Here you will find the Poem The German-American of poet Katharine Lee Bates
HONOR to him whose very blood remembers The old, enchanted dream-song of the Rhine, Although his house of life. is fair with shine Of fires new-kindled on the buried embers; Whose heart is wistful for the flowers he tended Beside his mother, for the caryen gnome And climbing bear and cuckoo-clock of home, For the whispering forest path two lovers wended; Who none the less, still strange in speech and manner, With our young Freedom keeps his plighted faith, Sides with his children's hope against the wraith Of his own childhood, hails the Starry Banner As emblem of his country now, to-morrow; A patriot by duty, not by birth. The costliest loyalty has purest worth. Honor to him who draws the sword in sorrow!
