Her pillars, church and school—as courts and jails.
Dismantled, fall, our great Republic fails.
With insults, Wrong exults o’er Right exiled;
The smiling field reverts to tangled wild;
To violence and blood, unhappy men,
Abandoned, turn the home to beastly den.
—J. THOMAS COOPER.
AT SUNSET ON TENNESSEE RIVER.
Majestically, from the pearl-faced gate
Of eastern skies, the mighty stream doth pour