The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-12

Is widowed e'er her prime;
The childless father tolls for life,
In many distant cline;
No tdings come break the gloom,
No comfort gilds the living tomb,
Closed is tho Captive's door;
Oh burning tears will fall like rain,
And breaking hearts will throb in pain;
Long years of yearning i'll vain;
They meet on Earth no more.
Let others praise the Union We are told
The compact makes us kdnappers OF slaves,
And Northern muscles, bought with Northern god,'
Thrust struggling manhood into living graves.
Let others praise he Union! Millions yet
May live to curse it on Nebraska's plains,
And write its epitaph, with regret,
ut bound an infant Continent in chains"
Let others praise the Union! From the isles
Where Earth and Sea in summer beauty glow,
May rise the bitter cry, mid Natures smiles,
at capped the crumbling arch of human Woe"
With rufHed pumage, msrred with many a stain,
With dropping and pinons hecked with gore,
Let the great-hearted Eagle pine in pain,
Beside the dcsolase, dishonored shore.
Once, Nations watched in awe thy towering flight,
And hailed thy proud ascent with prayer and hymn
How art thou fallen from thy heavenly height
Child of the sun! thy giuering eyes dim
vulture has usurped thine ancient seat
Stretching from shore to shore his doleful sway;
Trampling the helpless poor beneath his feet
He whets his carrion beak in human prey
Awake arouse! thou beautiful, brave Bird
Soar once again TO Heavens unclouded sky
Let thy victorious battle-cry be heard;
Regain, resume thy wonted place, or die
Die, like PhGniI-from thy sacred dust
Thy fiery soul will spring 10 Northern skies,
And in new Union, honorable, just,
more majestic Commonwealth will rise
When, in wild conflict angry winds awake,
And clouds come trooping through the quivering al
Though tempssts lash the forest and the lake,
Wise men are calm-they never feel despair
They know that fixed, inevitable Law,
Creates the fleeing passions of the hour,
And in due time prepares, from Natures war,
An atmosphere ofpurity and power.
Though Nations swerve from Justice, and too late
Reap ruins harvest from the seeds of crime,
New rise, the pioneers of Fate,
And march beyond them the plains of Time.
TeauOns, IKE TnlscEs, Win llluslOns Durn,
Heaping with ioilsome plenteous store,
Then, dying soon, relinquish, each in turn,
To their successors, wealth unknown before.
Heir of Egyptian labor Grecian art,
Hebrew religion, and of Roman law,
The Anglo-Saxon will IN turn impart
His hard-earned contribution, and withdraw
Newspapers railroads, Geographic wire,
Cotton and steel, machinery and steam
These his youthful trophies Climbing higher,
His deeds will distance Fancys widest dream.
Soon shall we cross the Continent, and link
Most distant oceans with those wondrous roads
Whose iron horses need not food nor drink,
Nor whips, spurs, menaces nor goads
Then shall we pierce the Tropics, pass the Line,
See stars that never shone where we were born,
Cross Terra del Fuego bridge, and dine
Upon the breezy summit of Cape Horn.
Then we shall send our steamers 10 the shore
OfGuinea, ride the Myers swelling stream,
And plant colonies where lions roar,
Hyenas laugh, and shrill famingoes scream
The children of yon slaves, perchsnce by blood,
AT least by birth and tongue, with ours allied,
Shall build their cities by the Niles great food,
And sail their ships on Madagascar's tide.
Then Science shall achieve loftier fight,
And Lfe's most secret mysteries attain,
Till true Marriage bring race to light
Free from disease, superior TO pain.
And Art, with wealth and wisdom at CONTROL
To Natures true conditions will supply
Till Beauty shines in face and form and soul,
Pleasant as music, peerless as the sky.
Each child shall then be born into home
Rich with intelligence and warm with love,
Where parent souls, majestic as the dome
OF Heaven bend DER the stranger from above
Child Of the future his for thee we toll
For thee Earths heroes bleed, Earth's sages plan;
Our generations but prepare the soil
To be the future hafvest-6eld of Man.
Thy happy, loving bonne will be refined
BY all the worlds experience can impart,
The heir of every great estate of Mind,
And all the priceless treasures Of the Heart
Till, with each faculty aituned Alright,
Duty and impulse now no more at war,
Mankind in solid phainnx will unite
In perfect Liberty and perfect Law.