Oklahoma and Other Poems

by Freeman Edwin Miller

Where Man was first the monarch, where the sway

Of birth exalted first was broken, stand

To guard the helpless with a mighty hand,

And give the weak protection; scout the ban

Which tyrants utter, and with growing band

Of noble freemen serve thy primal plan,

And bind all nations in the Brotherhood of Man!

"O, GENTLE SHADE OF QUIET WOODS."

O, gentle shade of quiet woods,