The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-01-04
Poetry.
ADDRESS
Of the Carrier of The Cecil Wing,
To His Pairons-January Isl, 1862.


The tide of life doth slowly cbb,
And the tinge of sunsets rosy strcaks
Departing. leaves dcath-likc hue
l'pon his wan and wrinklcd checks.
Tncrown his noble, kingly brow
And lay aside his royal gems
Before death S sccptre he must bow
And tread ohlivion's gloomy realms.
Upon his bosom lies scroll,
Recording all the good he brought,
And hid within the mystic roll
What drcary hours with pain were fraught.
To some his skies were ever blue
And joyous birds were all in song.
Loved ones were happy. kind and true
And Summer reigncd the whole year long.
Some. from the chalice of first love
Have quahed Affections sacred vine
In dreams Elysan scared above
And brcathed an atmosphere divine.
But some, through sorrows binding tears,
Looked NJ. nor saw, save only tombs;
No rays of hope from heavenly spheres
Could penetrate death dismal glooms.
Now while We Il think of pleasures past
With him well bury all the i'll,
Till the archangcl's trumpet blast
The graves of buried years shall thrill.
From Russian hattlcmcnts he rurg
Glad notes of welcome liberty!
Far echoed the sweet sounds among
The icebcrgs of the Polar sea.
The thrones of depots shook will. fear,
Their purple wore Il paler hue,
But srrfs and slaves thrice blcst the year
That brightly colored life anew.
And Italy. that long hath knclt
Beneath the tyrant's iron rod,
And humbled in the dust hath felt
The wrath of an avcnging Cod
She. in her qucenly pride, arose
" United Italy she cried
And from her heart to Alpine bounds
The sound rolled ON like ocean tide.
From grim and hoary- frontcd walls
Where proud oppression held its sway,
He brought to Liberty $ bright halls
Rich trophies of each newborn day.
His banner folds of peace and love
Encirclrd many II foreign shore
Where shines the Southern Gross above,
And where old Albion breakers roar.
But in orr own dear native land
Hath hlazed the crimson torch of War,
No savage tribes its flames have fann'd
Nor foreign foe has reached our shore;
Yet rudcly brothers hands have swept
The chords of passion in mans breast,
And deadly hate that long had slept
Heaved bosoms into wild unrest.
Secession. with its strange, mad dreams,
Thrilled Carolina fcvcrcd brow,
And sister States drank of its streams
And brcathcl a strange. unholy VOW
Against the dear home of their youth,
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Against stern Justice and the Truth
They've ranged their savage traitor bands
Upon the grass grown graves of sircs,
WHO, fighting, fell in Freedom cause,
They've spread Rebellion's blasting fires
And cursed our Nations righteous laws.
Corrupt Disunion' $ tainted breath
Hath, far along our Southern shore,
Wrought contagion foul, and death,
And all the miscrics of war.
Oh land Of glorious liberty!
Thou idol of a nation heart!
Shall days of bright Prosperity
Forever from thy realms depart?
Where are Columbia noble sons,
Whose spirits burn to meet her foes?
Have they not heard the traitors guns,
Nor dealt Rebellion fearful blows?
Yes-scmicd columns from the East
Swept down each rugged mountain side,
When Snmters booming guns awoke
An injured Nation wrath and pride.
And from the North, and from the West,
From city, hamlet, field and fame,
To save the land our fathers hlcst
Men sought the stormy battle plain.
As fall the leaves when Autumn blows,
AS melts the snow meath Spring, war;
SO fall Coluinbia's deadly foes, [brcatl
So haste they to eternal death.
The hour of twelve falls on the ear,
SO like the step 'twixt life and death!
May Treason with the dying year
Gasp out its last, expiring breath
Ring, pealing bells, a merry chime,
Till earth and sea the music wakes;
For on the rugged shores of time
A glad, new morn III beauty breaks
Ring out. oh bells a cheering sound,
For with the blushing rosy morn
Comes earth's young king, the newly
Whose brow green oliye-boughs adorn
Hail him. We ice. cliffs of, the, North,
Sparkling in amethystnc light
Ye Southern groves send incense forth,
Aroma from your woodlands bright
The nations of the earth shall bring
The choicest gifts of every land;
Rich pearls from Indian seas, oh King,
And gold from California sand.
Spring lends her dear, cerulean skies
And Summer watts her sweet perfume,
And Autumn gives her Tyrian dyes,
And Winter rears thy silent tomb.
Aloft let Freedom $ flag still wave
Cndimmed the glory of her stars!
Strong. patriot arms are nervcd to save
Our banner from the bloody Mars.
Soon quell the storms that wildly toss
Our Ship of State on discord's sea !
Dispel the clouds that float across
The starry lustre of the Free!
Oh happy Year, ope wide the door Tlan
That shuts Heavens blessings from o.
Bring halcyon days like those of wore
Oh bless us with thine outstretched han
To REMOVE CHAFF FROM ANIMALS Eyes
ME-. S. Todd states in the Ohio Farm,
that he had valuable COW which becar
partially blinded with oat chaf, and tried t
various remedies commonly prescribed, b
80 no effect. He then took silk pool;
handkerchief drew it tightly over the end
The forctinger, and after rails ing the eye lid
much as practicable, thrust the cover
finger carefully into the eye. The ch
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