The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-11-23
The Land HHe1.c Ne t,.,re Drc1m-
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Fair were our visions Oh they were grand
81 As ever lioated out Of fancy land;
Children We're we in simple faith
But god-llke children whom nor death,
NJ Nor threat, nor danger drive from honor path
q In the land whore we were dreaming!
Proud were our men, as pride of birth could
render:
As violets our women pure and tender,
Until at eve the whip-poor-wiIl
At morn the hooking bird, We're mute and STILL
In the land where We were dreamngl
4 And we had graves that covered more Of glory
n Than ever taxed traditions ancient story =
And in our dream we wove the thread
4 OF principles for which had bed
And suffered long our own immortal dead.
In the land where we We're dreaming!
4 Though in our land wehatl both bond and free,
n Both were content, and so God let them be;
Till Envy coveted our Sun
" And those fair fields our valor won:--
n But little reeled We for we still slept on
In the land whore we Were dreamingl
Our sleep grew troubled, and our dreams grew
Wild;
Red meteors flashed across our heavens field;
Crimson the moon--between the Twins
N Barbed arrows fly, and there begins
&.euch strife as when Disorders chaos relgns,
E Ger the land where were drcamngi
Down from her sun-lit heights smiled Liberty
And waved her cap in sign Of victory;
The world approved, and everywhere
N Except where srowled the Russian Bear
Il The good, the brave, the just gave us their
PRAYER
n For the land where we were dreaming!
n We fanecd that a Government was ours
We challenged place among the worlds great
powers;
We talked in sleep of rank, commission,
Until so life-like grew our vision
That he who dared to doubt but met dersion,
In the land where we were dreaming
We looked on high, a banner there seen,
Whose field WAS banehcd, and spetless in its
sheen;
Chivalry's cross its union bars,
n And vet rams swearing by their scars
u Vow they will bear it through an hundred wars
In the land where we were dreaming!
A figure came among us as we slept
I At first he lowly knelt, then rose and wept;
Then gathering up thousand spears,
He swept across the field of Mars,
Then bowed farewell, and walked behind the
stars,
From the land where We were dreaming!
We looked again-another figure still,
Gave hope, and nerved each individual will
Full of grandeur, clothed with power,
Self-poised, erect, he ruled the hour
With stern, maj estic sway,-ofstrength tower,
In the land whore we We're dreaming
As while great .Jove, in bronze, q warder god,
Gazed eastward from the Forum where he
stood,
Rome felt himself secure and free,
So" Richmonds safe!' we said while We
Beheld bronzed hero, god-ike Lee,
In the land where we We're dreaming!
As wakes the soldier when tn alarum calls
As wakes the mother when the infant falls -
As starts the traveller when around
His sleepy couch the tire-bells sound, :
So woke our nation with single bound
In the land where we were dreaming
Woe woe is us! the startled mothers cried
While we have slept our noble sons have died
Wool woe is us how strange and sad,
That all our glorious visions fled
Have left us nothing real but our dead
In the land where we were dreaming
And are they really dead our mart yred slain
No, Drcnmers morn shall bid them rise again!
From every vale-from every height
On which they seemed to die for right,
Their gallant spirits shall renew the fight
In the land where We're dreaming
Wake. Dreamcrs, wake none bat the sleep
ing fail;
Our cause being God must in the end prevail
Once this Thycstean banquet o'er
Grown strong the few who hide their hour
Shall rise, and hurl its drunken guests from
power
In the land where we were dreaming
Chambv. juno, 1865.
--PltLfisLeR Ty yr01,cSf