The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-09-14

What architect, with choice design,
OF Rome or Athens styled
Ere left monument like thino'
And all from runs piled
A prouder motto marks thy stone
Than Archmedes' tomb;
lie asked a fulcruuI-thou demandest nome
But-reckIess of past, present, and TO come
Did on myself depend to shake the wofid--a-
lone
Thine eyo to all extremes and ends
And opposites could turn;
And like the congolated lens,
Could sparkle freeze, or burn
But in thy minds abyss profound,
IA in limbo vast
More shapes and monsters did abound,
T. set the wondering world aghaat,
Than wave worn Noah fed, Oh starry Tuscan
found
Was love thy lay--Cetera refined
Her car and owned the spell
Was hate thy theno--that murkey hend
For hotter earth left hell
The palaced crown, the clolstcrd d cowl,
Moved but thy spleen or mlrth;
Thy smile was deadlicr than thy scowl,
In guse unearthly didst thou roam tho earth,
Screen'd in Thalia's mask to drug the ira
gic bowl
Lord of thine own imperial sky,
In vision pride or place.
Thou soaredst where others could not Hy,
And hardly dared TO gazc--
The Condor, thus, his pennoned vans
Der Cotopaxi spreads,
But, should he ken the proy, or scent the
Nor chilling height, nor burning depth he
breads,
From Andes crystal crag, to Lima's suItry
plain!
Like Lucan's carly was thy tomb,
And more than Bons mourn'd;--
For still, such lights themselves consume,
The brightest, briefcst burned
But from thy blazing shield recoiled -
Pale Envy's bolt Of lead
Shc, but to work thy ,riumphs toil'd,
Pnu Iuu,turu'g Vvwe-a -.----., a
Thee, thine own strength those alone--liLo
matchlcss Milo--foiled.
We prize thee, that thou didst not fear
What stoutest hearts might rack,
And didst the diamond genus wear,
That tempts--yet fcils--thc attack.
We mo.rn thee, that thou wouldst not find,
While prisoned in thy clay,
Since such th0ro werc,--somc kindred
mind,
For friendship lasts through life s long day,
And doth, with surer chain thanloye or beauty
bind!
We blame thee, that with baloful light
Thou didst astound the world,
"A comet, plungng from his height,
And into chaos hurled
Accorded king of anarch power,
And talent miSapplied;---
That hid thy God, in evil hour,
Or showed him only to deride,
And, o'er tho gifted blazo of thy own bright.
ness, lour!
Thy fercc volcanic breast, o'crcast,
With Hccla's frosty cloak,
Al earth with fire impure could blast,
And darkon heaven with smoke
Ger ocean, continent and isle
Tho conilogration ram
Thpu, from thy throne Of ice, the while,
Dds the red ruin calmly scan,
And tun'd Apollos harp--with Nero's ghastly
smile!
What now avails that muse OF fire.
or nothin,, Of a name!
Tny master hand and matchlcss Tyre,
WHAT have they gainod-but fame!
Fn'-fancy's child---by folly fed,
ON oroath Of meanost things
n 'hanto'o wooed in virtues stead,
Il envy the living brings,
An ellcAt, solemn mockery to tho dead,
N, 'er since tho deep.tonod Theban sung,
Unto the listening N,nc,--
ii an classic hill or valley rung
With harmony like thine!
Who now shall wake thy widowed lyrc'
- There breathes but one, who dnrcs
To that Hcrculcan task aspire
hut. less than thnu--f,r ta,,o L., c,,oy
And scorns both hope and icar..-ambilion and
desire