Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-03-05
The Yorse.of the Er,le.

ON red sword her ill-kuit bulk mp propping,
The anafch Force saw;
Across her knees was laid knout blood-drooping,
Beneath her feet was Law.
Each with his heel upon a nations forehead,
Her armed guards stood around
Natons-that, striped of all wherein they gloried
Were lying gagged and bound
There. Italy, still lovely through her anguish,
Bled. but disdained to weep;
Her cheeks sunk and white like theirs who angush
For years in dungeons deep
Germany with her kind features. made for loving.
Now WRITTEN, sharp and sour
Lay, and anon her large limbs moving
Half conscious of their power
Passionate Poland her chained hands was clenching,
While her full Eastern eye.
With fires of hate perennial and unblenchiag,
Glared upward to the sky.
And Erin, with her robe of Emerald trailing
Her harp strings snap in twain
With strained eyes sends forth her sad bewaing,
To friends across the main
And like a war-spent soldier, faint and breathess,
Hungary, PROSTATE there
Lay, seeming wounded to the death but deathless
Was her defiant stare
At first the scat where anarch Force was sitting
Seemed set in living stone,
And all those mail-clad guards, supporters fitting
For such irm-based throne.
But 10 the clamps which chair to base did fasten
Were almost eat away;
And the blood dropping from the knout did hasten
change of rock to clay.
And those huge guards, whose firm and treading
Seemed proof 'gainst overthrow,
On footfOd with gore of their own shedding,
Slipped, swaying to and fro'
Then she and they, with jubilant acclamations
Their song of triumph sung
An impious re Dcum DER the nations
That meath their feet were flung.
But all at once that song did check and waver,
Then stopped with sudden jar,
AS voice came. low first, but swelling ever
A voice heard from afar.
Singing like Gagged bird, in spite of chains,
Singing like one who, looking from the plains,
Sees morning strike along
The mountain-tops, and tells how with the day
The sunlight will descend,
And chase the msts that choke the valley gray,
Muf1ing it end to end.
Anon from hope rising into defiance,
1t spoke with trumpet tone,
Calling mankind to hottest alliance
'Gainst Brute Force on her throne.
And, though in strange tongue with wondrOus power
That deep voice filled the land
Till anarch Force upon her throne did cover,
Her sword shook in her hand;
And her huge guards were sudden terror-stricken,
With dull brows ashy white
While those down-trodden nations seemed to quicken
With neW-awakened might,
Thrilled by the power that their half numbed member
Aroused the pulse of men,
Like the seers word that kindled lifes dead embers
In the dry bones again.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN MooRE-We learn fro
friend who was at Carthage last week, that TT
democrats of Moore county held a meeting at tt
Court House on Friday night, at which VIM. R. Be
ryman, Esq, presided. Resolutions were unanimou
~ adopted approving the administration of Govern
Reid, and nominating him for reelection. dec
ded preference was expressed for Hon. James b
chanan for the Presidency, and the Hon. Robe
Strange for the Vice Presidency of the United State
The meeting was addressed by ]. G. Shepherd ar
John K. Strange, Esqs., of Fayetteville, and Col.
J. Person of Wilmington We understand that tt
very best feeling prevails among the democrats
Moore, and that the party through the State mt
look forward with perfect assurance of retaining Il
foothold which we have now in that county.
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