The semi-weekly miner., 1883-11-10
THE LONG DRAMA.
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Read at Newburg Centennial Celebration.
Wallace Bruce,
With banners bright, with roll ot drums,
with pride and pcmp and civic state,
A nation, born Otcourage. comes
The closing act to celebrate.
We've traced the drama page by page
From Lexingt N to Yorktown field
The curtain drops upon the stage,
The century's book to day is sealed.
A cycle grand, with wonders franght
The triumph over time and space
In woven steel its dreams are wrought.
The nations whisper face to face.
But in the proud and onward march
We halt an hour for dress parade,
Remembering that fair freedoms arch
Spraug from the base our iathefs !aid.
With cheeks aglow with patriot fire
They pass In long review again,
We grasp the hand of noble sire
Who made two words Of "nOblemen'
In silence now the tattered band
Heroes IN homespuu worn and gray
Around the old headquarters stand
AZ in that dark uncertain day.
The low rooted dwellings shelter still
The phantom tenants OF the past
Each garret beam. each oaken sill
Treasures and holds their memories Iass.
Az, humble walls! the manger-birth
70 emphasize this truth was given
The nobiest reeds are nearest earth,
The loWliest roofs are nearest heaven
We hear the anthem once again.
"No King, but God ITO guide Our way,
Like that Of old Good VII to men
Unto the shrine where freedom lay.
one window looking toward the eas..
Seven doors wide-open every SIDE,
That room revered proclaims at least
An invitation free and wide:
Wsyne Putnam, Knox and Heath are there.
Steuben, proud Prussia's h0ncred son.
Brave Ia Fayette from Frazce the fair.
And, chief of all, our Washington.
Serene and calm in peril's hour.
An honest man without pretense.
He standA supreme to teach the power
And brilliancy Of common sense.
Alike disdaining fraud and art.
He blended love with stern con-
He bore his country in his heart
He held his army by the hand.
Hush Gaming critic, read Alright
The record Of his fair renoWn:
A leader by divIning right
Than he VINO wore lue ETAl-hh c'o"".
With silver locks and eyes grown dim.
AS victory's sun proclaimed the morn.
He pusned aside the dindem
With stern lebuke and patriot sc"rA.
lie ouells the halfpaid mutineers.
And binds them closer to the cause:
His presence turns their wrath to tellS.
Their mutlered threats to loud applause
The great Republic had its BIRTH
THAT hour beneath the armys wing.
Whose leader fought by native worth
The man is greater than the king
The stars on that bright azure field,
Which proudly waves DER head and sea.
We're fitly taken from his shield
To be our common heraldry.
We need NJ trappings worn and "l',
No eourtly lineage to invoke,
No tinseled plate, but solid gold.
No thin veneer. but heart ofoak.
No aping after foreign ways
Becomes a son Of noble sire:
Columbia wins the sweeter praise
When clad in simple plain sIsisr.
In science. posey and art.
We ask the best the world can give:
We feel the thro! of RritaM's heart,
And viii while Burns and Shakespeare live
But oh /! the nation is too great
To borrow emptiness and pride:
The Queenly Hudson wears IN stall.
Her robes with native pignies dyed
I October lifts with color or,ght
Its mountain canvas to the SKY:
The crimson trees sglow with light,
Unto our banners wave reply.
Like Horcb's bush the leaves repeat
From lips Of fame with glory crowned:
"Put of thy shoes from off thy feet,
For the place they trod is holy gretnd."
o fairest stream beneath the sun!
Thy Highland portal was the sky,
Which force and treason well-nigh won,
Like that of famed ThermopylH.
That Ridge along our eastern coast.
From Carolina to the Sound.
Opposed its front to England's host,
And heroes at each pass were found.
A vast primeval palisade.
with bastions bold and wooded crest.
4 bulwa,k strong. by nature made
To guard the valley Of the west.
Along its heights the beacons cleaned,
1t formed the natiens battle-line.
Firm as the rocks and cliffs where dreamed
The soldier-seers Of Palestine.
These hills shall keep thy memory sure.
The blocks we rear shall fail away,
The mountain fastness endure,
And speak their glorious deeds for aye.
And oh! while mornings golden urn
Pores amber Light DER purple briM.
And rosy peaks like rubies burn
Around the emerald valley rim.
80 long preserve our hearthstone warm
Our reverence, o God, increase!
And let the glad entennlals fOIM
One long Mnlennial Of Peace.