Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1846-10-30
POLITICAL.
For the Enquirer,

THE STORMING OF MONTEREY!
J,s bright September day. and burning noon Is past,
But on the broad and sunny lea hot rays are streaming
fast:
And scarce the cropping eye greet the upland green
and calm, -,
Whose long horizon ellis the flood of light TO dam
And YEARLY each soldier, in the serried line
Scans the wavering heat along the thirsty surface "'
cling ,,, ,,ow
For many sury mile behind he ef, the dr~y gov If
OF dawn, with nought 10 cheer him save '''
The drum becomes monotonous very nue.e Nc a.
And scarce glance pride the Starry soh'''o" "'"'
claim.
D. ,. The maintain city bursts upon their startled
Embo.omrd high IN ieaihery groves VI s"'"'e ~
hue; - ,s, ,,,,n
Around whose base eve's melody floats ariy aud clear
The lowing herds-the song Of birds-the sou'h"'"u
And bemeward peasants lay invoking sennora OF SAINT
But bsrk another sound is therehasnes anonei .ism
Than vesper sheen on towers-"s TUG ''"''
net, - ,.,,nnh.n,
And bursts from eager FROM 10 rear =" o"'
chorus, - A., c,,n;,,as
"We're found the braggart IONS at iass"s"s
are before us - ,,; ., and
A glance a, every iireock, and another The foe:
W6ile deenenine hoarse and hoarser, from hegh, 10
height o'erhead, -, ,,,
The laundering cannon, BY one, ooohleo ou' ''e'
And rolling smoke and sweeping eiouasoe' SAGE N"'
battedtwine, c,h.;x
Where crested scarp and bastion high, wind ia' '"e'
rvrry Northern breast throbs yearnine for
the fight, a., ,,.,;,,
When should once again arrest tho sa'"e''"s
shades Of night
The midnish, moon was beamng on their bivouac far
Tho rising sun l. cleaning on their bayonels meath the
brow
OF the bris,ling hi aud steady through the gray and
shimmering dawn, ,,,
With snews and leveed steel that gallant oanu
press on. ,, -
The volley sharp-artillery roaf-the hiss"s siapo
shots crash
A shout-ihey close-a graphing rush-the streaming
chaos red of life and death half through vapour
DazzIes The maddsned vision. Lo yon flag the ram
"The Tide of battle" swayed not then-no eddying TO
Doth e'er the hurting hurricane its onward course
forego' ,.,- .;,,,
Till each succe ssve rock was with wrecks and
crimson spray.
Three times the goanng earth bore round the scene Of
strife and death,
And thrice the cool nish,-breeze was blent with battles
For bravely kept their stronghold vast the Southern
chlvary,
And scarce their lips profaned the shout of "God and
Liberty"
They fought for hills and pampas broad, where aoeks
unnumbered roam,
Around them spread those mountains proud, whose
wales enshe TERED HOME,
While the far white Cordilleras looked down upon the
fray,
As doth the Arctic Iceberg on eviathans at play.
But their foes Fate and Freemen and were every
plant spear,
Each precipce Gorgon shield, defeat had found them
there. .
In vain they poured their Aztec BLOOD with that OF old
CASTLE;
Below around, above them flowed the tide of Bunker
Hill
Now could my pen achieve strain all worthy Of the
brave
Who welded were TO honor there, won it with the
grave,
Each swelling note would broadly float DER proud Co.
lumbia's breast,
In anthem with Atlantics or winds that sweep
the West.
For ween a tale knighly the bard might gather
there,
As ever skad or minstrel old attuned 10 monarchs ear
To tell while Niagara pours storms DER .Hadre play,
or those who fought Ere's shores, or charged at
Monterey QUITS.
Winchester, Virginia.