The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-10-08
For the Bulletin. ..Fs-
Lines on Seeing Regiment Pass.
MAY 1862.


Whv are those soldiers passing here,
With their rifles keen and their gianeing spear3
WHY do their arms send back tie ray q
of the orient sun of glorious Maya li-
And why, their red and gold we mark,
And the girded sword, and the lapce's spark,
Their thoughtful brow and their gallant Inien,
Do our hearts chill, gazing on the scene'
WHY, as the streaming flag floats high
On the morning breeze of the azure sky,
With its stripes and stars unfoded free
To the tameless winds of liberty, $50
Do we all unconscious heave a sigh
Ger the how'r of Columbia passing by9
Brave men from the sturdy North are they,-
From throng'd baEaarof city gay; s-.
Men from the proud Atlantic States,
Where feet Of Empire City waits:
Men from New-En9land's mountain shades,
Men from Iowas forest glades, .- ... -
Sons from the pIny hills Of Maine,
And distant Kansas shadowy plain'
Men from Ohio's woody breaks ---fz. ...---.
From the pcopled shores of the town-girt lakes.
And brave volunteers from Hibernia's Isle
Who in face of the foe meet death with smile.
But why. as those swelling leGions come,
With wbistling fife and pealing drums
Their gathering thousand sweeping down
Bearing on like a torrent from CITY and town
Why, as we mark them, day by day r
In weary march of wars array, -.l< q
As the shiveIing clank of stee we heed
AID the heavy tramp Of the battle steed
And hark to the brief commanding word,
That hath fash those columns surrad, -
Moving as ocean backward TolPd,
Does the tear drop fall and tie blood run cold!
And why, as we hear the martial horn
On the Silly breath of the quiet morns -
Bugle and fife and clarion gay --- ...-.a..
And roaring drums together play
Do our spirits fail, do our hearts sink low
And again the warm tears fiowE
There was erst, day when with Joy and pride
We beheld our flag on the brceZes ride;
With its radiant stars and stripes unfurld
To the eager gaze OF won lering world,
.WheG our national airs we loved to hear,
Without a sorrow or q tear; -........-
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With trium phant voice and eXultant shout;
Those notes that of old on the battle field
with comminRling cries of victory peal'd.
Where the shades of our sires is hovering yet
(1seY scenes that America meier shall forget.
Ave soldiersI thus did your fathers fall,
Where the ca mon clouds smoke was their
funeral pail:
+ f7o1I sLns mid the roar of bomb and shell, 80
rbe booming gun was their arting Enell.
Thev perish'd defending this hallog'd land.
From a foreign rule, from despot's hand.
T1;li- i-tba proud flag of England was stricken low
Bat now, alasl tits dill rent str1fe, ,. .-r-
With domestic woe and dissension rife
We stand, with shame and fear aghast,
At what hath been prov'd in the bitter past
AIasi that cen here. on freedoms sod
In 'f;,re of our country, in sight of God;
BROTHER from brothers forc'd 10 fee -
At the very shrine of liberty
Rrother 'painst brother wields the brand
'pamorxeiess with murd'rous handl
AIssi that we're doom'd in grief and amaze
on scenes of such carnage WIG 70 gaze
To behold our nations patriot oIood
SSfoot;no the land in a wastefpl hood!E
: oh diTeful warI what ruin dread -
In thy snrging streams of CORY red, ,,-,,..n..L
" hat destruction giyenin my Ereck,eSh Hs"'
= Thou phisi ofheaven's most bitter wIa.n!
Stay. valiant warriors! champions stay
FOR peacs shall yet win the contested cav
Wipe the sweat and dust from your pro"I oiA'
men, 50
sbeathe your fiery Weapons once again,
Tat the yepgeful sword in its scaobard rest,
Let the fame of red ire die out in your 9reaso;
For these evils shall cease when oy He"' eA
Pa.esShovers again DER the land of the free:
When the North and the South shall as pIethre
embrace, c
As hearts of one bosom, as sons ofone race,
Then proudly ..'sthe Star Spanglcd banner siiA
wave . Al.
Der the land of the free and the homo OF th
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