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...beginning, to the recurrent beat of waves which one hears continually throughout the poem, rolling "in a long wash of foam." It is free from those vested paradoxes and curious analogies which made so many pages of "Roman Barthalow" boring or even absurd! Mr. Robinson has here an anthem at all times worthy of his theme. There are occasional exceptions, but they are unimportant and are enormously overbalanced by the many passages in which the poetry is successful. One of the surest signs of Mr. Robinson's rank as a poet is the individuality of his rhythm; the "personality...
...played "God Save the King," which a lot of the children mistook for "My Country 'Tis of Thee" because the tune was the same, and up stepped William Meades Newton of Liverpool, England, to tell about the benefits of the British Empire. Nearly every one recognized the next anthem without difficulty, "The Star Spangled Banner," which heralded the performance of the champion U. S. school orator, Herbert Wenig of Los Angeles. Herbert repeated the piece on "The Constitution" which had won him the national championship last June. It included the sentences: "The pages of this sacred document are fast...
Followed an anthem which practically no one knew, the national song of Mexico. Jet-eyed young José Munoz-Cota of the National Preparatory School (Mexico City) required no further encouragement to launch again upon his famed oration "Bolivar and the Latin-American Peoples" with which he defeated all-comers for the Mexican title (TIME, June 28). Master José's audience understood but little of what he said, for he spoke in purest Spanish. The final oration, by Maxime Raymond Fuel of Nancy, France, was also unintelligible to most of those present though it sounded very well...
...Jitney Anthem...
...This anthem is written in the style of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and sounds very similar to one of their songs...