Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-24

he'd dream which - not I'll . drown.
Our Union was dissolved, Aad ell our States
w ere nghung hercely in it .stine war,
rissless sad iswless. snd the kings Of earth
Were grianing glsdly II our suicide.
Aofn came ssd vent, and came, and brought no
peace;
And mon forgot their bushes. in the dread
VI the Great dissolution, and oil hearts
were chilled ia.o . sslash pssysr-for life.
And they did live BY plunder-and the House,
The once great Capitol 1t Washington,
And all the others Of the several States,
Were surne tor beacons; cities were consumed,
And men were gathered rosnd their blasting
To look once more into each others tsce.
Happy were those who scsped to dsspots
clutches,
Instead Of writhing in Disanion's fangs.
gssping hope was all fair Freedom held.
Forests were set on 6re-but hour by hour
They tell and faded flames swept our fields,
And burned the hsrvests to . blackened s,ubble
Faces Of soldiers in the battle smoke
Wore an uLearthIy aspect, as the grape
FROM oeiching csnnons moved them some dss-
pairing,
Did stay themselves and some did sit down calm.
~,
And, with fixed looks, await the deathful volieys
nd others hurried TO and fro, and, in
Their madness, slew their comrades. and looked
With fearful yellings on the clouds of smoke,
Inc pail OF past Union then again
With curses cast them mid the wnisxing bullets,
Gnashing their teeth and persisted.
Murder shrieked,
Flosrished his poignard. ana, with CHASTITY look,
Did strike his victims; aHd the widest red men
Danced in their bloody joy-like vipers crawlei
ANA ma themselves among the multitude.
Sprin. ing and scslping Is In days Of yore
Aud War, which all once hoped had fed from
earth,
Did giut himself again States fought 'gainst
Statss-
Many were rent BY their internal factions
And were their own destroy ers
Our once proud Union was hut one red scene
Ut wild disnteg alton, while the pang
vi famine ted upon all entrxis men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their
fash
The meager BY the mesger were devoured =
Even dogs assailed their mas ers-all save one
And he was faithful to cOrse, and kept
The birds and beasts, and fsmshed men at bay,
Till hunger chung them, or the dropping dead
Lured their lank jaws--himself sought out nc
food,
Rut with piteous and perpetual moan,
And quick, desolate cry, 'icxing the hand
Which answered nst with q caress-he died.
The crowd was famisb ed by degrees buttwo
OF an enormous city, did survive,
4 nd they were editors. They met beside
Tho red-hot embers of printing ress.
Where had been heaped mass Of holy type
For IN unholy usage. They raked up,
And cursing. scraped with their much handled
scissors
The pied and molten forms. but found no types
Which they could use To gull the public with.
Or fight each other then they lifted up
heir eyes, and, mid the itful smoke, beheld
Each Others aspects-saw and shrieked, and
Even Of their moral hideousness they died,
Well knowing that upon the br0ws of both
Treason had written fend.
Tho land was void
The Populous and powerful WAS limp
Countryless herbless, treeless, manless lifeless,
A lump of death-Disunion consummatei.
our rivers, lakes and oceans were unused,-
! Their hnny tribes increased-no snare to cstcf
them
Ships, saiiorless, lay rotting in our bays
And their mas;s fell down piece meal as thel
dropped.
They splashed the waters rode no N ire by US.
| Commerce dead. Freemen were in thei
graves,
But not till Liberty expired before.
The Thirteen Stripes were burned, the Risin,
| Stars
Qsenched from our flag ;--Disunion had no nee,
Of aid from them-HEs WORK VAS FULLY DONE