, 1886-07-08
INDEPENDENTS BAN.

Rejoice and make gladstone sound
This seems the bright responsive lay
Through all the groups that gather
round
To keep tue Nations holiday.
| The birthday greeting that We bring
Is felt to be glorious thing
Long years havs rolled-fvc score and
ten
Since this Republic had it's birth,
And gave a hope to earnest men
1t should not perish from the earth.
For, as she breathrd the broad free air,
She seemed indeed goddess fair.
Strong from her cradle she up-grew,
| Seeming, like infant Hercules,
All harmful agents to Guido.
Even the tyrant of the seas
| The menace of his look drew back,
And turned him from her forward track
A lovely land before her lay,
Which soon her prowes5 was to gain;
Westward she took her empires way,
Proving her eminent domain;
And ell the states, in patriot band,
Stood then like brothers hand in hand.
As years rolled on came slavery's curse
a sore reproach to freedoms state.
From this arose trouble worse
Than all Herculeau labOrs great
To crnsh the hydra-head OF treason,
And reconcile misguided reason.
Many who grace this festal day
In that great struggle took q part;1
Though regimentals put away
May grow less bright as years depart,
lis ours to keep their swords from rust,
And noble records free from dust.
Through tolls and dangers on they bore,
Following, perhaps, in gallant host,
The Hero OF the SHENANDOAH!
Or Sherman marching to the coast!
Or bore, perchance, the battles brunt
Where Grant took line at Richmonds
front!
The need Of strife was gained then,
And peace came back to bless the land
The Union, saved by peaceful men,
Stronger than ever seemed to stand;
And all the states were ouce more free,
just as our fathers meant should be.
Bold anarchy that nothing recks,
Rebellion with its wits at lease
Must these noble nation vex,
And snatch the birth-rlght of sweet
peacei
Shall Old Secession widely stalk,
And squeak and iibber in ghostly talk!
When goes the unclean spirit out -
So says the Book of Holy Grace
1t wanders restlessly abouE,
As trying to regain its place;
Though why such pests go unconfined,
Puzzles, perhaps, the common mind.
We might have looked for more effect
As lucid spells in tEOso who rave
Some tardy grace OF fair respect
For clemency that hias forgave.
Bnt such ones never seem their best
Till-like good Indians-goEe to rest,
Let these Tecede We wonld have ioy
unhampeIed in its genial fow;
\ nan may DC today boy
Without reproof for feeling So.
There blooms no flower on all the lea
SO bright as this your loyalty.
Smileth the land before our gaze
Through all lis breadth Of temperate
zone;
Tie thought returns from far surveys
To find no nation like CTR OWE.
Such is the power she well may boast
Pressing the least, protecting most.
In war she asks the ready aword,
In peace Tie calm of moderate ways,
Included well In one brave word
The virtue of the ancient days:
IL e'er she comes to grief and Wrack,
Twill be that are this virtue lack.
There's scarce a man On Puge1's shore,
But feels his privileges is great,
Mid lands enhancing, aud his store
improving with the growing state;
Look from your biuTs on thssa icep
bays
And shape the dream OF coming DAYS,
Ii there be the country over
Here and there an element
That seems tardy to discover
Good In ANY management,
Show your iUster views OF labor
In this broad and open west.
knowing 10 coerce ones naigIlbor,
Out 0f law, cannot be best.
here. where mountain peaks are looming.
Where old Baker guards the strait,
here your woods and fields are bloom.
ing,
Where You labor, where you wait,