Word: hymned
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When the bombs whistled down Norwegians waved from housetops, burned Nazi Party papers and literature, fought in the streets, set buildings afire, sang the King's Hymn and the national anthem...
This is an eloquent hymn to one Southern way of life-that of the Hill Gentry. It is also an indigenous statement of the idea for which many Southerners believe the South fought the Civil War-that only those governments are strong which are based on the land and its people, not on factories and the people who own or work in them. Ben Robertson is a Scotch-Irishman from the red clay hills of South Carolina, a correspondent for New York's PM and a radiant devotee of the New Deal...
Included among some patriotic poems now on exhibition in the Poetry Room in the Widener Library is the original first draft of the hymn "America", accompanied by the author's manuscript story of its composition. In the same case are shown a manuscript of Oliver Wendell Holmes' adaptation of "Hall Columbia" which was introduced in 1798 to appeal to a unified national spirit...
Also on exhibition is Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" on the strength of which T. S. Eliot calls Kipling "a great hymn writer." Appearing with the latter poem is Alan Seeger's '10, "I Have a Rendezvous With Death", the most during the World War while serving with the French Foreign Legion...
...Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under his arm, a garland of flowers around his wizened neck...