This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...channels life's impet'ous tide. Majestic tones, like those that ebb'd and flow'd Thro' Grecian fanes, when Wisdom there abode, Burst forth like trumps on the delighted air, And linger long in sweet vibrations there. LXXXI. "Illustrious Friend! Respondents to the call Of Freedom's voice, when tottering to her fall, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...channels life's impet'ous tide. Majestic tones, like those that ebb'd and flow'd Thro' Grecian fanes, when Wisdom there abode, Burst forth like trumps on the delighted air, And linger long in sweet vibrations there. LXXXI. "Illustrious Friend! Respondents to the call Of Freedom's voice, when tottering to her fall, Momentous truths, in her inspiring name, Your thoughts, your souls, your instant action claim! Our country bleeds! her life's impurpled gore, In crimson torrents floods her bosom o'er; Each vein is pierc'd, her wounded vitals feel 'The fatal sting of fierce invasion's steel! Lo! while I speak, commingling with each word, Are anguiah'd groans within this temple heard! From Lexington's now desecrated green, Where sanguine murder gloats above the scene; From reeking Concord's blood-polluted plain, Where, side by side, lie sons and fathers slain; From Bunker's heights, adown whose riven sides Our slaughter'd brothers float on purple tides, Rolls to our ears the sad and dirgeful knell. That o'er our kindred's bleeding corses fell. To meet the groans--the soul-impiercing wails, Borne on the breeze that fans our western vales, Where soulless fiends, urg'd by our merc'less king, From sternest breasts such cries of anguish wring! Behold the light, that deepens e'en the dies, Yon source of day has spread o'er eastern skies! Beneath those rays that gild celestial domes, Sink holy altars and our cherish'd homes; Before those flames, while their defenders die, Urg'd by affright, our wives and children fly. Chang'd by despair, the lips that ne'er have moved To form an accent, save what love approv'd, O'erflowing now with passions' rising gall, For Heaven's vengeance on their monarch call! And helpless babes, unrous'd by the alarms, But closely press'd in s...
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