Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-12-02
THE LAND WHERE WE WERE
DREAMING.

A. ever foated out Of fancy land
Children were we in simple faith
But Yod.lke children whom nor death,
Nor threat, nor danger drive from honort path
In the laad where We were dreaming
Freud were ss meh, a. 6ttdo of birth could
render:
As yioicts our women pure and tender,
UaGI at eve the whip-poor-will,
Al u.ora the mockiug- bird were mute and still,
N tue land where re were dreaming!
Aud We had graves that covered more Of glory
Than ever taxed tcaditons ancient story =
And IN our dream we woye the thread
OfprinoipIes foI which had Oled
Aud Suffered long our own immortal dead,
H. lhs land where we were dreaming
Though in our land we had both bond and free,
Both were content, and 50 God let them be;
Till Envy coveted our Sun
And those fail fields our yalor won -
Bu: !..lle reekcd we, for we still slept on
L, the land where - were dreaming
Ous sleep grew troubled, and our dreams grew
sid
Red meleors flashed across our heavens field +;
Clinton lie moon-between The Twins
Barbsd arrows Ry and there begins
Such strife as when Disorders chaos reigns,
O'er the laud where we were dreaming
Down from her suD-m heights smiled Liberty
And waved her cap in sign Of victory;
The world approved, and egerywhere-
E1cepl where growled the Russian Bear
The good, the brave, the just gse US their
prayer
For the land where we were dreaming
We fancied that Government was ours
We challenged place among the worlds great
powers
We talked iu sleep Of rank, commission!
Un!il so life-lks grew our vision
That he who dared 70 doubt but met derisioo,
In the land " here we were dreaming!
We looked on high, banner there " as seen,
Whose field was blauched, aud spotless III its
sheen;
Chiyalry's cross It's union bars,
And veLrans swearing by their scars
Vow they will bear it through an hundred wars
In the land where we were dreaming
a figure came among US as wo slept;
At first be lowly knelt, then rose and wepl;
Then gathering up thousand srears,
He swept across the field of Mars,
Then bowed farewell, and walked behind the
stars,
From the land where we were dreaming
Wo 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, maiestic sway, of strength tower
Ia the land where we were dreaming!
AS while great Jore, in bronze, warder god
Gazed eastward lrGm the Forum where hC
stood,
Rome felt himself secure. snd free,
So-"RI chmond's safen' We said while we
Beheld bronzed hero, god-l!ks Lee,
In the land where we were 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 ilre-beils 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
Woe woe is US how strange and Sad,
That all our glorious visions fled
Have left us nothing real but our dead
lu the land where We were dreaming
And are they really dead, our martyred siam
No, ,Dreamers morn shall bid them rise egaln
From every yae--from every height
On which they seemed TO die for right,
Their gallant spirits shall renew the fight
In the land where We were dreaming
Wake Dreamers, wake none but the sleep
Ing fail
Our cause being Gods must in the end pre- vail:
Once this IhyeStean banquet DER,
Grown strong the few who bide their hour
Shall rise, and hurI its drunken guests from
power
In the land where we were dreaming.
Chamby, June, 1865.
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