LADY LIBERTY

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And the LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. </B><B>4</B><B> Before the boy knows how to say `My father' or `My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."</B></div> <div> <B>SEE REVELATION ABOUT THE PROPHETESS JEZEBEL AND LOOK AT THE BACK OF A ONE DOLLAR BILL</B></div> <div> <B>IT SAYS, "ANNOUNCING THE BIRTH!!"</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  </B><B>ISA 18:2</B><B> which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. </B><B><U>Go, swift messengers, </U></B><B><U>to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide</U></B><B>,</B><B> an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  </B><B>ISA 22:25</B><B> "In that day," declares the LORD Almighty, "the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down." The LORD has spoken.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  </B><B>PS 12:3</B><B> </B><B><U>May the LORD cut off </U></B><B><U>all flattering lips and every boastful tongue</U></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  </B><B>PS 12:4</B><B> that says, "</B><B><U>We will triumph with our tongues; we own our lips--who is our master</U></B><B>?"</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  PS 12:5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy,</B></div> <div> <B> </B><B> </B><B><U>I will now arise</U></B><B>," says the LORD. "I will protect them from those who malign them."</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  PS 12:6 And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay,</B></div> <div> <B>    purified seven times.   </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> JER 28:10 Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it, 11 and he said before all the people, "This is what the LORD says: `In the same way will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations within two years.' " At this, the prophet Jeremiah went on his way.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>JER 14:17 "Speak this word to them:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>  " `Let my eyes overflow with tears night and day without ceasing;</B></div> <div> <B>  for my virgin daughter--my people--has suffered a grievous wound,</B></div> <div> <B> a crushing blow.</B></div> <div> <B>AND YOUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE TREATING THIS AS NO BIG DEAL WHEN IT IS.</B></div> <div> <B>9/11</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> EZE 28:20 The word of the LORD came to me: 21 "Son of man, set your face against Sidon; prophesy against her 22 and say: </B></div> <div> <B>`This is what the Sovereign LORD says:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>  " `I am against you, O Sidon, and I will gain glory within you. They will know that I am the LORD,</B></div> <div> <B>    when I inflict punishment on her and show myself holy within her.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  PS 18:7 The earth trembled and quaked, and the pillars of the mountains shook;</B></div> <div> <B>    they trembled because he was angry.</B></div> <div> <B>9/11</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>1SA 28:21 When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken, she said, "Look, your maidservant has obeyed you. I took my life in my hands and did what you told me to do.</B></div> <div> <B>THIS WOMAN WAS A PHSYCHIC OR WITCH, OR  A MEDIUM</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>JOS 2:15 So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall. 16 Now she had said to them, "Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return, and then go on your way."</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>ZEP 1:9 On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold,</B></div> <div> <B>  who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>ZEP 3:11 On that day you will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me,</B></div> <div> <B>  because I will remove from this city  those who rejoice in their pride.</B></div> <div> <B>  Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>DA 12:9 He replied, "Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:28:24: Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?  doth he open and break the clods of his ground?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:28:25: When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and rie in their place?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:28:26: For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:28:28: Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:28:29: This also cometh forth from thE LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:29:1: Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!  