The Empire County argus., 1856-08-09

They come! they come! the mighty bison train
Congenal fires stir up their instinct blood
Wild tumut glares in each insatate eye
And on the wide expanse in one broad food,
Goring and aoundrng in the trail they hy
Nor mark of path-or mans proud rights descry
Lo on the apex of ron distant hill
giant bull leads on the maddened herd -
'Tis his TO gore, to trample, and to kill:
The shaggy monarch Of the furious hord,
Of the vast puin the tyrant and the lord
No barricades can stay his onward course.
Imperous man is trodden meath his hoof
lie iecks him nought of aught of mortal force,
And dares all foes. his horrid hide the proof.
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And now he turns upon some rival near,
The dust cuis slowly to the dusky skies;
Fierce onset, where they plunge and wildly tear
Until the covering victim, vanqushd dies
Left to the lupine race greedy prize.
But onward move the wayward sombre cloud
Obscured in darkness all the ouspread plain
And from the broad Plateau their bellowpgs loud
Reecbo from the distant hills again
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Sir Gavin saw the peril and assay'd
To draw u rife from its time sling
The intermediate distance that would bring
The leader in its range;-a sudden ring
Went o'er the pain-the savage monster fell
And rushing onward right and left, pell NELL
The dusty cloud fed billowng to the blast.
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Strange scenes are these to those of civic life
Where quiet governs still the lisess hour
Far from the savage wilds incessant strife,
Intrigue and fashion rule the cyprian bower,
Their love conventional and wealth unite their power
But on the untrodden plain, each sense alive
To constant danger keeps each vigil keen
The wolf the conger and the Pawnee strive
To rule the waste and conquer each, ween.
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Think not ye sickly votares of ease,
Where ponp and pleasure pander to each Sense
Where all the toll of lifeis but TO please,
And cozzen hlsehood's smile, in self defence,
The hackney'd tools of vice and indoence:
That he who treads the solitary wild
And opes the sunbeam to the forest dense,
Although in aspect rude, stern natures child,
Will less receive mans grateful recompense.
When ere the patriot mind shall scan the page
Ketracng him of Yadkns shady food
Whose firm set bosom ust assay d TO wage
A conflict with the errors Of the wood
And tread alone the far famed land 0: blood.
Or him no less adventures darling child,
La Sale, whose fragile bark just ploug'd the wave
That pours its ample tribute, through the wild
Of lands, where oceans hoary pillows lave
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Or him who ponder'd in his steadfast miud
To explore the of our western Nile
And gancing from her springs, now left behind
To plant our fl g on old Astorias pile,
And make the desert solitude 10 smile:
Where ere he views the plastic hand Of art
The distant roadsteads where proud navies ride
There Boon, La Sale and Clark will claim their part
Their countries honor and their nations pride
XXXvIII.
Now onward roams our hero without harm
Tho gh dangers and wondrous cross'd his way
He feels sterner joy within him warm
As plodding lonely through the weary day, Tlay.
ell pleasd that ON his path, the wandrng Peidnoir
But what is this, that lifts It's spangled folds
And the tow ring stripes from yonder height?
His countries emblem, its sacred scroll
The stars of empire and her egis bright.
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AS the lone wand'rer of the painless deep
Sees dimly distant through old oceans spray
A glimpse of that proud flag, whose summons keep
Ten thousand hayward bosoms in its ray
And rules the soul with more than magic sway
Halls from the mast the ensign from afar
And feels his countries home in every land
His pride in peace his raying point in war,
Nor the roamer, by what breezes fAn'd!
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So to his heart, this beacon of the world
Reumes the fading fires of patriot love,
As softly TO the breeze its folds unfur
And lures, as to The Ark, the wand ring dove
And round his soul his countries "idea" wove-
Ruling in passion right the broad domain
Where the wild Chienne and Dahcotah meet
Willing for once the smile of peace TO feign
And lay their mountain trophies at its feet.
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Thus to the desert pilgrims eye is seen
Thy frowning battlements distant Laramie!
A frontier fortress on the landscape green
Where the mind banquets, from each peril free
and joys, remembrance in some friendly eve to see;
From tho deep gorges Of the neighboring hills
The river of that name pours forth it's foods
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