Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-01-07

at saw Mohammed's worshipped grave;
The city of the Gar;
| saw the crescent banner wave
Ger Palestine afar,
And stood on Waterloo, where fell
NapoleOn's guiding star.
al saw the frozen Arctic main;
The waste, where Arabs roam;
The lovely, dark-eyed maids of Spain;
The Tartar's mountain home,
And sat, in trembling awe, beside
The monuments of Rome.
"There is land I marked it well,
When last journeyed there,
Where valley, streamlet, hill, and DELL
Sky, mountain, ocean, air,
And all things, save her children's hearts,
Are bright, and bland, and fair.
"Her children are not abject slaves,
And yet they are not free;
Like some wrecked bark upon the waves
OF tumultuous sea,
They ever toss upon the tide
OF hopeless anarchy.
"The petty chief, whom chance beguiled,
And made their lord to-day,
To-morrows sun may see reviled,
Outlawed, and driven away,
That one, less fit to rule, perchance,
May bear the short-lived sway.
sFrom her Columbia had endured
Insult and outrage long;
Had seen her plundered sons immured
In dungeons dark and strong,
By lawless rulers, who delayed
Atonemcnt for the wrong.
"At length, as though she had grown bold
In lawless deeds before,
Her bloOd-red banner was unrolled
Upon Columbia's shore,
And Freedom saw her own bright soil
Stained with her children's gore.
"Then heard freemen's rallying cry,
And saw their weapons CLEAN,
AS warrior-bands swept proudly by,
Der valley, hill, and stream,
Resolved their country's injured rights
And honor to redeem.
"Whcn summer-zephyrs. rich and bland,
Were whispering soft and low,
Where bright and pure, fair Rio Grande,
Thy sparkling waters flow,
There freedoms ever glorious band
Met the invading foe.
81 stayed me, in my onward flight,
Above the battle field,
And gazing from my airy height,
saw the vanquished yield;
And even then knew the doom
Of Mexico was sealed.
"Where climbing vines and budding flowers
Concealed a ruin grey,
sat and numbered out the hours
That swiftly winged away,
And heard the war alarum rung
Ger fated Monterey.
sob! there were trembling hearts, and signs,
And shrieks of deep despair,
All bloodess cheeks and fearful eyes,
And wild confusion there,
When first the cannon tolled deaths knell
Upon the troubled air.
"On, on they came, the free and brave;
saw their ranks advance;
Their starry-banners proudly wave.
Their war-steeds gaily prance,
And all along the solid lines
The unsheathed weapons glance.
"There was a sound that seemed TO rend
The strong old earth in twain,
And then the battle-smoke did bend
Its wings above the plain,
As though it stroye TO hide from Heaven
The CORY, CHASTITY slain.
"Among the wounded and the dead,
Along the crimson street,
heard the soldiers measured tread
Phe sound of flying feet,
And words of bitter parting said
By friends no more to meet.
"Amid the conflicts fercest swell,
Where swiftest blows were given,
Where first the fOeman's banner fell,
And solid ranks were riven,
Columbia's rainbow-fag arose,
Decked with the stars of heaven.
1.-The acts of daring, bravery, might,
saw amidst the fray,
Will make fair Freedoms annals bright.
In many coming day,
And send an echo through all time
Till Garth shall pass away.
awhile yet tarried, at the place,
shining Goddess came;
saw her flying fingers trace,
In characters of fame,
Immortal names and deeds that grace
The burning scroll of fame.
"When Glory threw chaplet DER
The banner of the free,
High, high above the cannon's roar,
shouted Victory!
Long wave Columbia's stripes and stars.
Long live her chiyalry."
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