A CAMPAIGN SONG BY A VETERAN.
The following Campaign Song was written by Samuel Copp, Esq., aged 75 years, for the “Lincoln and Hamlin Club” of Stonington, Conn., a place rendered memorable by the gallant repulse of a naval attack by the British, on the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th of Aug., 1814, in which four days’ contest Mr. Copp took a part. The original song is furnished to us by the author’s friend, Samuel C. Brewster, Esq.:
Whatmean the joyful shouts that ringSo gladly through the air?A better day is opening—A day all bright and fair!Lincoln and Hamlin, wise and great,Our star-lit standard bearTriumphant to the helm of State,And these their heralds are.They rise, from hamlet, city, town,From high-souled men and free,Who shout aloud as they strike downMisrule’s dark tyranny!From Bunker’s Hill and Lexington,Hark! how the anthems rise;From Groton’s heights and StoningtonTheir echoes reach the skies!They roll from the Atlantic shore,O’er mountain, plain, and glen,To where the vast Pacific’s roarProclaims the loud Amen!From where Superior rolls her flood,From where Saint Lawrence flows,They peal along, o’er dale and wood,To where the orange grows.These shouts go up from men of might,Of heart and principle;Sure conquerors in a righteous fight,Truthis invincible!Lincoln and Hamlin!—honest, great—The spangled banner bearIn triumph to the helm of State!Wehailtheir entrance there!
Whatmean the joyful shouts that ringSo gladly through the air?A better day is opening—A day all bright and fair!Lincoln and Hamlin, wise and great,Our star-lit standard bearTriumphant to the helm of State,And these their heralds are.They rise, from hamlet, city, town,From high-souled men and free,Who shout aloud as they strike downMisrule’s dark tyranny!From Bunker’s Hill and Lexington,Hark! how the anthems rise;From Groton’s heights and StoningtonTheir echoes reach the skies!They roll from the Atlantic shore,O’er mountain, plain, and glen,To where the vast Pacific’s roarProclaims the loud Amen!From where Superior rolls her flood,From where Saint Lawrence flows,They peal along, o’er dale and wood,To where the orange grows.These shouts go up from men of might,Of heart and principle;Sure conquerors in a righteous fight,Truthis invincible!Lincoln and Hamlin!—honest, great—The spangled banner bearIn triumph to the helm of State!Wehailtheir entrance there!
Whatmean the joyful shouts that ringSo gladly through the air?A better day is opening—A day all bright and fair!
Whatmean the joyful shouts that ring
So gladly through the air?
A better day is opening—
A day all bright and fair!
Lincoln and Hamlin, wise and great,Our star-lit standard bearTriumphant to the helm of State,And these their heralds are.
Lincoln and Hamlin, wise and great,
Our star-lit standard bear
Triumphant to the helm of State,
And these their heralds are.
They rise, from hamlet, city, town,From high-souled men and free,Who shout aloud as they strike downMisrule’s dark tyranny!
They rise, from hamlet, city, town,
From high-souled men and free,
Who shout aloud as they strike down
Misrule’s dark tyranny!
From Bunker’s Hill and Lexington,Hark! how the anthems rise;From Groton’s heights and StoningtonTheir echoes reach the skies!
From Bunker’s Hill and Lexington,
Hark! how the anthems rise;
From Groton’s heights and Stonington
Their echoes reach the skies!
They roll from the Atlantic shore,O’er mountain, plain, and glen,To where the vast Pacific’s roarProclaims the loud Amen!
They roll from the Atlantic shore,
O’er mountain, plain, and glen,
To where the vast Pacific’s roar
Proclaims the loud Amen!
From where Superior rolls her flood,From where Saint Lawrence flows,They peal along, o’er dale and wood,To where the orange grows.
From where Superior rolls her flood,
From where Saint Lawrence flows,
They peal along, o’er dale and wood,
To where the orange grows.
These shouts go up from men of might,Of heart and principle;Sure conquerors in a righteous fight,Truthis invincible!
These shouts go up from men of might,
Of heart and principle;
Sure conquerors in a righteous fight,
Truthis invincible!
Lincoln and Hamlin!—honest, great—The spangled banner bearIn triumph to the helm of State!Wehailtheir entrance there!
Lincoln and Hamlin!—honest, great—
The spangled banner bear
In triumph to the helm of State!
Wehailtheir entrance there!