Show tim THE following fine poet poetical bcd production was read in the camp douglas theater by mrs S M 1 irin ira in on the occasion of the anniversary of the battle of bear rii er ed to in our editorial column 1901 JANUARY BEAR an anniversary lay BY E P r aloi glorious ious story I 1 how twelve sin sing the story circling moons ngo ago through the wintry dreary desert midst the crystal crackling snow marching through the stormy ice drift by the cold light of the stars I 1 11 marching arching on to martial honors conors soldiers grave and soldiers scars went the warriors ois of the union to the savage indian fight went where duty I 1 led ed their footsteps armed nith v ith valor and with right I 1 let tie the story be historic paint the pictures of the past with their st strife and terrors with their borrois ov overcast ovir cast backward fancy turn thy drean drea minga ings backward to the days long iong gone to the days of early utah to the desert bleak and lone hark amid the primal silence out the teamsters teamster a som song As the laden bains bon bound d westward move mo with heavy pace along I 1 oxen oen pull I 1 nor heed beed the mountain rough the road and strong the stream pull pall I 1 it eve beside the fountain we i ill rest the heazy team wherewith where with order chaos dallies dailies lit in the nony new worlds early strife we will make the desert valleys ring with labors song ot life light the campfire camp fire fetch the water heres the i ear bear guard of our train wife and son and senile gentle dang daughter liter here we camp upon the plain homes well build by pleas pleasant atit rivers herds hera well tend and flocks well graze graz we will ivill be the dail dading ing givers of new nev states stales to future days va 1 such the song of emigration such tile the song of happiness wile theio c the pioneer of cities camps upon the t 1 wilderness ild erness bluh I 1 m nhat hat means that stealthy footfall whose thu the dusky dasky flee fice we ank in it k whose who tile thu ri cicely fit bing eyeball glaring through the sombre dark itis the indian I 1 comrades gather rifles ivady I 1 foes it at hand brother friend and feeble father now for life must make a stand whoops and boi hols Is aud and glances bill bast gt upon the midnight air blan knives and gleaming lances war paint making bodies bare carnage reeking scalps and moaning fiendish ells of glee father son and daughter groaning in deaths torturous tol us agony such the scene and oft repeated many a year has como come and past still the sh sli still tile the moaning Ino aning mingles with tile the evening blast god of vengeance I 1 got god of battles I 1 shall mans ma its civilizing march cea cease sa upon these plains oh never I 1 nol no I 1 fr from om oce in unto ocean peace shall rear her rainbow arch rear it oer the land for ever i flag of freedom i star gemmec gemmed Banti banner erl shall thy bearers long iong delay vindicating indicating V here thy in might h t no for californian beloes onward hasten to the fray arav onward hasten bast en to the fight I 1 comes the bessac message messac to the colonel indian warriors dare d are your guns campa for murder and for battle where bear rivers channel runs just one year ago that message it was jan daiy then frost and snow and storm and tempest sent santi nelld neld the indian den california leali fornia s sons are arc ready and their colonel brave commands soldini Sol dieli 3 march I 1 your foe awaits you meet him boys with steady hands 2 i oer the icy plains pl aills quick pacing four long nights and days they go frozen footsore toots foot oie sole yet undaunted onward oer the path ot of snow some off ozen limbs shall parish they shall dare no indian file doomed to fall fail while forward pressing fall they may but never tire onward to the willow thicket onward to the drear ravine I 1 day daybreak Daybre b ik wakes tile the sound of battle daylight and the foe is een been on OB bravo foot and gallant horsemen I 1 see sec the fiends before your face ware the scalps of murdered women s sisters of our land and race steady I 1 pistols pistol s ready I 1 bullet bulle sure and dabro babac baic I 1 the kers dea deadly adly ambush I 1 ush vill willows search and ravine dare I 1 now wo we hive have outflanked out outflank flanked od the quarter give nor mercy show al mercy would be heartless mock hii your daik relentless foe 11 ten the fight iq over I 1 F four our ion hours of blood and death 2 four long hours of s avage conflict i firra mn i lips and bated breath set where shall now the great bear hunter where shall lehigh Lc high now bo be founds there with nearly thrice an hundred d deal upon the battleground battle ground there the foe who knew no pity who neer checked his wrath to save er shall have snow flakes for his cel ceic ments and aa the ice drift for his grave I 1 sing the story sing m in sadness for the doaa we lost that day weep for every soldier hero victim in ia the bloody fray to the dead our grateful ho homage malle to thell the 11 ing ing victors bays I 1 to the d ead dead immortal holois to the uvin lasting praise t and throughout L the coming ages soldiers tell and poets write of the great deeds done in utah it the croaa bear river light fight I 1 |