THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY.

HAT flower is this that greets the morn, Its hues from Heaven so freshly born? With burning star and flaming band It kindles all the sunset land: O tell us what its name may be, Is this the Flower of Liberty? It is the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty!

In savage Nature's far abode

Its tender seed our fathers sowed;

The storm-winds rocked its swelling bud,
Its opening leaves were streaked with blood,
Till lo! earth's tyrants shook to see
The full-blown Flower of Liberty!

Then hail the banner of the free,
The starry Flower of Liberty!

Behold its streaming rays unite,
One mingling flood of braided light,-
The red that fires the Southern rose,
With spotless white from Northern snows,
And, spangled o'er its azure, see
The sister Stars of Liberty!

Then hail the banner of the free,
The starry Flower of Liberty!

The blades of heroes fence it round,
Where'er it springs is holy ground;
From tower and dome its glories spread;
It waves where lonely sentries tread;

It makes the land as ocean free,
And plants an empire on the sea!

Then hail the banner of the free,
The starry Flower of Liberty!

Thy sacred leaves, fair Freedom's flower,
Shall ever float on dome and tower,
To all their heavenly colors true,

In blackening frost or crimson dew, -
And God love us as we love thee,
Thrice holy Flower of Liberty!
.Then hail the banner of the free,
The starry FLOWER OF LIBERTY!

THE SWEET LITTLE MAN.

DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERS.

OW, while our soldiers are fighting our battles,

Each at his post to do all that he

can,

Down among rebels and contraband chattels,
What are you doing, my sweet little man?

All the brave boys under canvas are sleeping,

All of them pressing to march with the van, Far from the home where their sweethearts are

weeping;

What are you waiting for, sweet little man?

You with the terrible warlike moustaches,

Fit for a colonel or chief of a clan,

You with the waist made for sword-belts and

sashes,

Where are your shoulder-straps, sweet little man?,

Bring him the buttonless garment of woman!
Cover his face lest it freckle and tan;

Muster the Apron-string Guards on the Common,
That is the corps for the sweet little man!

Give him for escort a file of young misses,
Each of them armed with a deadly rattan ;
They shall defend him from laughter and hisses,
Aimed by low boys at the sweet little man.

All the fair maidens about him shall cluster, Pluck the white feathers from bonnet and fan, Make him a plume like a turkey-wing duster, That is the crest for the sweet little man!

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O, but the Apron-string Guards are the fellows! Drilling each day since our troubles began, "Handle your walking-sticks!" "Shoulder um

brellas!"

That is the style for the sweet little man.

Have we a nation to save? In the first place
Saving ourselves is the sensible plan,

Surely the spot where there's shooting 's the worst

place

Where I can stand, says the sweet little man.

Catch me confiding my person with strangers!
Think how the cowardly Bull-Runners ran!
In the brigade of the Stay-at-home Rangers
Marches my corps, says the sweet little man.

Such was the stuff of the Malakoff-takers,

Such were the soldiers that scaled the Redan; Truculent housemaids and bloodthirsty Quakers, Brave not the wrath of the sweet little man!

Yield him the sidewalk, ye nursery maidens !
Sauve qui peut! Bridget, and right about! Ann;-
Fierce as a shark in a school of menhadens,
See him advancing, the sweet little man!

When the red flails of the battle-field's threshers
Beat out the continent's wheat from its bran,
While the wind scatters the chaffy seceshers,
What will become of our sweet little man?

When the brown soldiers come back from the borders, How will he look while his features they scan? How will he feel when he gets marching orders, Signed by his lady love? sweet little man!

Fear not for him, though the rebels expect him, Life is too precious to shorten its span ; Woman her broomstick shall raise to protect him, Will she not fight for the sweet little man!

Now then, nine cheers for the Stay-at-home Ranger! Blow the great fish-horn and beat the big pan! First in the field that is farthest from danger,

Take your white-feather plume, sweet little man!

VIVE LA FRANCE!

A SENTIMENT OFFERED AT THE DINNER TO H. I. H. THE PRINCE NAPOLEON, AT THE REVERE HOUSE,

SEPTEMBER 25, 1861.

HE land of sunshine and of song!
Her name your hearts divine;
To her the banquet's vows belong

Whose breasts have poured its wine;

Our trusty friend, our true ally

Through varied change and chance:
So, fill your flashing goblets high, -
I give you, VIVE LA FRANCE!

Above our hosts in triple folds
The self-same colors spread,
Where Valor's faithful arm upholds
The blue, the white, the red;
Alike each nation's glittering crest
Reflects the morning's glance,
Twin eagles, soaring east and west:
Once more, then, VIVE LA FRANCE!

Sister in trial! who shall count
Thy generous friendship's claim,
Whose blood ran mingling in the fount
That gave our land its name,
Till Yorktown saw in blended line
Our conquering arms advance,
And victory's double garlands twine
Our banners? VIVE LA FRANCE!