Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-04-22
RisrelIanenus articles.
From the British Lady's .Hagari,e.
ADAMAH, OR THE CREATION OF WOMAN.

ADAhAtt, OR THE CREATION OF WOMAN.
Intended as an Episode to yet unfinished Fork
The almighty power ofthe Creator had finished. Time
began with measure and number AL Elah rested
The ascended the established heavens and dis
persed evening and morning TO the sister stars.
AS midnight sleeps on the ocean. all the depths
of the infinite world rested the adoring silence of the
seventh day. With their wings the cherubirn ve,e !
their faces.
AlEah rested. In the angels of his love he created
thoughts and powers to comprehend the works of ON
impotence. Thus rested AL Elah, the Cretor of Lea-
ven, on the seventh dav
la the midst of nyriads of stars hoatel in the iunen
sity of space the created world aud from the wan
dermg sun drew the genial heat. From the bosom OF
the earth the gertnes OF life burst forth: on Ananah
Tabor and iiermon sprang from the subterancan night
the sacred cedar and under its shade the beast of the
field reclined. The and the ocean teemed with
life. In woods aud groves, from feahered throats the
Joyous song burst forth. The murmurng bee on circiDr
wing, sucked the sweets from opening flowers The
lamb ganboled around the lion. The hawk and the
dove nestled together. Thus the plains of Hewila
shone the first SPRING and in Joyous harmony all nature
praised the God, Creator
But the banks of the river Pison in deep reflection
stood Adanah the first created. His look measured
the sunny ether. His thought embraced the circle of
creation. He felt the JOY of life, and praised the
Gver.
Now six passed since the dark birth of
Adanah. With rapture undniniShed he survey ed the
various forms with which creation teemed Whence and
whittier thou roaring stream What lifts thy rolling
waves! Why so lovely We flowers OF the plains? What
d3s thou say murrnurrng bee? o speak to me, ye
lures who encircle tell your Joys, that NAV
share them with you. Let me ascend with thee, ca
gle, IN the infinite ether that may ask the lumnarv of
ght what art thou and whence thy placid beams: that
watch al the gates of the when he comes forth
in all his glory, and ask, whence thy fires and where
The hand that guides thy course but vet, little time
secret longing filled the heart of Adamah.
He felt within himself his beings an the nam eless
feeling of existence To his heart he pressed the forms
of beauty of the day, and Of the night of the ca rtl
and OF the heavens. As yet no tear had dimmed his
eve He saw the ringdove nesting with its mate he
saw the lion shake his main with ov couched at the
feet OF the loness:-he sighed and looked to heaven.
And il happened the third day ofthe seventh MOON
Adamah arose from sleep Night hung trembling in
the east, and the which ragged the MIG t passed
with the darkness The trees of the wood still
bent with the blast. Adanah heard the roar, on the
skirts of the Clouds in the west he saw the irhtninrs
ash but IN the east the sun in his glory the birds
welcomed his beams the hind sprang from the moss of
the rock He came TO the plains of E4eiyila-behold
before him lay palm tree, broken bv the of the
night its foliage wthered, birds flew for shelter to
ats branches; solemn syerng seized the first Created
presage of DEATH of dssoluon like n shade of night
darkencdthe light of his soul:how changed Adanah
IN gIet bagan; how changed since Yesterday the
rain OF the night drops cold from thy boughs; thou feel
est not the breath of heaven thou raest no more hine
heal or Hight knew thee in thy pridc see thee hum
bed fallen in the days OF thy youthbeioId the sun is
ARISEN the rivers rejoice in their course with ioy the
lift their foatny heads; the grass of the fields
irDpeared with the gterng Drops spreads its verdure
to cheer the rowing beasts but alas! how dead are the
leaves on thy boughs again will rise for thee; no
evening beam will gid thy branches. Thus Adamah
conplaned but yet no tear had drnned his eve. Fur
ther the wan5ered his the almond tree
greeted him with the murmuT of its leaves; a fawninp
leopard from IFS approached him. Adamah raised
his TO heaven; the cedar and the arkada the bede
lion. and the mynra Joined in the signs of his heart
Mourn with me, he began: mourn with me, sll-cre-
ated forms; bend thy head Areka; join my plants
in the beams of the morn. o Hamor, send forth thy
planye notes. day will in which We will be no
more; a night will come when We who exist will
exist no more. Once only has the Almighty created
Mourn with me, ye sacred spirits above only has
the Almighty created. day will come when Adamah
will be day will come when the face of this
beauteous earth will be desOlae; the and the stars
will view the traces of terminating life: in etcr-
nal silence they will hear the lonely murrnurs of the
streams. and the footsteps of will he swept ayav
Mourn with me, beings Of the earth thou moon and all
ye stars veil your faces, for only has the Almighty
created.
Throughout heaven the solemnly of the seventh dav
was RE eternal heard the prayer, which rose
from Adanahs rnOurufu SOUL but from the beginning
his sacred will had ordained the thing on earth.
High above the paths of and worlds, above the
orbits of The PLANETS, and angels Of the floats
the pufest ether formed the celestial Edenthe abode
of the blessed, selfposcd. 1t hangs the breath of
the Almighty Ere vet the earth and made, ere
yet grave was formed, the angels wondered on tue
tlsSful spot and guided by The hand of the Almighty.
viewed the origin Of things; in alteration they entered
aud departed from the sanctuary Of creation.
The solemn silence of the seventh day was past and
he shades Of Es0n wandered Magalon the chief of
angels. The secret Of the godlead stood before him
The FIRE of life blossOmed to his view, nourshed by the
6mightys breath On a sudden the voice of the Lord
soupdcd to Nag,On. The Almighty spoke: Rise Sc
rayh rise, Mag slo the hour come, the thoughts of
D., heart before me. Ny creatures cry unto me-
near the desire Of the lion in the wilderness see the
death of the grasshopper and the trodden grass of the
field. The duration of the living is short before me;
aif from the ashes Of death, no life rekndles. Then
haste, M,t1,n, and complete the commandment ofore-
alive Opnipotence!