Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-02-08
POETRY.
TO RETHA AND ROsALlNE.

And bid me love the ftC0 below.
Why charmers with thy spells eontroul,
Spells bound in wreaths of brightest flow
ers,
The ali! too selfdevoted soul,
But but to shew thy cruel powers;
Why use a smile to win heart,
And round it nets of dimples spread,
And with joy it halls loves dart,
With one cold frown why strike it dead.
Why teach each votary to think
His offering dearest at thy shrine,
And cen on loves deceitful brink,
To bid despair in gladness shine:
Why let him feel that thou art near,
From looks that angels might believe;
Thou vast not-no!-by all that's dear,
Thou was not born to so deceive.
o! no, trust each beauteous form,
Was made to bless some kindred soul;
To shield it from lifes ruthless storm,
And guard it till times latest goal;
That all the virtues they possess,
Al nd all their beauties rarely given,
Were made on earth the soul to bless,
And bless hereafter soulsin heaven.
1t is but lately came across the fol-
lowing, and being much pleased with it,
concluded some of your fair readers
might relish it as well as myself: and
not the less from its being extracted
from a lady's scrap book. &.
ssTHE ASCENSION OF THE PROPHET ELIJAH"
"And Elisha SAVE it. and he cried, my Father,
my Father the chariot OF israel and tho horDe-
men thereof: And ne saw him no more"
End Kings, chap. II, verse IL.
Where the deep rolling waters of Jordan were
flowing,
Rejecting the azure of heaven on its food {;
On its border, with verdure luxuriantly grow.
ing, [stood.
The Prophets, Jehovah's blest delegates
Elijah, the fair land of promise beholding,
The mantle of light DER his shoulders un-
furled,
And sweeping around, all its glories unfolding,
Afar Ger the rehuent pillows It curled.
The waters with majesty, murmuring, retreat
ing
The silent, omnipotent, mandate confessed,
The green shores Of Canaan, smiled at the
greeting, THAT they pressed.
And the wild blossoms sprung DER the earth
Rut where, and from whence did the whirlwind
come rushing waved ::
It howled; but the foliage with gentleness
1t roared, like the terrible cataract gushing,
But the current moved calm, DER the bed
that it layed.
They looked up on high, in the blue vault re-
splendant Trays,
No cloud of the tempest, yet darkened its
| But radiant track of effulgcnce transcendant,
Extinguished the light Of the sun, with its
blaze.
Rapid, the bright burning glory extended,
The thunderrcsounded,th the lightning stream.
ed far,
Ger Elijah, the heavenly vision extended,
Who rose on the Cherubim's wings, to his
car.
.My Father! my Father! the chariot of glory
Elisha exclaimed, Sand the horsemen Of
| ''fre;
sob! let thy blest spirit departing rest o'ei
'tme,
sRemember thy sin, oh! my father, my sire?'
The prophet ascending, looked back with e.
motion,
His meek eye of love, on the votary cast
One feeling of earth, checked the raptrous
| devotion,
But onward, the burning wheels rolled a,
itpassed.
Der the glittering pomp. heavens curtains
were closing.
But the mantle Of prophecy, foated behind,
And its wide spreading folds on Elisha repos
ing,
The light of the future ilumined his mind
The following advertisement ertraor'
binary is said TO be from a late Boston
paper@"Wanted at this Office, TWO
DEVILS of good moral character