Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-06-28
Dnthe Doves leaving the Ark.
FROM POEMS 4
rntelv nublisl,ed By Miss HUNqLY, q

The fury Of the. feaming waves.
while fierce the deluge ponrs ITS stream
The thunders roll-the meteors CLEAN,
When Oceans mighty cisterns break,
And earth like rent Cottage shake,
Aud slowly as itsaxle turn'd, :,
The wat'ry planet mov'd and mourn'd !;
Though trembling at the tempest's ire;
Or scorching In the lightning's ire,
While holding in her firm embrace
The remnant Of wasted race,
still DER the waves the wandering ARK
+soam,d like some lone, deserted bark.
|s3ut now the storm has hush'd It's ire,
The warning elements retire;
And from his curtains dusk ana gun
Looked forth, once more tn astenlSild
sun.
What saw he theres Young Natures
face /,
With smiles, and Joy and beauty far :
20 not one feature could he trace
Totellhim life was ever there;
Save when that little bark, was seen
70 shew him where her pride had been.
But now from that secure abode
A winged stranger went,
md from tie easement opensd wide
A joyful fight she bent:
High mounting seem'd to seek the sky
With forward breast and sparkling eye,
Like captive set atliberty.
So went the dove on errand kind,
10 seek a mansion fer mankind,
Though scarce her meek eye dared to
trace
The horrors Of thai dreadful place.
The waves with white and curling head
|Swept above tie silent dead,
The heaying bi'iows' dashing surge
he scarcely swegl'd tbs hollow dlrge !:
The heavy weig'A Of waters Prcst
The mighty naaarcb's Wondering breast,
the giagt CHEZ, tie. scsqtacd hand,
The lip that poar'd the loud commanS,
The BLOOMING cI,eek--a.e sparkling e. es,
Nov shrouG I'd in &c SEE weed lie.
But still the pensiys stranger spread
Her white wig DER that Gcetn dread,
| Ard Oft her anxious eve she cast
Across the dark and shoreless waste.
Tor evening clad the skies in gloom,
'And warn'd her other distant hone.
ITae stars that genlm'd the brow 81 nioht
|E4lanc'd c9l6tg on her watering fight,
lin tears. the moan with trembling gseam
Withdrew her faint and faded beam,
And Ger that vast and silent crave
VI as spread the dark and bounaless
ware.
With beating heart and anxious ear,
She strove some earthly sound to hear,
Ia yain--no earthly sound was near.
,taseem'd Ihe world's e.cynai sleep
lad settled DER thai oomy deep.
,yor slightest breath ar h9soa, c3eer'd,
Her own soft wings alone she heaya.
But still that fearful dove preserved,
With unabatiog care,
Irhe olive leaf--t:le tyne OF peace
All sraeralt, fresh and fair.
With pain her weary wing size strea;sh'd
Over the biiioNs wide,
lana 5tf !lcr parting bosom dropp'd
yT,,o,, %tS h,,,Y,v fade
The i,naee Of her absent mate,
THAT cbcea'd i.eg as she stroye with fate,
Grew darker or her eye:
|! t seem'd as ifshe heard him mourn,
For one VINO never must return,
In broken miastrelsy.
Yet ere her pinions ceased their fight,
TOR olos'd befeye in endless night,
A haad the weary WaHderer prest
Aud drew her to Che ark OF rest.
I0h welcome to thy peaceful home,
No more DER that wild waste to roam.
When from the cell of pain and woe,
Like that weak dove my soul shall go,
And trembling still her aieht shall urge,
Along this dark worlds doubtful verge,
l0'er the cold food and foaming surge,
Chen may the shrinking stranger SPY,
\ pierc'd hand stretching from the sky,
Then hear voice in accents blest,
+ Return-retufn unto thy rest;'
Long prisonsd in hayward cline,
Long wounded with tie thorns of time :
Long child by the wild storms that
pour