The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-02-23
The Poetry Of Wars.

purpose to bring to the minds of the readers Of
the Journal the finished productions of Bryant,
| Lonsfelow. Whittier and Lowell who all
wrote most eloquent poetry on the subject But
have in my mind those "waifs and stray"
which appeared from time to time in the col
umns of the daily and weekly papers.
| The majority Of these verses (for some were
! doogere instead of poetry were spontaneous
outbursts from over-charged hearts, which
found their Vent in verse, and represented
the different moods and feelings to which we
were a subjected in the days Of the nations
struggle. A part Of it burned with the loftiest
courage and hope. while some of it represented
the lowest depths Of despair. But through it
all there ran a deep vein Of pure patriotism.
hieh the darkest and most trying period of
tie war did moi conquer.
| In lie histories of all nations war has ever
developed and fostcred tie poetic nature, and
some of the greatest poets owe their fame to
| the scenes Of carnage and strife they have
immortaized in verse. Among the more fa-
milinr poets Of this class may be mentioned
Scott and Campbell. Their stirring poems are
as familiar to all of us as our daily bread
Take, for instance. the Lady Of the Lake"
at the passage commencing:
'sThc shades of eve come slowly down,
The woods arc wrapped in deeper brown"
! This gives the encounter between F'tZ James
and Roderck Dhu, and the final triumph of
F'itz James, the wounding o. Roderck, ard the
moment where FitI James tells the wounded
man that it is the hated King Of Scotland he
| has lod
"Far past Clan Aipines outmost guart.'
remember one of our young soldiers. who
WAS influenced to leave the senior class in COZ
le@c and take up The sword, because Of read
ug he little poem of SCOTS. entitled. 'Pibroch
of ponnil Dhu." He said The poem haunted
hm uh.i he enlisted. Instead II his teachers
voice Il" heard
"N omc The wil.d> come, when forests ren,!ed
Cone as the waves come, when naNics are strand
Faster come, faster come, faster and faster
th''f Ia-sai, page ad grool', tenant and MASTER.
III Ca"ipbcl!'> poems also the war-likc spirit
prevails. and the Song Of the Greeks" and
"iloltn!iidcl are familiar TO us all.
Great soldiers have ever been fond Of poetry,
ami purh has been written by military men.
WHO ha> not heard the story Of Gen. Wolfe.
who repeated Grcy's "I.legy." as he hoated
upon the bosom of the st. Lawrence, the night
his stan said: "Gcntiencn, | would rather be
the author of that than to take Quehec."
The Burial of Sir John Moore is familiar
to lis all thanks to the school books. 1t is said
tanly rth> the bloom from the finest things
to hear them draWcd and sung by the
>hrill little voices of the children for years,
ptd LOT All llii. lne poem Is perfect III uctoh
an0 rhythm, Il rhetorical gem, and pronounc-
Ell hy Byron. 1.-THE most perfect III the Ian
ula~c" There comes another TO NV mind.
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nh ..p;,r;, ,,, ~, pl,,a " l. of,ro nv ..aI aIo
:" 49, 10y As''.ri Tl III Il, , ~ - ;,
and the mild pleasures of the "Chil,,reu of the
,,.1, and f,.j, into IN,
| III n,trr inurr tl,e ali shady nofrh anI thc
r. ,hnl ani 4..,, ,Inr.l h; ,,,r,nI -, TX ,,',
-. Nn', ~ '. Sti'" N''oiVn 'i Nui'cu "
~ thc o'N !otNl,. thall 'oiitiG iin'l Mc'i-
worn copy Of "Putnam'> Magazine" the lines
OF the old. oitt poem. Her nlnh was not there.
I"n IN Ajrrs She ,e comIl M also see ,Ic nV yme. M
" = -, ~ ~ i'e 'o"'" u.s. >et hN ''hc
c'',' NUS hiS>'d ny thc rays VI tne sctthS sun
H!l near i'll fancy the soit swish OF the blue
h!l,nc a> it swept along. carrying with it the
echo ri the sweet German >onrS.
To come down to poems of our more mod
orn t;,rrS rnthiuo i -,yfot,r than R,vard fr.y
| lor >">on@ OF the Camp. That, too, has been
4 favoritf with elotutionist> and is particular
N beautiful:
my SanS "' ovc, ahh nor OF lame
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Nuitc after voice took M tie song
MI" iitl mn a,thoim ~, ANA .tron.
ri;, @ i,,,,t ~ n, ' o,',,' - ~, :, r cn.";, ; 'e
Ana once again, n fire of hell
H.incd On lie Eussian quarters
With scream Of shot, and burst of Shell,
And hc!iowin.: of the Inortays
Nnu lrNii Nora eyes are dm
And English Mary mourns for him
Who sang of "Annc Laurie
~. ... : I,... :..:
IN" poem u hH ron heS 'hlhs
lis done, but yesterday a King,
And armed with Kings to strive,
| To-day thou art namcless thing
How a!,ject. Yet alive
Wa> written IN regard to the first Napoleon, but
! applied equally As We'll to the third Napoleon
| in his downfall. Austin DobSon'S little poem,
! .BCtorc Nctan" /. also pretty and pafhetir
/ The war. Of o;Ir own country which nrece,led
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tiv M az - VIC lnpe'ion' W; il'' ''' @ ioi'i,
HluFI If'tH "oi'i pltsti ihI' boNStle'
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