Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-29

| self-same soil
Our fathers valor for US by victory and TOLL
On Forda's fair everglades, by bold Ontarios flood
And through them send electric life, leaps the kin
| dred blood;
For thus it is they taught who for Freedom lived
| and died,
That thu EternaI's law of Jusnczuust and shall be
Justified
/ That God has joined together, by fat all divine
The destnes of dweIIers meath the Pamtre and the
Pine.
esWeak women we''-no laurel blooms to crown us as
| ssthe brave
No baytree lives to chronicle our rest in nameIess
grave;
Yet while we live wen cherish this the fairest
that grows,
One half enrobed in sunlight and the other crowned
And DER it all, like clouds that burn along the sunset
Wen float the Flag Of Union with its heaven-descend
And patient, train the olive, and the myrtle bough
to Irvine
Around our chosen embIems-the Palmetto and the
/ Pine.
AyeI Wen plant them yet c>ther-thou gh the cloud
IS on their brows,
And winds antasonistic wrthe and wrench the stall
wart bOughs;
Driv ing winds that drift the nation into gaping gufs
Of gloom
Sweeping ages, cycles, systems worthless doom:
Though the waves Of faction treading in triumphant
to the shore,
Are breaking down our buIwarks with their sullen
rage and roar;
Washing up the deep foundations OF Palmetto and of
Pine
But shall this the soil Of Freedom, from their roots
be washed away
By the breaking of the biIIOws by the SURF and by
the sprayT
No,-the Hand that rules the vortex which is surgiug
now before US,
Above its shell OF waters sets the bow Of promise
Ger usI
Ave the time will come when Discord shall be swaI-
lowed il the Past,
The Orihamme Of Love shall wave above the breach
last;
And beneath that starry banner-typs of unity
divine
Shall nOat those stately sgnaIs-ths Palmetto and the
Pine
Shall the ed victorious Eagle from their bOughs be
wrenched away
By the double headed yulture Of DsuniOn and Decayf
Forbid it Heaven Columbia, guard thy standard
bearer staunch
Seel amid his bristIing ARROWS CLEANS the golden
olive branch
Guard thine Eagle thou marchest on with gonfaons
unfurIed
With thy foot upon the fetter to the freeing of tbs
world
And guard thy Holy sepulcbrs at vernon's sacred
shrine,
For this IS Freedom Holy Land-her promised Pales
tinel
Gray despOts gaze across the main see her glory
God grant that they may look in yan-that she may
teach them yet,
By the shouts of States uprising nations Jubilee
(yOt the 'Fifteen''-TOt the 'Seven-but the glori-
Gus Thirty Three, ''-)
With their clear exuIiant chorus rising from united
bands,
While the echo of their triumph peals to esrth's
hottest lands
That the Thistle, Rose, and Shamrock and the Lily
must entwine
Beeah the stately shadows of Palmetto and of Pine
oh thou voice of God out-howing from the lips Of
holy Peace!
SoOthe the turmoil and the tumut-bid the strife
and sorrow ceaseI
Der sayannas stepped in sunshin, cover mountains
dark with rain,
Send the glad and thrilling tidings in thy sweetIy
solemn strain
Let snowy North and sunny South send up the shout
sAH's Welt"
And the tidngs of rescue strike our heartstrngs
with its swell,
Gas to Jessie Brown at Lucknow struck the air Of
''AuId Lang syne''
From the highland pipes of Havelock-), Save the
Palm and save the Pine !"
God plant them still to9ethert Let them flourish side
by side;
Those mighty trunks, ike columns, mailed in more
than marble pride,
DER and DEF
yore,-
And old heroic watchwOrds-ssOnward Liberty or
Death -
Shall mingle with a legend new-'rFraternity and
Faithi''
Equality and '.Union there shall lovingly entwins
EmblazOned on those pilIars-the Palmetto and the
Pine.
together - shouts Niagara, his thupder+oned
decree
Together - echo back the upon the Mexic
Together - sing the sylvan hills where old Atlantic
roars-
Together ~ boom the breakers the wild Pacihcs
shores
Together p cry the peOple-4nd 'tOgcAer it shall be,
-
or Liberty the sigpet-ssaI-the eternal sign,
Be those united emblems-the Palmetto and the Pine
FoREsr HoHE, MARCH, 1s6I-