Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-05-29

NOCGH AND RE ADY.
The SOldiersa Eeorv.


the best that we have seen for many day. W.
copy from the Boston Daily Times. II 10 from
the pen Of Mr. F. A. Dur:vage, poet Of some
celebrity. Tire production 10 credieabte, highly
SO, to its author, and tells the story Of old Rough
and Ready's character and victories in spirit
stirring and truly harmonious rhymes
Twas in the trench at Vera Cruz,
A group of soldiers hay,
Weary and worn with working
AZ the guns the livelong day,
Their faces were beerimed with sand
And SCOT from shot and shell
Exploding in the crumbling earth,
For fast the missiles fell.
Yet sheerily they chatted,
For their hearts with hope beat high,
And they knew the hour Of victory
Wa, surely drawing riga.
There came war. worn soldier,
To mingle with the rest
They babe hirn welcome to their cheer,
And gave him Of the best,
He'd served with General Taylor,
And they asked him ofthe man
Who first and last had ted the way
TO victory in the van;
On the winding Rio Grsnde,
On the 9Th and 9th Of May,
Through Buena Vista's carnage
And the storm Of Monterey.
al knew him krst," the soldier said
"Among the Everglades,
When we gave the savage redskins
Our bayonets and our blades.
think hear his cheerful voice:
On. column! steady! steady"
So hardy ard SO prompt was he,
We called him Rough and Ready.
"He rode upon an old white horse,
And wore brown surtout-
But oftener, when the ground wss deep,
He trudged with ne or foot,
The man ffpn. whose ea,iteen he drank,
Was envied and thought lucky;
He had the brave and kind good heart
That honored ole Kentucky.
"By wounds outworn, ] LEFT the fields
But when new csmpaign
Against another foe commenced,
joined the ranks again.
Twas fun alive, boys, once again
To hear the sabre's rlank,
To see old Rongh and Ready ride
His white horse on our flank.
"At Palc Alto, comrades there
He gave Us work to do
And DER La Palma's snlphury snok.
His flag triumphant Jew.
When from the 6re his aid.de.eanp
Would have the chief retire,
Old Rough and Ready merely said,
Wen ride little higher
"You should have seen the brave old boy
In the streets OF Monterey
When the cannon swept the plaza,
How he stetnly stood at bay
When shell, and grape. and cannon ball
On their deadly errsnd went -
The General seemed man of steel,
And FIRE his element.
"And if q wounded soldier
In the streets Of Monterey,
Or friend OF foe looked up to him
Imploring, whence he lay,
He stopped TO wipe the drops of pain,
That dimmed the marble brow,
Or profered from his own eanteen
A drink see him now. .t.r .-.
"At red Bvena Vista
nv part l could not bear .ra a-..
Bu, they tell me that the brown surtou,
And old white horse were there
And we'll do tbelieve it,
For the foe stood four to one,
And ~ithou, old Rough and Ready
How had the fight been won!
"rve worn the sargent's shevron
And may wear it yet
But old Rough and Ready tells me
shall wear the epsulette--
But In the ranks or out Of them,
To him III still prove steady,
And long as I've tongue to talk,
Speak out for Rough and Rsasy''
SO spake the wsf. warn soldier
!, To bis eomradss - they lay. ,..,.,.
Beneath the brsastwofk, where they'd servet
The suns the livelons day
And their sleepiness and WEAKNESS
II fairly chased sway,
When Of Rio 0rsnde's hero
Spoke the man from Monterey. ..-.
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An eminent writer has ssid thst when en-
gsess nsfoFtsss happens 10 you, exsmine yoar
ell welL and you Will always perceive that !
Wae, in some measure owing 10 vossr own n ult