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EEfxE SONG ne boston Gay Iluu iu' :
lately offered premium Of fifty dollars for tn
best Whig song, to the tune Of " Tho Brave Ol,
Oak" The premium was awarded for the fol
lowing spirited, graphic lines, from the pen o
ex.Jufge Bacon Of Borkshre--himsef yigor.
Gus scion of the old Revolutionary Democratic
WhiR stock of that quarter


THE OLD ASHLAND TREE.


ny EzEErEL BACON,


TuNE-" The Brace OH Oak"


A song for the Sage, the brave old Sage,
We have known and honored him long;
Whilst fame and renown have encrcled his
crown,
With garlands enduring and strong,
There was fear in his frown, when his eye look
Cd down


On tho hosts who environed his way;
And he rose in his might, midst storms of the
night,


Andheld the fierce fooman at BAY
Ltf Us sing of the Sage, the brave old Sage,


Who stands in his glory alone!
And still stands he, as the firm oak tree,


when Lindenwald saplings are gone.


O'cr the years of his youth, shone honorend
Il truth,
A. hls star assembled the sky;
Y ssill with bright beams round the horizon
CLEANS


" bursts its clear light from on high
WeWell knew the day, when he moved on his
wAy,


With patriots and sages of yore,
Nuw gone to their rest, in the land of the blest,
And Me walk in their shadows no'more
wess sing of the Sage, the Ashland Sage,
YktStanding unscathed and alono
And lone stand he {hp ean,a stor,, he. t,,, Tao,
When the time worn forest is gone


Asthe cedar's strong hold, he struck his


root bold,
When sounded the clarion of war;
When action was rife, the world rent with strife,
And luyasion came froma far; Z,
0urhafriers of CLAY, held Brtons at bay
With MADISON firm at the helm;
30 now FOR the right, we rise in Wing might, /.
And hofdes of fell faction o'erwhem
Thena song for the Sage, the time honorcd :


Sage,
Yet towering in fame and renown;
There long shall he stand, the pride of the land a
Still shining as ever he shone.
PvrsrELD, May 80 1874 a