The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-01-02

De Afiayen's crews their courses hold,
Though, round their barks the masses crash,
And 'gainst their sides impetuous dash
Nor homeward turn their thoughts, or eyes.
Till far across the waters lies ~
The frozen barrier strong and high, y r
That, frOwning, warns them--"come not nigh"
Through milder cllmes and calmer seas,
Whose waves, just curling to the breeze,
Seem but designed to lull to rest,
The sea-birds sleeping on their breast;
A stately steamers course is bent
Along the classic Orient @
Full calamity her PROV divides
The laughing waves, and from her sides r
Dark cannon frown and o'er her, see,
She bears the banner OF the free. z
What can that apparition meant
Why should that armed ship here be seen ?
Fear not; though but whispered breath
Might send from her storm Of death
That boldest hearts might Justly fear,
No thoughts of carnage brought her here,
Columbia's messenger of peace,
She comes the captive to release;-
The hero captive stricken down,
Because, despite the tyrants frown,
With heart unawed, he dared to stand
For freedom, right and fatherland.
Old Stamboult Sultan, nobler far,
Than odions Hapsburgh or the Czar,
Refuses alltheir fierce demands;
Protects him from their bloody hands; .si
And when we sue for his release, lst
Most nobly bids him go in peace.
He crosses now our vessels side,
Old Hellespont smoothes down his tide,
And either shore, with thunder riyen,
Re-echoes to the vault of Heaven
The mighty protest of the free
Against misrule and tyranny.
Now swift along her former track,
That gallant vessel speeds her back,
Past stored scenes of Greece and Rome, vs.
To bear the hero exile home.
The spirits of the mighty dead,
Who brayely fought, or nobly bled
For justice, truth and liberty, @
While Rome and Greece were great and free,
Descry afar her gallant mast
And bless her as she hurries past
While Tiber's banks and Salamis;
The seven hills and Acropolis;
Mistake the rushing of her wheels
Fer old Regulus' conquering keels;
Or thine, god-like Themistocles.
Whose valor saved thy native Greece;
And jOyiully re-echoes round,
The welcome, well remembered sound.
Soon, landed on our friendly shore,
Unnumbered thousands crowd 10 show
The illustrious patriot. that theyknow
Full we'll, the need of honor due
To those 10 man and freedom true,
Such, such, my country, ever be
Thy truly glorious policy.
While others conquer and oppress, m
Be thou content to shield and bless.
Where yonder craggy mountains rise
In grend succession toward the skies,
Between the Euxine's angry main,
And lssim's high and barren plain,
A rude, buthardy freeborn race,
Have long enjoyed a dwelling place. 10"
No rich savannahs there abound,
But waste and barren is the ground;
No balmy zephyrs whisper there,
For biting is the mountain air.
But still the Tartar loves his home,,
Nor could be tempted thence to roam
He lives contented in his rags
For freedom dwells amid his crags.
No more is wanted to excite
The hatred of the Muscoytie.
Whatever people dares be free,
Finds him their mortal enemy.
And, then, his subjects reStive grow,
When not amused by some grand show; a.f
And his vast armies, left inert, sis
Would doubtless soon grow less expert
In butchering men, and cease to be
Fit instruments of tyranny. .
The despot issues his behest; i.
$50 seize, destroy that eagles nest ~
And on. Though many dark defle,
The veteran legions slowly fle- ,ti3y5. AZ
Meanwhile, about some narrow pass,
A dense, but rude, half-naked mass,
The natives gather, and await,
The mnr1en nj nf q aueninionr fate. t- l sa
When, like bolt, themselves they throw,
In hesdlong fury onethe foe.
Now hand to hand, in mortal strife,
That neither spares nor speaks,for life,D '
The desp'rate combatants engage;
And kissing shot, and sabres' stroke,
And clouds of dust, and fire and smoke,
Make that secluded mountain dell, N
The very counterpart Of He'll.
Fierce long and dubious is the strifey
But he who fights for home and wife,
Recks little or for blood or life;
And vain are discipline and skill,
'Gainst giant strength, and desp rate will
That serried column, crushed and riven,
Forth fromthe fatal gorge is driven;
While still upon the exhausted rear,
The Tartar presses with the spear; 8
And countless sabres, dripping red,
Strew all the pathway with the dead
Butyain the triumph, vain the cheers
Of the exulting mountaineers,
The Cars domains arc rich and wide,
And fierce his heart and great his pride;
And soon more legions thronging come,
To drive them from their mountain homer
And while the Gar has troops to train,
or they one freeborn thought retain,
Their only hope is, sword in hand,
To guard and keep their native land.
Butturn we from this scene OF blood.
Beside old Thamis' famous food,
Behold yon gorgeous palace rise,
Whose crystal walls fefract the dyes,
Of sunny summers varied skies,
Till all within its precincts seems
Some vision Of the land Of dreams.
There Industryher levee holds,
And wide her palace gates unfolds. f. as
Her subjects wonder to behold
The rich display Of gems and gold, -...a
For she has spared no care or pains, i, VI.
10 gather from her wide domains, 'tlf
All things most wonderful and rare
and spread them in profnsion there, W 'tt'A
A tournament concludes the day,
And, all prepared, bsgins the fray.
Now gallant knights from many land. 4
ofstalwart arm and skillfui hand,