icurn. V ft/Ob Duke University Libraries Ode on the meet Conf Pam q#106 % on J/w /hem *m Wonakm 4 BY H. TIMROD. Hntli not Ihe morning dawned with added light? And will not evening call another star Out of the infinite regions of the night, To work this day in Heaven! At last, we arc A nation among nations : and the world Shall Boon behold in many a distant part Another Bag unfurled ! Now, come what may, whose favor need we court i And under God whose thunder need we fear? Thank Mini who placed us here Beneath so kind a sky — the very sun Takes part with us: and on our errands run All breezes of the Ocean ; dew and rain Do noiseless battle for us : and the 3 ear, And all the gentle daughters in her train, March in our ranks, and in our B6rvice wield Long Bpears of golden grain ! A yellow blossom as her fairy shield. June Hings our azure banner to the wind, Whih- in the order of their birth Her M-tirs pass, and many an amide field Grows white beneath their steps, till now behold Its endless sheafs unfold The snow of Southern summers ! Let the earth Rejoice! — heneath tin soli and warm Our happy land shall sleep In a repose as deep As if we lay entrenched behind Whole leagues of Russian ice and Arctic storm, And what if mad with wrongs themselves have wrought In their own treachery caught, By their own fears made bold, And leagued with him of old. Who long Bince, in the limits of the North, Set up his evil throne, and warred with God — What if both mad and blinded in their rage, Our foes should ding us down their mortal gaze, And with s hostile step profane our sod ! We shall not shrink, my brothers, but go forth them, marshalled by the Lord of Hosts. And overshadowed by the mighty ghosts Of Moultrie and of Eutaw — who shall foil Auxiliaries such as these '.' Nor these alone. But every stock and Shall help as | hut tie irr\ soil. And all tie' generous wT ■ th it gives to toil, And all for which we lo\e our noble land, Shall light beside, and through OS, lee and strand, The heart of v. .man. and her hand, Tree, fruit, and flower, and every influence, 1 li ntle. or grave, or grand. The winds in our defence Shall seem to blow : to as the hills shall lend Their firmness and their calm : And in our stiffened sinews we shall blend The strength of pine and palm. Look where we will, we cannot find a ground For any mournful song; Call up the clashing elements around, And test the right, and wrong! On one side, pledges broken, creeds that lie. Religion sunk in vain philosophy, Empty professions. Pharisaic leaven, Souls that would sell their birth-right in the sk\. Philanthropists who pass the beggar by, And laws which controvert the laws of Heaven! And on the other — first a righteous cause ! Then Honor w ithout tlaws. Truth. Bible reverence, charitable wealth, And for tin- poor and bumble, laws which give. Not the mean right to buy the right to li\e. But life, and home, and health. To doubt the issue were distrust in God I If in His Providence lie hath decreed That to the peace for which we pray, Through the Red Sea of War must lie our Way, Doubt not, oh brothers,