Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-03
MEMPHIS APPEAL


CARRIERS
As sons strong bark that long and sterny
The eSses that suert it Ter the ocean 8 breast
hetulrs, FROM every binowy danger
To iniehoF in its Wished-for port Of resi-
Comes the APrEAI, its merry trials paste
Hack 20 IL friends and native place al N
How vexed il wandered. and how far it fed,
To other pens the story must beionA
What dangers braved by watens running req
Re5-5anded war was On is dying track,
lair peace returned ana sNeetiy hhAieu II DICK
where'er st fixed. All painting from the flight,
II heard the sWfh pursuers bngie horn
MOI long deisSeas ~ "A 49, :, - a95,aG
what plains would trembie and what hin
What heroes faii, what manly hearts would
break.
Four yrar it lived, though death was all
Ths ringing rife ard the bursting shell
6aid painting valoT prone upon the ground,
And bajhed the land In sorrow, but too we'll
SIN. DER the ashes ef each trampled thing,
me risen s.as beheld Il lingering.
Thou sunny soathl land Of the trailing vine,
where paradise descends and smiles through
whate'eris lair and peerless, all IS thine
The wrecks thai marthy beauty, al are ours
Where on thy bosom beauty breathed rs
TIE hand ofmsn hath sown the seeds OF death.
Thy fields, that gave the quick and golden fruit
That rpens IN the trackso enterprise,
An thick wish weeds, = Covert for the brute,
Me zrave where baffed hope in ruin lies
There hath contentious fierce and laundering
len It's fen trace, the gaping groove OF war.
Fair. butlioi strong, brave, but in nurabsrs few,
SlecaSt herchHllenge 1.-THE mastering North;
And vgleu her ranks 90 fatal thfnness grew.
And distant legions still came pouring forth.
One struggle made how thick her bullets few!
How rang her Eabres! twas her Naieriool
-
OI au-ter roundh her Capitol 30 bold
O'ar is iorn shreds q gazing world shall gloss,
As 70 the hands that bore &c was not cold.
To rss no more, withthat which gave Il birth,
Jts bed shall be the trampled dust Of earth.
How swift they feui friends 50 beloved-sO
The very flowers Of truth and ehivalryi
The shallow earta was on their boSoms swept,
While yet the carnage held its rsvelryl
Tie daisy, rooted in their breasts shall bloom
The rose and violet there co8tend for room.
How spread the silver DER each manly head,
How gathered youth into the arms Of age,
and red.
shat an De tod on some historic page.
The years were only four, but oh, their cost ,
Al else beside the immortal soul, was lost!
me frozen hul where night the soldier caught
and held in cold embrace tin morn returned,
Was not with deeper. deadlier anguish fraught.
Than where the weeping wlie's pale embers
About he1 Knees the hands Of childhood chung,
While hunger plead upon each tendert9ngue.
Ruin was everywaere-the arctic night
Descended on SIS isles forever drear,
Isnot more cheerless meath us Northern Light
Tea: lends a spectral aspect 10 al far,
Than this fair chime, when hung from cut the
arms
OF wasting war, and left to its alarms.
lis past-the camp fires now are all uulit;
me morning drum hath lost Its deadly beat /;
The soldier round his humble hearth dOth sit,
And many a tale Of Ea-lanlry repeat
10 H-aLH - LwAn~ m#aH ave mis- nTaEEW
hath heard.
And brought back him to all by love endeared!
Delightful Cty-scene Of early toll
And later triumph! back 70 thee again
TIE wanderer comes. but laden with no spoil
Erung from the stores Of poverty ana pain.
Here IL shall weu-whatever fate may come,
Memphis that was, shall ever be its home!
There is = shadow circling round its head,
4 void where drops the gnaccustOmed tear,
Il voice Is on the air which speaks HIN deau,
VINO watched ana loved IL many a golden
The mournfuI bell his funeral note hath toled,
Theclay that wraps him now is not more cold!
Nobility was stamped upon his face;
sweet S. q ehilds his disposition grew
A. oEce the pride and mirror 81 his race
To friends eer constant, and % honor true
The dement's ue'er formed a better man
% clay and passion, than M-cClauahan.
He viii be meurned. bat grief can ne'er repair
The ruin len where long his spirit dwelt:
There is q sorrow round his vacant chair,
though all unseen, It's deeply. darkIv felt.
Green shall his memory live, as time doth dress
bis grave with love and flowers OF tenderness
- thou etlerial Peace, by heaven restored
Tiny wing j. resting now from shore TO shore
BY every cline, by every heart adored,
Leave Us 70 wars red revelry no mOrei
Within thy breast, Tor al Is ample room
Round field and hearth in virgin beauty
bloom
Come. lasting Friendship thou long drenched
In gore.
In crystal waters wash thy stains awayl
Return and dwell. all radiant as before.
Within these Ststes til Natures final day
AIMED for one cause. GIT with one pure in
tent.
Morn breaks. The ashes Of a ruined year
Are heaped around Us. From the East the
car
or the new one is crushing Ger Its bier,
While fair Aurora pales the morning star.
Farswell-may JOY AMI laughter round you
ring I
Love clothe each life and give each spirit