Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
MASTER AND MAN.


Within stately mansion on the Hudson's bon
Stood two men in earnest conversc-men of two
distinctive ranks.
Wealthy, proud, and scornful, with q naughty
The other poor anu Lumb.e-n menial's luckless
son.
Ills the same sad simple story, that's been told
in every land
How youth of poor possessions sought rich
mans dau hters hand;
How the sire in scorn and anger the youths ad-
Nances spurned,
While the mad in silent sorrow for her lovers
pre- e2ce yearned.
@You wed my only daughter" cried he, in tones
of scorn;
You, n hiroling's graceless offspring, creature
My duu-hters proud and handsome. 1. her
futher, ricu and great;
Whom abe weds twill bo among her peers, with
those OF high estate"
"'Tis true am poor and humble the youth in
sorrow sail,
"But a man free bprn and honest" and he
proudly raised his head.
lis true you arc grelt and wealthy, with q
higher name than mine,
But with this hand and brain I'll win greater
fame than thine.
Then slowly Us with head erect he reached tn
open air,
At window up he waved adieu to q maiden
pore and fair.
Why this cold distinction? Why one high, the
Simply, in the world esteom, it's money makes
th-m So
Twas early in tie COS, when our land was
plunged in war,
When Lincoln's proclamation called three hun
dred thcueald more"
III tie streets of town and city rushed the peo-
pie to and fro,
And tho boys were nobly rallying to face their
countrys foe.
Then proudly marched the heroes in bold and
grand review,
While madens sang in cheering song, God
speed tic boys in blue
When gallant Company X marched out to mu-
sic loud refrain, :!
Bane.
He left manly letter for her whose heart he'd
Besoechng trust and constancy until his work
done.
She caught he welcome message through the
loving lines she read,
Then i'll silence knet and prayed for precious
blessings on his head
Far on southern fields of battle rose our hero
into fame
Each soldier knew his bravery and the country
praised his namo.
Through every hard-fousht battle, from morn till
lie was foremost in tho conflict until the day
was won.
On the bloody fcd of Shiloh, in Antietams fear-
ful fight,
Ho bravely bore the banner of the truth and Of
the right.
Greater still his grand achievements, brighter
still the straps he wore,
Until wi proud dis. inction he n high commits
sion bore.
When pace, at Appomatox, was proclaimed
Throughout th) land, ,
He returned with glowing colors at the head of
his command
People rushed to do him honor-his name on
every tongGe,
And posts in their muses his highest praises
sung.
There was one whose heart was throbbiny with
wilder Joy than Ill
Mo had watche her lover 8 gallant course, and
waited his recall.
The barriers now had vanished, pride's false dis
tiLct on flown,
And Cupid with his magic bow could blithely
claim his own.
So In autumn, when the leaves were turned
10 purple pure, and gold.
She stood at Hymen's altar pledged to him she
loved of old
And the man who first was scornful, whose con-
sent WAS sought i'll vain.
Now was proud claim son the distinguished
Colonel Baine!
This tho moral of my story this the truth that
IMould teach:
Though man be poor and humble there's @
prize within his reach
'Tis not wealth that makes our heroes, tbs NOS
pride that leads the van; ,
1t is brains that win distinction it's the mind
that makes the man.