Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-04-02

Silent, save when the battle cry
Awoke an echo, or the sky
Presaged tempest, then the shore
And forests dark joined in the roar.
Silent, save when some Indian maid
Beside the limpid water strayed
To sing and woke the woods deep aisles
With echoes, and the flowers with smiles.
Silent, save when the captive's prayer
Was wasted on the desert air,
Or the wild beasts ferocious cry
Startled the woodland, earth and sky.
In silence thus long ages passed,
But dawning day burst in at last;
The "pale face" came across the sea,
And called this land "Ameriky."
AS darkness yields to the dawning day,
So red men to the white gave way.
The forests fell ; the wild beasts fed.
And the West their hunters led.
The ground DER which the warrior strayed,
Wooing his dusky Indian maid,
Have seen some mighty city born
Or thousand acre patch of corn.
The huts laid low. fair mansions rise,
And church spires point us to the skies
And youth and age bless common schools.
Where love instead of ferule rules.
Oh, Scotia fair ! oh, Emerald Gem!
Oh, England and proud Englishmen
We would this lesson teach to you,
That Virtue is progression too.
But shall we boast when not afar
We hear the sound of civil war?
All may we boast when for the field
We must our best and bravest yield
Oh woe that e'er meath Freedoms tree
Were planted Upas slavery.
The fruit now ripened falleth down,
And treason in our land is found.
From Sumpter's walls we hear cry.
The Stars and Stripes have left the sky :
Brave Anderson and his small band
Are doomed God save our native land
Oh Carolina, sister State
Why art thou grown so big with hate?
Why dost thou rend our honored flag
And raise instead that .'secesh" rag?
IT'S Slavery's fruit that's ripen grown,
Harvest of what long since was sown.
Proud Eastern world mock not our fall
There is hope, for God ruleth DER all.
Except this sin, and where's the blot
Upon our fame? You find it not.
And this shall soon leave ev'ry State,
For LINCOLN says "EMANorPATE."
America thy name has been
Bedimmed awhile, NOT always dim;
From shadows thou art coming forth
A light for ev'ry land on earth
Again our flag shall honored be
Ger all our land, on ev'ry sea;
Our Eagle yet aloft shall soar,
And guard our rights on ev'ry shore.
America proud nupitial bower
OF Freedom ; no cloud shall lower
Around thee. Higher, and still more high
Our Eagle cleaves the bright clear sky.
Der our brave dead there yet shall be
Reared, monuments for Liberty;
And ere the century is gone.
Their names revsred with Washington.
In olden times the prophets eye,
A nations future could descry;
But where's the prophet that may see
Americas proud destiny?
Ere time shall end, and Earth shall cease,
To whirl US on through boundless space :,
Ere sun and moon shall disappear,
And planets close their bright career -.
Ere stars shall from the Heavens fall
And darkness be earth's funeral pail
Ere Earth's commissions so profound
Shall make yon mountain totter down -
Ere ocean leaves its briny bed,
And earth and sea give up their dead !,
Ere this, our land, what honor waits,
What glory, these UNITED STATES
The poets harp shall Ger sound forth,
The virtues Of East and North,
And South and West in time shall be.
The synonyms Of Liberty
America of thee we're proud
Wen sing thy praises long and loud {;
Let every hill resound afar,
AMERICA AMERICA
a. Ii. Col. Preston bought thirty-l