The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-27

1s,aerar,usz,ized.
By L. VIRGINIA. FRENCH.

By L. VIRGINIA. FRENCH.
lThis poem -was read hy' Miss Lucy
pupils Of the Houston Street Female. High
School, in Atlanta, May l, 1861
In this city of Atlanta. on dire, and dread
full day,
Mid the raging of the conflict, mid the
thunder Of the fray
In the blaze o9 burning roof-trees- under
clouds of smoke and fame
Sprang a new word into being, from stern
and dreaded name;
Gaunt and grim, and ike spectre, rose
that word before the world,
From . land OF bloom and beauty, into
ruin rudely hurled
From people scourged by exite-trom
city ostracised-
Pallas-like it sprang to being, and that
word is--Sae''nadsaized -,. n
And forevermore hereafte where tho fierce
destroyer reigns,
Where destruction POurs herlara over cu'-
tivated plains
Where want and wo hold csrnival-wl,ere
bitter blight and blood
Sweep over prosperous nations in strong.
{, relentless food;
Where the golden crown of harvest trodden
into ashes lies,
And dissolution stares abroad with famine
frenziod eyes
Where the wrong with iron sceptre crushes
There shall people groan i'll anguish
"God, The rights She'mdfsized!r
Man may rule the raids Of ruin-lead the
legions that despol-
From the lips of honest labor dash the
guerdon Of it's toll
''Sow with salt the smiling valleys, and on
every breezy height
kindle bale-fres of destruction, lurid on
the solemn night;
He may sacrifice the aged, and exult when
woman stands
Mid the sunken, sodden ashes af her
home; with palsied hands
Dropping, over hungered children-man
His name with haggard infamy-h watch
word sShermanizc!"
Nobler deeds are woman's province-she
must not destroy, but build.
She must bring the urns OF plenty, with
the wine Of pleasure filed;
She must be the s'sweet restorer" Of this
sunny Southern land;
Fill our schools, rebuild our churches take
the feeble by the hand;
Aid the press, befriend the teacher, give to
want its daily bread,
And never, never fail to wave above our
ssnoble dead"
The laurel garland due to deeds of valor's
high emprize,
And, won by men whom failure could not
sink, or-Shermanize!
With her wakened love of labor, let her la
Dor on in love,
Still, in softness and in stiffness, as the
starry circles move,
Bearing light and bringing gladness from
the leaden clouds unfurled,
As the soft rise of the sunlight bringcth
morning to the world;
Grandly urging on endeayor, as the gates
OF day unclose,
Till the SOLITARY place again shall blossom
as the rose,"
And woman-the rebuilder-shall be freely
eulogised
By the triumph of her people, then no
longer Shermanized.
God bless our noble Georgia! though her
And her lands in desolation laid. beneath
an Autumn sun;
With the signal shout. ''7o octton!'-like
the boom Of signal guns,
She has reused the lion mettle Of her strong
and stalwart sons.
May her daughters aid that effort to rebuild
and to restore,
Working on for Souule,7l freedom as they
never worked before!
May Georgia as laggard never once be
stigmatiZed,
And her people, press or pulpit. never
more be-ShermaniZed!
The following lines, written by lady Of
Carolina, in response to the above, have
been sent us for publication:
SHERMAN IN POETRY.
Lines suggested by Mrs. French's ''Sher-
maniZed.'
o strange anomoly in verse, methought.
The mention Of the name shndder
brought.
q mean conception, linked but with dis
grace,
To give so base name an honored place
o shameful theme, by Southern poet sung!
A foul pollution to the purest tongue;
A sound that demons might refuse to hear,
And one that CRATES upon the Southern ear.
But pray excuse me, il served you wrong,
Fair Southern poetess, of sweetest song,
My mind soon changed to find your honest
Muse
Gave his Satanic Majesty" his "dues;''
For poets have a right to sing of evil,
And some have cen immortaliZed the
Devil.
Let Sherman, then, the same distinction
Since all the difference lies but in the
name. CACTUS.
The Dangers OF Pitch.
SAD PLIGHT FOR LOVERS.
Night before last, as the moon rose
over the hill and tree-tops, gliding
the spires of our beautiful city with
her silver rays, there might have been