The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-15
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Nor was the banquet wanting to complete this au
gust festival for as mine eye roamed over the fertile
plains and valleys commanded by the eminence on
which stood, found that He who owns the cattle
on thousand hills had covered them with corn,
and fruits, and wine and oil, and honey, spreading out
la perpetuay renewed feast for whole nations, difu
sing, at the same time, odours and perfumes every
SIDE and recreating the ears of the guests with the
mingled harmony Of piping birds, melodious winds,
rustng woods, the gushing of cascades, and the tlnk-
ling Of ifnumefable rills. Again turned my look
towards Mont Blanc, and 10 huge avalanche de-
taching itself from its summit came laundering down
into the valley below, making earth shake with the
Fconcussion Behold" Iexclaimed, " He who over
throweth the horse and his rider hath sent his cham
pion to challenge all the world and at this moment
smaller portion, which had broken away from the
falling mass, came eapng towards me, and shlvered
itself into cloud of snow beneath, as if the tremen
dous champion had thrown down his gauntlet at my
feet Overcome with awe and wonder, shrunk into
myself and as the rocks and caverns, and mountains
round echoed to the roar of the falling avalanche,
mehought they hailed the coronation of the monarch,
and shouting with thousand voices, made the welkin
ring to their acclamations of Mont Blanc! Mont
Blanc! Mont Blanc
Since witnessing this most impressive scene, have
read an account of the coronation Of an lsland-mon-
arch throned in the west with all its circumstantial
detail Of dukes, marquisses, earls, viscounts, and
knights in their ermne robes, kings-aarms and her.
ralds in their gewgaW coats, and bishops IN the pomp
Of ontifcals, with the parade of gold spurs ewers,
iaces, swords, sceptres, crowns, balls and crosses
But when compared it with the stpendous exhibition
of nature which had so lately beheld the whole sunk
into insignificance nor could suppress smile OF
pity as shared the feeling with which Xerxes cor
teplated his mighty armament, and reflected that IN
few hcetng years, the whole of all this human pride,
with the soldiers and horses that paraded around it,
and the multitude that huzzaed without woudbe con-
verified into dust the haughes Of the mobiles lying
Eoutstretched corpse in dark and silent vault, with
nothing Of his earthly splendour left but the empty
rappngs and escutcheons which, in mockery of the
lofty titles with which they inscribed, will hang
Wondering upon his coffin. The ceremony will not
however, have been unavang, if it shall have awak-
ened reflections of this nature in the minds OF those
who contributed to it. and have impressed upon their
hearts the truth Of Shirleys noble lines, in the con
tention Of Ajax and Ulysses,
ssThe glories of our earthly state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
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Death lays his icy hand on kings =
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Must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made .,,,
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