American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-07-25
BRANDYWINE.

itous bluffs and blocks OF granite ot reharkau'e
character Beneath these, at an elevation OF ABOUT
100 feet above the level of the stream, are several
cbasms or cares known to local tradition as having
been fayorite residence Of the Aborigines. Here,
until an advanced period of the last century, after
the; tribes had retired to the Western wilderness,
remnant still fingered round the Homes OF their
Fathers.
These caves are the scene Of the following story
The Hero is not an Indian, but sort OF geology
cal Dersonage, whom we will call T1rANus.
TlrASus, "a primeval Giant.)
The Reader enters.
Whence. Ephemera! art thou,
Insect Of presumptnous brow,
Who dares thus boldly to proanc
The silence Of my wild domain e
Down in the ravine far below,
Where the rushing waters wildly flow
necessarily,
Where skirting Alders greenly grow,
And woodland flowers love to blow
So charmingly
Happy to breathe the morning air,
As | was IDLY roaming there.
This rugged Bluff, so rude and bare,
Attracted me-"
You we'll NAV wonder at the view;
And more you'd wonder if you knew
An hundredth part Of what were true
NAV, pity-rather than upbraid,
Spirit Of venerable mien;
Speak kindly to passing shade,
And tell the wonders Of the scene.
Though transient as the waves that flow
beneath the shadow'd rock below,
Or as flower that blooming there
Gives fragrance to the verna air,
Life is but as the fading glow
OF summers cloud reflected bow,
Yet still It's happiness to know
''rwere vain to grasp in vulgar rhyme
The awful mysteries sublime
That slumber in the depths OF Time.
Know, that owe my ancient birth
70 the first formless void Of earth,
Ere the Eternal Fiat gave
Existence to the rolling wave,-
Or. touched by a Creator, hand,
Chr7stals Of chaos the land;
When Ger the realms Of Space and Night,
roacentric and transrerging light
Bursting at once from Sun and Star,
Ilumed the dim expanse aar
Where worlds ID granaer systems run
And every twnkling point S sun,
Where still its First.crputed ray, IN
The herald Of Prlmcyal Day,
Onward through Consolidated space
Urges Its undetermined race,
And pressing on eternal night,
Reveals Creation in its flights
Where Newton's ultinated cube. (21
And Herschell's thrice. refscting tube,
Have left the widest force Of mind
Feebly to finger far behind.
When on her destined course sublime,
Swift wheeling from the goal of Time,
BY centrifugal impulse hurled,
Far swept the yet chaotic world;
While Ger her, in unbroken sweep,
Rolled the dark waters OF the Deep,
Save where some mountain chain arose.
partial barrier to oppose
rhe waste of wave;
Those rugged SUBMITS were nv home, Isl
And DER their sleeps loy',l to roam
When naught but the blue raut on high
.ind the Icide Waters met my eve,
save where the restless pillows beat
On the firm Granite at my feet,
And gave in debris to the main
The soil of valley and Of plain.
Long chaos lingering at her birth,
FIad rock'd the infancy Of earth,
And many throe whose awful roll
Nibrated far to either pile,
With deep and oft repeated shocks,
Had SHATTERED the primeyal rocks.
You we'll may read the time and data,
Impressed upon ing waving strata.l
Ere to the oceans present bed
The far subsidlng waters fed,
While forests budded from the soil
Mid wave-won heaps of oceans spoiI
And muscle bank. and coral grove,
And many far and winding cove
Where krakens and Sea Serpents play'd,
And all the finny races stray'd.
Walked by the Zephyr's gentle gale
SOON blossomed into hill and rale
But still, beyond the mountain bound, al
Upheld by granite barrier round,
Remained waste Of care profound,
~ Every one has read, as quoted by Addison, in
Spectator, the suggestion Of Huygenius German hstrc
mer of tile Eth eentury"that there might be STAR
such an immense distance that their light had not We, ira
led down 10 US since their creation" 1t is only mo
cation OF this idea, that the light of our sun still pene,r
The iimitahle exnanse az The Iniuerca