Who guides the moon to run In strength and beauty rise? There view immensity! behold! my God is there; See where the mountains rise; He reared those giant cliffs, supplies that dashing stream, Look on that world of waves, Tempest and calms obey the same almighty voice No human thought can soar Oh, praise his works divine! Bow down thy soul in prayer; That God is everywhere: The viewless Spirit, He!-immortal, holy, blest: LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. HE breaking waves dashed high TH On the stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New-England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depth of the desert's gloom Amid the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared: This was their welcome home. There were men with hoary hair Why have they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, There was manhood's brow, serenely high, What sought they thus, afar? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found – THE BELL OF LIBERTY. When the Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress, the event was announced by ringing the old State-House bell, which bore the inscription," Proclaim liberty throughout the land, to all the inhabitants thereof!" The old bellman stationed his little grandson at the door of the hall, to await the instructions of the doorkeeper when to ring. At the word, the young patriot rushed out, and, clapping his hands, shouted:-"Ring! RING! RING!" THERE was a tumult, in the city * TH In the quaint, old Quakers' town, S Where they whispered, each to each, As the bleak Atlantic currents Lash the wild Newfoundland shore, * Philadelphia. いい 66 "Will they do it?" Dare they do it?" "Who is speaking?" "What's the news?" "What of Adams?" "What of Sherman?" "Oh, God grant they won't refuse!" $ "Make some way there!" "Let me nearer!" "I am stifling!" "Stifle, then! When a nation's life's at hazard, So they beat against the portal, On the scene looked down and smiled- Shed his patriot blood, in vain, Now beheld the soul of freedom, All unconquered, rise again. See! See! The dense crowd quivers Hushed the people's swelling murmur, The old bellman lifts his hand, How they shouted! What rejoicing! How the bonfires and the torches Lighted up the night's repose, And, from the flames, like fabled Phoenix, That old State-House bell is silent, And when we greet the smiling sunlight We will ne'er forget the bellman Rung out, loudly, "Independence;" ches Which, please God, shall never die! THE UNION. "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"-WEBSTER. HE Union! The Union! The hope of the free! THE Howsoe'er we may differ, in this we agree: Our glorious banner no traitor shall mar By effacing a stripe, or destroying a star! Division! No, never! The Union forever! And cursed be the hand that our country would sever! The Union! The Union! 'T was purchased with blood! Side by side, to secure it, our forefathers stood: From the North to the South, through the length of the land, And cursed be the hand that our country would sever! The Union! The Union! At Lexington first, And cursed be the hand that our country would sever! |