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THE RESURRECTION.


RoBEar Pollok, has lately been Published il
Edinburgh This work is reviewed in the &c
leGtic Review, of October, in which express
sion of great respect are used, both with re
ference 20 the poem and the author We
have not time now 70 describe the subject aud
purpose of the poem, and shall only make some
detached extracts, as given in the Eclectic.
The PARTICULAR is the Resurrection.
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SNOW startling up among the living changed,
Appeared numerous the risen dead;
Each particle of dust was claimed; the turf
For ages stood beneath the careless foot
OF men, rose organiEedin human form.
The monumental stones were rolled away
The doors of death were opened: aud in the
dark
And loaihsome vault, and silent chaFnel-house,
Moving we're heard the Wondering bones that
sought
Their proper place. Instructive, every soul
Flew 10 its clayey part; from grass grown mould,
The nameless spirit took its ashes up.
Reanimate; and merging from beneath
The fattered marble, undistingulshed rose
The great,-nor needed once the lavish rhyme
And costly pomp Of sculptured gsrnsh vain.
The Memrhian mummy that, from age to age
Descending, bought and sold thousand times
IN hall of curious antlquary slowed,
id tlot~AAN0S NSSSSi 49, "SitN aSea~
theme
OF many an erring tale,- shook of its rags;
and the brown son of Egypt, stood beside
The European, his last purchaser.
'All woke---the north and south gave up their
dead.
The caravan that in mid journey sunk
With all its merchandise expected long,
And long forgot, inguied beneath the tide
OF DEATH that the wild spirit OF the winds
Swept in his wrath along the Wilderness
In the wide desert woke, and saw all calm
Around, and populous with risen men;
Nor of its relics thought the pilgrim then,
Nor merchant Of his silks and spicerIes.
And he--for voysgng from home and friends,
Too curious with mortal eye to peep
into secrets of the Pole, forbid
by nature, whom fierce winter seized, and froze
To death, and wrapped in wlndng-sbeet Of ice,
And sunY the requiem of his shverDg ghost,
With the loud organ OF bis mighty winds,
And on hrs memory threw the snow of ages
Pelt the long absent warmth of life return,
And shook the frozen mountain from his bed.
All rose of every age, OF every climei
Adam and Eve, the great progenitors
OF all mankind, fair as they seem'd that morn,
When first they met in Paradise untallen.
The sea gave up its dead.
sGreat ocean strangest of creations sons;
Unconquerabe, unreposed, untired;
That rolled the wild, profound, eternal bass
IN natures anthem, ami made music such
As pleased the ear OF God. Original,
Unmarried, untaded work OF Defy,
And unburlesqued by mortals puny skill;
From age 60 age enduring and unchanged;
Maiestical. iniml,able, vast,
Loud uttering satire, day and night, on eaoh
Succeeding race and little pompous work
OF man. Unfailen, religious, holy seal
Thou bowedst thy glorious head to none, !
fear'dst none,
Heardst none, to none didst honour, but to God
Thy Maker--only worthy to receive
Thy great obeisance. Undiscovered sea!
Into Thy dark, unknown mysterious caves
And secret hSunts, unfathomably deep,
Beneath all visible retired, none went
And came again, to tell the wonders there, j..
That morning, thou that siumbered not be fore,
Nor slept Great Ocean, laid thy waves TO rest,
And hushed thy mighty minsIFelay. No breath
Thy deep composure stirred, no fin no oar:
Like beauty newly dead, so calm sc still,
So lovely, thou, beneath the light that fell
From snkel charriots sentnelPd on high,
Reposed and listened, and saw thy living change,
lhy dead arise.
From out their watery beds. the oceans dead
Renewed, and on the unstirrng pillows, stood,
From pole to pole, thick covering all the sea;
OF every nation bIent, and ever age
1t was congregation vast of men,
'Of unappendaged unysrnshed men;
OF plain unceremoneous human beings,
OF all but neral character bereaved.'
Thus stood they mixed! all generations stood
OF all mankind innumerable thFong!
Great harvest of the grave! waiting the viii
OF Heaven, sttentively and silent all
Another breathless pause: and then,
Upon the circuit of the upper spheres,
A glorious seraph stood, and cried aloud,
That every ear Of man and devils heard;
"Him that is filthy let be filthy still;
Him that's holy let be holy still"
And suddenly, another squadron bright,
OF high arch.angel glory, STOPPING brought
A marvellous bow; one base upon the Cross.
The other on the shoulder of the Bear,
They placed, from soCth to north spanning the
heavens,
And on each hand dividing good and bad -
Who read on either side these burning words,
Which ran along the arch in living fire,
And wanted not to be believed in full,
"As ye have sown, so shall We reap this day.
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