LULLABY.
national anthem to-day sometimes wish that, with-
out robbing if of any old note or tone that makes
it dear, ''America" might somehow be expanded
Miss Howe, a returned missionary from Japan,
in sweep-and sentiment as expansion has come to has been giving a series of talks to the women's
"my native country, thee." Dr. Henry van Dyke clubs of America on "Japan, from a Resident's
some years ago offered as a supplement to the Viewpoint." Among her tales of the Japanese
hymn two stanzas that enlarged its geography from people were many concerning the recent war.
a rather exclusive New Englandism to take ac-
"Shortly after the preparations for war with
count of the South and West also. And now it Russia had been made," she said, "the little Japa-
has occurred to Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, of
nese boys began singing the sweetest lullaby-like
New York—as he explained to his congregation song I have ever heard. That song was heard
in a patriotic sermon a few Sundays since—that everywhere, and remembering our own fondness
the quite exclusive rural atmosphere of Dr. Smith's for popular airs, I ventured to ask what this exqui-
lines would be more adapted to the reality of pres- site crooning little 'hush-my-child' tune might be.
ent American conditions if its mild serenity were It was 'Bring your warships over here, and we'll
stirred with something of the vast throb of mod- smash 'em !' "
ern city life. To the suggestion Dr. Foulke's own
This story should fill the warlike heart of
muse answered, and he read to his hearers this Theodore Roosevelt with joy.
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