Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-09-12
rok TEE WIG
BALLAD OF TIE CAVALIERS.
BY JOIN W. cvERALL.

plhhitu idCD VI isaAI
Ye knights beyond the hood,
For 10 | the Roundhesd q lsiis again
Bsiore the better blood.
For long, long years the cloud of var
Was gathering DER the land,
II seemed no larger In the tky,
Than was the Prophets hand
Fleet footed time ran swiftly or,
The cloud grew thick and great,
Within is lurked thuaderbolt
Big with a nations fate.
There il joy among all patriot men,
There Is lauE liter, toast and song,
Wbsa Gods Own Right shalt trampls down
The islss, Satanic Wrong
Toere was Joy when lrI IN the Union tomb
B.set by Union foes,
Tae South, in FreeiOm's robes aFfsyed,
Christ like in glory rose.
ITO your tents o TsraeP-the cry
Rung from each S.uthern mou'h,
Al every hill vas Wbito with tents,
Throughout the fiery South;
40 LncolJ knsve aud bigot TOOL,
With s-pen fright now see,
TIE AIshirg ost that rally round
The Apostles oil the Tree.
Yes, round the Apostles Of the free,
Lagions of warriors stand,
Each soldier fights for Southern Rights,
God and his Sunny Lsuti
Deatbless the glory Of the brave,
Fame shall their triumph swell,
Linked forever are theis names
With Ho!er, Bruce and ell
Bol gAllsnts OF the glorious South,
whose CANVASS Giles CLEAN
Bel cath our over.archipg skies.
By mountain side aud stream
Ye meet to-day 10 deadly fray,
The Puritan Of Old,
Who uorshipa Error as bis god,
And lusteth after gold
Miles S.sndish Is uOl dad, but lives,
With all his piOus hjck,
The native kuaye, the ready slave,
Yet spri"g3from Plymouth Rock
And plain to every gentleman
Who bates the biTtl:Ig race,
Tbas Oromvelfs cat Is on their tohgus,
And kaiher in their face !
The Cavalier TIE Puritan
Way, since the world began,
Was not the mean, the bsse, the false,
S,orped by the gentleman
Il IS 10 marvel, then, that men
Should sccnrge with wSip and thong,
To goddess robbers Ct their kind
The doors OF tho wrong.
Al bitter was the Wintfy day,
When Leyden saw depart,
Toe MAJ aDwer, from B .tsysn shores,
With many gulleiul hear;
All better Tor the world Of men,
II 10 the Wild seas leap,
Both ship and Pilgrim b. gone down
Tea thousand fa!hems deep!
Hur h they dream uneasy dreams,
Woo forge the cAnSipg chain
Bur-.h their hearts are pale with fear,
Tnose demon sons OF Gin
The ooss fog Tyrant stands agtasi,
Il miuions quake With fear,
Tor Heaven battles for the SoutS,
AID guards the Volunteer
In every down trod lsrsel,
TIA haeling time discloses,
& hind the biz ug pillar Of tire,
The people tnd a Noses
Cose up the ssrri'd ranks, We braves
Bar Freedoms AIG def ant,
The Promised Land Of glory cones
To souls all sell reliant.
Room for the gallant cavaliers!
The oil tipe comes sgain,
OF Mother Land you breed once moro,
A noble race OF men
Room fer the Dig OF triple bars
Room for the gli;tering s,,eIl
Room for he Arnold VII kehi,ds
Who bear nations Wea.
They come from Georgla's sylvan ome',
F,om Allbams's hills,
Fron where the Mississippi roils,
Fed by myriad r.ll';
Out from the dark and bloody eIOaBi,"
Down By the Corgaree,
Aud where the Colorado llws
To meet TIE sounding sca.
They Gene from where the lordly JIHes
Hs kindred waters GEEK,
Aud where the Shenandoah goes
To wed the Chesapeake
From where the AileehaRian peaks
l. (, cisuts Frauoly rise,
Whose gtsti'e hesd, for rge5 yrCppei
TIE blue Virginia skies
H1rrsh the day Of Yankee rule
VIII EcNe. c, me- again,
TIE Sru,h, 20 loug the siaVe Of Wong.
1, sw,yei ~ s uthsrn me0
Hdfral or Day Of glory dgTrs
Our II = tho world sisll sec
Float O'cr NSiipn VAT ard great,
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