Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-10-31
Of the Wilderness
Now Arnold Is in bis plory

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Now Arnold Is in his glory
Now he knows nothing, sees nothing but
that grim barrier ifowning youderl These
fires flashing Ebtn rhe bouses--that rat
Ting hail Bf bullets pattering on the snow
he sses, he feels thgm not
His eye Is fixed upon the second barrier.
He elanees around that mass If rifles. now
glittetihg IN The red light-hs floats the
Banner Of The Stars on high. Hark 10 his
shout
"Neyer fear, my met Of the Wildernessl
We hHye not come three hundred miles 10
fail now Have ] not sworn 10 meet Mont.
gUmefy there, 10 meet him III the centre Uf
the town, or die ~
And then on, on, aef0ss the rocks and
cannon Of the barrierl Iiark-that crash,
that Yell The British soldiers ars driven
back oyer The dead btdies oftueir eonra
dcs-ths first barrier IL won
Arnold stands yicturious upon that bar.
rier stands there. with blood upon hiz face,
his uniform~-dripping from his sword
Stands there with the banner If the Stars
In his hand
ooh ! sainted mother ri Arnold, who, ou
that calm summer night, near forty years
ago, laid your child upon The sattamental
altar, n9w look from Heaven; aud, If "a ipts
pray for The children Of earth, then pfpy
that your sph may die here Upon the bloody
barrier Of Quebec For then his nane
will he eushfined with The warriors and
Wnshingtons Of al time ~
Even rs Arnold stood there, brandishing
that starry hummer, A soldier rushed up 10
his side, and, with horror qulysring oil bis
lip, told that the gallant Montgomery had
fallen.
Fallen Mt Tho head If HE mat, eIverFd
with wounds; the noble heart, that beat 80
high IN hotf ego, was now odd ~ the
winter snow. on which his form was laid.
Leaving Arnold for a moment, M ihe
first barrier Of Quebec, lst us trace lie
footsteps If his brother hero.
Do you behold that massive rock, which
arises from the dark river into the darker
skyl Along that rock Of Cape Diamond,
while the st. Lawrence dashrs the leo In
huge masses against its buse, along that
rock, over a path that leads beneath q shelf
Of granite, with but foom for The fpot Of n
single man, Richard Montgomery leads his
bhnl.
Steadily, silently, my comrades Not y
word; lot us climb This narrow path. Taks
cares a misplaced footstep, aud you viii be
buried down upon the Ire 0fthe dark river, |
Up, my msn, md on ! Y6nder II IL Al inst,
the block house, and beyond it, Ut the dis.
tancr Of Two hundred paees, the battery,
dark with cannon !
With words like ttose, Montgomery led
on bis men. The terrible path was ascen.
ded. lie stood before the b~loek4holssA
Now, comrades How That rifle bIazg
flashed far over the rocks down 10 the st..
lawrence An atel an axgl by nj that
Is brayeI Ie seizes the axe, tho brave
Montgomery. with his own arm he hswg
the palisades. The way Is clear for his
men. a charge with blazing rifles, n
a shout, the block. house Is wonI
Talk Of your British boyonets-ha, hn
Where did they eyer stands the blaze n
American rifles I Who're Oh, perfpned
gentlemen, who, in gaudy uniforms, str1
Chestnut street; talk 10 mo Of your charge
Of bayouets, and your rules Of discipline,
and your system Of tactics, and | win re-
ply by II single word; ono American rife.
men, in his rude hunting shirt, was worth
a thousand such Us you. Who mocked The
Of bayongts on Bunker Hfll7 Who
captured Bufgoyne7 Who; ut B%randywine;
kept back al the panoply Of British arms
from morning I'LL night THE Rinsmenl
One shout, the block house Is won. Now
on toward the battery; loud aud advance
Montgomery still in the front. With Il ven,
the British behold them approach; they flee
from their cannon. Montgomery mounts
the walls 81 rocks and iron : his sword
on high, like h beacon for his men.
Al This moment, hush your breath and look!
While Montgomery cIings 10 the rocks Of
the battery, o single British soldier turns
from bis flight, md fires one Of those grim
cannon, and then IL gone again.
n bIaze upon the right, a smoke, a cho.
rus Of groansl
Montgomery loys manalcd upon the rock,
while around him are scattered four other
Their blood minglcs in one stream.
A rude rihernan advances, bends down,
and looks upon that form, quiyering FIR an
instant only, and then cold,--upon that face,
torn and ~mapgled, as with the print Of d
horses hooG that face, but Il moment before
with a hero's soul. He looks for a
moment, and then, with panic In his face,
turns 10 his comrades.
Montgomery IL deadl" he shrieks; and
with one accord they retreat they fly from
that fatal rock.
But one form fingers. 1t is that boyish
form, graceful almost 10 womsnly beauty,
the brow ola genius, the eye of an
That boy ran away from college,,
before Washington commands 800 mics.
and now-covered with the blood Of the
fght-standg beside the nangled body oil
Montgomery, bis dark eye wet with tears.
In that form behold the man who way al.
most President Of the United States and
Emperor Of Mexico-the enigma Of our
history.-AARoN Bum.
They arc gene. Montgomery ig Ella.
lone, with no friend 70 compose those limbs
pr close those glaring eyes. And at this
moment, while the snow tails over bis face,
while the warme blood of his heart pours
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