The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-01-31

Forget-me-not, for the year 1928, and is founded
the ninth chapter of Exodus. The poem win, NO
ubt, lead many one, who is not familiar with the
-iptures to read that passage, which ia such for-
lie language, iescfibesthe seventh plague 10 Egypt.
81 THE TEMPEST.
Exodus, *. %, sc.
Twas morn--the rising splendor rolled
On ma, Bile towers and roofs Of goldt
Hall, court, and gallery below,
Were Scrowded with a living flow;
Egyptian, Arab, Nuban there,
The bearers Of the bow and spear; G E
The hoary priest, the Chaldee sage,
The slave, 1.-THE gemmed and gttering page
j Hem, urban; and tara shone
"A dazzling ring round PhaTaoh's throne.
There came a man--the human tide
Shrank backward from his stately stride;
His cheek with time and storm was tanned,
i A shepherds staff was in HE hand;
A shudder Of yindictiye fear
Told the dark king what step was near,
On through the host the stranger came,
Il partedround HE form like flame.
He stoppsd NOT at the footstool stone,
= He clasped not sandal, kissed not throne;
Erect he stood amidathe ring, So
His only words" Be just, o king"
On Pharioh's cheek the blood flushed high,
fire was IN his BuileneyeS
Yet on the Chief Of Israel
No arrow Of his thousands fell; ..
All mute and moyeess az the grave
Is Stood chilled the satrap and the save.
"Thou'rt come" at length the monarch spoke;
Naughty and high the words outbroke,
is Israel weary of his lair,
The forehead peeled, the shoulder baref
Take back the answer Of your band:
Go. reap the wind go, plough the sands w
I'LL darkest ofthe nameess dead, a 80 -
The vulture on their flesh 10 fed.
What better asks the howling slave
e Than the base life our bounty gave?"
Shouted in pride the turban'd peers.
Up rushed to Heaven the golden spears.
King thou and thine are doomed !.-Behold!''
The prophet spoke. The thunder rolled,
Along the pathway ofthe sun
Sailed vapory mountains, wild and dun.
there is time = the prophet said
3 He raised his sfaf1--the storm was STAYED.
King, be the word Of freedom gwen:
What art thou man to war with Heaven ~
There came no word The thunder broke!
Like huge city'sfnai smoke,
80 Thick, lurid, sitting, mixed with fame,
~ Through court and hall the vapols came.
Loose AZ the subble in the field.
Wide few the men of spear and shield;
Scattered like foam along the wave.
Flew the proud pageant, prince and slave;
Or IN the chains of terror bound IA
Lay, coTL se.like on the emOulderlng ground.
"Speak, king! the wrath 10 but begun
Still dumb then, Heaven, thy will be done 10
Echoed from earth hollow roar. @
Like ocean on the midnight shore,
A sheet of lightning DER them wheeled, s..
The solid earth beneath them reeIed. .
In dust sank roof and hattement;
Like webs, the giant walls were rent;
Red, broad, before his startled gaze,
The monarch saw his Egyptbaze.
Still swei'ed the pague-ihe fame grew pale:
Burst from the clouds the charge Of hail
With snowy keehness, iron weight
Down poured the ministers of fate;
Iili man and cattle, crushed. CONCEALED,
Covered with death the boundess field.
Still swelled the plague--uprose the blast,
The avenger, fit to be the last:
On ocean, river, forest, vale,
I'hundered at once the mighty gale,
Before the whirwind few the tree.
Beneath the whrlwnd roared the sea
a Thousand ships were on the wave
Where are they ask that. foamlng grave!
Down to the hope, the pride of years,
Down 60 the Msyriad mariners:
I The richest of Earth srichest zone
] Gone! like fash of lightning, gone!
And 10! that frst fierce triumph DER,
Swells ocean on the shrinking shore;
Still onward, onward, dark and wide. aA
Engulfs the land, the furious tide.
Then bowed thy spirit, stubborn king.
Thou serpent, reit of fang and sting;
Hnmbed before the prophets knee,
He groaned--'. Be injured Israel Free"
To heaven the sage appraised the wand;
Back rolled the deIuge from'the land;
hack to its caverns sunk the gale;
Fled from the noon the vapOrs pale; |
Broad burned again the joyous sun;
The hour OF wrath and death was done. |
Mob nA
)readfai Occarssncs.-On the evening Of the 9th |
. about half past nine O'clock, the Honse of Mr.. !
~ yelling, near three miles from this village. took |
and was entirely consumed. All his children. four
lumber persisted in the flames. As is usual in oc. |
fences Of this kind, MR. and Mrs. WelIina were
o home on visit 70 friends house about three |
rters of a mile distant. The house and Younger
dren were left in charge Of the eldest child, lit
irl about eleven Years Of sge the children soon
red to bed, aud left large fire burning. which in
ort time communicated to the wood work near the
place and before assistance could he rendered, the
Q young inmates were literally consumed by the
the eldest was rescued alive, but survived only a
hours.-Itkica Jour.
he 81, Andrews IN. b. Gazerte aays, We hear
pain that the Foxes s,e doing incredible injury /
he parishes Of 81, Andrews and 81. Patrick. A Il
I many horned cattle and hogs, being Bit by them
become mad and died. They are YER, numerous
iDiest the barH yards Of the farmers, beth hy day
night.