Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-01-15
nS.poNsE TO THE FOREGOING.

cff.pring Of genius. welcome TO our cline.
We hail thee-messenger Of truth sublime!
I'm countless bosoms here Thy generous tone
Shall find high thoughts congenial TO thy own;
Shall gladden. hearts whose free-born currents glow
With pride tia, they from British fountains fow
Go forth where'et Columbia's skies extend,
And thou shalt find her greet thee rs friend;-
Convince her sous thou speaS'st bri,annia's voice,
Aud thou shalt hear our hills and plains rejoice
Throughout the land for passport thou 'nayst clam
TIL, glorious birth tn, rich paternal fame;
For on the rolls of lbion's living bards
No loftier name commands our deer regards,
Than his whose spirit in thy numbers breathes,
And wins from these green shores their fragrant
wreaths.
Enlightened thousand. here, spelLbound and pale.
Have felt his power in that blood-chilling tale
The &" Mariner" whose wild and wizard " rhyme"
Assures the heart that cruelty is crime.
In visions kntlled by the quenchiess light.
His sun-orbe genius sheds o'er Rlancs proud height,
Their fancies fevel ON that star crown'd pile.
And see il clothed in heavens eternal smiles
Behold its peaks OF everlasting snow,
It's torrents freezing in their headlong how,
Its sca.hed and shattered cliffs beg,rt with gloom,
It's Wales of verdure and perennial bloom;
And burning with his adoring FIRE,
Invoke with him the strains of nsture's Tyre
To sound tn applause Of that Almighty hand
Which formed world so beautiful and grand.
Bat whether soaring on Miitonian wing,
His muse disports in lights spring,
Its r.lnbows and its smarsnths interweaves
In yigncttes 10 adorn her ''Sy bal Leaves,
Attunes her harp where stars and seraohs shine,
Aud sw. ps its chords in praise Of power divine,
Or stoons on graceful plumes TO lowler themes,
And sings the charms If landscapes groves streams,
The Joys that circle the domestic hearth,
Where love 10 based on purity and worth,
And PASSIONS wild and tender forms portrays
In simple, glowing, and harmonious lays
Still. thousan,ls here around her pages throng,
To feast on thought. and drink her nectarine song.
Bence, hgh-suuled bard! the task was fifty thine,
l. lI,, txlsrro Nxy,Aa
That hallowed pledge, the olive branch TO blend.
In proof that Albion IS Columbia's friend;
Is still in feeling ss she is in name,
A mothsr-proud To own daughters claim.
Hencrforth between those kindred lands may wave
Broad as the ocean foods their shores that lave,
The hsg of peacei Forever just and wise,
Nav all their confess be for virtues prize!
Bard of exalted heart and chsinless mind!
Fraternal Coleridge! lover Of mansind!
Still send abroad the offspring OF thy muse
To teach man virtue, aud enlarge his views.
Bid her thy souls rich IRE asures still explore,
Bring forth to-day and spread the precious ore.
As round the earth her kinliing light extends,
Man bigots learn to love and live as friends;
Man 3rtons all partske her generous glow,
And learn what even tyrant power shah know
That here their brethren. happy, proud and free,
Are lambs in peace, IN war q stormy sea!
And thou. Columbia, in thy growing might
Think on those names enshrined in glorious light,
of martyrs, sages bards and patriot bands,
Branna's sons! whose fame unwasting stands
In pillared grandeur, besming to the skies,
And deaths and tunes oblivious power defes;
Remember how, with pure and pous zeal,
Through all the varying scenes of wo and veal,
Th,ir noble charities. and works sublime,
Have soothed atiiction's pangs, and batted crime.
And should the faults that EnSand's splendours mar,
Or lingering trace of "frstricidsl war,
One hostile passion in tn, breast revive
BE yreat-and thence the vengeful demon drive;
Bid hoIier feelings in thy bosom wake
Forgive her frailties for her virtues saSei
And while thou hod'st thy honour free from stain,
q neither selfish. arrogant nor vain
In proof of friendship, wear the howery band
Br albon's bard consigned to beAu'y's hand,
Aud sill advancing in thy high career
May'st thou, by nations oved,-to mlnstrels dear
In glorys star encircled zenith SHINE
The Lrht of earth = the theme IF ungs divinel
ssee his poem. sntted Hymn before sunrise in the
yals Of Shamouiy.