Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-08
PROM Douglass Monthly.
A CRIFIC E.
"UPl FOR IT IS TIME"

with q calm smile he greets the herce eyes
scowliog,
AdOwn the heightened line,
And Slavery's raveniug w~olfpack hush thoir
bowling
Beneath his look divine
Whence is this strength lie stands before the
scafold,
Yet tremblos not a limb p
So asked the tyrants, as with malice bafled
They wondering gazed on him
This wise all night, needing no sen.ry's warning,
Came to his cell that throng
The same which, in Gethsemaue one morning,
Made o lone spirit strong.
See from the cliffs which guard the starry
regions
Myriads Of eyes look down
And from tho pearly gates pour the bright
legions,
Bearing the martyrs crown
And lowering near him many a wing of angel
Cleans in the amber light
Thoult hear. old man, to-day the Christ's evangel,
And walk with him in white
He pausesa at the gallows' embarrassing,
With voice and features mild,
The outcast oncs-gives chem his latest blessing,
Kisses the negro child.
Great Godl that kissl-its thrilling hath not
persisted,
But Oh from cline to cline,
Leaping from heart to heart, it shall be cherished
Till the last pulse Of Time
ErOn1 fhn hi0b ntoNGorpn ha sao, .k.aA,o i,rIk,I
looming
Far up the northern sky
Hears on the wintry breeze the sullen booming
OF minute guns surge by
He knows it all that million hearts ore bleed
In this dark hour for him;
And trembling lips in vast assemblies reading
Words that through tears grow dim
lie scans the future with a faith mistaken.
The Battle he begun
He knows stops not-good work well undertaken,
In due time must be dore!
His mind on fire with Truth, in its vast reachings
A deeper law had seen
Than that expressed in the o'er-loving teachings
OF the good Nazarene.
That deeper LAW of NATURE, full of beauty
The GoDuEAD's brightest crown;
JUSTICE TO ALL! and hence the right and duty
To crush the tyrant down
For this to-day, beneath the light supernal,
Thou, mighty one shalt stand
And JUSTICE, from the heart Of the Eternal,
Shall bless thy red right hand
One moment now to fill his glory's measure
The silver cord is riven
The lofty spirit sweeps the sea of azure
The martyr is in Heaven
Bell answers bell; and cannon's voice terrific,
The boding sounds of woe;
From the Atlantic to the broad Pacific
Upon the breezes go
Twice since that day Virginia hath lifted
Her gibbet, dark and grim,
And there the young, the brave, the true, the
gifted,
WOrthily followed him.
And round the rolling world, with deep emotion,
The Peoples tell the story,
, Remembering all the'r courage and devotion,
They keep their names in glory
8 Nor ends it hcre-e'en now the night fres glazing
I Light up the robher land;
Q And houseless tyrants know the Negroes daring,
And feel his heavy hand
The cold steel in the t~winkling starlight glistens
Beside the ~sleeper's bed;
All night the waking mother trembles and listens
To hear the Avengers tread!
AND THEY SHALL HEAR 1T e'er the record closes
That which hath been, shall be;
D The trampled millions with another Moses
I Shall walk the crimson sea
Whilst we refne-making the clear yet clearer,
Pratiug Of Tones and Laws
God sleepeth not but nearer still and nearer
His fiery circle drawsl
The cry that rang so wildly through the Tyrol,
When the sign rode the waters!
At It's fierce coming, maidens cease your carol,
Woe to the Southland's daughters t!
The cry Of Andrew Hoier through the mountains,
Shall fill this Land of crime!
And cheeks grow pale beside the southern fOun-
UP NOW FOR 1T IS Tine
From the State League,
RANSOM'S JOHN BROWN.
"A he stepped out of the door, a black womsn,
with a little child in her arms stood near his way.
The twain were Of the despised race for whose
emancipation sad elevation to the dignity of child
rem of God he was abou. to lay down bis life,-
His thoughts at that momen. none can know, ex-
cept as his acts interpret them. He stopped for a
moment in his course, stopped over, and with the
Tenderness of one whose love is as broad as the
brotherhood Of man. kissAd II afectionateI, -