The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-16
MAJ. GEN. PAT cLEBURNE.
In AenaorIam. Killed at the Battle of Franzi,l
Tenn. HoU. 80, 1864.


The withered leaves
To the ground in mocking mirth,
Thus the Fiend War
In his victcr's car -
Has heaped with our deal the earth.
Their nameless mounds
Are in foreign grounds,
On mountain, valley and glade,
Where the vulture flies
With angry cries
Ger the ruin that war has made.
What anguished groans
And saddeniug means
Arise for the fallen band
While the victor foe
GlOats DER the woe
Of q brave but conquered land.
AS the liquid fire
In wild desire
Rolls down the mountain side,
So the vandsl rage
Of venal age
Poured its destructive tide.
AS the lava waves
Made desolate graves
Where Pompeii's homes once stood,
So the robber throng
Has poured along
Its tidal wave OF blood.
And in years to be
Wemay look o see
The glory tina gloom enshrouds;
For freedoms light
That once shone bright,
Is wrapt in darkest clouds.
For the robber crew
Who ravished, slew
Fair women and brave men,
Bring the laurel bay
And the poets lay,
And crown them Ger again.
To those who laud
The stolen fraud
OF the Presider tial chair,
The mean and base,
Whose acts disgrace,
Bestow the nations care.
Give places of trust
To the vile, unjust,
Who set right aside for wrong,
To the yenal bard
Give Il hired reward
To sing their praise in song.
But HE who fights
For his cOuntry's rights
While battling to be free,
'Gainst a robber horde,
In defence of liberty;
Tho no lettered stones
Tell where his bones
Lie in foreign cline,
Will not depart
From his countrY's heart
Thro' all the years of time.
Tho his ashes rest
In the unknown breast
Of mountain, valley or sea,
U1adying fans
Will sing his name
When HesTS shall cease to be.
Ye brave who fell
With rebel yell;
Whom Northern bullets slew,
There are victor's palms
And poets psalms,
But none of them for yov.
But RI sing of one,
Old Ire and's son,
Who won deserved applause,
Who gave his life
To freedoms strife
And his blood to the Southern cause.
Who lived and died
The soldiers pride,
Meier turned his back in flight;
The friend of man,
First in the van
To battle for the right.
While some grew base
For power and place
Thro' fear of suffering loss;
Cleburne the brave,
Found BLOODY grave
In defense of the Southern cross.
In his martial eye
You could descry,
The soul of a chivalric man;
OF his noble band,
From Erin's land,
He was foremost of the van.
True, noble, brave,
Fair wisdom gave
Him her gifts with lavish hand,
His ample mind
At once combined
All that's wise and great and grand.
To arm the slave
'Gainst invasions wave,
Was his wise advice and plea,
W Duld make the land
Mid nations stand,
Independent, proud and free.
This counsel wise
Had won the prize,
And of freedom paid the price,
Had not bigots, fools,
Bred in selfish schools,
Declared his sage advice.
As the tornado's breath
Makes 6arcest depth,
When thro' Hottest trees it blows,
So Cleburne's men
On mount and glen
Dealt death to their bitter foes.
No nobler band
From a drawer land
Nor a more gallant chief;
Not Rome's proud son
Crossing the Rubican
In glory bright tho brief.
Where the fight was most
He and his host
Contended we'll and long;
Strong in their u light
For the love of right,
And bold in their hate of wrong.
On Virginia's soil
He made recoil
The enemy gathering round,
And his men in form
Withstood TIE storm
OF Shiloh's bloody ground.
Twas his to fight
While CLEAN oflight
Adorned the Southern sky;
Twas his to fall
Mid she'll and ball,
And on Franklin's field to die.
Meath the stars and barr
He gained many scars
For the land he fought to save,
Till his martial breath
Led him to death,
Unto glory and the grave.
There were anxious eyes
Watched your star arise,
The wide Atlantic across;
And those eyes were wet
When that star had set,
And old Ireland wept your loss.
While the sunlight CLEANS
On her crystal streams,
While Fame shall have q tongue,
Her flowers will bloom
v reAths for tiny tomb,
And thy noble deeds be sung. ID. D.
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