Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-18
THE RISING OF rHg pgopIg.


The drums wild roar awakas tls land, Cue die Is
calling shrii
Ten thousand starry banner blaze on town, ana
Our crowded streets thro5bing with t.esoldiers
measured tramp;
Among our bladed corn.feld~ e'ean the white tents
of the camp.
The thundef3 The rising war hush Laboiss drowsy
hum.
And heayg 10 the ground lie ar. dark drops ofbat,
The soulsof mon fame up anew he narrow heart
expands;
And woman brings her patient faith to nerve her
eager hands.
Thank God! we are not buried yet, though long in
trance We lay.
Thank God the fathers need not blush to oyn their
sons to-day.
Oh! sad and slow the weeks went byi each held his
anxious breath,
Like one who waits, in helpless fear, some sorrow
great as death.
OH scarcely was there faith in God, nor any trust
i'll man,
shadows ran.
1t yelled the stars one after one it hushed the ma
And stole from men the sacred sense that parteth
right and wrong
Then red flash, the lightning across the darkness
broke
And with voice that shook the land the guns of
Sumter spoke:
Wake, sons OF heroes, wake! The age of heroes
dawns again;
Truth takes in hand her ancient sword and calls her
loyal men.
Lo! brightly DER the breaking day shines Freedoms
holy star.
Peace cannot cure the sickly time. All hail, the
healer War!
The call was heard by Plymouth rock; twas heard
in Boston bay;
Then up the pny streams of Maine sped on its r;nq
ing way.
New Hampshire's rocks Vermonts green hills, it
kindled into flame;
Rhode Island felt her mighty soul bursting within,
her little frame;
The Empire City started up her golden fetters rent
And meteor'Ks, across the North the fiery message
Over the breezy prairie lands by bluff and lake it
ran,
Till Kansas bent his arm, and laughed to md him
sefa man;
Then on by cabin and by camp, by stony wastes and
sands,
1t ran exultant down the sea where the oden CITY
stands.
And wheresoer the summons came there rose an an
CRY din
As when upon rocky coast stormy tide comes in.
Straightway the fathers gathered voice. straighway
the sons arose,
With flushing cheek, as when the East with days
red current glows.
Hurrah! the long despair is past; fading hopes
The fog is lifting from the land, and To- the ancient
blue
We learn the secrets of the deeds the sires have
handed down,
To fire the youthful soldiers zeal, and tend his
Who lives for country Through his arm will po-
tent forces flow,
IT'S easy to be brave for truth as for the rose to
blow.
OH Law fair form OF Liberty Gods light is on
thy brow;
Oh! Liberty, thou soul of Law Gods very self art
thou.
One the clear rivers sparkling flood that clothes
the bank with green,
And one the line OF stubborn rock that holds the
water in
Friends, whom cannot think apart seeming each
others foe,
Twin flowers upon single stalk with IuaI grace
that grow,
OH fair ideas, we write your names across our ban
ners fold;
For you the sluggards brain is fire; fer you the
coward bold.
OH daughter of the bleeding Past! Oh! hope the
prophets saw!
God gave us Law in Liberty, and Liberty in Law!
Full many a heart is aching with mingled joy and
pain,
For those who go SO proudly forth and may not
come again;
And many heart is aching for those 1t leaves be-
As thousand tender histories throng in upon the
mind,
The old men bless the young men, and praise their
The women in the doorways stand to wave them
brayey by.
One threw her arms about her boy and said "Good
God help thee do the valiant deeds thy father would
have done.r
One held up bearded man little child TO kiss,
And sMd, u shall not be alone, for thy dear love
And one, rosebud in her hand, leant at soldier,
"Thy country WEEDS. thee first she said "be I til,
second biide.m
OH mothers, when, around your hcarths, ye coun
your cherished ones,
And miss nom the enchanted ring the flower of al
your sons;