Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-05-12
Frora the Boston Ctntiati.
TO MAY.

SEASON OF gay desire,
To thee strike my Tyre.
But not with notes Jf love
Responsive to the dove;
And not thy wanted incense, May, bring;
CT yernal Joys, aud bliss aud hope TO sing.
In owes secluded bower
Tue mornings fragrant hour
Not lc't, by sleep or dallianee soft delAy'd
Aiar DER 6sld aud sunny hill ,tray'd
Where every flower found
Was sprinsng from mound,
Or silent seento wave
Abovesor warriors grave.
Stranger wher.'e YOU roam
Around the Yankee, Homr,
four foot can scarcely tread
WheTt Patriots hare not bied.
Or where on hill or field the broken ground
Shows not some crass-srow remnant ct a mound
Raisd wheI. defence demands,
Or where some point commands,
Aud dug with baynnrrs at midnight hour,
IL stop the mid day march of ncensd highlands pOwe
Ando' those silent mound.
Have swept the battle sound,
Aud hostil. feet have to3
In Conflict on each sod.
Then wa. the SPRING OF SOUL.
The cloud begsu to roll
From OF darkend world,
Where slavery unfurl'i
its gloomy banner DER the nations far;
Man woke, aud greeted Freedoms nurninc star.
With Freedoms earliest isht
MY native hills were bright,
They gleam'd aud rsddend with the dawn's fir, eov,
Aud cannon harnc, inwreaihd their robe OF SNOW
With these, the earliest tuwefs
That bloom IN Freedoms bowers,
Each hill top was adoruJ
When regal crown. were scorn'd.
Forth sped the rays OF light;
tn horizon all " n bi sht;
Then WASuINGToS Gr.tro.e
a. Freedoms Sun he glors,
Where ell the light and warmth Of many souls
In HIM combn'd, IN full .iulgcnee oils
Then brightly beamd day
The splendor of whose ray
Awckr the slumheing nations from rep1se.
loT the too dakklinsy lis glory giuws
Eye, weaken'd long by night
Were blinded by tic light
France lutter'd round our fame.
And tell within the haue.
Then FREEDOMS SPRING.
The Eagle ntrp'd his wing,
Aud sunward As 1t scars,
Earth gazes, bows sdorcs
That Power which bid at first the Sprinc of List.
BUD with heaven, golden orbs amidst Chaotic nIrh.
So now md .ayery's gloon
Bu,st. freedom. yeinsl bloom
And dscnthralGd from usuypSon's power,
Chou inst my Country, haI,st its heahi,,ih aur.
Who on my hills draws breath
Aud shal forget till death
Ia exile, want, woe,
Thy spring :, ennoblins glow.
Go, pluck the Gowre, white
From Bunke's veriant hei sh.;
Gull aowers FROM ev'ry PLAZA
Where remnants vet remain
or mound, fo,se trench, ia aug lie -brOk In line.
se Yotiyc ATLAS tear'd at Freedoms shrine
Then freeman, wreahe thy hrols,
and wuId'st thou speak thy vow,
60 where round Plymouth Rock the pillows roAr,
-iJId sosr t.at hoN keneeforih yiit bo,c no more
To iority TyrGn.'S .eiN,
To Priestcrdft': cunning skill.
10 nouSht bWt Gods might,
10 JUSTICE, FAITH, AID RIGHT,
Season Of May all hail!
thy spirit shall prevail;
and a. Gull thy flowers,
The thought Of coming houIs,
When summers ripcness DER thislsui shall thr0w
= GIes!an brightness with Roman glow,
Shall waken every breast
Thy beauty TO invest
With AL which Science and the arts give
Worthy wiIhfhee till time shall end 10 1--we,
Weak Tyre, thy power Is vain
To waken such strain,
Tine earth is hus'd 10 peace
At theme srand-tlen oRoLIO.