Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-08-02

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These are certainly curious capers for the
Sun to be cutting in heaven; but the Moon ana
S ars behave almost as unseemly, and out oil
character in their courses,
The moon
,S,,ooosred i, m;ds, ne heaven, grew black and
Unclouded uneclpsed. The stars fell doWn,
Tumbing from off their to,cers like drunken men,
Or seemed to fall and %gllnmer'd now, and now
Sprang out in sudden blaze; and dimmed again,
As lamp of foolish virgin lacking oil"
These signs in heaven are followed by Others
as strange on earth.
The Cattle looked with meaning face on man:
Dogs howled and seemed TO see more man me'
masters.
And:
The winds from every quarter blew at once
With desperate violence and whiriing TOOK
The traveller up, and MreD him doDn again
At distance from his path, confounded Paie
And:
Earth shook, and swan, and reeled, and opened
her ja,os.
BY earthquake tossed, and fumbtedho dndjro.
I, is quite plain, we think, t'a' our poor pia-
net did not know what 10 be al; but she Is des-
patched al last in most butcherty style:
--ear,h arrested in her wonted path,
ifs or struck by the lifted are, when nought
Was feared, IN oil her euirois deeply groaned
A universal crash was heard, as y
The ribs Of nature broke, and all her dark
Foundations failed:
After this our poet proceeds 10 give US a
view Of tina, awful and astonishing scene OF the
rising Of quiz and dead; and INSTEAD OF satis-
flying himself, as Pautdoes, with merely hint
ing or shadowing out the mystery IN a lew
sublime strokes of his pen, he COS on 'o' give
nc III ,k. -,,tt.nl ,,e .E tho MARES IN winch
we have some strange things indeed For ex>
ample:
old men that on their staff, bending had leaned
Crazy and frail, or sat, b.humbed with age,
In wear, listlessness; ripe for the grave,
Felt through Their sluggish veins, and N'thered
limbs,
New vigor flow, the wriukled face grew smooth;
Upon tue heal that time had razor'd 6ne
Rose buShy locks, &c.
But Stranger still,
The newly sheeted corpse arose and stared
On those Dh0 dressed II, and the coi1red dead
Tina, men Were bearing TO the tomb-awoke
And mingled with their friends:
Bat this is followed by a still more striking
spectacle (and we hope the Gentlemen oil our
two medical colleges, il they ever do such
hing., will take warning tom il,) Il a SUBJECTS
actually rising upon The surgeon and his rupils,
whilst they are very so6erly engaged IN cutting
him up secundum arienl-and ,"king at least IS
il I've coald box The who'e cbmpass OF them at
once:
And as the anatomist with all his band
OF rude disciples DER the su'Jec. hung,
And impoiteb hewed his way thro' bohes
And muscles Of the sacred human fern,
Exposing barbarousy to human wnnton gaze,
The mysteries of nature JOINT embraced
His kindred Joint, the wounded fss'' sreW up
And suddenly the injured man swoke.
Anon. AihleiurI l,snrru-y44iana gstaasr .rraNsd nonniete
TIE insult offered 10 ms clay in death.
Snreiy "ihe force of folly can no further 60"
Rrt w.. are mistaken; for here w have our poor
countrymar Capt. Symmes, Eve su3posr il
mus, BEL drawn out by the heels from the GAYS
~ of the North Pols-or some where there
abou,>:
And = he far poyqg,n s tfrom lome a"d(';e"ds,
Too curious nth n mlytais ye y pep
Enio The secrets 2fMe Pole, 10 u
By nature. whom tiercg winer selz'd and tr0se
ia dsati, and wrlpp Il II wi Cling sheet ofrce,
And sung the requem of iisamverIug ghost, !
With the loud organ oi Ihe iehty winds,
And on his memory threw tffnpw ct ages
Felt the long absent warmth nie return,
And shook he frozen mOunln from his bed.
So our poetconstau.ly oo'fire', by his po-
etc ar, to burlcsque lwirhnu Intending ~ tie
mos "a red subjects, by the nost lpdicrous *
a ssrd assuciat ons in he wfd.
And 80 much for Mr.. P's tlfnt for The sub
lime. We had intended TO aye some further
quotations which might shg that he ma a
boul the san turn far the r%autf,l and pa.
thsti,; bu, We ~forbrar, as he secimcnr we ha,f
al'cady given will en,ble our eaders 10 Judg"
ofhs cal'bie, and put his BIZ IN ITS proper
place. After all, nuwe'ei, " do not mean L
say that there arr no, some iadabie things in
il. and some indeed Inst are mos p~oetical, &
might have beer entirely so thSy had nj
been spollt in The mixing. has, also, u"
doubt, a number If Passages q common rea
ders, who are not 100 crlIlcdfor thelr COM
fort. may easily take TO be veg hne from tn,
Agreeable feelings and fancieshich they sug-
grst but do not properly paln3And perhaps
We ough, to add, in justice bo''o our author &
10 his admirers, that he pirasfnany, ard .
Johnson says, she who pleases'any must have
some species of merit"
From the Utica SentE
The Collowinu letter from G.JA FAYFTTE !