add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:29:2: Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:29:4: And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:29:5: Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:29:6: Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:29:8: It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:29:12: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:29:13: Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:30:8: Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:30:25: And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Isa:35:6: Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>On the pedestal appears the following sonnet by Emma Lazarus, entitled '</B><B>The New Colossus</B><B>':  </B></div> <div> <B>Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name </B><B>Mother of Exiles</B><B>. From </B><B>her</B><B> beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,</B><B> I lift my lamp beside the golden </B><B>door!" </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> </B><B>In her uplifted right hand Liberty holds a gilt torch illuminated by lights on the balcony. In her left hand is the tablet of law bearing in roman numerals the date July 4, 1776. A broken shackle representing tyranny lies at her feet. </B><B>The seven spikes in her crown represent freedom's light shining on the seven continents and the seven seas</B><B>. The star-shaped wall around the base of the statue is the wall of old Fort Wood which was built on Bedloe's Island from 1808 to 1811. The statue was made a national monument in 1924 and is maintained by the National Park Service. In 1956 Bedloe's Island was renamed Liberty Island, and in 1965 nearby Ellis Island was added to the national monument. The American Museum of Immigration in the base of the statue was opened in 1972.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>REV 17:9</B><B> "This calls for a mind with wisdom. </B><B>The seven heads are </B><B>seven</B><B> </B><B>hills</B><B> on which the woman sits</B><B>. </B><B>10</B><B> They are also </B><B>seven kings</B><B>. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. </B><B>11</B><B> </B><B>The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction</B><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>    </B><B>REV 17:12</B><B> "The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. </B><B>13</B><B> They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. </B><B>14</B><B> They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings--and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers."</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>    </B><B>REV 17:15</B><B> Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. </B><B>16</B><B> The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. </B><B>17</B><B> For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled. </B><B>18</B><B> The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>A Glossary of Props Often Accompanying Lady Liberty</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Bald Eagle</B> </div> <div> The official, white-headed bird of the United States, native to North America. </div> <div> During the late 1700s, images of lady liberty feeding a hovering eagle became very popular, symbolizing the relationship between winged freedom and the support of the United States. </div> <div> <B>AN UNCLEAN HATEFUL BIRD AS THE BIBLE CALLS IT. ALSO THE EAGLE ON THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM IS WHAT DEFILED THE TEMPLE</B></div> <div> <B>Broken Chains</B> </div> <div> Broken chains are sometimes seen in the hands of lady liberty, symbolizing a break from tyranny or enslavement. <B><U>REBELLION</U></B></div> <div> <B>Broken Jug or Vase</B> </div> <div> Often shown lying at the feet of lady liberty, the broken jug symbolizes one's break with tyranny <B>(REBELLION). </B>Both the chains and the jug are <B><U>Old World symbols of oppression</U></B>. </div> <div> <B>Cornucopia</B> </div> <div> A symbol of plentitude, strong harvests and abundance. </div> <div> <B>Laurel Wreath</B> </div> <div> Often identified with <B><U>victory</U></B>, a laurel wreath is worn on the head of a victor or award winner. <B>NICOLIATIANS MENTIONED IN REVELATION ARE "VICTORIOUS PEOPLE OR OVERCOMERS)</B></div> <div> <B>Liberty Pole and Cap</B> </div> <div> The liberty cap is a soft, felt cap, sometimes hung on a pole and accompanying its (usually female) owner, sometimes capping the owner's head. The meaning behind the cap derives from its