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Title: The Liberty Minstrel

Author: George W. Clark

Release Date: July 16, 2007 [EBook #22089]

Language: English

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THE

LIBERTY MINSTREL.

[Illustration]

"When the striving of surges
Is mad on the main,
Like the charge of a column
Of plumes on the plain,
When the thunder is up
From his cloud cradled sleep
And the tempest is treading
The paths of the deep--
There is beauty. But where is the beauty to see,
Like the sun-brilliant brow of a nation when free?"

BY

GEO. W. CLARK.

NEW-YORK:

LEAVITT & ALDEN, 7 CORNHILL, BOSTON: SAXTON & MILES, 205
BROADWAY, N.Y.: MYRON FINCH, 120 NASSAU ST., N.Y.:
JACKSON & CHAPLIN, 38 DEAN ST., ALBANY, N.Y.:
JACKSON & CHAPLIN, CORNER GENESSEE AND
MAIN ST., UTICA, N.Y.

1844.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1844, by

GEORGE W. CLARK,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

S.W. BENEDICT & CO.
MUSIC STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS,
16 _Spruce St._ N.Y.

PREFACE.

All creation is musical--all nature speaks the language of song.

'There's music in the sighing of a reed,
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in _all things_, if man had ears;
The _earth_ is but an _echo_ of the spheres.'

And who is not moved by music? "Who ever despises music," says Martin
Luther, "I am displeased with him."

'There is a charm--a power that sways the breast,
Bids every passion revel, or be still;
Inspires with rage, or all our cares dissolves;
Can soothe _destruction_, and _almost soothes despair_.'

That music is capable of accomplishing vast g