Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-10
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FiendA, who in the lurid gloom ;
OF He'll do ply the fatal loom,
Weave banner Of despair i',
For Colambia's tainted Dir, ;,te asa ~. ri,
10 device Of sulphurous aame, &, .rli
Weave her everlasting shame, f# s..
Far and Wide its shadows fling.
Like the carrion-vuture's wing,
Filling every field and food 3 49, '.-
6 With the smell Of human blood, F., RS .H
Hoo - the flag of He'll, ,-t -
Reared BY Satan when he fell,
That our dark kingdom may rejoice to know,
Earth vies with us in siu. despair and woe.
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The Union raves like one insane
SLAUGHTER.
Her heart'sblood flows, like summnr rain.
Frightened by her cries of pain, i,
have fed to He'll again. r.
DEVIL. .-l =.
Joining in mystic ring
Weave each form Of suffering,
In its murky wool embroider
Darkness, death, and Aells disorder.
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All things have infected with my breath;
The trtacherous banquet breeds disease and death.
Restless sus1 lcion turks in every eye;
Distrust has severed friendships sacred tie;
Hate fires each bosom, and from sea to sea
The land is rent by bitter enmity.
ALL.
Show how discord and 6istrust
Torment these wretched worms Of dust,
In the murky wool embrudsr
Darkness, death, and Hell's disorder.
y SLAUGHTER.
The cities sink in fsmes-brpad seas Of gore
Drench the white fields aud purple every shore,
And hostile sQuadrons, clashing in each path,
Trample the wine press of Almighty wrath.
A village in its midnight rest reposed
In blissful sleep, each weary eyelid closed,
With cat.like step treacherpus host stole in
And Heaven was shaken with the battles din.
The mother gave her babe one parting glance,
The soldier spitted both upon his lance,
Serene old age moment gasped for breath,
Then passed from fes last sleep TO that Of death.
So horrid was the change Of that dread night
That He'll itself might shudder at the sight.
Weave We in our fatal loom,
Piles Of slain, without tomb,
In the murky woof embroider
Darkness, death, and Hell's disorder.
" FAMINE.
Amid the smouldering embers of their barns,
And granaries pillaRed by the foragers,
] saw the farmers, standing like pack
OF starving wolves, lank ribbed and fery-eyed.
Beside them sat their wives, whose starving babes,
Like withered lillies lsy upon their laps,
Seeking the breasts that gave no nourishment.
In yonder port no more the stately mast
als sSsx yh,fo lie and thA
While hapless merchants gazing down the bay
Mourn the swift ships that wander far away.
On the fatal standard show
Famine's endless train of woe;
In the murky woof embroider
Darkness, death, and He'll disorder.
Now let its ample folds be bound
With fiery serpent round.
Eden's destroyer shall recall
The new temptation, sin and fall
Ye, of Hell's brood most accurst
Boast tonight your deed the worst,
For the Banner Of the Union,
Once the pledge Of true communion,
By your potent incarnation
Suffers straDgest transmutation,
Blenoing in your mystic art
Ysncy's tongue and Summers heart,
Greeley's Pharasac cant,
Phillips jibes and Beecher's taunt,
Parkers h0rrid blasphemy,
Cheevers rank hypocrisy,
And the foetid gall which drips
From South Cardinals lips.
Wondrously has every bag
Wrought upon the Unio66 flag,
Ye have changed the stripes Of fame
To the lvid 5ush of shame,
And the streaks of spotless white
To the pallor Of alright,
And the stars which bazoned all
To Wormword in their endless fall!