The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-02
what the "Water Torture" Is.
From the Baltimore American.


From the Baltimore American.
BY Hon. Daniel Bedinger Lucas.
Fair were our nations visions, and as
grand
| AS ever floated out of fancy-land;
| Children were we in simple faith,
| But god-like children, whom nor death,
| Nor threat of danger drove from honors
path
In the land where we were dreaming.
could render,
AS violets our women pure and tender;
| And when they spoke their voices thrill
| At evening hushed the whip-poor
| At morn the hooking bird was mute and
STILL
In the land where we were dreaming
And we had graves that covered more of
| glory
| Than ever taxed the lips of ancient story;
| And in our dream we wove the thread
| Of principles for which had bled
And suffered long our own immortal
| dead,
In the land where we were dreaming.
| Though in our land we had both bond
and free,
Both We're content, and so God let them
| be;
| Till Northern glances, slanting down,
| With envy viewed our harvest sun
| But little rocked we, for we still slept on,
In the land where we were dreaming.
| Our sleep grew troubled, and our dreams
grew wild;
Red meteors flashed across our heavens
field,
Crimson the moon. between the twins,
Barbed arrows flew in circling lanes
OF light, red comets tossed their fiery
names,
Ger the land where we were dreaming
Down from her eagle hight smiled Lib
erty,
And waved her hand in sign of victory;
| The world approved, and everywhere,
EXCEPT where growled the Russian bear,
| The brave. the good and just gave us
their prayer,
For the land where we were dreaming
High DER our heads starry flag was
seen,
| Whose field was blanched and spotless in
it's sheen;
| Chvalry's cross it's union bears,
| And by his scars each veteran swears
| To bear it on in triumph through the
| wars,
In the land where we were dreaming.
We fondly thought a government was
| ours
We challenged place among the worlds
great powers;
We talked in sleep of rank, commission,
| Until so life-like grew the vision,
| That he who dared to doubt but met de-
rsion,
In the land where we were dreaming.
A figure came among us as we slept
| At first he knelt. then slowly rose and
wept;
Then gathering up thousand spears,
| He swept across the field of Mars.
| Then bowed farewell and walked behind
| the stars.
From the land where we were dream
| ing.
We looked again-another figure still
! Gave hope, and nerved each individual
| will;
Erect he stood, as clothed with power.
| Self-poised he seemed to rule the hour
| With firm majestic sway-of strength
| In the land where we were dreaming.
AS while great Jove, in bronze, a warder
| God,
Gazed eastward from the forum where he
| stood,
| Rome 1elt DefSeIt secure ana free
| SO Richmond! We on guard for thee.
Beheld a bronzed hero. god-like Lee
In the land where we were dreaming.
AS wakes the soldier when the alarum
| calls,
AS wakes the mother when her infant
falls,
| AS starts the traveller when around
| His sleepy couch the fire-bells sound,
]
In the land where we were dreaming
Woe! woe is us! the startled mothers
! cried;
While we have slept. our noble sons have
| died.
Woe! we is usl how strange and sad,
! That all our glorious visions fed,
Have left us nothing real but our dead,
In the land where we were dreaming.
"And are they really dead, our mertyred
slain?"
No. dreamers! Morn shall bid them rise
again!
From every plain from every hight,
| on which they seemed to die for right.
! Their gallant spirits shall renew the
fight.
Unconquered still in SOUL though now
| o'errun,
In peace, i'm war the battles just begun!
| Once this Thyestean banquet DER,
| Grown strong the few who bide their
hour,
| Shall rise, and hurl its drunken guests
| from power,
In the land where we were dreaming.
| Charlestown, w. Va.
| -~.
The Masonic world has been of late a
| great deal interested in the changes
! caused by the retirement OF King Edward
! from the grand mastership of the craft
! and the installation OF the Duke of Con-
! naught in the Kings place Among the