Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-03-10
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The Sleeping Sentinel.

sentinel at night as our readers will remember,
lell asleep, and having been condemned to die,
was pardoncd by the President. They form a
brief record OF his life at home and in the field,
and Of lis glorious death in defence of the
Union.
The Poem was first read on Monday, January
lJth, 1863, by james Il. Murdoch, the ceebra-
tel elocutonst to a select circle at the Execu-
tve Mans on, in the presence Of the President
hnl Mrs Lincoln, The arrangements for this
aiding were made, we understand, By our dis
tingushed Senator Foot. On the evening Of
the same day Mr. Murdoch read it in the Senate
Chamber Of tho United Stats, which was
spocially appropriated for the purpose and it
has since been read in other cities. Every Yer
nonter will read them with special interest j.
Lutlaa4 HerqH.
Twas in the salry sanm-r-tine, ~ wars rod records
show,
Ehsn pl.ro. a-mi's rose to meet fratricd al foe
III, from the horlh an East, and West Ike se up
hsfuns sea,
sTp or.h columbla1san,, to make our country traly
free.
haapr'oa's dIspal walls, where shadows y,Iied de-
cay
y r..sr', on heapof,r.~, youthful soldier LAY,
B-Arbrosea hopeless, and fOrora, w.A rort and
f,ed'h breath,
va.sl but tAs appointed hour To al, calprts Heath
T. rev brief Teeks before unrolbled vtha care.
r.Am'd at viii, All free. drew hs native mountain
'p,r.as streams leap mo,,y rocks from many a
woodland font
a waving eim,, and rA,,y ,,pe, give beauty to
Vermont
share, dwelling ia a. humble cot a tiIer q tho soil
Eaircei BY mother's love- he shared mhsr'. toll
borne upaa hsvlilIns Wind. bis suffering country %
D. iyoans h.ifs ia fsrvea, zeal fot her oii,s or
To- ,fhe aIate" bad tears, BY armaes, lalf con
ee.isI.
be''iag asd parting prayer and he vas 10 the fed
aed ofHre, whose lews arc blood vh9ss brse ace,
Wirshstbrssh,
''fa'@'s E'ra'''a n She gave "Ao,a husband
mAas death
B'hou' aarmlr, he endured service new and hard
b. "ear,d with Aiolsoms raarch 10 chAuesd one ght
90 guard,
n ''ns, exhausted aAi. Po,', sad the grey morning
fou1d
PROSTATE form-a,en.,n.i, asleep, upoa ,As ground
s. The silence ofths nish,, a-,ary on The SOD,
Sank tho disciples, watching tae ,aGsring son Of
CD s
yst, jesus sith compassion moved, beheld their heavy
A. iaaash betrayed to Ruthless fo'', fors,ln:, bad.
su Golslays,-and aslls mind, e,n scarcely eompre.
H.. s'als Nr'ey. ia n.' rule, may wish stern Justice
a. th poor soldier I'lrei and soaad, f'urd to
v us War. iue1orab, law ds,r.el iha, he must die.
TrA'n'fat-ia as'clale4 room, "'A measured tread
and ,or,
A'A'e,m,a -ih COMMANDING i,n, paced sr rvsy to and
orrr',sei he poader,l land BY civil di'eori rent
o. brothers armed 10 deadly t,rfe -. VA, he Ptesi-
dent
n Of thirty nfloa, au,d h, hardened heart with
tHsf,
E-aAtlei hosts, on And and sea, Acknowledged him
their caei,
A.. ,r0i,s. 1t,,,r.r h,h,,-i,h. nt,irdve efs
o. Door ,ola.r ,,b.l,, In prl.on doomed 10 die
rr., no,ni,,-oo ,.,,.l s.,l. All n-oa,s The
b.u.t 5s,.
.s,,..n,,J.,,.
.n.-,.
A., u,,,s,,i., ,,., a.. ,.,,,, u,,,d To , mual.d
A..
A. the mid,t with ALTERING STEP and pale and
lou, face
Il manacles. between two guards, a soldier had li'
place.
A youth-let out TO die and yet twas not death but
shame,
rat smot, his gallant heart with dread aud shook his
manly frame!
isvay
% TO The desgnaled SPOT vhsreon a eonin lay
II coffin Aud, Nth reeling brain, despairne, desc
late
~ took his station by /" side, abandoned to his fate
u
A"' "'''ss A'' "A''''"s "bD' s"-ns' pictures :"
he "a" his distant mountain homs he saw his parents
therci
saw them bowed with hopeless srie through last dc
chning years,
he anamsess grave and then, the vision elo''d-in
tears!