Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-09-01

blue eve WatcheC Tue departure u tne DOW "
light with rapture, still she gazed upon it with
ave, and offered up her prisons and praises to
the throne OF Mercy and Of Grace-to the
Eternal King Of Kings! And whilst thus alb
sorbed in holy alteration, she presented a cor
secty defined portraiture, Of all that is ex-
celient and good Of all that can ca., forth the
adm: alton OF mana lovely and a vrtuous
woman, bending before the shrine Of the AL
mighty, offering Up the incense Of pious and
4 grateful heart.
We may boast Of. the Establishments of
modern education, and of the witcaery of the
thousand accomplishments female can pos
Scss, but there is nothing that renders her 80
lovely in the eyes Of man, and SO irrcsisiibly
interesting, az the attributes Of uDafie ted pie
ty; and when we behold her. bending lowly IN
prayer, before the altar OF her God, our hearts
are captvated, and wo behold her Us she is
the image OF the angels, and Heavens best
gift 70 man.
When the good julia saw the last ray Of
light sink beneath the western Horizon, she
handed US the following lines, which We copy
with great satisf :. lion, and shall be proud, Il
we make acceptable to our aders, her Sc
| lected ehusion.
THE BOW OF LIGHT.
The evening was glorious, aud light through the trees,
Piay'd IN ds'fe, the rain drops, the birds and the
breeze;
| The !andscape, ,ou's,re'chips, in loveliness lay
On the ZAP of the year, in the beauty May.
| Tire ssies, like banner, in sunset unroJ,
O'er the threw their splendour ofuurc and gold;
HIT one cloud at stance, rose dense and Incl ,sd
'rill its margn Of Light touch the zenth and est
We gaz'd on these scenes, while around US they
glowd,
Wien vison Of beauty arpcar'd in a cloud;
| Twas not like the sun, as It midday we view,
Nor the that rolls lightly through star light and
! blue.
Like spiri, il came, in the van Of storm,
And the eye and the heart hail'd its beautiful form
! For look'd not severe like an angel ofwrath,
But It's garments Of brightness Illumj its dark path
| In tie hues ofi's grandeur, sub',mely it stood
O1cr the river, the village, the field, and the wood;
And river, field, villa and woodland grew bright,
As Conscious they gave, aud afforded delight.
Twas the Bow OF OMEIPorEScE bent in HIS
! hand,
Whose grasp at creation the universe spann'd;
Twas the PRESENCE Of Cop, in a siny bol subl,mc
| Ills bow from the flood, to the exit Of time 4;
Not dreadful as when in the whirlwnd he pleads,
When the storms arc his chari,t, and Lightning his
| stccds;
| The black cloud Of vengeance, his banner unfnrld,
To thunder his voice to guilt stricken world;
In the breath Of his presence when thousands expire,
And seas boil with fury, and rocks burn with FIVE,
And the sword and the plague spot, with death strew
the plain,
And vuurcs and wolves are the graves Of the slain
Not such was that LIGHr.Bow, that beautiful one,
Whose arch was reflect ction-is key stone, the sun
4 pavilion it seem'd, with deity graced,
, And JUSTICE. and MERCY met there and embraced.
/ Awhile, and il sweetly bent over the gloom,
Like love DER death couch, hope DER the tomb ;
! Then left the dark scene, whence it slowly retird,
/ As LOVE had Just vanished, or HOP L had expird.
! I gazed not alone, onthe source Of my song,
: To all who BEHFLD II, these verses belong;
I It's presence to all, tho path Of tho LORD!
Each !ull heart expanded, grew warm and ador'd
Like the visit--the converse Of friends-or a day,
! That Row from my sight pass'd forever away,
Like that VISIT that converse, that day to my hcart
That bow from remembrance, shall never depart
lis picture in mem'ry distinctly defin'd,
With tie strong and imperishing colours ofmind;
part OF my being, beyond my CONTROL
Behe!d in the cloud, and transcribed my soul.
The appearance Of so rare Phenomenon,
was not without its effect on the minds Of the
creduous; and hundreds Of the illi' crate be-
held in it, certain prognostic of some dread
tul event. To US, who have not the honor of
being ranked among the learned, il afforded a
rich treat, and we saw in its existence, the
bright reality Of the mghiiness Of that Con,
whom all should worship, who are grateful for
the bounties, daily, and hourly, conferred Upon
wretched, and fallen man.