use before the <B><U>Roman Empire</U></B>, when similar felt caps were worn by liberated slaves of Troy and Asia Minor to cover their shorn heads; the cap therefore once "symbolized emancipation from personal servitude rather than constitutional political liberty" (Fryd, 109). The caps are sometimes referred to by their Latin name, <I>pilleus liberatis</I>, and they became a significant accessory for the French in depictions of the French Revolution. </div> <div> As for the pole, "the cap was joined to the pole as a symbol of freedom when Salturnius conquered Rome in 263 B.C. where, in a burst of inspiration, he raised the cap on a pikestaff to show that the slaves who joined his fight would be freed" (Fox, 4.) </div> <div> <B>Liberty Tree</B> </div> <div> A symbol of the young American government, the native pine tree signified "<B><U>the tree of life</U></B>, ever green, ever bearing" (Fox, 4). <B>THE YEW TREE IN WHICH YEW MEANS YORK AND THIS IS WHAT THE CHRISTMAS TREE STANDS FOR AS THE TREE PRODUCES RED BERRIES (HOLLY) AND YET A PINE TRE GOES IN ITS PLACE BECAUSE YEWS ARE TOO BIG. A TREE SET UP AT CHRISTMAS IS ACTUALLY PEOPLE HONORING THE GOVERNMENT</B></div> <div> <B>Olive Branch</B> </div> <div> <B>A universal symbol for the offering of peace. (THY SPEAK PEACE WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE)</B></div> <div> <B>Rattlesnake</B> </div> <div> A native American snake, the rattlesnake exemplified both "constant vigilance" (with no eyelids, its eyes are perpetually open) as well as American rebellion (the rattlesnake attacks only when provoked) (Fox, 4). </div> <div> <B>(THE SERPENT. HE WILL STRIKE OUR HEEL, BUT WE WILL CRUSH HIS HEAD 9/11)</B></div> <div> <B>Shield of the United States</B> </div> <div> An age-old image of defense, military strength and nationalism. </div> <div> <B><U>Stone Tablet</U></B><U> </U></div> <div> The stone tablet alludes most directly to the Mosaic tradition as a reference to the figures of the Synagogue who display the Old Law on a tablet, as well as a less direct allusion to Moses leading his people to the Promised land (Trachtenberg, 79). </div> <div> <B>BLASPHEMY. ONLY GOD CAN GIVE LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. IF ANYONE ELSE CLAIMS IT THEN IT BECOMES BLASPHEMY</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The </B><B><U>New</U></B><B> Colossus</B></div> <div> Not like the brazen giant of <B>Greek</B> fame</div> <div> With conquering limbs astride from land to land;</div> <div> Here at our sea-washed, sunset <B>gates</B> shall stand</div> <div> <B>A mighty woman</B> with a <B>torch</B>, whose flame</div> <div> Is the <B>imprisoned lightning</B>, and her name</div> <div> <B>Mother of</B> Exiles.  From her beacon-hand</div> <div> Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command </div> <div> The air-bridged harbor that <B>twin cities </B>frame,</div> <div> "Keep, ancient lands, your storied <B>pomp</B>!" cries she</div> <div> With silent lips.  "Give me your tired, your poor,</div> <div> Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,</div> <div> The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,</div> <div> Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,</div> <div> <B>I lift my lamp beside the golden door</B>!"</div> <div> <B>READ THE SONG OF SOLOMON</B></div> <div> <I>by Emma </I><I><B><U>Lazarus</U></B></I><I>, New York City, 1883</I> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Emma </B><B><U>Lazarus</U></B><B>, "The </B><B><U>New Colossus</U></B><B>" (1883) A STATUE OF ROME. ALSO, THERE IS </B><B><U>NOTHING</U></B><B> NEW UNDER THE SUN.</B></div> <bR> <div> Emma Lazarus' famous words, "Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" may now be indelibly engraved into the collective American memory, but they did not achieve immortality overnight. In fact, Lazarus' sonnet to the Statue of Liberty was hardly noticed until after her death, when a patron of the New York arts found it tucked into a small portfolio of poems written in 1883 to raise money for the construction of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal. The patron, Georgina Schuyler, was struck by the poem and arranged to have its last five lines become a permanent part of the statue itself. More than twenty years later, children's textbooks began to include the sonnet and Irving Berlin wrote it into a broadway musical. By 1945, the engraved poem was relocated--including all fourteen lines-- to be placed over the Statue of Liberty's main entrance.