Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-04
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the nag W1OSe stars with glory SHINE,
And saw the sunlight kiss it on the plains
of Brandywine-
zlethinks adown the aisIes of time the
drums echoing still
That beat the long roll, sharp and clear.
that day ut Bunker Hill:
Y seem to lear the bugle notes that sounded
in the glen
when, gwoopinz down upon the foe, came
Marion and his men
1t stirs my blood as recall the yeomen of
the farms
Who led their horses from the fields when
Freedom called to arms:
She found them ready for the fray, ah! you
remember how
.yhe 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 fnvasion's star:
They formed a Spartan phafanx which no
British steel could break,
And play'd the deadly game of war with
Liberty the stake
with hearty zeal their foes to meet they
hocked with might and main,
From east and west, from north and south
to Saratoga's plain;
They followed Arnold in the charge which
that field of fame
And crimsoned with their own life blood
the flag We love to name
They beat their plowshares into swords.
their plow steeds they bestrode,
Behind the plume of Harry Lee right gal
lantly they rode,
One night across the Delaware amid the
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
,Efe left the harvest and the pillow. against
oppression he.
To say to George in thunder tones: This
country shall be free!''
Aye, in that fight for freedom, like a wall
those farmers stood,
From Lexingtons Immortal plain to Prince
tons snowy wood;
They fought for right hill and plain,
deep in the break and gorge.
They bore without q murmur all the woes
of Valley Forge
The legacy they left to US. their sons. is
vast and free
The land which lies in majesty from sound
ing sea to sea.
a flag whose beauty wins the world upon
the land and foam.
Beneath whose stars the poor Cypress d
will ever End home
cred long ago
AT Freedoms clarion call to arms to srnite
the foreign foe!
Their sons. like them, have left the plow,
their freedom to maintain,
They nobly fought at New Orleans, they
died at Lundy's Lane
To-day I fling Old Glory proudly to the
summer breeze,
Z know it thrills z million hearts beyond
the stormy seas;
1T waves above the howell poor and DER the
mansion, too.
With blazoned stripes of white and red and
stars in field of blue.
Long may 1t float above the land which
calls that flag its own.
Around it chosen heroes stand. beneath it
is throne,
e Our farmer sires who saw it wave in war
have passed away.
But recall their deeds of worth with
pride this natal day.
The children over in the grove with mimic
sword and gun
Are playing war beneath the trees-Bur-
goyne and Washington!
I cross the fields to watch them, while
heroic metn'ries swarm,
And thus i pass another dear old Fourth
upon the farm
H,r4,auoY, in Ohio Farmer