The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-04-05
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IA TEE TaND ,W-ayERE VS. WEBB DREAlassaa 9.


Fair we're our yisionss Oh. they were as grand
As ever foated out of Fancy land
Children we're we in single faith,
But God.like children, whom. nor death,
Nor threat, nor danger drove from Honor's path,
In the land where we we're dreaming.
Proud were our men, as pride ofbirth could render;
As violets, our women pure and tender;
And when they spoke, their voice did thrill
Until at eve the whip-poor-will,
Al morn the mocking bird, were mute and still,
In the land where We were dreaming.
And We Ind graves that covered more of glory
Than ever taxed traditions ancient story;
And in our dream we wove the thread
OF principles for which had bled
And suffered long our own immortal dead, VI
In the land where We were dreaming.
Thonea in our land we had both bond and free,
: Both we're content, and SO God let them oe'
Till envy coveted our land
And those fair fields our-yalor won,
But little recked We for we still slept on
In the land where we were dreaming
our sleep grew troubled and oar dream grew wild;
Red meteors flashed across our Heavens heid
Crimson the moon; between the Twins
Barbed arrows fly, and then begins
Such strife, as when disorders chaos reigns
I'm the land where We were dreaming.
Down from her sunlit heights smiled Liberty
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The world approved, and eyerywhere
Except where growled the Russian bear.
The good the brave, the just gave US their prayer
In the land wherewe were dreaming
We fancied that o Government was ours
We challenged place among the worlds great
powers
NE 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 we're were dreaming
we looked on high q banner there was seen,
Whose field was blanched and spotlessi in its sheen;
Chiyalry's cross its Union bears,
And yet'rans swearing by the scars
Vowed they would bear it through hundred wars
Inthe land where We we're dreaming.
A hero came amongst us as we slept;
Atfirst he lovly knelt--then rose and wept;
Then gathering up . thousand spears
He swept across tho 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,
Selcpoised, erect, he ruled the hour
: With stern majestic sway--of strength tower
In the land were we were dreaming.
AsRhile great Jove, in bronze, warder God,
sGazed eastward from the Forum where he stood,
Rome felt herself secure and free,
so, tRichmond's safe, :" we said, while we
Beheld brenzed 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
Asstarts the traveller when around
His sleeping couch the ire-bells sound
So woke our nation with single bound
In theland where we were dreaming.
Wo wo is mel the startled mother cried
While We have slept our noble sons have died!
Wo! wo is me! how strange and sad,
That all eur glorious vision fed
And left US nothing real but the dead,
In the land where VIC were dreaming.
And are they really, dead, our martyred slain;
No !! dreamersl morn shall bid them rise again
From every vale-from every height
On which they seemed to die for right
Their gallant spirits shall renew the fight
In the land where we were dreaming.
TIE DEVIL AND THE LAWYERS.
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