Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-07-16
100.

Time the correcter where OUT Juu
The test Of truth, love-sole philosopher
For all beside are sophists, from lhy tnrd',
Which never loses, though it doth defer
Time the ayenger! unto thee hit
Nv hands, aud eyes, and heart, and crave
OF thee gilt.
13f.
/" Amidst this wreck, where thou hast made
shrine
And temple more divinely desola.e,
Among Thy mightier offerings here are
mine, En- r.
Ruins of ytss-though few, yet full oil
fate -
Iftbou hast ever seen me too elate,
Hear me not; but if calmly have horne
Good, and reserved my pride against the
hate
Which shall not whelm me, lei me not have
This iron in my soul in vain-shall they
not mourn!
"And thou, who never yet Of human wrong
Lost the unbalanced scale, great Nemesis
| Here, where the ancient paid thee homage
Thou, who didst call the furies from the
abyss, -.
And round Orestes bid them howl and hiss
For that unnatural retribution-jnst,
Had il been from hands less near-in this
Thy former calm, call thee from the dust !!
Dost thou not hear my heart Awake
thou shalt and must.
1873.
at is not that may not have incurr'd
| For nv ancestral faults or mine the wound
! bleed withal, and, had il been CONFER d
With lust weapon, il had flowed unbound:
Bot now my blood shall not sink into the
ground
To thee do devote it-thoa shalt take
The vengeance which shall yet be sought
and found,
Which if have not taken for the sake
But let that pass-I sleep, but thou shalt
yet awake.
"And if my voice break forth, tits not that
| shrink from what is suffered: lei him
! speak
Who hath beheld decline upon my brow,
Or seen my minds CONFUSION leave II
weak
But in this page a record will seek.
Not in the air shall these my words dis
| perse,
Thong be ashes; far hour shall wreak
The deep prophetic fulness Of this verse,
And pile on human heads the mountain OF
| my curse.
| 1876.
"That curse shall be forgiyencss.-Have
Hear me. mother earth behold it heaven
Have moi had 10 wrestle with my lot?
Have not suffered things to be forgiven
Have not had my brain scared, my heart
| riven,
Hopes sapped, name blighted, LIES life
lied away?
And only not to desperation given,
Because not altogether Of such clay
As rots into the souls OF those whom sur
vey. 1876
From mighty wrongs to petty perhdy
Have not seen what human things could
do!
From the loud roaring OF foaming calumny
To the small whisper Of the as paltry few,
And subtler venom OF the reptile crew;
The Janus glance of whose significant eye,
Learning 10 lie with silence, would seem
true,
And without utterance, save the sbrug or
sigh,
Deal round to happy fool, its specifies
obloquy.
"But have lived, and have not lived in
| vain:
Ny mind may lose its force, my blood its
fire,
And my frame perish even in conquerins
! pain.
But there is that within me, which shall tire
Torture and time, and breathe when ey-
pire;
Something unearthly, which they deem not
of,
Like the remembered tone of deep Tyre,
Shall on their softened spirits sink, and
In hearts all rocky now the late remorse Of
' 1873.
"The SEALS set. Now welcome, thou dread
power
Nameless, yet thus omnipotent, which here
Walk'st in the shadow oithe midnight hour
With a deep awe, yet all distinct from fear;
Thy haunts are ever where the dead walls
rear
Their ivy mantles, and the solemn scene
Derives from thee sense SO deep and clear,
That we become part Of what has been,
And grow unto the spot, all seeing, but all
SEEM"
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