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by Frances Gage "Resist all agitation." Bold reformer do you hear? Does not your strong nerves tremble, quails your spirit not with fear? When in this land of Freedom where the star-lit banner waves,

The minions of a party bid freemen be dumb as slaves? (Forty eight more lines)

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Abstracts 1574 - 1577

POETRY & POETS (Cont'd)

1574 - DTD Aug. 6; ed: 3/1 - "The Poetry headed 'Beauty' is beauty itself. We are always thankful for such."

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Abstracts 1578 - 1583

POETRY & POETS (Cont'd)

1578 - DTD Aug. 16:2/3

To the pretty-faced "Young Democracy"

Come, shout ye young Democracy! Hurrah for Pierce and King!
Upon the air of Freedom's God your servile echoes ring,
And every shout, and every tone shall to the nations tell
Your shameful degradation, and proclaim your manhood's knell.
(Thirty-two more lines)

1579 DTD Aug. 17:3/2 "Little Ann and the Pigeon"

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by Mrs. Lydia Baxter

A little girl with curious eye,

And ever restless mind,

Was lead each day to search and try

Some hidden thing to find.

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(Five more stanzas)

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DTD Aug. 20:2/3 -"The Bridge and the Brook"

by C. G. Leland

He throws his arms around her,

But ever found her gone;

The love span hath not bound her,
And still the brook rolls on.

(Two more stanzas)

1581 DTD Aug. 21:3/2 - A "free" Democratic song for 1582.
"The Pole Raising" (Tune - "Rosin the Bow")

Did you go to the Loco's Pole Raising?
That young hickory pole, straight and tall:
And wasn't it truly amazing,

So much timber did not fall.

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Perhaps a mortal eye hath gazed on fairer form than thine,
Perchance a heathen worshiper hath bowed to fairer shrine
But still the beauteous "star of love" hath on thy pathway
shone,

And goodness, truth and poetry hath claimed thee for their

own.

(Twelve more lines)

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Abstracts 1584 - 1588

POETRY & POETS (Cont'd)

1584 - DTD Sept. 1:3/1

"Jem Jones' Second Courtship"

by Mrs. F. Dana Gage

Come, Mary Jones my lady love,
Sit down here by my side,

'Tis twenty years tonight you know,
Since first you were my bride.

(Seventy-six more lines)

1858 - DTD Sept. 2:2/4 - Mrs. H. M. Tracy wrote a poem upon her recent
return from Europe. She was Ohio's delegate to the peace conference.
no title is given, follows:

The poem, for which

Gazed ye ever, Gazed ye ever,

On a scene so fair as this,

In the old world where you've wandered,

Questioning of human bliss?

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1586 - DTD Sept. 4:2/3 -"To the Freemen of the North"

by N. B. Payne

Oh Party! has it come to this,

Must northern Freemen stoop and kiss
The hand where slaverys vipers hiss

To gain the nomination?

(Five more stanzas)

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1587 - DTD Sept. 10:3/4 -"Scott and The Platform"

by Croaker

Strange that Free Soilers should be, still,

So blinded, that they can

Perceive no difference between

A Platform and a man!

(Six more stanzas)

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1588 - DTD Sept. 14:3/2 The following poem is written for the Ohio State fair of this year.

"The People are Coming"

by Mrs. D. Gage

The people are coming from East and from West,

From the North and the South bringing with them the best
That their skill could invent, or the soil could produce,

For comfort or luxury, pleasure or use.

(Eight more stanzas)

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Abstracts 1589 - 1594

POETRY & POETS (Cont'd)

1589 DTD Sept. 15:2/4 - "The Pittsburgh Convention"

1591 - DTD Sept. 17:2/5 - - Mrs. F. D. Gage, after attending a meeting of the free Democracy, wrote the following:

Speak out, speak out, the earnest tho't,
That's struggling from within;

Speak out, God hath your conscience taught,
Speak, purge your soul from sin!

(Ten more stanzas)

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1592 DTD Sept. 18:2/4 - "A Hale Welcome"

How many great and priceless gifts are scattered round our way,
How much that doth our Maker's love and care for us display;
Birds, books and flowers - a pleasant home, where those we love
may meet,

And often spend the passing hour in conversation sweet.