Clearfield Republican

Select Poetry.

DISSOLVE THE UNION.

Dissolve the Union! Who would part
The chain that binds us heart to heart?
Each link was formed by sainted sires,
Amid the Revolution's fires:
And cool'd—oh, where so rich a flood? —
In Warren's and in Sumter's blood.

Dissolve the Union! Be like France,
When "Terror" rear'd her bloody lance,
And man became destruction's child,
And woman in her passions wild.
Danced in the life-blood of her Queen,
Before the dreadful guillotine.

Dissolve the Union! Roll away
The spangled flag of Glory's day;
Blot out the history of the brave,
And desecrate each Patriot's grave,
And thou above the wreck of years,
Quaff an eternity of tears.

Dissolve the Union! Can it be,
That they who speak such words are free?
Great God! did any die to save
Such sordid wretches from the grave—
When breast to breast, and hand to hand,
Our patriot fathers freed the land?

Dissolve the Union! Ho! Forbear!
The sword of Damocles is there:
Cut but a hair, and earth shall know
A darker, deadlier tale of woe
Than history's crimson tale has told,
Since Nero's car in blood e'er roll'd.

Dissolve the Union! Speak, ye hills
Ye everlasting mountains cry;
Shriek out, ye streams and mingling rills,
And ocean roaring agony;
Dead heroes! leap from Glory's sod!
And shield the manor of your blood