Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-11-15
TOWANDA: :
Thursday Morning, November Is, 1860
Original 4oetrg.
(FOr the Bradford Reporter.)
JESSIE or LUCKNOW.

setting sun thou soon VIII cease 10 pour thy soluth
food
And soon the night thy absent light will weep in tears
of blood
1ti tbe last and never more when the voice of
ing calls,
viii weary eyes behold thee rise Ger these beleaguered
walls
Ere thou cans fix on and tower thy long and burn
ing gaze,
Their lard light will gd the night and Ger the heavens
blaze,
And shrek and groan, and wall and moan, and flames
and ftiul flashes
Shall tell where bravest British hearts bed on the smou
dering ashes
Then haste to lave, in the ocean wave, and when thy
rising glory
sbalbrighty smile on Brirans isle, repeat the bloody
story,
And bid her sons vengeance rouse and round her stan
dard rally
From every green and easted hill, and every smiling
valley
From Scota's songenchanted gLehS' lioLA nioUN'"n'
FROM Erns bright and aowery isle their stalwart yeo.
The wild winds tell their sails to swell, toward the en-
batted plain
While thy beam their pennons stream Ger the bosom
Of the main.
Brave Havcock how now thy heart for with anguish
yearns
and vengeance, like pentup FIRE, within thy bosom
burns.
fearless few are with thee here whom death could not
dismay,
But dusky lcgions swarm between and foes besst the
way.
Oh! wearly by night and day. we've watched yon sui
try plain,
While heavy dragged the cheerless hours hunger and
in pain
But now brave hearts twill all be past before the morn
And death and torture close the scene tia: famine has
begun.
Thus and sighed wasted form, daughter true OF
Britain,
And sadly brightly bcamed her eye, her cheek hum
gcrsmitten
And deeply craven on her brow noufnfd Thought was
written.
se sweet to die in other scenes, beyond the stormy
Gllow,
waa fathers arms or sisters breast might be her dyi
NJ pillow,
Aal say then to lie and rest beneath the whispering
F"ow
Sehnr> the clang of arms the amparts giving
way
the day.
Ilen Love and Memory, hand in hand, had wandered
DER the deep,
Till peace came to her 'wde-ed soul waving shadows
creep,
And in her sad companion arms poor Jessie fell asleep.
She saw dreams, her highland home at the hour so
glad and CHEEKY,
When with the falling shades each swain returns from
labor weary,
And sings some sweet and native strain greet his "bon
ME delre."
But bark the Highland Batttecry the pibroch wild
and shrll!
Dnna ye hear the slogan ring afar from hill to hill?
Where did sleep: alas but bark hear it
still!
We're saved we're saved dnna ye hear ?" " All no,
poor Jessie Brown =
~ Sweet thy bcwdered dreams of home then sleep
lay thee down"
TsO silently and mournfully she bowed her head and
'ept-
"'rher bright and blissful dreams. and sighed that
ae had slept
l-a ,arting cried, Nay 't,cas dream delirey-
Gace is near,
For nor, distinct more loud and clear the pi6rocts
'crCGm Ihear.'
Each heart grew STILL and voices hushed in silence, one
aud all,
And every breath still as death within that circng
wall
Above the ncessant thunder bursts and rattle roll and
din,
Inc bagpipes clear and piercing voice thrilled every
heart within.
Aen what apturous shout arose and echoed far away
~ eAeer their gallant comrades on, and all their foes
dismay
M Bravo cola,
P@'' soldiers wept their thanks, where tongues Ian
M guage found
Nor drop, of blood but many tear Of ov bedewed the
mark ye hog fuE and cleas those martial notes are
m HH1Ag!
oIes below have ceased to glow the sepoy's panic
telling
'"'' coward swarm is in alarp, their guns 10 longer
sounding,
"' heavenly music fills the air, mid evening gloom
surrounding.
- b2a'ng drum they come they come those swar
oy myriads brayipg,
l'hers proud like sunset clouds DER plumed heads
are waving
Sa's' thrown wide to Albons PRIDE It's Havelock
would enter!
And loudly shout till the ,o7,or. -, -,
save the Queen GoD save the Queen! Brttania
rule forever
our eountry's deathless sons, ye names forgotten
u oa''Iements unfurl the flag of conquering Br |
saal cover beneath the power of savage leagued
with Satan; -....s -. :. r.,
u lhe dust shall yet be crushed that black and ,.,
alliance =. - anu anu 'ui'eu |
noa' unroed each ample fold, and bid our foe. DE-.
s'ss Snithaed, Pa,
Es G. Z. TRACY.