Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-09-23
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Beyond the realms where fygian horrors dwell
And floods fulphurous whslm the vale. of hell,
Where Naiad furies. yelling as they lave,
In fiery eddics roll the turhid wave
Beyond the verge of chaos utmo(t cline,
The dubious bounds of nature, ipace and time;
a realr, extends its unesential gloom.
The val creation's univerial Tomb. -
There no fair funs embaze the courts on high,
Nor moon, nor nirry fres, the evening Ky
No na,n clouds in ether hang their fails,
Nor moving fpirt wakes the vernal gales
But endlefs twilight, with feeble ray,
Browns the dim horrors Of the duiky day,
And ilence, famenefs, ard eternal 1lade,
The unbounded, wild lnanity pervade
" In night pavilon'd, DER the niadowy plans,
The pee. le( P,zoey. ASSIMILATION regus.
Eia;e Of Fiea.s whole eating breath
Peoples the hores OF darkness aud Of death.
Down the deep gupb's abforbng vortex whirld,
Sink the vain lpiendors of each upper world
Ambitions toll the aaeiman's gloried name,
The hero's triumph and the poets fame
lntatiate thronss who, fr'd with lua of gain,
Dive the firm earth, and force the faithlefs main,
Here, lurd TO 1eep eterns nillnffs keep,
And ind clole in dead Oblivion Geen
Beneath his fceprre, in imperial nate
His fern commands ten thoufand demons wait
Prompt, like their prince, in elemental wars,
10 tread out empires, and to quench the flais;
Extinguill.'d worlds in delug'd fires to lave,
Sweep ruin'd fyltens 10 common gravc
Exterminate exiltance. and refore
The ysnquiih'd vacuum to the tyrants power.
|" Thefe the great His,ayebs whole prowcls leads
The vaaai throng 20 defeating deeds -
But far beneath them fpreads junior fry,
Tho pigmy populaee of the neither 1<y
With feeble powers, for petty tolls de6gn'd,
Their humble Office is to plague mankind;
Pervadc the world, excite all mortal flriie slfu
lnfpire the wrongs and balt the joys OF life. ss pa
MAtur'd for birth, at times on earth they-rifc,
Incarnatc Imp, and vei'd in human CUTIE W b ...s
Like man appear in liature, lape, asd face, s-.H
Mir undiltinguifh'd with the common race l. sls a.
Fill every RAIL, in each prsf.fo7 blend, ~
Power al their aim, and ~ all their end
OF lhefc the LEAH, 10 med cine's garb array'd,
With deadly ar; purfue the healing trade, a IA
The lancet weld prefcribe the poiionous pill,
Invent the noflrum, and unlicenc'd kill,
o'erload the lygian bark with ftequen freight
And crowd with angry ghons the realms OF fate"