</div> <div> Today the words themselves may be remembered a great degree more than the poet herself, but in <B>Lazarus' </B>time just the opposite was true. <B>As a member of New York's social elite</B>, Emma <B>Lazarus</B> enjoyed a privileged childhood, nurtured by her family to become a respected poet recognized throughout the country for verses about her Jewish heritage. A reader and a dreamer, Lazarus had the good fortune to claim Ralph Waldo Emerson as a pen-pal and mentor. Before her death at age 37, Lazarus grew from a sheltered girl writing flowery prose about Classical Antiquity to a sophisticated New York aristocrat troubled by the violent injustices suffered by Jews in Eastern Europe.</div> <div> In "<B><U>The New Colossus</U></B>," Lazarus contrasts the soon-to-be installed symbol of the United States with what many consider the perfect symbol of the Greek and Roman era, the Colossus of Rhodes. Her comparison proved appropriate, for Bartholdi himself created the Statue of Liberty with the well-known Colossus in mind. What Bartholdi did not intend, however, was for the Statue of Liberty to become a symbol of welcome for thousands of European immigrants. As political propaganda for France, the Statue of Liberty was first intended to be a path of enlightenment for the countries of Europe still battling tyranny and oppression. Lazarus' words, however, turned that idea on its head: the Statue of Liberty would forever on be considered a beacon of welcome for immigrants <I>leaving</I> their mother countries.</div> <bR> <div> Just as Lazarus' poem gave new meaning to the statue, the statue emitted a new ideal for the United States. Liberty did not only mean freedom from the aristocracy of Britain that led the American colonists to the Revolutionary War. Liberty also meant freedom to come to the United States and create a new life without religious and ethnic persecution. Through Larazus' poem, the Statue of Liberty gained a new name: She would now become the "<B>Mother of </B>Exiles," torch in hand to lead her new children to American success and happiness.</div> <div> <B>Rita Dove, "Lady Freedom Among Us" (1993)</B></div> <bR> <div> As preparations rolled for the 200th anniversary of <B>the laying of the cornerstone </B>of the U.S. Capitol, Thomas Crawford's Lady Freedom was brought down for a make-over: After two centuries of standing atop of the Capitol dome, exposed to weather and pollution, she needed major repairs. Months before she was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 1993, Rita Dove read about Lady Freedom's temporary removal in the newspapers: "I thought it was a marvelous irony and jotted down a few lines in my notebook" ("In Honor," 2). Months later, and still remembering those first few jots, Dove found herself writing about Lady Freedom for the Capitol's bicentennial occasion.</div> <div> Through the course of her reparations, Lady Freedom was stationed in a parking lot--a humbling change from her lofty perch--near to Dove's Library of Congress office. For a few short months, Dove had the rare opportunity to take at look at Crawford's rendition of lady liberty up close. Her scrutiny and sharp perception grew into a poem about Lady Freedom's layered meanings: "I wanted to convey some sense of the beleaguered status of freedom," says Dove, </div> <div> how in our country, and as represented in the District of Columbia, you can see the contrasts abutted right up against one another: poetry and <B>pomp</B>, government and the disenfranchised, lofty ideals and complex reality. ("In Honor," 2)</div> <div> The resulting poem, "Lady Freedom Among Us," captures those paradoxes: it both exposes and glorifies. A poem tethered to the attitudes of the contemporary age, "Lady Freedom" cuts through old gloss and realizes that Americans today easily dismiss Lady Freedom as "another item to fit on a tourist's agenda" (l. 18). In the rapid pace of the city, as we "lower [our] eyes/or stare straight ahead to where [we] think [we] ought to be going," as we pass the homeless on the streets and as we walk stiff and wordless, we miss Freedom altogether (ll. 2-3). Maybe we no longer understand why she is up there: an odd, forgotten pinnacle to a capitol we rarely care to exalt. </div> <div> Dove's poem, however, halts us in that very thought: </div> <div>      <B>don't think you can ever forget her</B></div> <div> <B>     don't even try</B></div> <div> <B>     she's not going to budge</B> (ll. 22-23)</div> <div> "Lady Freedom Among Us" calls for a reevaluation of what this female emblem really means to the people of America. "[B]ig boned resolute," Crawford's Freedom has endured a century of change. <B>She has "assumed the thick skin of this town/its gritted exhaust its sunscorch and blear," and she demands that we do the same (READ THE SONG OF SOLOMON)</B>. As Dove herself explains: </div> <div> ... she was not just Lady Freedom but also the troubling conscience <I><B>standing on the street corner</B></I> demanding that we take a look, that we consider each of us as individuals. We should not forget her lessons--even if the dream of America is tarnished or eaten away by corrosion or in need of cleaning and repair, it is not defunct. ("In Honor," 2)</div> <bR> <div> <B>Synthesizing the Layered Meanings</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>This photograph was taken in 1918 in Camp Dodge, Iowa. It includes hundreds of men standing in a corn field, forming a human Statue of Liberty. (Craig, 272).