The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-07-30
SONG or THE VERNoSTERs.
1870.

IA his crisis We lhink It n0, inappropriate %
publish uie fallosing song, vhish was extremely
popular Il ths period u iis ars, pstlieation. Il
vil be seea from receat var reports that the
sous q Vermont haye lost none q ihe.r spirit
from lspss u time Eus JoCR.I
Ho al 70 tie borders Yermonters. come down,
I With your hrec hes II deer skin, and jackets u
brown
Mith your red poyien caps, ami your moccasius,
come
/ To DE gathering summons q trumpet and dram.
coue down With your rife. let gray Wolf ana
fox
I Howl GA the shade q their primitive rocks;
let the bear feed securely from rig-pen and sal
Here's two-leggel game for your powder aud
bali
+ llo--all io the rasruei For Satan shall work
( 80 gain tor his legieus of Hampshire and York :
/ They claim our possessions tie pitful knayes-
The tribute rc pay, shall bs prisons and graves
let Clinton and Ten Brock, with brides in their
hands,
SUI seek to divide as, aud parcel our lands,
} We've coats for our traitors whoever they are;
The warp Is ofteattcrs the filling Of tar!
Docs the "old bay State threaten, Does Con-
gress complain
Swarms Hampshire IN arms on our borders again.
/ Bark the war-dogs Of Britain aloud on the lake i
/ Let 'cm come; = what they caa. they are welcome
to take.
/ What seek they among us The pripe Of our
wealth
Il comfort, contentment, and labor and health,
And lands which, as fIeemen, We only have trod,
independent Of all, save the mercies Of God
Set We owe 30 allegiance; We bow to no throne;
Cur ruler is law, aud the law Is our own;
Our leaders themselves arc our own fellow-men,
Who can handle the sword, or the scythe, or the
pen.
Our wives are all true and our daughters are fair,
With their blue eyes of smiles, and their light
flowing hair,
Al brisk at their wheels till the dark cyen-fall,
Then bliihe at the sleigh-rde, the husbing, and
ball
We've sheep on the hill sides; we've COWS on The
/ plain;
Aud gay-iasselol corn-ields, and rank-growing
grain
There are deer on the mountains; and wood
pigeons dy
From the crack OF cur muskets, Ike clouds on the
sky.
i And there's fish in our strcamlets and rivers,
/ which take
Their course from the hills to our broad-Josomed
| Through roek-arched Winoosh the salmon leaps
free,
And The portly shad follows al fresh from the sea
Like sunbeam the piekerel gliles through his
/ pool;
And the spotted trout sleeps where tie water is
COOL
/ Or darts from his shelter Of rock and Of root
At he beavers quick plunge, or the anglers
pursuit
Aud ours are tie mountains, which awfuly rise
Till they rest their green heads on the blue Of the
skies;
1 Aud ours are the forests unwasted, unsl on,
Save where the wild path Of the tempest is torn.
And though sayagcand wild be this climate ofours,
Aud brief be our season of fruits and Of flowers,
+ Far dcarcr the blast round our mountains which
raves,
Than the sweet summer zephyr, which breathes
over slaves
/ llurrah for VERMONT for the land which we till
4 Must have sons to defend her form valley and hill
Leave tlattfst W lllc hElu "
And the reapiug Of wheat for the reaping Of foes.
From far Michiscouis wild valley, 70 where
\ poosoomsuck steals down from his wood-cireled
/ lair,
/ From Shosticook river 10 Lutterlock town.
4 lIo-- all to the rescue Vefmonters, come down
Come York or come Hampshire, come traitors
and knayes;
4 We rule DER our iand, We shall rule DER our
grares
! Our vow is reeorded-our banner unfurled;
/ In the name Of Vermont We defy all he loorid