The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
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the flag whose stars with glory shine,
And saw the sunlight kiss 1t on the plains
of Brandywine.
,rethinks adown the atsles Of time the
drums are echoing still
THAT beat the long roll, sharp and clear,
that day at Bunker Hill;
h seem to hear the bugle notes that sounded
in the glen
wben. swooping down upon the foe, came
Marion and his men.
II stirs my blood as I recall the yeomen Of
who lee led their horses from the fields when
Freedom called to arms;
She found them ready for the fray, all! you
remember how
|rbe news that spread from Lexington
found Putnam at the plow.
THE farmers Of New England gathered
fast from near and far
when Stark marched UP to Bennington to
dim invasion's star;
They formed a Spartan phalanx which no
British steel could break,
land play'd the deadly game Of war with
Liberty the stake.
with hearty zeal their foes to meet they
focked with might and main,
ItrOm east dIiu WO6Iy lIOiu llOE III anu SOutu
to Saratoga's plain;
|They followed Arnold in the charge which
won that field of fame
land crimsoned with their own life blood
the flag we love to name.
|They beat their plowshares into swords,
their pillow steeds they bestrode,
Behind the plume of Harry Lee right gal
lantly they rode;
Lnna yioht acrosa fha della mid no
sleet and snow
Those farmers followed Washington and
smote the Hessian foe.
They faltered not in battle; upon York
towns glorious field
they saw the red coats ground their arms |
and grim oppression yield;
And In the sun that autumn day the fear. |
less little band
Saw Washington with vict'ry crowned-the |
savior of the land.
Upon that document whose fame we cele-
brate to-day
The farmer hero wrote his name, 1t stand
eth there for aye.
lie left the harvest and the plow, against
oppression he,
70 say to George in thunder tones: ''This
country shall be free!'
I'VE, in that fight for freedom, like wall
those farmers stood,
rom Lexington's immortal plain to Prince
toms snowy wood;
hey fought for right on hill and plain,
deep In the break and gorge,
hey bore without a murmur all the woes
Of Valley Forge. II
he legacy they left to US, their sons. is
vast and free
he land which lies in majesty from sound
ing sea to sea.
flag whose beauty wins the world upon
the land and foam,
eneath whose stars the poor oppressed
will ever find a home.
l hail the mem'ry of the men who gath
cred long ago
Freedoms clarion call to arms to smite
the foreign foe!
lelr sons, like them. have left the plow,
their freedom to maintain, =
icy nobly fought at New Orleans, they
died at Lundy's Lane.
-day I fling Old Glory proudly to the a q
summer breeze, L
know it thrills million hearts beyond d
the stormy seas;
waves above the hovel poor and o. er the ! !,
mansion, too,
tn blazoned stripes of white and red and G.
stars in field of blue. j
lg may 1t float above the land which
calls that flag it's own,
'und it chosen heroes stand, beneath 1t II
Is no throne; W
farmer sires who saw it wave in war CT
have passed away,
we recall their deeds Of worth with
pride this natal day. p
children over in the grove with mimic
sword and gun as
playing war beneath the trees-Bur- a.
goyne and Washington! "a
ross the fields to watch them, while
heroic mem'ries swarm, tie
thus pass another dear old Fourth &c
upon the farm. N'
IT. c. Harbaugh. in Ohio Farmer. IN
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