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

OF hand,
Who left their ancient homes and father
land
To give their aid upon foreign shore,
10 found q nation unsurpassed before.
When they at last this safe asylum gain,
Installed in vale, on hill and plain,
! Iyrants may their power assert in vain.
Their vengeful tEunders now awake no
fears
In the dauntless hearts Of Freedoms pior
neers.
See 10y united, noble, bold emprise,
Beneath their hand glorious empire rise,
Whose fame DER Earth extending far and
wide,
Proclaims the land where Freedoms sons
abide,
There, underneath its kind protecting
shade,
The wearied bead may be in safety laid
Oh sight sublime ne'er till now beheld,
Tween,
Equality and Justice triumphant seen.
Despalring hope her pinions plumed anew
AS broke the scene on her enraptured
view,
And upward soaring bent her eager flight
With JOY elate, toward the realms oflight,
That she might the tidings earliest bear,
To earths 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-
clap;
But now the monarch's mighty spell is
broke,
And they at last di.dain the Tyrant's yose,
And arm, strike and triumph for Liberty
Proclaim the SNxons birthright to be free.
At Hopes approach the spirits eager
And to her tale with listening ears attend
In pleased surprise, as from her tongue it
fell,
And deemed her blest to have such news
to tell.
And now the sisters grateful task being
done,
The priceless blessings told. by valor won,
And aloe the event held brief commune,
The celestial choir their harps attune,
Aud a glad triumphant chorus raise,
joyful anthem in free Columbia's praise
Now 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 threatning ill fore
tell.
Now on the nations fate dark clouds
arise,
And Hope once more to her sister spirits
hie5.
With heavy heart she wings her upward
fight.
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 lightsome easy
grace;
All with aspect clouded by doubt and fear,
Slowly approach the stricken messenger,
And when the melancholy tale was heard,
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Sorrow with tear dimmed every eve,
And anguish wrung from every heart a
sigh,
While Hope, more deeply grievod than
all the rest,
Turned her face in sadness towards the
west,
For one last lingering look at that fair
land,
Whose desolation she foresaw at hand,
Ere she folded her wings and gaYeit Ger,
To the furious tide she could stem no
more
With fearful eyes 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.
ForetelIing dark and drest ills to come,
Vi bloodshed and death within the happy
home,
OF horrors dread and forces civil war,
OF cruel DeYastation's' dreadful car,
And all attendant ills that in their train,
Concur the peoples bravest blood todrain,
Ny 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 mislortunes therein foretold,
May Heaven in time avert the fearful
blow; -
And spare the land this dreadful scene of
woel
| would long ore 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,
on may another New Year pr owe them
wrong
Then can greet you with livelier song.
The New Haven Conn., city election,
on Friday resulted in an emphatic Demo.
cratic victory, The Democratic majority,
in poll of 5 900 votes, is about 500. The