Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-02-03
claw and Liberty.'

ohI CltN'lN NtICtAN dAt Ah4bb'ih- 'A'''
the soldiers measured tramp;
Among our bladcd cornfclds CLEAN the
white tents Of the camp;
The thundcrs of the rousing war. hush
Labor's drowsy hum,
And heavy to the ground the first dark
drops of battle come 4;
The soul, of men flame up anew, the mar
row heart expands;
And woman brings her patient faith to
nerve her cager hands.
Thank God, we are not buried yet, though
long in trance We lay;
Thank God the fathers need not blush
10 own their sons to-day.
Oh slow and sad.the weeks went by
each held his anxious breath,
Like one who waits in helpless fear some
sorrow great a. death.
Oh scarcely was there faith in. God, nor
any trust in man,
While fast along the Southern sky the
blighting shadow ran;
1t veiled the Stars, one. after one, it
hu,hed the PATRIOTS song,
And stole from men the sacred sense that
parted right and wrong.
Then a--rcd flash like lishtning's CLEAN
across the darkness broke,
And with a voice that shook the land the
guns of Sumpter spoke:
HWake, SONS of heroes, wake. The age
of heroes dawns again:
Truth takes in hand her ancient sword
and calls her luyal men.
Lo. brightly DER the breaking day shin
eth Freedoms holy star.
Peace can not care the sickly time. All
hail the healer, War;
That call was heard by Plymouth Rock,
twas heard in Boston Bay;
Then, up the pincy streams of Maine,
sped on ita,ringin- way;
New TIampshirc's rocks; Vcrmonts green
hills, it kindlcd into flame;
Rhode Island felt her mighty soul burst
ing her litlc frame;
The Empire City started up, her golden
fettcrs rent;
And meteor Ike across the North the
fiery message sent;
Over the breezy prairie land, by bluff
and lake it ran;
Till Kansas bent his arm, and laughed to
find himself man;
Then on by cabin and by camp, by stony
wastes and sands,
1t ran exuItant down the sea where the
golden city stands.
And wheresoe'r the summons came, there
rosa an an,rrV din
As when upon rocky coast a stormy
tide comes in;
Straightway the fathers gathered voice,
straightway the sons arose
With flushing check as when the East
with days red current CLOVIS.
Hurrah the long despair is past our fad
ing hopes rencw;
The fos is lifting from the land, and, 10
the ancient blue,
We learn the secret Of the deeds the sircs
have handed down
To fire the youthful patriots zeal and
lend his green renown.
Who lives for country, through his arm
feels all her forces flow;
IT'S easy to be brave for Truth as for the
rose 10 dow
q Law. fair form of Liberty Gods
light is on thy brow;
n Jibcr,v. the soul of Law, Gods very
self art thou
One the clear rivers sparklinr flood that
clothes the bank in Green.
And one the line of s;ubb,rn rock tbat
bnlls the waters in.
Pr;.nJs whom We can not think ,nart
sco,o;ny each otbcr's fae-
Twin flowers upon = single stalk with
canal crace that ,rrow-
n ca, ;Jn,s We write vour n,mo. ,cross
ian nr tanncr,s c,iI.
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God give us Law in Liberty, and Liberty
in Law.
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