Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-10

There is q fearful spirit OF tTutu IN tuls PO"e" -
itch we copy from the Louisville Journal
The DisunIon Banner.-..A One-Act Drama'
DRAHAEs PERsoNG:
&c., E E::;::; attendants.
DEVIL.
Fiends, who in the lurid gloom
OF He'll do ply the fatal loom,
Weave Q banner of despair
For Coumbia's tainted air,
In device of Sulphurous iame,
Weave her everlasting shame,
Far and wide its shadows fling,
Like the carrion-vulture's wing
Filling every field and food
With the smell of human blood,
Horrid as the flag of He'll,
Reared by Satan when he fell,
That our dark kingdom may rejoice to Know
Earth vies with US in sin, despair and woe.
DIsCoRD.
The Union raves like one insane.
SLAUGHTER.
Her heart'sblood flows like summnr rain.
FAMINE.
Frightened by her cries of pain,
l have fed to He'll again.
DEVIL.
Joining in q mystic ring
Weave each form of suffering,
In its murky wool embroider
Darkness, death, and HelPs disorder.
DIsCoRD.
All things have infected with my breath;
The treacherous banquet breeds disease and death.
Restless sus olcion 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 Gistrust
Torment these wretched worms of dust,
In the murky wool embrolder
Darkness, death, and Hells disorder.
SLAUGHTER
The cities sink in lames-broad sess of gore
Drench the white fields and purple every shore,
And hostile squadrons, clashing in each path,
Trample the wine press of Almighty wrath.
village in its midnight rest reposed
In blissfu sleep, each weary eyeId closed,
With cat-like step a treacherous 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 lfes last sleep to that Of death.
So horrid was the change of that dread night
That He'll itself night shudder at the SIGHT.
Weave we in our fatal loom,
Piles OF slain, without a tomb
In the murky wool embroider
Darkness, death, and Hells disorder.
FAMINE.
Amid the smouldering embers of their barns,
And granaries pillsged by the foragers,
/ saw the farmers, standing like pack
OF starving wolves lsnk-ribbed and fery-eyed.
Beside them sat their wives, whose starving babes,
Like withered Lilies lay upon their laps,
Seeking the breasts that gave NO nourishment.
In yOnder port more the stately mast
Spreads its white sails and trembles in the blast,
While hapless merchants gazing down the bay
Mourn the swift ships that wander far away.
On the fatal standard show
Famne's endless train of woe;
In the murky woof embroider
Darkness death, and He'll disorder.
Now let its ample folds be bound
With q fiery serpent round.
Edens destroyer shall recall
The new temptation, sin and fall.
DEVIL.
Ye, of HePs 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 strangest transmutation,
Benoing in your mystic art
Yancys tongue and Summers heart,
Greeley's Pharasaic cant,
Phillips jbes and Beecher's taunt,
Parker's horrid blasphemy,
Cheever's rank hypocrisy,
And the foetid gall which drips
From South Cardinals lips.
Wondrously has every bag
Wrought upon the Union flag,
Ye have changed the stripes of flame
To the livid Slush 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!