Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-07-14
EXTRACTN
From n Centennial Poem read at the
Celebration at Jacksonville, July 4,
Iss0, by Rev. H. Eastman.

with Iron wills,
Iife's varied ills,
Resolved to meet and bravely bear.
Then on the shore,
Where surges roar
With hopeful eye, behold them stand:
With lingering view,
They bid adieu
To home, and friends, and father-land.
Then pillow the deep,
Right onward keep,
To ind land by kings untrod;
Where they might be,
From tyrants free,
Nor feel or fear despots rod.
Where they could toll,
And till the soil,
Meath their own vine and ngtree set;
Herds, hocks, could keep,
Rich harvests reap,
And thus an honest living get
Our infant cause,
Whose primal laws,
Informal passed the pilgrim band;
Has greatly grown,
Strong arms has thrown
Around our wide-eXtended land.
That little band,
Was all the land,
Could boast-themselyes they must-defend; .
With savage foes,
And piling SHOWS,
They had to hercey oft contend.
Then day by day,
They melt away,
That little suffering, Borrowing band;
Their numbers few
Then smaller grew,
But still they firmly, nobly stand.
OF steady nerve,
They did not swerve,
From what they deemed was just and right;
The good and true,
Bound to pursue,
In these they found their chief delight
Time fastened on,
We now upon
The apex Of century stand,
We look around,
Survey the ground,
Behold our wide-extended land
Our thoughts cast,
Back DER the past,
Recall our nations natal day;
But find that time,
with sweep sublime,
One hundred years has borne away.
This festal day,
With beaming ray,
passing century we end;
Since we declared
Our freedom-dared,
To firmly stand, our rights defend.
We battled long,
nation strong,
But in the fercest Of the fray
Felt we were right
As well we might,
And thus we fought and won the day
Aud then we Stood
With boundless good,
Up-looming in the distant view:
Refulgent morn,
With glorious dawn,
Bright haloes Ger the future throw.
But It was known,
Seed had been sown,
Which might produce fearful crop;
Roots thickly stuck,
Deep downward struck,
To spread abroad Upas top.
Some who had broke,
Expressions yoke,
Rejoicing, as was very meet,
Were shortly found,
On favored ground,
Fast binding others hapless feet.
They forged the chain,
Made tight the rein,
Resolved tyrant's rule to sway;
Spread DER the land,
Expressions hand,
And make both whites and blacks obey.
The whim they caught,
Mistaken thought,
That they to rule were surely BORN
Awhile that few,
Like Samson grew,
But OF their locks have well been shorn-
Strong was the hand,
Laid on our land,
To make the many servants be;
stronger hand:
Then burst the band,
And set the servile sufferers free.
It then was thought,
That Freedom ought,
To fight her fearful battles DER;
That shackles all,
Then of might fall,
And old oppression be no more.
And now we stand,
prosperous land,
Where light and liberty abound;
Not free from ill.,
But favored STILL
With countless mercies freely crowned
More pure and strong,
By battling wrong
Right is the glory Of a land,-
Now let us be,
United free,
And thus the worlds example stand.
Let conflicts cease,
"Let us have peace"
But be 1t ever understood
That for the right,
Wen always fight,
Condemn the bad, defend the good
Greek meeting Greek,
Contending, seek
Each others life, when war is rife;
True Yankees stand,
A spartan band,
At the Thermopylae Of strife.
Now all the land,
Together stand,
At the great point of peace and love,
Where william Penn,
LIVED love with men
An olive branch dropped from above.
There as we meet,
Each other greet,
And hail our Joyous, festal day;
Our hearts rejoice,
Our gladstone voice,
With rapture rise, and swell the lay.
JOIN every state,
To celebrate
Our great Centennial Jubilee;
In heart and hand,
United stand,
Let this our pride and glory be.
The East and West,
Good, better, best,
OF all their products bring along;
The North and South,
Come grandly forth,
With wondrous works and joyous song.
With freest thought,
Our land is fraught
In every good desired we share;
Progression's hand,
Ger all the land
Has scattered mercies rich and rare.
Swift DER the rail,
We send the mail
VITA latest news from every elme
With fiery steed,
And lightning speed,
We well improve the passing time.
Let nations meet,
In concord sweet,
And join their happy friendly hands;
Together come,
And bring the sum
OF labor from far distant lands.
From near and far,
By ship and car,
The worlds great products proudly come,
But who will count
The vast amount
And truly tell the total sum?
They come! they come!
70 swell the sum,
From humble peasant, prince and kiag
Yea, classes all,
Obey the call,
And nameess products freely bring.
The work of years,
At once appears,
AMI makes truly grand display;
But who will lead,