Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-04-27

P O E TR Y
In the Land Where we We're Dreaming.
81 BY DAN LUCAS OF JEFFERSON CO., VA.
Fair were our yisionsl Oh they were as grand
AS ever foated out of Fancy land ae
/ Children were we in single faith,
But God-like children, whom, mgr death.
Nor threat, nor danger drove from Honor path
+ In the land where we were dreaming.
Proud were our men, spride ofbirth could render
AS violets, our women pure and tender; 742
And when they spoke, their voice did thrill
ear Until at eve the whip-poor-will,
At morn the hooking bird, were mute and still,
In the land where we were dreaming.
And we had graves that covered more of glory
Than ever taxed traditions ancient story;
And in our dream we wove the thread
Ofprinciples for which had bled
And suffered long our own immortal dead,
In the land where we were dreaming.
Though in our land 10Th bond and free,
Both were content, an let them them. be.
Till envy coveted LA =
And those fair fields our valor won,
But little rocked we, for we still slept on
In the land where we were dreaming.
Our sleep grew troubled and our dream grew wild,
Red meteors flashed across our Heavens field;
Crimson the moon between the Twins
Barbed arrows fly, and then begins
Such strife as when disorders chaos reigns
In the land where we were dreaming.
Down from her sunlit nights 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 gayeus their prayer
In the land where we were dreaming
We fancied that 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 derision
In. the land where we were dreaming.
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Whose field was blanched and spotless in its sheen,
Chivalry's cross its Union bears.
And vet rams swearing by their scars
Vowed they would bear it through hundred wars
In the land where we were dreaming.
A hero came amongst US as we slept;
At first he lowly knelt-then rose and wept;
Then gathering up a thousand spears
a He swept across the field of Mars;
Then bowed farewell and walked beyond the stars
In 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 majestic sway-of strength tower
In the land where we were dreaming.
As, while great Jove, in bronze, a warder God,
Gazed eastward from the Forum where he stood,
Rome felt herself secure and free, q
So, sRichmond's safe, y while we
Beheld a bronzcd Hero-God-like Lee,
In the land where we were dreaming.
AS wakes the soldier when the alarum calls
AS wakes the mother when her infant calls
As starts the traveller when around
His sleeping couch the fre-bells sound
So woke our nation with single bound
In the land where we were dreaming.
Wo! wo is me the startled mother cried
While we have slept our noble sons have died
Wo wo is me! how strange and sad,
That all our glorious vision fled
And left us nothing real but the dead, s2g
In the land where we were dreaming.
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And are they really dead, our martyred slain :?
No! dreamers morn shall bid them rise again
From every vale-from every hight
:, On which they seemed to die for right
Their gallant spirits shall renew the fight
In the land where we were dreaming.
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