Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-09
From the National Era.
0 A AT H STAKE.

III ii - = NOhTON. |
rhe early dawnlight glimmered down on hill and
over plain,
The rivers ripping waters and the towers of old
Rouen.
On the bishops mitred forehead, and the monk
with fasting pale,
On ~knightly, bearded warrior. forms, all ca.ed in
cleaning mail,
On sturdy British yeomen, and the Norman's FORE
head brown,
The gray and misty morning rays came dimly
struggling down.
Along the narrow pathway, from the rivers wind.
ing shore,
Up to the hugo and gloomy dungeon Of
Beaurevoir,
bright FIRE
Glowed on the rock-walled b%Attlements, and bathed
each slender spire;
Then rose from that vast multitude o thousand
voices swell
Bring forth the demon.sorceress Bring forth the
Child of He'll"
The huge key harshly grated, and the gateway
Upen swung,
And forth she came to torturing death, the beau.i'
ful, the young.
She came, the youthful peasant-girl, whose hercely.
blazing eye
Had led the storm Of battle, like The Star Of
Destiny.
That form, 80 frail and slender, with the faint and
trembling breath,
Had shone, a flaming meteor, in the van Of strife
and DEATH
The pale hands meekly folded, and the pale brow
heaven-ward turned;
The blue eye, dreamy. fathomless, with mystic
splendor burned.
Needless of torch and fagot. Blaze, in silence ON
she trod;
Needless of priest and j%eering throng, she looked
but to her God.
The Pas: came sweeping over her, with all its
dreamy train;
Again, a child, she roamed the fields and meadows
of Lorraine;
Again in girlhood's early days, at midnight's
solemn hour,
Her awestruck soul bowed down before the spirits
spell of power;
Again, in radiant armor girt, reckless OF cares or
fears,
She led the roaring charge, amid the crash of
shivering spears;
Again the dungeons rocky walls echoed her
mournful prayer
But still that spot MAS holy ground, for One was
with her therel
And to her vision.!umined brain yet brighter pic
lures came;
She looked beyond the torture,stake, and fierce
devouring flame.
And saw, bright blazing far away, wrought like q
radient gem,
The pearly glowing ~gateways of tho New Jerusa
lem!
The solemn, weird procession paused before tn,
stake at last,
And bound amid the whitening flames, her daunt
less spirit passed.
But, as she stood, envailed in FIRE from ruthless
mortal eye.
Bent not above her Ono to soo.he that fearfu
agon5?
Amid the wasting furnace blaze that round be
waved and rolled,
Stood rot one hike the Son Of God" as in tn
days of old2
Did not her spirit rise to dwell amid the white
robed throng,
Who cry, beneath Heavens altar .shriue, "Ho'
long, o Lord, how long?"
Full twice two centuries have rolled in light an
shade away,
But still our Utmost pulses thrill in memory
The day.
And through the ages yet to come, that nane sha
ever be
A lighttower on the Sea Of Time, a Landmark f
the free!
Look forth, o fair young martyr, from thy HON
above the skies!
The battle RACES round us, and the waves Of so
row rise;
The Right to Might has yielded, and Oppression
Sin. and Wrong,
Have reard heaven'daring b~attlements, and bal
tons grim and strong.
And Faith, and Truth, and Honor, like the cha
are swept away,
By gathered wrongs Of centuries, and ages dn
and gray.
% come in Retribution's strength, and, as in da,
of yore,
Inspire our faint and shattered ranks to close
might once more.
So may the swelling tide of crime back to ito sour
I be rolled,
And joy and triumph usher in the dawning A
r of Goldl
ADVICE TO FARMERS.
Ike Marvel (Mr. MitchelD gives the foIlowil