Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-12-02

IRON freedoms shores her Champion borne
away
mouInful strain upon the early breeze,
In unson with aching hearts, was poured
And prayers from hoary men on bendeI knees,
From suppliant youth, and prostrate beauty
scared
For blessings on the great and virtuous man,
Ere yet the sun his radiant course began
Poto,nac's kindred cities reused at dawn,
With honours due to grace the parting scene,
And ere the lus,ious warrior had withdrawu,
Once more behold his venerated nien.-
Along their streets no sounds OF mlrth were heard,
The pomp of solemn grief alone was there;
Its influence breathed in every look aud word,
Aud brought to many an eye the trembling
The gathering crowd procaims the days advance,
And blending sighs the painful glooms enhance.
To swell the tide the country poura its waves,
Lo tender woman comes, and feeble age,
Grey headed veterans to'ter,ng DER their graves,
The rich, the poor, the peasant, aud the sage
All come to take one lingering, parting view
Oi Freedoms tavoriIe-ylrtues noblest friend.
To tender him sad, II long adleu,
And for his veal their prayers in concert blend
Spontaneous homage theirs OF glowing souls,
Whose Tree born power no tyiant will controls
But who, of all this anxious mngling throng,
Before him shall the nations proxy stand
To whom the high msmemious task belong
To speak to HIM the feelings OF the land
Who can so well give u,terance to her grief,
Who personate Columnias seil so WELL
As her PRESIDING SoN--her CIVIC CHEF?
He feels her anguish, an1 her love can tell -
With tender ST ardor beaming from ms eyes,
Amid the silent crowd, behold INN rise -
His hand moment on his heart is pressed
To calm the deep emotions labourlng there
And now, to Freedoms reverend chief addressed
His soul is poured IN accents sweet and clear.
Bright samples of his thoughts the Muse would
give,
But how can she their glowing charms portray?
Where find for them those tints that ever live,
And all the force OF eloquence display
Her powers though feeble and her language faint,
she thus essays his ardent thoughts to paint
"Not mine, to day, exalted chief; the JOY,
Which, in thy glorious triumph's bright career
Has yielded many rapturous tongue employ
When called to greet thee with their country's
To me the mournful duty now pertains
Oftendering you the nations sad farewell ~
Here srIei moment drowned the speakers
strains,
Wmle every bosom heaved with deepening
Each tongue exclaimed" And music must we
part !"
While ln.ush burst in sobs from every heart.
No cause ob,ams"--,he orator resumed
I" That we should here minuteiy trace each
deed
That in Thy early wreaths of glory bloomed--
They shine around, and he that runs may rcad.
Deep-founded as the base Of Ere ,,iom's come,
And round its vast magnifc pillars tw ined,
Thy fame, outlying that OF ,reece or Rome,
Shall flourish here pereun,a, The nini
Shall splendours here unfold tnro, ii every sge,
Sublime as e'er adorned the classic uu.e.
"When Pleasures brightest lures around thee
pressed,
And wealth, and youth, and titled rank con-
splred
To yield their potent charms augmented zest,
holer cause thy generous bosom fired
The cause of Freedom in foreign land
For this, from courtly pomp aud homes loved
charms,
From scenes entwined by childhood's lowery
And from blooming wifes enrapturng ms!
Thy spirit bore thee, ere thy manhood's prime,
To aid our fathers in this distant cline.
"No wild delusivo hopes-no sordid aim
Thy gallant, calm, rejecting soul lmpelled
Its patient zeal was fed by virtues flame,
Which through conflicting storms her powers
upheld
That flame no gloom e'er damped, no perils
quenched
When DeathS dark banner waved oer LeiuS
of blood,
And veteran hosts before his vengeance blekched,
Its radiance streumed along the battle food,
And, lighting thee TO victory's honoured goal,
Consis sned thy name TO glorys deathless roll.
The second canto OF the Valedctory purports to
be the reply OF Gen. LAFAYETTE to Mr.. ADAMS,
and thus commences:
Here, inr reply, the reverend Chiftain rose,
And uttered thus, the emotions oi his breast /:
Z" Mid all the kindness that around me flows
The blessings enjoy as Freedoms guest
And tokens OF a nations generous love,
To me,through you, her civic Cheitain, shown;
Most ar,iently my bosom glows to prove
The gratitude Its deep sensation own
And, for this fair occasion kindly given
To speak its feeling breathes its thanks to Heaven.
To have, in their precarious, tender age,
Been cherished and adopted by these STATES
As their own Son, and when the deadly rage
That on the march Of furious War awaits,
Around them pured its desolatlng ire;
To have, beneath their hallowed banners,
stood
And toiled to guard the spark of Freedoms fire
Which tyrants aimed to quench in patriot
blood
Of all my thoughts embalmed in memorys shrine,
These are, to me, among the most divine?
thus in the cause of Liberty and Right,
Your fathers deathess honours to have shar'd
With them, when Freedoms temple crowned
with light,
In this fair land by gallant hands was reared
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