Produced by Carlo Traverso, collective PM for music, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress.) Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni and the PGDP Music Team. THE LIBERTY MINSTREL. [Illustration] "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. PREFACE. 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." 'There is a charm--a power that sways the breast, Bids every passion revel, or be still; Inspires with rage, or all our cares dissolves; Can soothe _destruction_, and _almost soothes despair_.' That music is capable of accomplishing vast good, and that it is a source of the most elevated and refined enjoyment when rightly cultivated and practiced, no one who understands its power or has observed its effects, will for a moment deny. 'Thou, O music! canst assuage the pain and heal the wound That hath defied the skill of sager comforters; Thou dost restrain each wild emotion, Thou dost the rage of fiercest passions chill, Or lightest up the flames of holy fire, As through the soul thy strains harmonious thrill. Who does not desire to see the day when music in this country, _cultivated and practised by_ ALL--music of a chaste, refined and elevated style, shall go forth with its angel voice, like a spirit of love upon the wind, exerting upon all classes of society a rich and healthful moral influence. When its wonderful power shall be made to subserve every righteous cause--to aid every humane effort for the promotion of man's social, civil and religious well-being.