New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-11
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qHUnsDAf MoRNigG. NovEIBER II. la5a.
Eraddockls Field.
BY REV. r. HE1PsTEAD.

| lish language ID read 1t is a masterpiece j
Said one whose temples shone like frosts upon the
Where OILY 9lthered stalks to tell of summers pride,
remain:
Many and many year has flown, my locks with
time white
Locks that around my infant brow hung ike the
Thige Is dull, this arm IS weak these eyes with age
are dim,
That heard the roar that stroTe that gazed upon the
was yoqt6, l loved my gun, sword, the books
that tell
or plains where wars hot crashing bolts on frantic
was upon those fearful days when Ger the far from
The death-whoop at the dead of night snote on the
TO father mother, sister, friend, we spake the low
farewell
With holding plume and jarrng drum down many
Der rock and plain and roaring stream by sunlight
and by star,
To meet tie lurking fee in fight we wandered long
and far,
While foremost in our daring band, in manly bloom
Bold Braddock and the stately form Of brave, young
Till on time, one balmy morn within the ringing
June,
While woods put on their riches hues, brooks sang
their Brightest tune,
Where blue bIonongahea shone through banks Of
pleasant green,
We stood and saw his smile leap up the clasping
boughs between;
It was a lonely spot and wild, where never white
mans tread
Had come to scare the browsing deer or crush the
volets head,
But where as down the verdant wilds, the river slid
and fOamed,
The beaver reared his mimic town. the bear and otter
roamed
And all the sounds that stirred the gloom were but
the p8uthers howl
The caInor Of the wheeling crow, or sob Of hooded
owl.
said within my soldiers heart that it were we'll to
In such spot, SO still and green, when Ger my
swimming eye,
Amidst the and crack OF guns by scalplng knife
The winter of the grave should come that ever comes
on all
Down by the river marge we toiled through all the
ii Then turned into the neghborng hills, steep and
Our step was free, our thoughts were light, as step
and thought should be,
OF those who for their homes and wives march on to
victory,
And, dreaming, see the conflict DER and through the
Al warcloud dun,
Hear bursting round the fierce huzza which says the
day is won!
81 But sometimes DER our warrior pride a CHASTITY
glimpse would come
OF limbs gnawed by the snarling wolf and of the
lonely home,
IL And darking on the soul dull blue lip would whis-
How death might Turk in summer leaves, and from
the messy dell
The rifle launch its bloody hail and roar the savage
veil.
Farther and father on we toiled with cannon, blade
and plume,
= Till round us like mighty wing hung the old forest
gloom;
The wooddowers gave pleasant smell, the wind
. went laughing by,
% We heard its football on the boughs betwxt and
Huge gstening pines and beeches wove an ebon
"a dome of shade
lo Through which the sun in fiery globes and golden
islets played
Upon the leaves, the dull dead leaves that cracked
to our tread
n That crackle shot acoss my soul shudder and a
dread,
My heart grew sick, VieTess hand seemed on my
shoulder laid,
That held me back until grew of leaf and breeze
afraid
that leafy place,
el And said never, nevermore should see my mothers
face
Is Up through lonesome dell we wound where smooth
green MOSES DER
nd The twisted and rough brown stones had spread
Luxuriant Ger the broad hillside the knoted aure
&c And sharp, gray rocks against the limbs theil
wriukled broWs upthrew;
And now stiffness came that seemed the very wind
], to fill,
Il No murmar trembed in the dell, no whisper thu
hill,
The silence tinged on our ears it was so deep ant
And nothing told how lurking round, all burning 70
ara the fray,
Eight hundred painted savages with leyeled rifle
lay,
Till, flashing from governed rock, on leaf and bad
n and plume,
ot A solitary musket,fash lit up the woody gloom;
And he who next before me walked with one tire
Sank down upon the hollow stones in the unwallin
Al sleep.
j. We started bent our eager gaze along the bordern
Whereer the matted vines hold for couchant 70
Dc A moment-1nd from rock and air and earth ther
70, Such as the gnashng fends may ring from the re
roar S as when in earthquakes lips mountain spill
and sways,
h And oceans leap their rocky bourne and cities cras
and blaze
We stood like men, and storm for storm back on IL
foe returned,
Till one red, Kissing wall of fire the reeling vale
burned,
And down as roars the trampling hail upon the tel
der grain,
So rushed upon our startled band that murderons ba
tie rain;
And madly back, through storm for storm, our Blu
=. They dashed amidst yiewless foe, as harmlessyan
vain.
Grit in by death with quivering hearts, yet unsu
dued ana DlaVe
We stood, recoedr rushed on and wheeled, each OF
his open grave!
From rock and brake and blasted trunk, benin
aside before,
The havoc rushed, the deluge blazed and boiled IL
savage roar;
Our friends our foes, woods, earth, and sky, grew
t. tremendous one,
That reeked in gore and rocked in fame and roun
us yawned and spun;
There seized our sinking hearts, OF life one wild al
lurid thought,
So fierce, tyrannic, and intense we knew not that
.v, Nor needed though at every step we stumbled o.
~ the slain,
How long our weeping wives and babes would lot
for us in vain.
We saw our end, We knew our doom, we felt as mt
whose last
a'' Of mortal days and gries and joys sweeps by the
to the past
Earth rocked beneath our feet her flowers, h
mountains and her Skies
Her summer green and autumn pomp went mocki
from our eyes.
On lifted sword and gun and limb, with dull a
shiyering sound,
| heard the whstling bullets crash and from
beeches bound,
=, Down sank my brother at my side sank with
a. mighty grOan
That smote upon my ear above the battles drowni
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