</I> </div> <div> If, as art historian Marvin Trachtenberg writes, monuments "are something generally shared by a group or even an entire society...a way to transmit communal emotions," how do we reconcile the now documented existence of dozens of varying interpretations of lady liberty (Trachtenberg, 7)? She is supposed to be shared, yet she exudes meaning individually, always dependent on the time and space she stands within. How, then, can she mean anything at all? </div> <div> The answer may come with an acceptance of lady liberty's many layers, an awareness of her history and a recognition of her ironies. She has been used politically as a way to avoid the slavery issue, physically as a hangman's pole, aesthetically as an emblem of men's desire and metaphorically as an anti-immigration wake-up call.<I><B><U> She is our mother, our comfort, our pride</U></B></I>. She has been exalted and admired, parodied and ignored. All of these meanings--and many more--encompass her. And we, as Americans with our shared history of shame and pride, <I><B><U>now gather these meanings collectively and compress them all into the ever-present icons of our lady liberty. </U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><U>The Goddess of Freedom how lofty she</U></I></div> <div> <I><U>Where the sun in splendor beams;</U></I></div> <div> How bright the stars around her shine,</div> <div> How lovely the moonlight gleams.</div> <div> O'er the Capitol dome she proudly stands,</div> <div> The colors 'neath her feet</div> <div> Waving over the marble Halls,</div> <div> Where the national statesmen meet.</div> <bR> <div> The <B><U>goddess</U></B> of night, with brilliant gems</div> <div> In silence crowns her head;</div> <div> She's kissed by the sun's first crimson ray</div> <div> As he wakes from his starry bed.</div> <div> He showers her with heaven's blue</div> <div> While on his wayward west,</div> <div> And gives her last his snowy bars</div> <div> Ere stars come spangle her breast.</div> <bR> <div> Upon her <B>dawn's first glimmer falls </B></div> <div> <B>(SHE IS CLOTHED WITH THE SUN. REVELATION)</B></div> <div> From billows fringed with gray;</div> <div> It dims <B><U>the torch</U></B> that Liberty holds,</div> <div> But opens wide the day.</div> <div> Upon her eye's last glimmer falls</div> <div> From Sierra Nevada's crest,</div> <div> As retreating day falls fast asleep</div> <div> On El Dorado's breast.</div> <div> <B>(THE TORCH IS A SYMBOL OF FASCISM)</B></div> <bR> <div> Clouds of red, white, and blue that pass</div> <div> Forever on their way,</div> <div> Like hills sublime,<B> </B><B>like mountains rise</B></div> <div> And greet her day by day.</div> <div> Where eagles soar in circles grand,</div> <div> 'Neath God's blue canopy,</div> <div> They wing her love in freedom's name</div> <div> O'er the land of liberty.</div> <bR> <div> In triumph and in splendor she</div> <div> Adorns our State with peace;</div> <div> Like the sun turns night to day, she bids</div> <div> All dark contentions cease.</div> <div> Aloft, alone<B> our goddess </B>shines</div> <div> From God's infinite main</div> <div> Forever gleaming<B> peace </B>and joy</div> <div> Where freedom's path is lain.</div> <bR> <div> Aloft the <B>Goddess of Freedom</B>,</div> <div> Aloft and alone in the skies!</div> <div> Through winter winds, through summer climes,</div> <div> Lights flash out from her eyes,</div> <div>     A beacon bright,</div> <div>     Through the stormy night</div> <div> To all the world they loom--</div> <div> Our love, our peace and freedom's joy,</div> <div> <B>From off the Capitol dome</B>.</div> <div> <B>THE MOON UNDER HER FEET (REVELATION)</B></div> <div> by William A. Cox</div> <div> <I>January 6, 1927</I></div> <div> <I>Nashville, Tennessee</I> </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.persecution.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.persecution.org"><U><IMG SRC="3ed63630.gif" border=0 width="99" height="99" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>