Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-07-22
POETRY.
From the National hteligsncer.
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EXTRACT
From the Address written and delivered by DANIEL
BaYAS Esq. during the late Session Of Congress, on
the occasion of collection for the benefit of the
Boston Bard"
Shall free Colombia share the deep reproach
by which ungrstefu lands are stigmatis'd
Nor aid her sons of genius, whose bright thoughts
And arduous tolls illumine and advance
Her march in virtue, liberty, and fame
We Guardians other honor and her veal!
Forbid the charge; or from her purity
Your country's purty-expunge its stain.
E'en now injurious Rumor is abroad,
And breathes against her gratitude tale
That strikes pang through many patriots heart
The winged accuser points to that new grave
Where FULroS's widow seeps-and thus exclaims;
''Those Orphans weeping DER their mothers dust,
Sand cast dependent a selfish world,
care childrea of lofty minded sire,
''whose giant energies, with noble zeal,
''To build his counry's greatness were employed;
Sand, while her rivers roll and space exists,
"In their sublime results and useful ends,
Through eli her cultur'd regions will be felt
'sBut, unrewarded, to the tomb he sank,
"And left his partner and his infant ones
ITO reap the harvest of his generous toll.
'rThe lowly grave that hides her broken heart
'Iho,e suffering, friendless orphans tell the rest"
Incredulous in aught that would impugn
Columbia's justice or beni6cence,
The Muse will not implicit credence yield
To Rumor's charge, but looks with anxious hope
Tosee her country from this imputston freed.
That cherished hope imbbes aquickening glow
From gathering symptoms in the public mind
On MoSTIcELLo's consecrated height,
Long unObserved, deep but silent cloud
Ofsorow hung. Thence on the nations ear,
At length, an accomplishing whisper STOLE,
And thither drew the sympathetic eye
And wak'd painful throbbins in her breast
Where is the bosom that conceals heart
To virtues nobler sentiments so dead
OfNature's common feeling so devoid
As not TO join this general sympathy
One pulse--one voice-throughout the States
Is felt, and heard, on this souLkindling theme.
Let Wisdom, then, the glowing impulse guide,
And Freedoms hoary chief, whose ample mind,
From manhood's vernal dawn to wintry age,
Has poured its bounteous treasures DER the land,
Shall not be exiled from his sacred home
From scenes to him by hottest ties endeared--
His hearth, domestic altar, and the graves
Where of: his knee has bent-bis tears have flowed:
Then he, from whose expanded source ofthoughtS
Columbia's rights their glorious charter drew,
Shall not behold his only Ecing child
From her beloved paternal mansion driven,
And that iustrious seat of science grasped
BY strangers hands:-Nor shall lifes closing view
Present TO him world all GOODNESS then;
But, freed from Poyerty's oppressive cares,
With sunshine beaming on his peaceful Mount,
And all the land in smiles and kindness decked,
He then with rapturous hopes among the stars,
And no regrets, or signs, behind him cast,
viii gently lay his body to repose,
And bless his country with his dying prayer
But while with gratitude your bosoms swell,
Ye sons of Freedom! act-your generous deeds,
Unless with haste performed, may come too late
The Sage's life is hasteningto its goal:
In higher regions soon the splendid orb
Will shine. But JEFFEnsoS's exalted name
In tones of thunder pleads in his BEHALF
And advocates resound his glorious claims
Wherever worth and liberty are loved.