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 BY MRS. D. K. WHITAKER, 
 
 Of South Carolina. 
 
 ( Hi vain is the splendor of blue-curtained skies, 
 The pomp of tall forests thai 'round one arise ; 
 The rich gol len harvests adorning each plain, 
 Thrice beautiful land— thy beauties are vain! 
 
 Derided, insulted, and falsely betrayed, 
 On thee — the foul grasp of tyranny laid ; 
 Astonished the nations behold thy disgraco, 
 While robbed and oppressed by o vile Northern race. 
 
 Where now is that spirit heroic which gave 
 
 Thy country its fame, thy warriors a grave V 
 Which oeho> I o'or Mexico's blood-watorod field, 
 
 And taught every foenian to By or to yield! 
 
 That spirit still lives in the heart of the South. 
 And from her green borders a voice has gone forth : 
 Commanding her freemen to arm for the strife, 
 And battle for Liberty, Honor, and Life ! 
 
 Then welcome the clarion's far pealing sound. 
 And the war-r mrser's neigh as he tramples the ground. 
 And keen be. the weapon each Southerner draws 
 While defending this realm, her righto and hei laws ! 
 
 Endurance is WCftry our wrongs cry aloud, 
 We are strangers to fear ye fanatic crowd ; 
 Your taunts and your threats alike we despise, 
 Your triumph is short ! lo ! (he South doth arise. 
 
 Aye rise in her strength like the Sun in his pride, 
 And proudly like him in her grandeur abide, 
 fur, ttored by Union- a 1 nion ol shame, 
 
 Which drain" 1 her of wealth, and despoiled hcrof fame 
 
 Richmond Examiner, Vnu 14, 1861. 
 
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