The Emigrant

Résumé du livre

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt: ... AMERICAN WAR ODE. Up, up, sons of Freedom, Arm, arm, for the fight Your country is calling, Arise in your might; Rebellion and Treason, The bloody flag waves; Then onward to freedom, Or on to your graves The shades of your fathers, Still hovering round, The fields of their glory, Start up at the sound. The spirit of Washington Stalks from the grave, And calls on his children, Their country to save. From every true bosom, There bursts the wild cry--We'll strike for the Union, We'll conquer or die And where is the coward, Who trembles, or fears These slave hunting pirates, These old buccaneers? Her arm for the combat, The gallant North bares; By the Great God of Battles, She solemnly swears, The foot of no Rebel Shall soil the green sod, Where Freedom, fair Freedom First fixed her abode. Where backwoodsmen triumphed, O'er tyrant and king; There still the long rifle, For freedom can ring; The whip, and the shackle, They shall not remain, From the flag of our Union, We'll wipe out the stain. New York Pennsylvania The war trump do blow; New Jersey is rising, To rush on the foe The hills of New Hampshire, Have heard the war sound And the green peaks of Vermont, The echoes rebound And old Massachusetts Responds to the call; Connecticut Maine and Rhode Island and all Beneath Freedom's banner, Now waving on high, They march like their fathers, To conquer or die. LYRICS & MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, BY ALEXANDER McLACHLAN. SOLD BY ROLLO & ADAM. NOTICES OF THE PRESS, &c. From Sir Archibald Alison. We have always taken a deep interest in Canada, and will henceforth take a deeper interest, from knowing that it contains a citizen so truly inspired with the genius of poetry as the author of these beautiful Lyrics." From Mrs. Moodie. "Had McLachlan's volume appeared...