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Freemen! to your Standard rally!
a song of the Union men of the South.
by Lewis J. Cist.
Freemen I to your standard rally!Come from mountain, hill, and valley;
Forth from town and city sally--
Swear to guard it and defend it;
Round that flag so long victorious,
Stars and stripes, beloved and glorious,
Swear, with voice deep, not uproarious,
This rebellion foul, to end it!
Shall the tree our fathers nourished--
Watered by their blood that flourished,
Till the haughty Briton perished
Out the land — shall it be riven?
Shall the glorious flag they gave us--
Emblem high to guard and save us
'Gainst all foes that would enslave us--
From our natal soil be driven?
Shall the Union, which our sires
Forged, in patriotic fires,
Perish at the fell desires
Of the base secession crew?
Shall we let such knaves and traitors,
Robbers, thieves, and freedom-haters,
All our nation's great creators'
Most successful work undo?
No! By Washington and Wayne,
Adams, Franklin, Lee, and Penn,
All those brave, true-hearted men
Who Freedom gained and Union gave us--
Up! and fight for Law and Order,
Fight until the last marauder
Ye have driven from your border,
Who oppress and would enslave us!
By that bright and proud array--
Patriot names of later day--
Jackson, Webster, Wirt, and Clay,
Statesmen, orators, and sages--
Who have battled, “armed men strong,”
For the right against the wrong,
That their country loved might long
Stand the hope of unborn ages.
By the God of heaven above us,
By the dear ones loved, who love us,
By all motives pure that move us,
The Hero's or the Martyr's crown--
We will never yield us, never,
Till the fiends who seek to sever
Our loved country are for ever
And for evermore put down!
Louisville Journal.
