Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-12-03

THERE many bright stream glidethon,
Der Swallowed by green trees,
That wave aloft their plumy heads
In the signing, whispering breeze:
And feathered warblers make the air
All vocal with their strains,
And brilliant flowers of beauty rare
Bedeck the fertile plains.
Within the deep and MASSEY shade,
The sunbeams softly shed
A quivered glow on pebbles white
Within the rivers bed.
The gushing rills come leaping down
The mountains rocky side
And the wild deer bounds so light and free
Through all the forests wide,
There water lilies CLEAN like snow
Along the sleeping lake,
Whose music waves SO calm and clear
p mellow cadence wake,
Where glad and free in years gone by
Across the surface blue,
The dark eyed Indian oft at night .
Guided his light canoe
z Oh! is it not paradise seEa 7et41
This OASIS so green sHaHNa
With vine wreathed forests, pleasant hills,
And slumbering wales between?
Oh may not here the aching heart
Find quiet and repose
And the weary spirit sick of life
Relief from all its woes?
Harls list that wall of anguish
That burdens the balmy airl
In agonizing tones it swells
Ger all the hills SO fair.
From whence proceed those echoes wild,
That make the blood run chill,
And with II deep sensation
Cause the quick pulse TO thrill?
All tits the voice ofinjured ones
That noble hearted band
Who strove to shield from tyranny
That fair and lovely land.
They who indignantly beheld
Dire slayerys cruel chain;
Whose useful, precious lives, alas!
Were sacrificed in vain
The peaceful stream that clded on
With pure and lucid wave,
Is purpled with the life-tde
Ofthe innocent and brave, &c
And with requiem sad and deep
It's waters murmur on,
And ceaseless chaunt a solemn drge
For the noble hearted gone
-: Now Autumn leaves have fallen there,
And many stately form
Lies moul1cring iSw chat o2cc did brave
So fearlessiy the storm
And pure white mounds of drifte6 snow
On many pleasant scene,
- That glitter in the morning beam
With golden, diamond sheen.
When pleasant vernal days shall come
And robethe silent earth
With emerald grass, and swelling buds
Are bursting into BIRTH -
LuXuriant blossoms there shall wake
Above each martyrs bed,
Aud weep at night, and silently
Their silken petcls shed.
For they the loving find the loved
Are distant far away,
Unconscious of the tate of those
For whom they ever pray;
And wait the coming footsteps
Ofthe cherished, kind and true,
Whose dear familiar faces
No more on earth they'll view.
Where struggling sunbeams dilnly creep
Through lonely prison CRATES,
Many captive wan and pale
His destiny awaits,
Whose only crime il was &c hate
Expressions deadly power;
Condemned in hunger and despair
To pass each bitter hour,
No kind and faithful friend is near
To ministSr relief;
From suffering and starvation
Their woefal days are brief
But earth shall mourn when souls like thest
So true and just are flown;
Few are such priceless, peerless gems
Along LIES pathway strown,
Oh ever, ever thus il is
The generous heart must break,
That strives with purpose pure and Just
The siumbering soul 10 wake,
And rouse from its deep lethargy
To high and holy deeds,
And wrest the power from tyrant hands
And heal the hearts that bleeds.
Oh may the day dawn quickly come,
When Freedom voice shall swell
With lofty echo thrilling
From vale and rocky dell
When the bands of dire oppression
Asunder riven shah be,
And wioGged ana suffering Kansas
Sound tina anthem of the free!
Westfe'd n Y