Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1840-02-15
POETRY.
For the Piney Woods Planter
FOR THE 22d FEBRUARY.
Who 10 the Chief thai DER tho mrnnka o.


For the Piney Woods Planter.
FOR THE 22d FEBRUARY.
Who is the Chief that DER the wrecks 0!
Time
Keeps his proud march in panoply sublimel
Whose star meier dirns, whose lustre never
dies,
But shines effugent in eternal skies
Who, as his age recedes and disappears,
Gains brighter glores with the lapse Of years;
Hailed by all clmes and owned by every
race,
The first in virtue as the first in place.
What land can boast the great this Godlike
Son,
It's thine, Columbia,---it 10 WAsmNoroN
Wide Ger the world waste of ruin spread,
And Freedom mourned her chosen champions
dead,
No slimmering twilight lent feeble ray,
No orient beams proclaimed the coming day;
Cemmeran darkness spread her obon wings,
And man was cursed with Despots ana with
Hinge
One hideous Tyranny had reared his crest,
And spread portentous wrath Ger realms
Oppressed.
illustrlous Rome had seen her glores fade,
I And Grecian fires were sunk in darkling
shade;
Helvetia's hills had met the Tyrant's shock,
And bowed submissive to the fatal yoks
Fer Albion's cliffs that saw her thuader
hurled
With force resistless round the watery world,
And sert-bsr 4sets carcesing DER the main,
Neu aims IL conquer andsnew wreasha IN
gain s.s..s.h,..dg
la a..s 49,. AsSes Rad sSniled TO view
tbs deed.
Fran.ic with horror At their ruthless fate
Der their colo rrns their Counry's Genius
safe,
With looks dishevslled and with bosom bare,
Fear on her brow and IL her Breast despair;
With rcnding agony the @ept the DOOM
That sent the patriots to martyrs tomb
And thou the fsirest daughter Of the SKY, |
fright blooming Goddess, Hsvenly Liberty,
hon, vito vast given % new created man,
WHEN worlds were formed and Time bis
course began,
Fer .angcl choirs their choral anthem sung,
And IN Vrnlng stars with holy rapture rung,
When thou beheld Thy chosen chiefs expire,
The fatal victims ola Despots ire,
And punk with care your heart with woes oP.
prass'a,
Could find on Earth no solitary rest.
No gsnial c.lhne in which to place thy shrine,
No sacred Alta for thy flame divine;
Hopeless and Aad she cast her cheorless view,
And spread hen y'ingsto BID the world adicu.
But bark! what shouts recall her from the
skies!
What Frightening visions Ineet the anxious
eyes.
Columbia's plains in glad profuson rise!
Sparkling with gems between two Oceans
spread,
A peal Of Glory on Crsastions bed.
So psrsseated man ASSERTS his right,
And daring warriors meet the impending
fight,
A holy fire pervadeS each patriot breast,
Warns every soul and shines on every crest,
rom hill to hill the sacred impulse runs,
md verdant wales pour forth their freeborn !,
sons, /
With purpose ated, their country'' good in !,
spires,
AID all the patriot in their bosom fires; Y
sub men there we're to guard Columbus =
laws, y
He, wrongs redress, and Vindicate her cause;
In leeds like these behold her favorite son, :
Bright heir Of Fame, immortal WASHING a
TON.
Through forty winters OF laborious toll
He stood the champion of his native soil, Il
Led in her helds in dongors darkest hour,
And shaped to peaceful scenes her opening I
power; /
We, cen at him the enVenomed darts we're = =
hurled, !.
To blast the fame of him who saved world; :,
on did relentless passion strive to wound :,
That uamo which latest years shall echo u
round, -
While from each Sire to Son his name de- a
scend, v
By fame BY tirtuc wrsathcd his CoUNTRY's Q
e FRIEND. D
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