Poems (Greenwood)/To the hon. d. p. king

by Grace Greenwood

TO THE HON. D. P. KING,

WITH AN AUTOGRAPH.

A child of the Republic,
 I have never bowed the knee
To coronets or sceptres,
 To rank or royalty:

But when a royal nature,
 Crowned with a royal name,
Devotes to holy freedom
 His genius and his fame,
O, then my soul forgets her pride,
 Then to the winds I fling
My democratic scruples,
 And all that sort of thing;
My spirit yields allegiance,
 And prays, God save thee, King!