Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-11-18
CLOSE UP.

CLOSE UP.
Marches the soldier along the rough road.
Fording the river or climbing the hill
Crossing the meadow, or through the thick wood;
Comes the stern order, pressing him still,
Forward, close upl"
Weary his limbs with the terrible marches
Burning the heat that his thirsty throat parches'
Blistered his feet and thrQbbing his breast.
'on still the column denying him rest.
81. t.. ..Move on close up!"
Lingers he moment to gather q flower,
Or fill his canteen at the wayside spring;
Tempt him the cluster of a garpe-lined bower,
Sharp in his ears the chiding words ring.
ITO the ranks close up"
Tears through lhe ranks the terrible shell,
Sweeps us half down the musketry fire;
Charge the foe on us with murderous yell,
Through the fierce din swells higher and higher
The cry, "Close up"
STEADY, boys, on The foe gives way-charge
Forward Fix bayonets Double quick
March
There flies our flag. Yon's the traitors rag.
What patriot foot this day can lag?
On, boys, close upl"
Falls the captain warm on his lips the words of
Fall the brave boys, some on his left, some on his
right.
Stops not the column to shed DER the heroes even
o tear,
But tenderly stepping oer the, dead and the dy-
ing, on to the fight.
The living ''close up"
Trimmed are our ranks of their bravest and best
Scarce home not in mourning all over our land
But nations behind us, glad to offer the rest
OF her sons to the cause. Brothers, come.
Hand in hand
The war well ''close up"
The end is slightly abrupt, very likely
is the criticism you offer in reference to
the above effusion, But then you know,
your readers will wish there was more, as
Sam Weller observed to his father in JUS
tifcation of his valentine, to which the
ancient Tony was objecting that it pulled
up rather sudden"
PERpLExING QUESTIONS IN POLITICAL ECON
Perhaps there is trihe of poetic Ii
censc also in the last two lines respecting
the readiness of the nation to send the
rest of her sons Or the nation may be
more ready to send them than the sons to
come. We shall know when VIC sec the
answer to the new call for 100000 more
as national new years present. Father
Abraham isn't over modest in his calls
upon US, is he I? Its strange how our Of
fcials. having once gotten their hands in,
rejoice'to deal in big figures. its like
rouge ct noir and all sorts of gambling.
The play naturally gets deeper and deeper,
and the small stakes put up at first DO
not long answer to keep up the excitement
of the game How absurdly ridiculous
and contemptable we should all now con.
;sidder call for $4,000 men! What a
pitiful driblet of national expenditure
would million dollars day now be
held Yet time was when we thought. il
quito respectable sum. That was a year
or two ago. when we we're spending our
own, our children's and our grand.chil.
,dreu's money. Now that we are upon ouI
great-grandchildren's, and still more re-
mote unborn defendants. or rather stI
greatly beyond that, spending what We
have no idea anybody will ever pay at all
it goes as easy as running water. There
are some rather curious question in polit
ical economy. Did you ever devote your
self particularly to that science, Dear Re
publican? When nation has spent
or four times all that is worth, is it really
a great deal richer than it was before Z
Especially if it is mainly shot away il
powder and and various military project
aes9 Does the fact that is spent mainly
at home. and that the people at home hav.
furnished the money alter the case? Al
for instance, if man spends his money
in sinking shaft for a coal mine int
his own corn6eld and doesn't find any
coal I? e 4, f.s.g lnt "
But leave these deep -spcculations fol
khe present. Neither need 1 concernrmy
self ia the least in reference to the forth