The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-21

"For this birth to that young warrior
3lti' gave, NORM 1ii5 l.II .Tl3 iN ll
That he by falling might country save.n.
Yet such rough firmness we but seldom
i- find, 10al9/ 10 ~aG3a~ ,i.5a -la
And tenderness adorns the female mind.
One sympathetic tear we now impart n
To sooth the parents and the Orphans
Console the widow and tn afflicted
Whose dearest bliss beneath the dust is
For you who wall tender offspring
dead, W
Whose sons for freedom fought and no
bly, bled,
You, whose companions met the fatal
spear,
We greatly mourn and drop the friendly
For you, fair virgins, who in beauty's
Fade into grief and wear a saddening
gloom,
In secret languish and your pains APP
prove,
Melt in distress and mourn your hapless
We feel, we feel for you the tenderest
pain,
And floods of softness rush through
every vein!
But stop! too fast these piercing sor-
rows roll.
And spread a gloom DER every feeling
soul.
Now led by fancy, burst the films of
To future scenes extend the pleasing
sight,
Survey the paths your unborn sons shall
tread
When you're forgot and theirs, when
you are dead,
When Albion's lessn'd host shall disap-
pear,
Her rage grow mild and calm Columbia's
When the fair olive shall her branch ex-
tend
And long lost peace again from heaven
descend,
When fleets for traffic skim along The
tide,
Heave to our shores, or in safe harbors
ride,
Where with soft smiling commerce they
lmpart
TIL ensnaring vices of each distant
court,
Invade our shores and spread a moral
death,
Where pamp'r'd lux'ries with malignant
breath
Internal sweetness and domestic ease
Here fix their gentle reign and spread
the charms of peace.
No tyranJ here shall dare erect his
throne,
No gripping landlord wake tn oppressed's
groan,
No cringing minion be for flatt'ry fed,
No mental slave a naughty master dread,
No hateful monster supplicate defense
Who boasts his spoIls of artless inno-
cence,
But injur'd virtue sinking in distress
Fly here for safety and obtain redress.
No Earring feuds revive the martial flame,
Or war be known but as transient
name, ..u
No tender matron feels the pangs of fear,
Or melting virgin drop the parting tear,
No mourning consort of her fate COM
plain, ...." .'
Or lisping infant weep a parent slain,
But gentle friendship spread her balmy
wing .-.. -.r.r 800.
While music softens from the trembling
string, 'aH'
Each youth excel in every noble art,
Taste the pure blessings of an honest
heart, -
Disdain the follies of vicious age,
And spurn deceit and meaness from the
stage,
Nor dare permit the polish'd tongue to
speak
What wakes blush on virtues modest
cheek,
Or yield assistance with malicious joy
To blast the fair and innocence destroy,
But taught by heaven their generous
aid extend,
Protect the helpless and the weak de-
fend
Nor these alone tn enraptur'd tho'ts in
spire,
But fairer charms the glowing bosom
fire.
The heaven born sweetness and an angel
mind,
With beauty's soft excess to sweetness
joined,
By wisdom taught the just distinction
know
'Twixt worthy merit and the flutt'ring
beau, '. .-
They scorn those vulgar arts that fools
pursue, w. '.'H f.' ...
And stem the tide of custom to be true.
There conscious virtue holds her gentle
reign, W" ...
And knows no fear but that of causing
al pain. Y- s7 -r..saa.I
To these blest scenes our fondest hopes
extend, ,t ... ...-
When discord fits and hated faction
end. ...
Long peaceful years in calm succession
roll, r' .r...r.rrg . r.
And love of wisdom animates the whole;
Art and refinement wake and spread
f.a their charms,
The youth in letters shine as now in
arms, .
When many fair adorns the poli0h'd
page .....s'....
That beams instruction DER the rising
age,
When warning sexes lay their arts aside
And take fair virtue for their guiltless
guide,
When worth and grandeur in our bosom
shine,
And age and youth in sacred chorus join,
Where none shall court the rich unpol-
ished clown, ....
On needy merit cast sneering frown,
Spurn from their presence the detected
poor, .r-.....-
Or send the hungry fainting from their
door, E
But heaven-born freedom spread her
wide domain. ...
And peace and justice unmolested reign.
Cold poverty shall fly, nor want appear,
But health and plenty every bosom cheer,
The blooming mead, the hill and fertile
.5 plain t-
Yield a rich blessing to til Industrious
swain, - ,ig
The fatal steel destroy the noxiOus weed, I
And blushing orchards to their place
succeed, iii
The trackless waste, the rough ullcillo
tur'd soil,