The Liberty Minstrel

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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.

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.