Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11

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1 ieIn the Lands, &c.
! TO the Editor Of the Dispatch:
note in your query column a request
/ for a copy of the Confederate poem. In
the Land Where We Were Dreaming.
by Judge Daniel Lucas. OF West Vir-
ginian. enclose a reprint OF the poem
Mrs. JAMES f. EPEs.
Blackstone. VA
It Is rs follows:
Fair were our visions. Oh, they were as
/ grand
/ AS ever foated out Of Fancy land:
Children were we In single faith,
But Godiike children. whom nor death,
Nor threat, nor danger drove from
Eonor's path.
In the land where we were dreaming
| Proud were our men, as pride oS birth
could render:
/ /
| And when they spoke their voices did
| Until at eve the whip-poor- win,
At morn the hooking bird. were mute
and still
In the land where we were dreaming.
! And we had graves that covered more Of
glory
Than ever taxed traditions ancient story:
~ -, fj,r Il sY,a we yrn no
OF principles for which we 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 were content; and SO God let them
be;
Till envy coveted our land.
And those fair fields our valor won
But little rocked we, for we still slept |
In the land where we were dreaming.
Our sleep grew troubled and our dream
grew wild
Red meteors flashed across our Heavens
field:
Crimson the moon; between the twins
Barbed arrows hy, and then begins
such strife as when disorder, chaos
reigns
IN the land where we were dreaming.
Down from her sun-lit heights smiled
Liberty.
And waved her cap in Sign OF Victory
The world approved, and everywhere
Except where growied the Russian bear,
The good, the brave. the just, gave US
their prayer,
In the land where we were dreaming.
We fancied that a. government was ours
We challenged place among the world S
great Powers:
We talked in sleep OF rank-comuisSton,
Until so lifeIike was our vision.
That he who dared to doubt but met
derision
In the land where We were dreaming.
We looked on high; a banner there was
seen,
Whose field was blaached and spotless In
Its sheen
Chivalry's cross it's union bears,
And veterans swearing by the scars.
Vowed they would bear it through a
thousand wars,
In the land where we were dreaming.
8 hero came amongst US as we slept;
At first he lowly knelt-then rose and
wept:
Then gathering up a thousand spears.
He swept across the field of Mars
Then bowed farewell and walked the.
stars
IN the land where we were gaming.
We looked again: another figure still
Gave hope and nerved each individual
will
Full of grandeur. clothed with power.
1iP Io r1,!e Cd he 1
With stern, majestic sway-of strength
tower
In the land where we were dreaming.
AS. while great Jove. in bronze, e warder
God
Gazea eastward from the forum where
he stood.
Rome felt herself secure and free.
So .Richmond's safe" we said, while
Behold bronzed hero-Godlike Lee,
In the land where We were dreaming.
AS wakes the soldier when the alarm
calls i
As wakes the mother when her infant
AS stares the traveller when around
His sleeping couch the hre-bells sound
So woke our nation with single bound, | ;
In the land where we were dreaming.
Woe. woe is me. the startled mother
cried
While we have slept our noble sons have
died;
Woe, woe is me; how strange and sad.
That all our glorious visions fled,
Ard left us nothing real but the dead.
In the land where We were dreaming.
And are they really. dead. our martyred ]
slain? /
No, dreamers. morn shall bid them rise |
again
From every vaIe-fron1 every. heigh,
On which they seemed TO die FOR right
Their gallant spirits shall renew the |
fight
In the land where We were dreaming. |
Jefferson county. Va. DAN LUCAS.
Hack-Free Lance.
To the Editor OF the Dispatch:
VIII you please tell me through the
Sunday Dispatch what is meant by the
terms ..hacl'. and free lance when APP
piled to writers for the press? F. N 3.
osbarps. Gap. Va
"A 3 H. Al, 5xyr;.ar9 10 one who hires him 8