Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-09
Anion and Smeriean.
L..D WHERE WE WE'RE DREAMING.

ny DAN. LUCAS, or JEFFERSON COUNTY. Va.
Fair were our visionsl Oh. they were a. grand
As ever foated out Of Fancy land =
Children were we in single faith.
but God-like children. Hhyn uYT death.
Nor threat. nor danger drove from Honor path.
In the land where we were dreaming
Proud were our men, as pride Of birth could
As yiaIets. our women pure and tender:
And when they spoke, their voice did thrill
Until at eve, the whip poor viii, -
At morn the mocking bird. were mute and still
In the land where we were dreaming.
Aud we had graves that covered more Of glory
Than ever taxed traditions ancient story;
Aud in our dreams We woye the thread
OF principles for which had blad
And suffered long our own immortal dead
Ia the land where we were dreaming.
Though in our land we had both bond and free,
Both were contents and so God let them be
Till envy coveted our land
And those fair fields our valor won,
But little rocked we, for we stll slept on
In the land where we were dreaming.
Our sleep grew troubled and our dream grew
wild
Red meteors flashed across our Heavens Gcld
Crimson the moon: between the Twins
Barbed arrows fly, and then begins
Such strife as when disorders Chaos reins
In the land where we were dreaming.
Down from her sun lit heights smiled liberty
And waved her cap in sign of Victory
The world approved, and everywhere
Except where growled the Russian bear.
The good the brave. the just gave us their prayer
In the land where we were dreaming.
We fancied that a Government ours
We challenged place among the worlds great
We talked in sleep Of Rank, Commission
Until 20 life-like grew our vision,
That he who dared 10 doubt, but met dcrisiOn
In the land where we were dreaming
We looked on high a banner there was seen.
Whose field was blanchcd and spOtlcss IN its
Chivalry's cross its Union bears.
And veterans swearing BY the scars
Vowed they would bear 1t through hundred
In the land where we were dreaming.
A hero came amongst us as We slept;
At first he lowy knelt-then rose and wspt
Then gathering up a thousand spears
lie swept across the field Of Mars;
Then bowed farewell and walked beyond the
stars
In the lard where we were dreaming
We looked again: another figure still
Gave hope, and nervod each individual will
Full Of grandeur, clothed with power,
Sef-poised, erect, he ruled the hour
With stera majestic swsy-ot strength a tower
In the land where we were dreaming
Gazed eastward FROM the Forum where he stood,
Rome felt herself secure and free,
SO "Bichmond's safe" said, while we
Behold bronzed Hero-GOd-lkc Lee,
In the land where we were dreaming.
As wakes the soldier when the alarum calls
As wakes the mother when her infant falls
A. starts the traveller when around
His sleeping couch the fire bells sound
So woke our nation in "A single bound
In the land where we were dreaming.
Woe! woe IL me I the startled mother cried
While we have slept our noble sons have died!
Woe! woe is mel how strange and sad,
That all our glorious vision - fled
And left ms nothing real but the dead
In the land where we were dreaming.
And are they really dead, our martyred slain
No! dreamers! morn skall bid them rise again
From every vale-irom every height
ON which they sccBcd to die for right
Their gallant spirits shall renew the fight
In the land where we were dreaming.