The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-26
DIssoLuTIoN oFTnE UNION. Bg AlnnRr PIKl

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Down with the stars and stripes from ont the sky
Of with Your banner from he s bounding hla aeep!
Chsn mp your eagle l ron n, ms ocea ~ s Nv
Scream TO the wind-turn 70 the sun his eye!
Az, down with Freedom from her rampant steep,
From promontory tail, and prairie vide,
Where she hath been til now, so deihed
Listen, how Europe rings from land to land,
With iser. and laugh, and bitter, biting sc0rn
Bo kings ut smiling, while the red right hand
OftFeason waves above country, torn
With STRIFE and tumult-and their armies stand
Ready to darken onr yet breaking morn,
Lending their aid 70 this unhalowed strife.
So lately sprung of Terror into life.
Lonk on the future with prophetic eye. n
LO, on your plain are armies gathering,
The HIN g bo1s s.O the win patroiIinr SOY
Hover in front, like birds with restless wing
While here, theriasman moves sure. bqt swift;
And there, the muskeeers, unbroken, DRIFT.
The battel Listen to tile muskery!
While ever and anon. amid the roll,
Careerng down like storms that seek their goal!
And now, Al ga doth fercely dash with sea,
And now Ike zsaa hat break IN spray and ram
The broken sands 50 floating back again!
The tight so'eF. and here lies many one,
With bosom crushed by hoof or heavier train
The h0Ary head Lies gittering in the sum-
PiIloHed zpon TIE chargers misty name
A delicate boy Il fallen, Lo the stain
Qfbood around hs nostril and his lip
While just below his heart the gore doth drip.
The banner OF your State is laid fnll low
Rebellion seems approaching to its end
A Pss, lonely n shapes among he Sasge Eo
For men are seeking mid the fallen foe,
a son sire brother. Or AZ least friend
Rises the piercing wall OF wild despair.
Where are you leaders? Where are they wholed
Your souls into this perlous abyss
The hravest and the best are lying dead,
Shfonded in treason and dark peljuries;
Fhs . most e 4, them have basey from me tled.
Fled into lands that Liberty disowns,
And cIouched within the shadow Of tall thrones
All VI here they ssme-and with them many band
~ august Emperor; he lends this horde,
To bend your brethren unto your command
,, And yqu i e hisl Now draw again the sword,
And he that dieth for the Emperor bleeds
And this oh. God, is this to be our fate
Dlsgraeed, degraded, hpmbed and abased-
Snnken forever from our high estate,
= To wander DER Tyranny's dark waste,
t9 crouch IKE slaves around Despot's gale
Bend at his nod, and al his mandate haste?
On, Thou who hast thus far thy adance lent
Avert the doon-Sprt Omnipotent!
Turn, then, before the final seal be set
To your apOstacy-before the flood
Is wakened by your murmur and your fret
m And whems you IN ITS solitude
BY the pollution Of a bTother's blood
s ar the s syen r., angel spread is wing.
Oh turn that when some day men make your grave.
Rfi 'PSy Ris fas pHs IL iSa
~ Ra,n ei tSs heoestd9[ RI old men above i nod
70 reverence their country, and their God
And never 70 deserve so foul doom
As that which men have written on your tomb.
Say, are you never troubled in your dreams
With spirits rising from your fathers torDbs
And IN the darkness Of the moons thin CLEANS
Warning you all Of those eternal dooms
Which haunt the traitor like devouring beams
Until his heart is withered or consumes
Oh, these must haunt you-these more nobIer onss
These heroes, who were LibeTty's best sons
Had sire, who thus from death could rise,
Point to his wounds and say. / bought
T That freedom which you much despise-
= With these sealed the compact you have sought
70 break and march, i would close my eyes,
For shame, that TO sin had thus been wrought
Hea-heap mp dust and ashes on my head,
As knave corrupt, or idiot misled