, 1888-03-15

Which gathers in Times heightened span
Where man hath tyrannlZed Ger man.
Yet from the ages rolled away
A beacon light to guide the free
Springs up whore ignorance held sway
As coral isles rise from the sea.
Thus hath 1t been; in wisdom gained
From lands where man hath been enchained
In old Worlds bondage, dire and dread,
That sepulchre Of living dead,
our Fathers builded wise and well,
\ temple strong mid dangers fell
And founded. on this Western shore,
a country free forevermore.
Moving slow like spectral phantoms
Nations pass in solemn line
Through the vista Of the centuries,
Guided by n Power Divine;
In this panoramic pageant
Past the gloom Of kingdoms wrecked,
Stately moves our own republic,
Peace endowed and glory decked.
Ger the sitting mists Of darkness,
DER the fallen tyrnnts tomb
shines the unsullied light OF Liberty,
Vanished supcrstition's gloom:
Ger our land and glorious union
Freedoms. radiant flag unfurled,
Still our country stands the asylum
For the oppressed of all the world.
Patriot soldiers Of Columbia,
You who led the Union van,
You II wore the proud insignia
Of ID to every man,
You who placed that grand inscription
on the banners which you bore
And with bright unstnincd cscutchcon
Periled life In Freedoms war.
DO you see tho sword upllfted,
Aiming mt your country's life?
See our land dlsmembered-rifted,
Torn by frntrlcidal strife.
See you this in dark retrospect,
As backward down the aisle of years
You gazc-sce you the union shipwrecked,
Swnycd with alternate hopes and fears?
Yes, again round grim old Sumpter,
Rains the storm of shot and shell;
Stoutest hearts grow faint and mlter
when that blow unlocked for fell.
sinks the old flag, torn and tattered,
While the Palmetto emblem there
Ger its walls by ruin shattered
Flaunts defiant In the air.
Strong as blow the ocean trade winds
Ger the seq or 'gainst the shore,
Quick n simeon from the northlands
Breaks with fierce and sullen roar,
To disunion doom prcsaglng
While the hosts OF Freedom rise
Hear the storm OF conflict raging,
See, smoke~clouds obscure the skies.
TWAS not for fine nor love Of glory
Patriots fought and patriots died,
Yet their nam shall live in story
TIL time shall reach its eventide.
They fought, with blood they paid the ransom
TIN the old flag from plain to strand,
Now unchullcngcd floats In freedom
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We have gathered tonight in this camp fire,
glow,
TIL the gray OF the coming morning;
Our pickets called In for we fenr no foe,
And we need not the videtto's warming,
For this Is the camp Of the peaceful home,
Where Is heard not the sound Of battle,
The roar and howl Of the midnight bomb,
Nor the musketry's crush and mttIc.
We shall light no more on the WiIdcrncs,
Front,
Nor the roads corduroy to Yorktown;
Nor repcl again in the battles brunt
The flank moves of "Stonewall Jackson"
We shall never go up with Hooker again
'Mong the storm clouds OF Lookout Noun
tain,
Nor charge the gray host on Antictam's plain
Where blood ran like streams from II foun
tain.
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with Phil Kearncy, Howard aud sumner,
MOI Buckncr enshroud on the Cumberland
shore,
Where DOnelson's braves surrender.
We shall march ne'er again ON the "Unior
trnIl'
From Atlanta down to the ocean,
Nor ut Gettysburg nce That Iron ..denth hair
With IA patriots stern devotion.
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For in friendships constant pledge and vow,
The foeinen OF old now mlngle,
And the angel of peace broods over the land
Ger the hill and the shore and the valley,
And never again shall n hostile bnnd
In the name of disunion rally.
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