Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-12-23
From the Watchman and Reflector.
THE BATTLE ABOVE the CLOUDS.

, From the Watchman and Reflector.
THE BATTLE ABOVE ThE CLOUDS.
The day had been one of dense mists and
rains, and much of Gen. Hooker's battle was
fought above the clouds, which concealed him
from eur view, but from which his musketry was
heard. ''--Gen. Meigs to Secretary Stanton, Nov.
Goth.
By the banks of Chattanooga, watching with
soldiers heed,
In the chilly autumn morning, gallant Grant was
on his steed;
For the foe had clmed above him with the ban
ners of their band.
And the cannon swept the river from the hills of
Cumberland. a...s.
Like trumpet rang his orders" Howard, Thom-
as, to the bridge!
One brigade aboard the Dunbar Storm the
heights of Mission Ridge, .N .
On the left the lodges, sherman, charge and hur
the rebels down
Hooker take the sleeps of Lookout and the slopes
before the town - ui ..
Fearless from the northern SUBMITS, looked the
TRAITORS where they lay,
On the cleaning Union army, marshaed as for
muster-day
Till the sudden shout Of battle thundered upward
its alarms,
And they dropped their idle glasses in a hurried
rush to arms.
Then together up the highlands, surely, swiftly
swept the lines,
And the clang of war above them sweled with
loud and louder signs,
Till the loyal peaks of Lookout in the tempest
seemed to throb,
And the star-hag of our country waved in somke
on Orchard Knob.
Day, and night, and day returning, ceaseless
shock and ceaseess change,
Still the furious mountain conflict burst and
burned along the Range.
While with battles cloud of sulphur mingled
densey mist and rain,
Till ascending squadrons vanished from the gaz-
esr on the plain.
From the boats upon the river. from the tents up
on the shore, r.. t....
From the roofs of yonder city anxious eyes the
clouds explore;
But no rift amid the darkness shows them father,
brother. sons, '..
While they trace the viewless struggle by the
echo of the guns.
Upward Charge for God and country! Up!
Aha they rush, they rise,
Till the faithful meet the faithless in the never
. clouded skies.
And the battlefield is bloody where dew-drop
. never falls ."..t' ... H.a NU
For voice of fearless justice to fearless ven
geance calls.
And the heaven is wild with shouting; frey shot
and bayonet keen
Clean and glance where freedoms angels battle
in the blue serene. ...r
Charge and volley fiercely follow, and the tumult
in the air -
Tells of right in mortal grappJe with rebellion
strong despair
They have conquered Gods own lepions
Well their foes might be dsmayed
Standing in His mountain temple 'gainst the
! terroIs of His aid .....r. l..
And the clouds might fitly echo paan loud and
| parting gun
When from upper light and glory sank the trai
| tor-host, undone.
They have conquered Through the region
| where our brothers plucked the palm
Rings the noise in which they won it with the
| sweetness of psalm;
And our wounded, sick and dying, hear it in
| their crowded wards,
Till they know our cause is heavens and our bat
| tie il the Lords
And our famished captive heroes locked in Rich
| mond's prison hells
List those guns of cloudland booming glad as
freedoms morning-hells
Lift their haggard eyes, and painting, with their
| cheeks against the bars,
Feel Gods breath of hope, and see it playing
with the stripes and stars. ....
| Tories safe in erpenttreason, startle as those
airy cheers
And that wild, ETHEREAL war-drum fall like doom
col upon their ears stt1g
And thatrush of cloud.borne armies, rolling back
! the nations shame,
Frghts them with its sound of judgment and its
I fash of angry fame.
Widows weeping by their fresides, loyal hearts
despondent grown t1Ur.s4
Smile to hear their country's triumph from the
gate of Heaven blown,
And the patriot-poor shall wonder. in their sim
I y pie hearts, 20 know .t lHa' ~
In the land above the thGpder their embattled
champions go. r alei P'B'
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