Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-08-06
Montcslm and Abcrorombie.
| Extract from "Ticonderoga and Mont-alm. "
Br JOSEPH COOK

Bl JOskPH COON.
Through the painting August forest
And the lonely dreaming islands,
Swoops Montcam as swoops the eagle
SDites Fort Henry to its haubches;
With the flame beaks o. the cannon
Tears Its SIX slow-roilinz sad suns;
Sends aloit l. smoke its imbers
AS the robins hush their dawn-song,
See dofenceless the brave vanqushed
Under sghing forest arches,
Huddle toward a distant shelter,
Past the thunder cloud OF red tribes
Stretch their bOwstrings, 1.-the oneidss;
Lit their hatchets, lank Nepissngs;
Polse their arrows, greedy Hurons;
hheC their scalping knives, Algonquns;
NhOop death -whoop, Sacs and Foxes;
Slipa loose leash. gaunt. parched hell-do-s.
Who the fair snore battle in MURDER
In the rent graves p under corpses
In the hot blood drench their hot lips.
On the mounta rs hang the rainbOws,
And the ragged rims Of thunder,
And the maple drops her red leaf,
And the b-ooc-stain yet remAineth.
A5ercroDbie answereth Montcalm.
Strikes across The CRY siai lakelet
when the sumner fills the noun ms.
England arm hath brawny must
See thousand flashing barges,
Ana the hlue-coats and the red-c0ats,
And the tartaus from Loeb Lomond,
And the sunliz zhi on the forests
Ana the lnirrored oakes aud naples,
breatt tin- beeches. silver bifches,
Hiaut Dimes On mighty SUBMITS,
lr.- sheen and iris sparklrs,
la tue sw, glare N the waters
Hear the pi1rOch IRON L0ch katfiue
And the ne Ching Of the horses
And the crsckIe OF the armor,
Ana the clashing OF the oar. locks
And the gh OF harping islets,
Aud The pebbly irit OF white strands
And the deWy drip Of bird songs,
And the echoing OF the bugles,
y ne blue thousands are PrUyincials
Bred " IN panthers and the eagles
hicn VINO smOothed New World 5 rough face
And the cradle Of its future
Rocked beneath the singing pine trees,
Putnam. Fozers and his rangers;
Dix red thousands british soldiers,
Burnt 10y suns beyOn1 the salt seas,
Scared IN FOntenoy and Black Watch,
Led 10y Howe, who on his bear-skin
Couched last highland talked OF triumph,
Bat who goes 10 God tomorrow.
trom the gan: tangled dark woods
ON the Trout Brook at the ambush
Vet with N Il by roaring cascades,
tlu4ted up h.s strOn. white splrit.
see ,ne lonely barge re unlng
here thousand spt tnned the clear depths.
Threads the Islands " tn his b ack pail
Bears an army 5 heart beneath It.
"a tLe Alayy ui Westminster
Nla-u his name young MassAchus etts
Carved ne Wurl lieuuIerosa
tu tIe proud ald lallid mAr3les
Val Tie tug e, through the iorest4.
Va ans srle'c aud sound to onset,
Fl eeu Thousand against our.
tut fle .our the fifteen gauuuish
ttr Nuutcilm across CarIllou
a Gle lafc.u. morning dAwneth,
ll .i- long TIRE stNui As o.. lelled tilnr .rs
i-clcr1 ,or IIip le ro. o. muskets,
Aul core these an auattls-
Lrve.4sI Trees with sn4rpened bra uche.
iI Fl. u< outward from The irehr Ies
Rave tlc "a -A.auders with hroy swlrGs.
!uInu-u tAe slu- l- leaCeu ter NEST
D. The ailt-.ys ol tue EreuchU en-
Iut.l Duncan Campbell! ialte Ia
Eut cuwcrelh at -tle ustaf ace
AL tAe day FAINT Abe cruu bio
-ev,u bot hours lie if.ter thousand
set tl' .l bear breasts - -ne bullets
HN'u ihe Hee' ihr sent ld eagles
III al the mHult1 ius tar Z q. battle.
A-ue, tue hos July suau-ht
pu white lIlt-s full G.. blood stains
lu the h'l3 July Si.i-ht,
.'u Jhe leaves b. .ore the french Lies.
F.. ae.s sra a. 4 e,eilds open,
D hl tN' tu' l-4ud their 4Ast slunher.
, eiA .tt4r blood zoos .ulo dId's .ace.
i.o'A ne dead ueu AID find sulaee.
. . rom ,aster courage risetl.
g." 4atA 10 p.a-s new and d -hty
W & .c TO. .luw hone %. danger
j. hu honey vt ~ Sc hJiCuess.
ere are trained a U,op e's sinewS
Here grow stout the hearts armies
"uleL are soon 10 qurl the lion,
As they iulos the youns ed- le.
Nuw accomplishing is God', plan
An1 the eud %. il is not yet.
fr,m Lake George God Is red Concord.
-Au. tle Lexington sti'ued meadow.
Bulker h..l, and saratoga
fr Ia Lake urorse hears ne already
SuLp-ef', hu -les blow aruusal,
& ar.. ..H H. ..H.F