Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-01-09

To give their aid upon a foreign shore.
10 i, found a nation unsurpassed bef,re.
When they at last this safe asylum gain.
Installed in vale, on hill and plain,
Iyrants may their power assert in vain,
Their vengeful thunders now awake no
In the dauntless hearts of Freedoms pio.
neers.
See by united, noble, bold emprise,
Beneath their hand glorious empire rise,
whose lame Ger Earth extending far and
wide,
Proclaims the land where Freedoms sons
abide,
There. underneath its kind protecting
shade,
The wearied head may be in safety laid.
Oh! sight sublime! ne'sr till now beheld,
Tween,
Equality and Justice triumphant seen.
Despsiring hope her pinions plumed anew
AS broke the scene on her enraptured
view,
And upward soaring bent her eager fight
With JOY elate, toward the realms of flight,
That she might the tidings earliest bear,
10 earth's desponding guardian spirits,
there;
Who long had mourned, but ever mourn.
ed in vain,
To see their favorite race mid toll and
pain,
Wear in bonds, their suffering lives away,
Beneath some cruel despots iron sway,
For centuries held with unrelenting grasp,
So firm that mortal hand could scarce un-
ella p;
But now the monarch's mighty spell is
broke,
And they at last disdain the Tyrant's YOKE,
And arm strike and triumph for Liberty,
Proclaim the Saxons birthright to be free.
AT Hopes approach the spirits eager
bend,
And to her tale with listening ears attend
In pleased surprise, as from her tongue it
fell,
And deemed her ble.t to have such news
| to tell.
And nov the sisters grateful task being
done,
The priceless blessings told. by valor won,
And all o er the event held brief commune,
The celestial choir their harps attune,
Aud glad triumphant chorus raise,
| n
n Ow these supernal ceremonies DER,
Hope returns to Atlantic's western shore,
And ever since has hover'd anxious there,
On poised wing upborne in middle air,
Watching Der her charge with tender
care;
Stationed as Freedoms faithful sentinel,
That she may each threat'ning ill fore
| tell.
Now on the nations fate dark clouds
| arise,
And Hope once moro to her sister spirits
hies.
With heavy heart she wings her upward
flight
To herald alas the knell of human right.
But, how different her reception now,
As she arrives with sorrow darkened brow,
No smiles illumine each celestial face,
Each step has lost its lghtsome easy
grace
All with aspect clouded by doubt and fear,
Slowly approach the stricken messenger,
And when the melancholy tale was heard,
Deep pity, each angelic bosom stirred,
Sorrow with tear dimmed every eyo
And anguish wrung from every heart a
sigh,
While Hope, more deeply grieved than
all the rest,
Turned her face in sadness towards the
west,
For ono last lingering look at that fair
land,
Whose desolation she foresaw at hand,
Ere she folded her wings and gaYeit o'er,
To the furious tide she could stem no
|
With fearful eye, she waved last fare
And turned her from the land she loved
SO well.
Thus to me the dying Year did say
As on the midnight gale it passed away,
Foretelling dark and direst ills to come,
OF bloodshed and death within the happy
home,
OF horrors dread and fercest civil war,
| OF cruel De5astation's dreadful car,
And all attendant ills that in their train,
Concur the peoples bravest blood to drain,
NJ young pen, the task attempts in vain
OF writing all that swelled the mournful
strain.
1t is enough that we may ere long behold
All the dire misfortunes therein foretold.
May Heaven in time avert the fearful
blow;
And spare the land this dreadful scene of
WOO!
would long ere this have quit this
gloomy theme,
Or treated it as passing idle dream,
But my the hearts foreboding thoughts
would guide,
Though to change their current in vain
have tried,
Oh may another New Year pr owe them
wrong
Then / can greet you with q livelier song.
The New Haven Conn., city election,
on Friday resulted in an emphatic Demo-
cratic victory. The Democratic MAORI ty,
in poll of 5000 votes, is about 500. The
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