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Poetry: The Liberty Party

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
Poem
OCR Text

tETThe following s pirited and beautiful article is from the " Friind of Man." Uúca, N. Y. THE LI BERTY PARTY. Will ye despise th acorn, Just thrusting out its shoot, Yo giants of the fore&t, That strike the deepest root? Will ye despise the streamleti Upon the mountain-side, Ye broad and mighty rivers, On swecping to the tide? Wilt thou despise the crescent, That tretrblcs, newly bom, Thou bright and pearles planet Whose reign shall reach the inorn? Time, now, hisecythe ia whetting Ye giant oaks for you, Ye flooda, the sea is thirsting To drink you like the dew. That crescent, faint and trembling, Her lamp ehall nightly trim, Till thou, imperious planet, Shalt in her light grow dim. AndBOBhall wax the Paity, Now feeble at its birth, Till Liberty shall cover, This tyrant-trodden enrth. That party, ao we term it, - The PARTY of the WI10LE,- Has for its firm foundation, The substance of the soul. It groweth out of REASON, - The strongest soil below; - The smaller is its budding, The more Ub room to grow! Then rally to its bannera, Supported by the true; - The weakest are the wanting, The many are the few. Of wliat is small, but living, God makes himself the nurse; While "Onward" cry the voicea, Of all His universe. Our plant is of the Ccdar That knoweth not decay; lts growth shall bless the mountains, Till mountains pass away. lts top shall greet the sunBhine, lts leaves shall drink the rain, Whilst on its lower branches, The slave shall hang his chain. God speed the infant partyThe party of the whole, - And surely he will do it, While ueason is its soul.