Green Mountain Poets. a Collection of Poems From the Best Talent in the Green Mountain State
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Our country ! our country ! thy boasting is vain ; The gallows thou 'rt rearing, and victims are slain ; The war-shout is ringing on hills and in vales — Thy sons thou art selling, like cotton in bales. Shall sins such as these go unpunished? ah, no ! You surely must reap, yet, of that which you sow : With your brother's blood you make red the sod, But judgment will come, as there liveth a God. THE DYING SOLDIER. A soldier on the battle-field Lay writhing in his pain ; Around him, there, on eve...ry side, Lay heaps of ghastly slain. Dumb silence reigned throughout the field- The battle's strife was o'er ; And many a valiant soldier boy Was weltering in his gore. A rider chanced to pass that way, As the evening shades did fall, And, stooping, gave a list'ning ear To the hero's dying call — " My soul is free from mortal fear, While bleeding here alone ; 242 GREEN MOUNTAIN POETS. I pray thee take my dying words To my Green-Mountain home. My mother loved her only son, To the extent that mortals know ; Say to her, I will feel that love, In the land where I shall go.
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