Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-05-16
PoEM-by Mai. Bull.

II SONS of NEW ENGLAND let Ms now survey
Two centuries passed aud gone the glorious day
When your brave sires, determined TO be free,
in shal9w bnrqucs launched on the racklcss sea
| When anxious friends, aud aged parents dear,
! Hung on each neck, and shed the parting tear;
| When tender children, aud heroic wives,
To stormy soas, commit their future lives;
With one accord, to view their home no more,
But boldly venture for nm unknown shore.
H What hearts Of steel, To leave their native isles,
To plant an empire in Columbian wilJs
|, Not lust for gold, but liberty they crave,
Through climcs tempcstuous cut the azure wave,
An empires destin, attend that shore
On which their little barqucs were doomed to moor,
Whose slender sides the seeds OF Empire held,
And broadly scattered DER n fruitful field.
H Frendcss and weak the tender germ began,
but ere long ripen'd into perfect man.
The savage foe, at first taught To feel,
The rising temper Of their yengeul steel
Each head, each arm, sustan'd the common cause,
And MS their conquest spread their G,me aud laws
The sylvan war, the brawny arm began,
And falling forests own'd ihe>p er of man,
Aud rising yerdure, To reward hts toll,
Spr.nd health aud plenty round grateful soil
Towns rose 81 ontancous oer the sui jcc, pialn,
BY river side, or margin OF the main,
And infant commerce, high her wings dspny'd
To pierce the various avenues of trade;
Aud fruitful waves that lash the sounding shore,
Yield Ia adventurous skill their funny store.
| The hardy sire, to brave the ocean wild
| Took from his mothers arms the tender child
The future ssanim,-b, his care To form.
Rockd on the biIIows cradrd IN the storm -
Daunicss through life his destiny IL roam,
The sea, his calling, md the ship his home;
His couniry's pridc-to drive the briuy car,
Her wealth in Commerce, md hci strength IN war.
Then Neptune trident, reard b, slow degrees.
In youthful vgor marches DER the seas;
And seeds OF future na,ics, here unlurld
Their little sails, tn guard the western world.
Like the small acorn scattcrd on the plain,
Where summer dew's, aud showers, expand the gram
And solar beams, beneath burning sky,
by daily turns, the genial warmth supply -
Above, below, the kindred parts distend,
Wide spread the branches, III, rnots descend
The fruitful earth the swelling sap supplies,
The various head, in Regal spicndonrs rise.
Till the broad forests, own their soyreru's reign.
Who towers uloit, aud ovcrlooks the plain.
Such was Columbia, hid behind the wave,
Dcstn'd to rescue freedom from the grave
To light the torch that sets the World on Hro,
And bids the many, ot the few, enquire
by what my stcrious right, each laud they sway,
Or 10y what charm the multitude obey
Her bright example, DER the ocean bore
by western gales, Z" slumbring Europe's shore
Ronscs each Patriot TO assert the cause
OF sacred liberty. aud equal laws.
Now round the world she spreads n iastng fame,
And distant Nations echo back her name
supplanlcd nrc her little barqucs Of yorc,
by giant ships who visit .v'r, shore:
Adventurous DER each cline her sous engagc
To yoke the golden, with the Iron age.
Now mighty nayieS DER the ocean sweep,
! And artificial thun,crs awe the dccp,)
To meet the coming foe with ouistrc,chd nrm,
And shield the Nation from impending harm.