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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MENTAL HORIZONS: 6. BROTHER BIGHEART-CHRISTIANITY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON
First Line: The creed I hold is too divine
Last Line: That throbs its way to the throne of god.
Subject(s): Christianity; God; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States
First Line: The creed I hold is too divine
Last Line: That throbs its way to the throne of god.
Subject(s): Christianity; God; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States
The creed I hold is too divine
To be walled in by a color line.
I praise the Lord for a humble place
In the mighty Anglo-Saxon race.
All circles of loyalty I prize,
But a vaster vision greets my eyes.
I shout for the East, I shout for the West—
I shout for our nation God has blest,
But my horizon is the race—
Its radius great as God's own grace.
From my heart's embrace I let none go,
Whether man in the mansion, or "man with the hoe"—
Hurrah for humanity's rich, red blood,
That throbs its way to the throne of God.
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