Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-14

Come, come with me now, Whefe the waving
Are 'f frInging with verdure fair Georgia's
And list to the song burst of joyous hosannas,
The echoes replying, sing DER and Ger!
For the city is wearing Century's crown.
Resplendent with JOYS, and hopes SHINING
through tears,
savannah, now nesting meath Times soft
And its gems are now ono hundred and fifty
wears!
Ave. long, long unsung years of joy and of woe,
Greet her now down the Ages vast shrouded
aisle.
To kneel at her feet-and to bask in her
smile:
And rejoice in the glory that comes with this
day.
Inthe gladness and mirth encircling her now,
While History sends from the dim far away,
Its halo to flash in the joy on her brow!
To the laughter and light ripping round her
all hail,
For il was on this day that hearts brave and
Left home. graves and kindred, left mountain
and vale.
For far Georgia's streams, and her heavens
30 blue:
And wooed by the enchanment of sky and of
Twas here they rested-'twas here they un-
Mid her beautiful forests and banks ever
4 new clty's banners to the waiting world
Fifty years and a hundred the scene now
repeat.
Mid music and sunshine, mid joy and mid
Far away from all hearts. let the shadows
retreat.
And clouds from the day of the glad city's
And ioiter to-day with us-oh, stay, gentle
Time,
See the mighty work the toiling years have
scatter now your blessings Ger sky and DER
cline,
Oh! iinger ere the long years go marching
on!
For this day and its mem ries in many a heart
shall live long, oh long, though its sun may
Ne'er. ne'er from our lives may their fragrance
depart.
And ne'er may our souls their lessons forget!
For they tell in the strain Of the years burst
ing song,
Tell in the tones of the dead. vanished Past.
OF Charity, Patience. and how to be strong,
TIL fifty years and hundred have blessed
Us AT last!
1t was not the vainglory nor proud joy of
That waited the sails of that lone, daring
band,
Twas to shelter the poor that great Ogle-
Ger wide, unknown seas-to a strange, for
eign land;
And as long as Savannah shalllive and be free.
With tO-day's joyous mem ries shall ever
more blend,
His name-nOw resOunding Ger land and Ger
sea.
Resembling with echoes that never will end !
Looking wistfully back through the years
Other shades, other forms, now pass into
view.
Other laurels in her srown we to-day inter-
OF thos- .vught, bled. died for me and
Through wars deaf ming tumult, their mem
AIingling with blood they so lavishly shed.
And blending with Liberty's clarion notes.
In our joy come thoughts of the great mighty
dead.
OF Pulaski, the Pole let the loud echoes ring.
As adoWn the receding Ages they roll.
OI true hearts IN dark hours, IN our JOY let us
sing.
The pCean intoning from soul to soul!
For in darkness and danger they stood by our
stood mid the fierce clash of Wars blasting
strife.
NlooA ailll the swirl HOW OF the Ddlllc feU
tide
And gave back to Liberty once more her
life!
80 come. let Us join in the swelling refrain.
Now rising and falling in cadence on high.
May the centuries voices prolOng the glad
strain,
More jOyfully grown a each year passes by!
And come. let us garland the gladness we feel,
With poetry, pageants, music and flowers:
Through the long. coming years. sometimes
may there steal.
The jubilant joys Of these bright, happy
hours.
Ger mountain and valley. through forest and
stream,
Light sparkles and CLEANS from the joy on
her brow:
And the dim, yelled future. may it gild like a
dream.
One hundred and fifty long. long years from
nOWt
And oh, may this day live in song and in story.
With its memories crOwned-its reveries
blest.
Forever enshrined with Savannah own glory.
Long. long may il live-in our hearts let itrest.
NJ. .. G.
f'TrFTeSf0B s. q FeLrHug8 u 1892