Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-01-01
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Lewistown, January L. 1862.

At once dirge, and cradle song
Twelve feeting months of days and nights,
Of golden suns, and silver lights,
Have wrought their change of good and Ill,
But let the Carrier faithful still,
Ready to serve you as at first,
Though Governments like bubbles burst.
Reward him then for what he brings,
And hearken to the song he sings;
1t is bot long, it shall be clear,
AS suits the history Of the year.
Il was the custom heretofore,
To paint the changes of the time,
Making the seasons come and 90,
Like pageants in his pictured rhyme.
Old Winter Ike crownless King,
And like maid, the tender Spring;
Summer, ripe, luxurious dame,
Her sunny forehead bound with leaves
And Autumn in his broad domain,
4 reaper with his golden sheayes
To-day demands different strain,
A wider range, a deeper thought,
That shall reflect the moral year,
Where man was mighty, nature naught.
1t was memorable year,
That will appear on historys page
Among the foremost blazoned there,
Perhaps an epoch of the age.
What see we on the crowded stage,
A tragedy, or comic play?
Both, blent in one, with many scenes,
Too many to revive to day.
Select we then from out the mass,
What best shall represent the year:
\ scene or two; the first IS set,
The proper actors will appear.
A year ago, when traitors ruled,
In democratic" name,
All saw our destiny was lost,
Our honor and our fame,
Unless the people in their might
Rose up in all their power,
And hurl'd the villains to the earth,
As demons of the hour.
SO stood the country, when the man
The people had elected,
Rose up and in bold voice proclaimed,
The traitors arc detected"
Behold The patriot band who stood
On Sumter's towering wall,
Where waved the banner of the free,
Upheld by one and all
Few were they who by it stood,
But hearts and hands were true,
And would have shed their best blood
Ere yielding to the traitor crew.
Then hunger came, but still they fought
As freemeu only fight,
Nerved on By men ike Anderson
Who battle for the right;
And only when all hope was gone
Came down that glorious flag,
And in its place snake" unfurled-
Carolina's dirty rag
Fast few the news Ger hill and dale,
Through gorge aud mountain glen,
And in answer to the call came forth
Six hundred thousand men,
\ few with TORY look and word,
The patriot tide would stay,
But the people frown'd and said,
" Beware of what you sayw
Still onward swelled the rebel host,
Fighting for the Niger cause,
Regardless that to them it cost
Peace, Liberty and Laws
And stranger still, while they profess'd,
With sword, gun and trigger,
To stay the I" Abolition North"
Erery traitor freed a niger
So passed the seasons, kind and bland,
Der fields of bloody strife,
Which insane acts of rebel bands
Have kindled into life
And many homes made desolate
By kindred now laid low,
who found soldiers end and grave
Where Potomac's waters flow.
Sad thought it is that this fair land,
The refuge Of the free,
Should nourish such helish band
Can it be Heavens decree?
If 50, cheer up, for no free soil,
Has felt the ills of war,
But only those who wax and toll
SlaY'ry to spread afar
" King Cotton" may call on its Lords,
Bow down its plant knee
All will be vain, the word is writ,
AMERICA MUST BE FREE
Then let England's proud Queen
Beware of the day,
When she marshals her leeions
In battle array
'Gainst freedom and right
Lest the Celt and the Gaul,
The Russ and the Scott,
The Swiss and the Teuton
With old feelings forgot,
Rise up in their might,
And under our Eagle
Proud bird of the sky
Lay low the foul despots
With aid from on high.
May the curse of all freemeu-
May famine and blight "
May wars desolation
On all those alight,
Who come, as comes England,
Like gambler or knaYe,
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