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Then wake, and tell thy soldier true
Thy love, once won, is won forever;
Our days of youthful bliss review-
Our plighted faith again renew—

We meet, O joy! no more to sever.

TO A WATERFOWL.

WILLIAM C. BRYANT.

WHITHER, midst falling dew,

While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?

Vainly the fowler's eye

Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky
Thy figure floats along.

Seek'st thou the plashy brink

Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,
Or where the rocking billows rise and sink
On the chafed ocean side?

There is a Power whose care
Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,-
The desert and illimitable air,-

Lone wandering, but not lost.

All day thy wings have fanned,

At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere,
Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,
Though the dark night is near.

And soon that toil shall end;

Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.

Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven
Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,
And shall not soon depart.

He who, from zone to zone,

Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.

THE UNION HYMN.

BY DR. WARD.

WHEN o'er the wide land terror-clouds were rolling, When tyrant rulers threatened to enslave,

What did our fathers in that fearful trial,

Weak, scattered, few, their precious rights to save?

Not with desponding, not with despairing,
Did the bold freemen meet the tempest-blast;
But solemn, firm, with hearts and hands united,
Life, fortune, honour, staked upon the cast.

CHORUS.

Then rally round the star-flag! sons and heirs of free

men

All chains we spurn, save such as brothers bind: Oh! sacred union! marriage tie of heaven

Who dare divorce what God himself has joined? Then hail, hail, to Union!-sole chain of freemen! Stones of one arch, one common fate we'll find: Together!-together!-A band of brothers all, Together will we stand or fall!

When rending cannon pealed their dreadful thunder,
When hireling legions stained the sacred soil,
What did our fathers in that hour appalling-
Half-armed, unused to front the battle-broil?
Not by retreating from the frightful carnage
Did the true soldiers yield the sod to slaves;
But linked together shoulder to shoulder,
Bore their invaders back upon the waves.
Then rally, &c.

When thwarted traitors sought our bands to sunder,
When party frenzy shook the land's extremes,

What did our fathers when the clouds of treason
Hung o'er our stars and dimmed their rising beams?

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