San Andreas independent., 1858-01-02

he last ldlnC Sign escapes tO Hea'cH,
Hoary with age, he bows his whiten'd head,
Is numbered in q moment with the dead;-
No tear bedims the cheeks-no mourning slghs,
No groan escapes our bosom as he dies
The air, the moon, the stars all seem to glow,
And smile tho death has touch'd the veterans
brow.
Alas unheeded,- by the giddy throng-
Unwept, unhonored,- shall he be unsung?
No for one heart monument would raise,
And millions echo back his by-gone days.
Fen in our midst he scattered, Ger our land,
JOYS, hopes and pleasures with unsparing hand
And tho attendant griefs, dark visaged, threw,
Their baleful influence, where his treasures
grew,
Yet many hope has sprung from his embrace
And his warm smiles have frightened many
face,
And tho the hand of death has rudely claspd
Humanitys bright coins within his miSer grasp,
And in the tented field, or on the star-lit plain;
All DER the earth, where time has held the
rein
From Greenland's coast, where icy mountains
rise,
To Perus brilliant and unclouded skies;
From where the Horn, lashed by two oceans
waves,
To India's climes, of Engands slaughtered
graves;
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And the fair face of nature have defiled.
Yet still, DER each, to those who were content,
He scattered richest blessings as he aren't.
plains,
Have left their bleaching bones-t their sole
remains.
Allured by Hopes sweet voice, they left their
home !
Ger arid wastes and deserts vast to roam;
While golden hopes warm up each throbbng
breast.
At eve they lay themselves to peaceful rest;
Their dreams are bright with scenes of future
! joy,
And gladdened thoughts alone, their hearts
employ.
Alas the change that one short moment makes!
fearful whoop upon their slumber breaks:
They wake to hear the Indians fearful cry;
They seize their arms, and struggle-but to
die
And men and maidens with one cry for life
Imbrued in mutual blood-sink meath the
strife;
The hope of friends, love-in a single breath
Cold, clammy-lost in the embrace of death
At the same moment, when meath the savage
knife,
Sinks to the ground-father, husband, wife
While fearful shrieks break from Mormon
bands,
And white men in Indian guse, imbrue their
hands
In brothers blood urged by fanatic ZEAL
And cen to Heaven make blasphemous appeal;
At that same momcnt-hark to the sadden'd
wall,
That's borne upon the Atlantics sweeping gale
Four hundred souls lie in their billowy grave !;
Their monument, the Gulf-stream's crested
wave;
Their winding sheet, the sea-weed's robes of
green
Their requiem, the zephyr's voice at cen.
Undaunted was that brave and fearless crew
True to their manhood, to their nature true !
Thy mem'ry, Herndon will grace my humble
Tyre,
And live while good deeds noble thoughts in
spire.
And thou, my friend whose friendship true, l
prize,
feel tear-drop dim my aching eyes:
How often in thy saddened songs I've felt,
My own heart-strings to soft emotions melt;
Or when, to gayer notes thoud'st tune thy
string,
sweeter feeling to my soul twould bring =
And thou art gone! Thy heart, with home
joys stirred
"Carry it home to MOTHER" was thy dying
word.
farcWell, uedr OlOW. lccl, III dlIeT years.
I'll water thy blest name with heartfelt tears.
And thou too, Easton, woman true, and wife
Wife of but days amid the gales fierce strife;
Thou show'dst thy nature, cheering up the
faint
Administering hope, as to the shrine of saint;
We bow, may sweetest joys of life attend
The gentle heroine-the brave crews friend
Oh may thy boys a race of good men prove,
Worthy thy girls of such mothers love.
The last stroke sounds upon the ear, and gone
Thou art forever-and all the hopes have
flown:
The griefs, the tears, the joys, the fears,
Have melted with the tide of years.
The New Year comes-and voices mild
Greet with their music the newborn child,
And beauty wreaths her loveliest glow
To weave around the infants brow,
And the pale moon looketh benignly down,
And addeth her smile to the infants crown
She mellows sweetly each darkend scene,
And gently bathes them in her silvery sheen,
Dividing with her empire of the night.
Hesperus, too, reigns most supremely bright,