American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-04-18
CONNECTICUT.

From :. The Minute-men,'' an unpublished poem.]
AND still her gray rocks tower above the sea
That murmnrs at their feet, conquered waves
IT'S rough land Of earth, and stone, and tree,
Where breathes castled lord or cahin'd slave;
Where thoughts and tongue, and hand bold and free,
And friends will find welcome, foes grave;
And where knec when to Heaven they pray,
Nor even then except in their own way
Theirs is pure republic, Wild yet strong,
A" fierce democratic" where al are true
To what themselves have voted--right or wrong
And 10 their laws denomnated blue;
ff red they might to Draco's code belong)
vestal state, which power could not subduc,
Nor promise wn--like her own eagle nest.
Sacrcd-the SaE Marine of the west.
A Justice Of the peace, for the time being
They bow to, but may turn him out next year:
They reverence their priest, but disagreeng
In price creed, dismiss him without fears
They have natural talent for foreseeing
And knowing all things land should Park appear
From his long tour in Africa, TO show
The Myers source they'd meet him wh-we know.
They love their land, because it is their own,
And to give aug,t other why:
Would shake hands with king upon his throne,
And think it kindness TO his majesty;
A stubborn race. fearing and hsttering none.
Such they nurtured, such they live and die
Al--but few aposta'es who meddng
With merchandise, pounds shngs pence, and peddling
Or wandering through the southern countries, teaching
The A,B,C from Webser's spelling book
Gallant and godly, making love and preaching,
4 Ard gaining BY what they call " hook crook"
And what the moralists call over reaching,
A decent living. The Virgnians look
Upon them with as favorable ewes
AS Gabriel on the d. III paradise.
\ But these are but their outcasts. View them
At homc where all their worth and pride placed.
And there their hospitable fires burn clear,
And there the owliest farmhouse hearth is graced
With manly hearts, in piety sincere,
Faithful in love, in honor stern and chastes
4 In friendship warm and true, in danger braveO
Beloved in life and sainted in the grave.
And minds have there been nurtured whose control
Is felt even in their nations destiny;
Men who swayed senates with statesman's soul,
And looked armies with leaders, eye
Names that adorn and dignity the scroll,
Whose leaves contain their country's history,
And tales of love and war--isien to one,
Of the Greenmountsineer-the Stark of Remington
When on that field his band the Hessians fought,
Briefly he spoke before the fght began
Soldiers! those German gentlemen are bought
For four pounds ten and seven pence per man,
BY Engand's king "a bargain as tits thought.
Are we worth more Let's prove it now we can !;
For we must beat them. boys, ere set of sun,
Oh Mary Sfark's zoidov P's-It was done.
Hers are not Temples or Arcada's spring,
Nor the long summer of Oathayan wales,
The vines the flowers, the air. the skies. that fling
Such wild enchantment DER Bpccaccio's tales
n OF Florence and the Arno-ye the wing
Of life's best angel Health, is on her gales
Through sun and snow-and in the autumn time
Earth has purer and no loveier cline.
Her clear warm Heaven at noon-ihc mist that shrouds
Her twilight hills-her cool and starry ewes,
The glorious splendor of her sunset clouds,
The rainbow beauty Of her forest leaves,
slue U CT tne eye, IN SoHtiue anu cIo"usb
Wherever his web of song her poet weaves;
And his minds brightest vision but displays
The autumn scenery of his boyhoods days.
And when you dream of woman and her love,
Her truth, her tenderness, her gentle power;
Flle maiden listening in the moonlight grove,
The mother smiling in her infants bower;
Forms, features, worshpped while breathe or move,
BE BY some spirit Of your dreaming hour
Borne, like Loretto's chapel through the air,
70 the green land sing--hen wake-youll find then
there. H.
+These sark's identical expressions to his men
as previous to their charge upon the Hessans whom
iley routed with great daughter