The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-01-04
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Sherman advancing to the sea
Routed Southern chivalry
But yet in time, his after move
Gas if the fact wore yet to prove)
Soon wrought with Grant and Sheridan
The end of every rebel plan,
Until that bastard cause in fine
Sought refuge in erinono
lts chosen leader, what thought,
Subsding in petticoat.
Scarce had reason to rejoice
When sthed the nations voice;
rude assassin's deadly blow
Laid our beloved chieftan low.
The serf and monarch on his throne
From torrid to the frigid zone,
Alike tho tear OF sorrow shed
And honored the illustrous dead. Fe
Lifc's struggle Ger, chief calmly rest
Millions unborn shall call tho blest
Living, to freedom rose the ensaved
Thy death perchanco thy country saved. 4H.
Fen treason loathed the bastard hand
That horror spread throughout our land,
All mourn his loss, alike defend
Their patriot statesman, ruler, friend,
Whose name age age rolls on
Will be ncd to Washington,
The first to give, the last 10 save
Tho homo of freedom for the bravo
OIL when that damniDg deed transpred,
Hope in every breath expired.
And like the murmurs OF tho beach,
Which travellers hear before they reach
doubt and fear each heart betrayed
Which tongue and pen have ne or portrayed.
~ - '-."f Twail
Hark on tho breozo the tong bells proclaimed nation
The sted voice ofpen up grief arose from hill ana va
He came not as conqucror, while flowers his pathwa
spread
But borne amid tho nations woes the mgheGt Of her dea
The nosoless step tho funeral pail with sorrows drooI
ing eye
Tbcre mournful spoke our common. loss, invoked OF
sympathy,
Like as stream which wdens most the farthest fro
its head,
For many year oOr all the world his gathering fan
) had spread.
His thrilling words tho soldier cheored when force u
battle -rt
His manly heart exalted most when conquered were OF
foes .- -
All party schemes be spurncd in scorn the champion
just laws W.
lie thought he lived but not for SELF Columbia was
cause
Not North or South, nor East or West could chain
mighty soul, tEf.t iE.N 1 .ii
Ills patriot heart his machess mind, embraced and Low
the whole;
No more within our Council Halls, his trumpet Ion
shall ring
No moro shall hearts exult in joy, their grateful ocrn
bring.
No shall light his flashing eye with thoughts tn
Ii ve and burn"
No more the nations cause shall plead for mute is nj
his tongue;
Yet shall his bright example live to guide our statesm
on,
Our trucst glory is cntwnod with that the martyr won
Accept this owy lay Of nino
Tho crude it be in every line,
Fain would l. could but words express
10 all supremcst happiness
Patrons farewell, may every ono,
Before tho year its course has run
Reap all that fame and wealth bostow
While none shall want or sorrow know.
May temperance guide your devious way
And beauty smile but nocr boray,
May every wrong and outrage cease,
And all BIO swayed by gentle peace
While legislators maddoned rave
To prove which is most fool or knave,
May visor juster arise
10 scttlo all pcrplextos,
Till North and South united bo
In lasting love and harmony.
When o'cr our blessed land again,
One flag without spot or stain
BY blood redeemed, by freedom won
Shall wavo oor States conjoined as onc,-
Shall still wavo on while many star
Gathered from azurod fields aihr,
Shall stud with bright cmblazonry
That glorious banner Of tho FREQ,
Until their beams on it uniufled
Shall light to freedom all the world.
Patrons while wishing you each joy,