Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-14
BY HENRY TlMRoD.

Hath not tho morning dawncd with added light:
And will not evening call another star
Out Of the infinite regions Of tho night,
To mark this day In Heaven? At last, We are
A nation among nations and the world
Shall soon behold in many distant port
Another Flag unfnrled!
Now, come what may, whose favor need we court:
And, under God, whose thunder need We frar'
Thank Hin who placed us here
Beneath so kind Il sky-the very sun
Takes par with Us and on our errnnds rim
All brcczcs of the ocean dew and rain
Do nolseess battle for IFS; and the Year,
And all the gentle daughters In her train,
March In our ranks, and in our service WELD
Long spears of golden grain!
A yellow blossom rs her fairy shield,
June filings ollr azure banner TO the wind,
While In the order Of their birth
Her sisters pass, and many an ample field
Grows white beneath their steps, till now, behold
Its endless sheets unfold
THE SNOW OF SOUTHERN SUMMERS! Let the earth
Rejoice !-bencath those fcrces soft and warm
Our happy land shall sleep
In reposc as deep,
As 1--WE lay tntrencheu Dclllnu
Whole leagues Of Russian Ice and Arctic STORM
And what If mad with wrongs themselves have wrought
In their own treaclery caught,
BY their own fears made bold,
And leagied with him of old,
Who long since In the limits Of the North
Set up his evil tn 'one and wared with God-
What if, both mad and blinded In their rage,
Our foes should fling us down their mortal gage,
And with hostile step profanc our sod!
We shall not shrink, my brothers, but 60 forth
To meet them, marshaled by the Lord of Hosts,
And ovcrshadowrd by the mighty ghosts
Of Moultric and of Eutaw-who shall foil
Auxiliars such as thrsc2 Nor these alone,
But every stock ard stone
Shall help us but the very soil,
And all the generous Wealth II gives TO toll,
And all for which we love our noble land,
Shall fight beside, and through us, sea and strand,
The heart of woman, and her hand,
Tree, fruit, and flower, and every influence,
Gentle, or grave, or grand.
The winds in our defence
Shall seem to blow; to us the hills shall lend
Their firnnrss and their calm;
And in our stiffencd sinews We shall blend
The strength ofpine and palm!
Ill.
Look where we WILL we cannot find ground
For any moumfu song:
Call mp the casfing elements around,
And test the right and wrong!
On one side, pledges broken, creeds that lie,
Religion sunk In vague philosophy,
Empty professions, Pharisaic leaven,
Souls that would sell their birthright In the sky,
Philanthropists who pass the beggar by,
And laws which conrovert the laws of Heaven!
And, on the othar-irst, a righteous cause
Then, Honor without flaws,
TRUTH Bible reverence, charitable wealth,
And for the poor and humble, laws which give,
Not the mean ri, ,ht to buy the right TO live,
But life, and home, and health.
To doub, the issue were dstrust In God!
If in His Providence He hath dccreed
That to the peace for which we pray,
Through the Red sea of War must lie our way,
Doubt not, Oh brothers, we shall find at need
A Moses with his rod
But let our fears-Iffears we have-be still,
And turns ls to the future Could we climb
Some mighty Alp, and view the coming time.
The rapturous sight would fill
Our eyes with happy tears!
Not only for the gorlcs which the years
Shall bring us; not for lands from sea to sea,
And wealth, ai power, and peace, though these shall
But for the distant peoples we shall bless,
And the hlshcd murmurs of worlds distress;
For, to give labor to the poor,
The whole sad planet o'cr,
And save from want and crime Its hmblcst human doc
Is one among the many ends for which
God makes great and rich!
The hour perchlnce lsnotyet wholly ripe
When all shall own it, but behold the type
Of what we are and shall be to the rest
Of the broad eath in our own gulf expressed,
Which through The cold untempered ocean pours
Its genial stream, that far off Arctic shores
May sometimes catch upon the softened breeze
Strange uopic warmth and hints of summer seas!