Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-09-01
SELECT POETRY.
THE TRIUMPHs OF THE ENGLISH Ian.
GUAGE
Y.REy. JAMES CHLORINE LYONS, L. l.. d.

BYREy. JAMES CHLORINE LYONS, L. L. d.
Now gather all our Saxon bards
Let harps and hearts be strung,
To celebrate the triumphs of
Our own gold Saxon tongue;
For stronger far than hosts than march
With battle flags unfurled,
II goes, with Freedoms, Thought and tryth,
To rouse aud rule the world.
Siout Albicu learns its household iays
Ola every sur.worn shore,
And Scotland hears it echoing far .
:, AS Orkney's breakers roar
From Jura's crags and Mona's hills,
1t floats on every gale, ..
And warns with eloquence and song
The homes of innisfaii.
On many wide and swarming deck
1t scales the rough waves crest,
Seeking lis peerless heritage
The fresh and fruiful West:
|, climbs New Eng,and's rocky sleeps
As victor mounts throne;
Niagara knows and greeis the voice
Sill migt,ier than lis own.
Ii spreads where winter piles deep SHOWS
On bleak Canadian plains,
And where, OH ksscquibe's banks,
Eternal summer reiyns
1t glads Acadia's misty coasts,
Jamaica's glowing isle,
And bides where, gay with early flowers,
Green Texan praries smile.
Ii lives by clear Itasca's lake,
Mlssour's turbid stream,
Where cedars rise on wild Ozark,
And Kansas waters CLEAN;
1t tracks the loud swift Oregon
Through sunset valleys rolled,
And soaTs where Californian brooks
Wash down their sands of gold.
II sounds in Borneo's camphor groves,
On seas Of fierce Malay,
In fields that curb old Ganoes' hood,
And towers of proud Bombay
1t wakes up Adei's Aashing eyes.
Dusk brows and swar,hy limbs
The dark l.beran soohes her child
With English cradle hymns. ... ST..
Tasmania's maids are wood and won
In gentle Saxon speech;
Australian boys read Crusoe's life . ..
By Sydney's sheltered beach;
1, dwells where Alric's southmost capes
Meet oceans broad and blue,
And NiecveId's rugged mountains gim
The wide and waste Karroo.
1t kindles realms so far apart,
That, while its praise YOU sing,
3kesc may be clad with au,umn's fruits,
And those with towers Of spring;
1t Quickens lsnds whose mereor.ligh
Flame in an arctic sky,
And lands for which the Southern Cross
Hangs It's orbed fires OIL high.
1t goes with all that prophets told,
Aud righteous kings desired,
With all that great apostles taught,
And glorious Greeks admired;
With Shakspear's deep and wondrous vers,
And Miltons loftier mind,
With Alfred's laws, and Newton's lore,
To cheer and bless mankind.
Mark, asst spreads, how deserts bloom,
And error fees away,
As vanishes the mist OF night .l .
Before the star of day; ...t t...
But grand as are the victories
81 Whose monuments we see,
These are but as the dawn which speaks
Or nocntide yet to be.
Take heed, then, heirs Of Saxon fame,
Take heed, nor cnce disgrace
With deadly pen or spelling sword
Our noble tongue and race.
Go forth prepared in every cline .-
To love and help each other,
And Judge that they who counsel strife
Would bid you smile--a brother.
Go forth, and jointly speed the time,
By good men prayed for long.
When Christian States, grown just and wis
Will scorn revenge aud wrong
When earth's oppressed and savage tribe
Shall cease to pine or roam,
All taught to prize these English words