Excerpt from Cincinnati: A Civic Ode

Cincinnati

A Civic Ode

I

O not unsung, not unrenowned,
Ere brave Saint Clair to his reward had gone,
Or yet from yond the ample bound
Of green Ohio's hunting-ground
Tecumseh faced the Anglo-Saxon dawn,
My City Beautiful was throned and crowned:
Then all Hesperia confest,
With jubilant acclaim,
Her sovereign and inviolable name,
Queen of the West!

II

Upon the proud young bosom she was nursed,
Of the Republic, in the wild
Security of God's primeval wood:
Illustrious Child!
By Liberty begotten, first
Of all that august civic sisterhood
Born since the grand Ordain of Eighty-Seven
Promulged its mandatory plevin,
Which fain had reconciled
Human decretals and the voice of Heaven.

III

Baptismal sponsors gave
Her virtuous patronymical and brave,
From hoary chronicle and legend caught,
And blazon of that laureled son of Mars,
Whose purple heraldry of scars,
(From fields of valorous duty brought, )
Enriched patrician Rome with dower
Of ancient honorable power.

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