New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-08

Hath not the Morning dawned with added light
And shall not Evening call another star
Out of the infinite regions Of the night
To mark this day in Heaven? At Last, we are
Shall soon behold in many distant port
5E .ts Another flag unfurled!
Now come what may, whose favor need we
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Thank him who placed Us here
Beneath SO kind q sky, the very sun
Takes part with us, and on our erraHds run
All breezes of the ocean dew and rain
20 noiseless battle for ua and me me Yea, Year'
March in our ranks; and in our service WELD
fz Long spears Of golden grain I'VE
A yellow blossom as her fairy shield, 5s. j. Z,
June g hsr szdre ,hs ss e e her as 1s
Her sisters pass, and many an ample field
Grows white beneath their steps, till now, behold
Its endless sheets unfold ss,
The Snow g souTHERE sunaERss s Lst me- sns EARN
Our happy land shall sleep
In repose as deep, -@f@Ssf
As If we lay entrenched behind Z
Whole leagues Of Russian ice and Arctic storm!
And what If mad with wrongs themselves have
In their own treachery caught, 5@s6
By their own fears made bold,
~ And leagued with him OF old, tt
Who long since in the limits of the North -
Set up his evil throne, and warred with Cod
What II all mad and blind with rage, -. =.
Our f6ss should fling Us down their mortal gage,
And with hostile step profane our sod
We shall not shrink, my brothers but go forth
To meet them, marshaled by the Lord Of Hosts,
And overshadowed BY the mighty ghosts
Of Moultrie and Of EutaW! Who shall foil
AuXiliars such as these nor these alone
.g Il But every stock and stone ~
Shall help us; but the very soil, ~
And all the generous wealth it gives to toll, ss
And all for which we love our native land
Shall fight beside and through s-sea and strand,
- The heart Of woman and her hand, =
Tree, fruit and flower, and every influence
Gentle, or grave, or grand
sfSa The winds in our defence s t*%sl
Shall seem to blow; to US the hills shall lend ~
Their firmness and their calm;
And in our stffened sinewB we shall blend
'7@' The strength Of pine and palm tss5s- w
4, Nor would we ahun the battle ground,
Though weak as we are strong :. 4.
Call up the clashing elements around,
And test the Right and Wrong 50 r.
On one side, creeds that dare assume to teach
What Christ ferbore, and Paul refused topreach
Codes that excuse q violated pledge, g5E ID
And Charity that whets poignard's edge
| Fair schemes that leave the neighboring poor ~
| To starve and shiver at the rich mans door,
While in the worlds most liberal ranks enrolled,
| He turns some vast philanthropy to gold;
| Religion, taking every earthly form
| But that pure and Christian love makes warm,
Where not to vile fanatic preston urged,
Or not in vague PHILOSOPHERS submerged,
| Repulsive with all Phariziac leayen,
| And making laws to stay the laws of Heaven!
| And on the other scorn Of sordid gain,
| Unblemished Honor, Faith without stain,
| Truth, Bible reverence, charitable Wealth,
| And, for the poor and humble, laws which give
Not the mean right to buy the right to live,
But life, and home, and health! gs't' H
| To doubt the issue were distrust in God
| If in His Providence he hath decreed TX
That to the peace for which we pray, :
Through Red Sea Of War must lie our way,
Doubt not, o brothers we shall find at need
I A Moses with his rod So
Bnt let our fears--if fears we have-be still,
And turn US to the future Could we climb
| Some mighty Alp, and view the coming time,
The rapturoas sight would fill SO.
| Our eyes with happE tears; 81. 3
| Not only for the glories which the years ~. =
| Shall bring US, not for lands from sea to sea,
| And wealth, and power, and peace, though thes
shall be; \ gsr.t.a ,6s
| But for the distant peoples we shall bless, .
| And the hushed murmurs of a worlds distress!
For to give labor to the poor,
, The whole sad planet o'er,
| And save from want aud crime the humblest dool
| Is one among the many ends for which d.
| God makes US great and rlch
| The hour perchance is not yet wholly ripe
When all shall own it, but the fitting type
| Whereby we shall be known through every land
Is that vast gulf which laves our Southern strane
! And through the cold untempered ocean pours
Its genial streams, that far off Arctic shores 8
| NAV sometimes catch upon the softened breeze ),
Strange tropic warmth, and hints of Summer seas