The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-01
THE SALT LAKE HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST, /, 1895
THE TWO ARMIES.
A DREAM.

THE TWO ARMIES.
A DREAM.
1 dreamed a dream in the Silly night.
And | dreamed it thrice ere the morning
light
And l thought two armies in armor
bright,
o the banner of one was banner OF
While the other silver flag unrolled,
And their knights appeared like the
AS in pictured views I've seen them.
Then I reconnoitered the golden camp,
When the stars were bright and the air
dew-damp,
While the moon was trimming her silver
lamp
To brighten the hills and valleys
And l saw their cavalry horses there.
And heard the tattoo-trumpet blare,
While their batteries pointed stood to
dare
The camp where the silver rallies.
So I passed on through in the misty night,
moonlight,
And l saw the people that came to fight
For the banner with sheen so golden.
And saw there ngs with gol1en crowns
towns.
And the mighty men," and the priests
with gowns,
AS we read Of in ages olden.
There were bondmen there in their gilded
chains,
And gola-y oked oxen in army wains;
Where, piled and stored, were the golden
The sinews of war and glory
| There were golden bullets, and shell, and
ball.
And golden idols on a golden wall,
And a sentry with a golden weapon to
call
The hour with singsong story.
And a golden guardhouse, too, was there,
/ Where q. golden sign stood high in the air,
And a golden shackle for men to wear,
Who were captured across the river,
And l saw a golden Andersonville,
| Where golden victims were slain at will,
And a golden graveyard on HILL
When the stars did twinkle and culver.
And l dreamed / saw an idol grand
A golden god in their camp did stand
And in its hand was a golden wand,
| Which it held while the camp lay sleeping.
And before the image OF kindly sway,
All the golden host must kneei and pray,
Or to golden dungeons they take their
Where is wailing heard, and weeping.
1 beheld, each bound by golden chain,
A host, ali wretched in woe and pain.
Imprisoned, they groaned, while the
guards of gain
Did grl1niy march before them.
/ There were mothers and children and
men Of power,
Who had toiled and moiled till the dim
night hour,
PIT n; 4
While the gods of gold ignored them!
Then I dreamed: This III is not the place
for mel
1 must cross to the silver banner free,
To see what 1 in their camp can see,
While the moon rides high above them"
So l crossed the wave IN a light canoe,
with the stars of silver in heavens blue.
In the silent damp of the midnight dew,
10 the sIlver camp, to prove them.
Now I'll tell what l saw in the silver
camp
When the moon had trimmed her silver
lamp,
And the stars cast down through misty
haze
On the silver banner their silver rays,
There were troops of horse like Crom-
wells men;
There were guns dark frowning. as bat
teries can,
And they tore TO shreds the Armada's
power,
Or that made the foes of the Netherlands
Or that fought to a finish in thirty years
The battle which banished England's
fears.
Small arms, with bayonets of silver sheen,
Were stacked in myriads on the green,
Where slept the men of the silver host,
Save the watchful sentry at his post.
There were men like those who fought
the wars,
That gave US the banner of stripes and
Or that stood on many a sodden field,
Where the foes of freedom were forced to
yield
The heroes that slept were like hosts that
To save the meek from the chains of
To defend the humble and helpless poor,
From the wolfish nav of the selfish boor
And free him body and soul from chains
That fettered the past with its demon
pains.
Like the Albigenses and Piedmontese,
Who fought the battle of Gods DEGREES;
Through fire, and dungeon, and bitter
And countless deaths, they o'ercame their
foes;
Through Egypts furnace they mounted
higher,
Like EIijat's car in flame of fire!
Great tribulation, and want, and tears,
Brought victorys harvest in future years.
The silver sentries were men like these,
Who fought for the volume of Gods de-
crees.
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o the silver banner stood grandIy there,
In glory of silver light so fairl
For a heavenly causeway did ascend
Till a thousand hills on hills did end
In the grand highway of the silver host,
Where the sons of glory stood at their
post;
And a rainbow halo shined down the