Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-01-29

Victorious Art! how dim compard with thine
| In reasons view the hero's labors shine,
The wreck of navies sinking in the main.
The moking hamlets, and the ensanguin'd
plain.
How different farfrom this disastrous scene
Thy bloodless triumphs and thy reign serene
Reared by thy hand, the tow'ring cities rise
And point their gEttenng turrets to the skies
BY thee inspir'd fair Commerce spreads the sail,
ISpeeds DER the main, and woos the favorine
| gale;
The mighty rivers too confess thy sway,
And Aow obsequious where thou lead'st the
way. [mand,
Fierce Famine flies, avid by thy stern com
And fruitful Plenty smiles DER all the land.
While cheering Hope my mental vision clears
ope's the long vista of prospective years,
And brings to view far thro' the mists Of time,
The full orb'd splendors Of ourrising cline
Isee Thy brightest triumph spring to light,
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How changed the scene where waving forests
Cities arise, and barges crowd the food,
No more adown Ohio's stream they glide,
But upward move, and stem the rapid tide
From distant Huron, Erie's fertile shores,
md scenes around where Niagara roars
Laden they come-with various wealth sup
| piled,
find seek the port where Eastern navies ride
.4long the smooth canal slow moves the train,
Der the wide surface Of the level plain,
High DER the deep indented wales they 80,
find hear the tumbing torrent roar below
Upiftednow, they scale the rugged steep,
Or glide mid rocks and woods thro' chasm's
deep,
Until at length the mountains verge they gain,
There bursts to view the widespread eastern
plain,- (eye
How vast the scene that greets the travellers
Far, far beneath the hills numerous lie
Like peaceful fiocks reposing, he sees
The proud built cities mid the embow'rng
trees,
And mansions fair, and meadows rob 'dingTeen,
Fade in the azure of the distant scene.
Now from his sight each scene minute is fled,
And all his country seems before him spread.
Such are the glorious views Of those who climb
In intellectual march, that height sublime,
Where local interests vanish from the soul,
And ike Monroe, they learn to love the whole.
Down the steep slope now moves the busy
throng,
BY locks gigantic gently borne along
Through Hampshire's woodyvales their course
they steer,
And all the Stumbling energies appear
Lo! Agriculture lifts his sweaty brow,
Beneath his strokes the leafy forests bow,
His shining plough.share turns the stubborn
ground,
And verdure springs, & havests wave around
Close in hisstepsfair Science thoughtful moves,
Explores each chasrn, and each mineral proves,
Points out the beds that martial oxyds yield,
The emerald veins where copperlies conceafd,
Or deep within the clefted mountain shows
Where boundless stores of glossy coal repose'
Then busy Art draws forth the massive ores,
Loud sounds the sledge,-the flaming furnace
roars,
Strong ductile bars his arduous tolls produce,
And polish'd wares for 'ornament and use."
And see fair Commerce with her sons attends,
Receives the ponderous charge, and now de.
sends
Through many cultured vale and lofty wood,
Where proud Potomac pours his bounteous
flood
First rising Cumberland o'erlooks his waves,
Next Washington's, and Berkley's shores he
laves,
Swift Shenandoah then augments his force,
And breathing cliffs in vain oppose MS course;
Impetuous now, Ger rocks abrupt he bounds
Loud roars the foaming aood-the echoing
shore resounds,
find where Columbia's three fair cities stand,
Stately and rich, a beauteous sister band;
His course impetuous, he pursues no more
But lingering, seems enamour'd of the shore,
Borne by the smooth Canal, here stops the
barge,
And gallant ships receive the plenteous charge,
What splendid structures crowd upon the
strand;
What busting throngs from every distant land!
The country round is deck'd in garlands green,
And peace and happiness smile Ger the scene.
Such are the blessings in prospective view,
That from this Bond Of Union must ensue;
To all the states along It's devious course,
Of wealth and glory the exhaustless source <;
And such the blessings too, (even now pos
sess'd
Borne down the Hudson from the fruitful west,
Fain would the muse oh CLINTON sing thy
praise,
And with thy name revered, adorn her lays
But vain the praise she could bestow on thee