American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-08-21
Printed and PulsheA Tuesday Friday. by albert
WILMINGTON, Del. TUESDAY AUGUST a, 1927.

Beneath the shelter of his birch bark shed
His prattng infants hailed their sire's return.
Here, while the embers bro;led their evening
meal
The happy hunter from his matron's arms
Welcomed the glory of the rising age,
The board bound pledges of her pighted love
Nor love the less affecting or sincere
though t0rest-nurtured was the sacred flame,
Though nought but nature fired her hazel eye
Or gave expression to her graceful form.
Here, undisturbed By care or sordd dream,
1houghtless and reckless of happier lot,
The former tenant of thy shaded soil
Rcclined him calmly on his couch of skins,
Buff 10 or beaver from his shoulder thrown.
And when again Aurora's earliest ray
Ilumed the SUBMITS of his native vale,
Fresh from restoring sumbcrs he arose,
Prompt to resume the labors of the chase,
While playful echo rousng from atar
Wildly responded to his cheerful whoop.
Thus passed his time,
Save when aggression on his country's rights,
Supposed, or real, as the proud pretcxts
That lead European chieftains to the war,
Rallied his warriors Of the falcon plume,
Bravey to combat with their country's foes;
Or when succeeding autumns had induced
camer aspect from his thoughtful brow,
And marked his visage with the traits Of time,
Maturer labor for his country's veal
Amid the fathers of his kindred tribes
Enwrapt the circle of the council fire.
Twas on yon height amid the opening wood
The sacred beacon of the nation blazed
O'er lake and forest glimmering from afar.
| How little thought he as the setting sun
Sank in the crimson Of the evening sky
And she'd its magic influence DER his soul,
That the bright radiance of the self same orb
Rose simultaneous on another world
| BE vOnd the boundless waters blue expanse,
Where nations countless as the forest leaves,
Or as the sand that circles Fries shores
Like Fries forest tenants lived and died.
Where the mild influence Of happier cline
Had given his fellow man brighter hue,
| And fortunate locality of cause
Had walked his latent energies sublime
And sweled the buildings Of his mental growth.
Though dark oblivion closes DER these scenes
While scores Of ages urrecorded passed,
The page historic sheds partial light
That CLEANS along the rista of the East
Like star Of twilight sinking in the wave.
As when primeval ocean round the globe
High DER the common level wildly rolled,
The mountain SUBMITS reared their granite steer
Above the "valeys" of sunken world.
So while oblvion's ocean darkly rolls
Amid the aluvion of their native Wales
The master spirits Of the eastern world,
On fame's proud pillars rising mid the waves,
Catch the effulgence of tn historic star
And stand as landmarks of their sunken race,
Far mid the shadows Of departed years.
While yet the presence Of the golden age
Endowed the early fathers OF mankind
With tranquil pleasure and elysan Joy,
Such as their erring race have never known,)
while vet the patriarchs fed their sportive 1ocks
In the rich valleys of Mount Shinar's base,
Kindly diiiusi,e Ger the forest scene
Its heavenly influence cheered the hunters homo
Such as awaits the remnant of his race
Beyond the barriers of Chippawaung's SHOWS
Amid the forests that Euphrates laved,
Ere yet the first of empires broke the wild,
The :" mighty hunter" revell'.l in the chase
And scattered cities DER the lions range.
Turret and temples Legendary fate
Leave no memorial where they proudly rose
Like 0thpr works of unrecorded hunters
Where the great father of Columbia's floods
Mirrors the wndings of his shaded shores,
They minge freely with the common mould.
There Babel, mistress of the nations, reared
? Her hanging gardens and her splendid domes,
But all that SOIL or wealth, or power could give
Lies buried now in everlasting sleep.
For gates of brass or walls from earth to hcav
Meier gave stability to human things.
She too has crumbcd mid her founders dust;
of all her grandeur not trace remains,
E'en for her site the trav'er asks in vain.
The chosen leader Of the Persian band
Turned her proud river from its wonted course
And hung his banner from her hundred towers,
While from the Indus to Kgea's wave
yse The nations yielded to the victor's sway.
Succeeding monarchs and their countless hosts
OF human victims at ambitions shrine
In late ,o;r oh. rfcnra