Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-02-15
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WEEP! FOR YOUR COUNTRY WEEP!
Weep! grey haired Sires-your Country's fall is
great,
You sure have cause to be disconsolate
her former majesty-her might and power,
Array before you, and lament this hour
Remember all her glory, how the sun
sh0ne on Nation, prosprous happy, one!
North South, East, West, together ftly joined,
Rights from one taken, from all purloined!
With ready aim, united she arose,
10 welcome friends, or quell presuming foes.
Weep. grey haired Sires-remember Washington,
And the bright Iaurels that his valor won;
Remember all the wise, the brave, and good,
Who by their native, we'll loved Country stood
Still through her struggles with undaunted front,
Forgetting self, they bore the battles brunt,
Then soldiers, statesmen, orators, combined
With force of arms, and all the Po~'r Of mind
Freedom to win-and long each well known name,
Shall shine with lustre, on the book of fame
Weep! grey haired Sires-you ,oeU remember
those
True patriots who in later days arose
Low in their honoured graves, all quiet lay
Unmindlul Of the strife, Webster-Clay-
With words of eloqucnce, they sought to bind
The love of Uniun on Nations mind.
But the great lesson was so lightly learned,
The time has come in which their teaching spurned
Faction hath raised her hand and struck the blow,
And Union struggles in her last death throe.
Weep grey haired Sires-you knew better time,
Your eyes looked forth upon 4 scene sublime.
State upon State, as brothers, Joined in love
Blcst upon earth, and smiled on from above,
Peace, as river, undisturbed flowed on
And in time Of peace your sons were born.
Yes! for your Country weep! the world may
mourn,
When the sad news, upon the breczes borne,
To breathlesS, lst'ning nations, shall disclose
The story Of our ruined Country's woes.
Weep! stalwart men--be not ashamed to shed
rears-bitter tears-your Country's hope is dead;
Peace stands, with weary heart, and look forlorn,
And War, ".riu visaged," g:ds his armor on
Impatient waits to send his fiery breath,
Der all the land, and scatter ruin-death.
Dark is the hour and mid increasing gloom
Is plain portrayal your Couutry's future doom,
Torn by contention, ruined lost! undope-
Where shall strife end d!-when once alas! begun.
Freedom, cen now, our own bright plumaged
bird
Uneasy grown-upon her nest is stirred;
When breaks the clash of arms upon her ear,
And strife froternal, she shall see and hear,
Her wild notes striking on the troubled air,
Back TO her haunts she'll fy-in last despdir.
The world may mourn and weep for her in vain,
Where shall arise her cherished form agaiuf
Where shall tie smiling earth her praises sing
And sons be born, amid rejoicing.
Weep gentle Mothers-Daughters, Sisters, all
Weep aud lament your well loved Country's fall.
Sal are the scenes on which your eyes must rest,
And bitter woe, shall wiring each bleeding breast.
Brothers, and Husbands, Sons-so fondly reared,
Must meet the darkest fate eer pictured-feared.
Wild the contention bitter is the hate!
Which civil euds and civil wars create.
So hatred, jealousy, inspired Cain
To look unmoved upon brother slain.
Weep, Mothers weep !-as our first parents wept
Ger him who did the doed--o'er him who slept;
Are ye thus doomed to look upon the day,
When cause divided decked in array,
Brothers. whom North and South alone divide,
Their blood snail mingle in a CORY tide.
On your unwilling ear strange sounds shall break
With the dread din which strife and warfare make,
Shall nngle groans and tears, and prayers too
late,
Ascending-to avert impending fate.
Then Mothers weep and none will sure de-ide
The grey haired manor him Of stalwart pride,
Who to his Country, loved so well, so true,
Shall, weeping, bid long, last adieu.
Alas! her glory, honor, power, might,
Hare-like enchantment-passd from sight;
To this sad time. then, surely tears belong
Yes even from the wise, the brave, the strong,
Should we not weep, in long, in lost amaze,
And call from mcm'ry's depths our better days!
Nj. II. NJ.