Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-04-04

| from the pen of lady, whose writings have al.
ready received the approval of good judges, and
whose name as an author, would be more fami.
liar with the public if her recognition and faith
full discharge of still higher duties did not with
draw her from frequent converse with the Mu.
ses. There is deeply interesting description
in the 'Miner's Song" and the truth of the de-
scription shows how prompt genious is to seize
upon events and scenes around it, and mould them
to the purposes of "song:'
MINERS SONG.
BY MRS. JULIET II. l.. CAMPBELL.
Old Mother Earth, within thy breast thou'st hoar.
ded many day,
The treasures that thy restless sons, full fain
would bear away;
Jewels, within thy silent cave concealed their
latent glow,
And ore in fearful treasures, was garnered long
ago.
Unlock thy dreary oaverns Earth, and yield the
previous hoard
Thy sons demand the heritage, which Time and
thou have stored
Give, give, we seek these gloomy depths with
peIsevering toll,
To bear unto the outer world the riches of thy
soil
Give, give, we dare TO rifle thee, and boldly
brave thy wrath,
round our path.
Oh! breezes, rife with happy sounds, and the
sweet breath of flowers,
Are wantoning in verdure, round those upper
homes of ours;
And there, the blessed light o. heaven, pours
down in radient flood,
On sportve babes, and meek-eyed wives, who
muse in sadder mood;
They muse on us, those wives of ours; blanched
cheek and brow of care,
May we'll become them, when they think of all
we do and dare.
The parting kiss of morning, which in health
and hope we gave,
May be the last, and eventide may furnish us a
For face to face with Death we stand and oft be-
fore have stood,
While Peril grimly stocks behind, with her re-
lentless brood.
Hark boom and boom a mighty sound through
thy recesses fly.
And cavern roars 10 cave agian, with thunder
mouthed reply;
All shattered are thy rugged sides by such a
mighty blast,
And cleaning fragments of thy wealth, in show
ers are round us cast.
Ho what is this manged form with features
none may trace
Affection cannot recognise the mutilated face
He was our brother side by side we tolled, in
days by gone
Bear him away then mournfully, and let the
work go
All, what a flash its lurd gleam, one moment
did ilume
The riches of these darksome depths, revealing
deeper gloom;
Speak, comrades, is it we'll with all your loud
responding shout
Upon my apprehensive ear, like some glad peal
rings out,
But as the BELLS gay chime is merged in funeral
toll,
The memory of missing voice comes rushing
DER my soul.
The "fre-damp" claims its fearful tithe of all
who hither come,
Then seek the victim, bretherr and bear him to
his home!
Listen the gu:glng far. off sound of water strikes
mine ear.
more near
Fly would you see your homes again there is
no hope save flight!
The maddened torrent pours along in its resist
less might,
Dashing aside impeding rocks, and hurling bar
riers down,
And filling to the very roof; oh God on God
We drown!
Oh Earth and Air oh Fire and Flood we da.
red TO brave thy wrath,
Fen though distinctions ministers were group
ed around our path,
Aud the indignant elements, in mighty league
| combine,
To sweep from this, their dark domain, the in
vader of the mine
Pottsville, March, ls4s.
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A JOKE FOR PRINTERs.-The N. Y. Tribune
gives the following definition Of Quadrangle