“Sons of the self-same race.
And blood of the self-same clan.”
_ITALY_:
Yes, she will come. Well is she named Columbia, after my gallant son
Columbus. Can’st see him as he steered his bark to Columbia’s shore,
when
“Pale and worn, he kept his deck,
And peered through darkness. Ah, that night
Of all dark nights! And then a speck--
A light! A light! A light! A light!
It grew--a starlit flag unfurled,
It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn.
He gained a world; he gave that world
Its grandest lesson: ‘On and On.’”
That light became the light of Freedom. That light is still upheld
clear and pure by Columbia. In that light she will press “on and on”
till tyranny be banished from the earth.
_FRANCE_:
Aye, she will come, if but to pay back the debt of gratitude she owes
us for our aid when she won her Independence.
_BELGIUM_:
She must come, for we need her aid.
_BRITAIN_:
America is proud; she will repay her debt of gratitude, France. America
is generous; she will send you aid, Belgium.
NO. 18. MUSIC OF LARGO. (_All look to the rear._ _Enter_--CHARITY,
HOPE, _and_ FAITH; CHARITY _carries large cornucopia_.)
_CHARITY_:
We bear ye greetings and gifts from America.
_BELGIUM_:
Ah, I know you. Ye are Charity.
_CHARITY_:
Call me by my new name, Love, for the love of America sends me and my
Sisters with help and messages of cheer.
_HOPE_:
I am Hope. Never despair. Ye shall triumph. “Be staunch, and valiant,
and free, and strong.”
_FAITH_: