Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30
Miscellany.
The Voice Of the silence.

The Voice Of the silence.
poem by william Winter, read at the reunion
Army Of the Potomac, at Philadelphia, on the
une:
Bright on the sparkling sward, this day,
The youthful summer CLEANS;
The roses In the south wind play;
The slumberous woodland dreams;
In golden light meath clouds Of fleece,
Mid bird-songs wild and free,
The blue Potomac flows, in peace,
Down to the peaceful sea.
No echo from the stormy past
Alarms the placid vale;
Nor cannon-roar, nor trumpet blast,
Nor shattered soldiers wall.
There's nothing left to mark the strife,
The triumph, or the pain,
Where Nature to her general life
Takes back our lives again.
Yet, in your vision, evermore,
Beneath afrrighted skies,
with crash Of sound, with reek OF gore,
The martial pageAnts rise:
Audacious banners rend the air,
Dark steeds Of battle neigh,
A1d frantic through the sulphurous glare
Raves on the crimson fray!
Not time nor chance nor change can drown
Your memories proud and high,
Nor pluck your star Of greatness down
From glorys deathless sky!
Foreyermore your fame shall bide-
Your valor tried and true;
Aud that which makes your country's pride
May well be pride to you
Forever through the soldiers thought
The soldiers life returns
Or where the trampled fields are fought,
Or where the campfire burns.
For him the pomp Of morning brings
thrill none else can know:
For him nigh. waves her sable wings
Der many nameless woe.
How often, face to face with death
In stern suspense he stood,
While bird and insect held their breath
Within the ambushed wood
Again he sees the silent hills,
With dangers menace grim;
And darkly all the shuddering rills
Run red with blood for him.
Glares on a bristling plain;
- - 'De 'o'1' u''u-,niu, "oon
Aisu" niesuo"' rousn WIN sam
4'" =" e'eiy Sisn' he sees
In every sound he hears;
And sunset hush and evening breeze
Are sad with prlscned tears.
"sA'"' "o'n out in niunign' march,
ne s'nAS beside 'he track
AeA'n' oenea'h the lonely arch
VI noi"e eoiDe o~eA'
"i"u 'ne ioses shaAe
Aiounu niS oo"Aeo uoor'
Their music on the foor.
Ane ZONES 'nA' neFermore on eafth
|An oiu MS pulses leap,
Mhs ou' again In careless ninth
Aross tne wales OF sleep;
Ar "nere IN norrent splendor roll
Inc waves OF 'icPrys tide,
Are glorious at his side,
foIge.! 'ne arm may iose It's might,
Ane 'ireu heat' oea' lo"'
&c SUI rom heAfen oiot OUT MS lghi'
VS. VIM cease 70 o'o"i
Du., "ni'e one sPArh OF me Is warm
NV "-'n'H 'n,' nnouiu ., cay
OF that tremendous day.
-
s'ope' III ioueiy gen.
As u;'ine eominAnu'
Is O'oou oi 'nose ue'o,ed men
'uiH 'Anu'
w"ss-Su' no' in gr'u-
"A'es oer lheir hAHo"ed resi-
Drops on the heros breast.
EAR ioI NLe nN'ng' "hen ooaS gut
Nihe irlenu OF man TO oe)-
"-'es' hAe 'ie shattered spArs thAt dritt
upon 'ne unknCWh sea!
AsrS ior 'ne "recA VINO sinks a. iAs''
NJ ueeu 0i NAior oohei
When honor's Asht was wouI
-S ,ns - ,, 'ue uA.u Vi ne-'eHi' rave
-" 10 S"u u'e' 'or rum
" A-H 'no noS .nse" "A'
IN i'AinS Vi enuiess you'h'
ns grass upon MS grave I" green
WIN s'erAsnns o'o'm'
OF glory round his tombi
mourn NOT iot 'hein' 'ne io'ed ana gomez
ADe cause 'ney uieu 10 save
A-H'' AZ e'ernAi eof nef-s'one
upon Tue martyrs grave
Anu' .4io rom All 'he MS we pass
ins'i SNep " s~ee' Ana iow'
Ard dirCes of the snow.
n' .unse' warts us hoiiest KISS
''e"ins sA'uerihS shAuef'
y" oe1'" oieAAs 'ne heAr' WIN olS'
ino nouf oeiore iAdes'
-' 1o 'een' 70 merge ""n heA'eh
"-'- ''7 '.Ho
OF life beyond the skiesl
~ 1ui" nO'' in nie anu ueA'n 'ney teAcn
Anis 'nougn'-tnis 'ru'h-suoiime;
AnereS no nan iree' except ne reach
Deyonu Tue verge Oh une'
%, oee 1'n'hs up 'ne starry slope
ihey oia our sous 10 hve;
Have taught us to forgive.