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Henry Van Dyke - Patria
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I would not even ask my heart to say
    If I could love some other land as well
    As thee, my country, had I felt the spell
Of Italy at birth, or learned to obey
The charm of France, or England`s mighty sway.
  I would not be so much an infidel
  As once to dream, or fashion words to tell,
What land could hold my love from thee away.

For like a law of nature in my blood
  I feel thy sweet and secret sovereignty,
    And woven through my soul thy vital sign.
My life is but a wave, and thou the flood;
  I am a leaf and thou the mother-tree;
    Nor should I be at all, were I not thine.
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