The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-06
EXTRACTS FROM THE
N z W YEARS ADDRESS
OF THE CARRIER OF
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TO ITS PATRONS,
January LIST, 1880.
January Isl, 1880.

List ye: the winds low murmur which ye
hear
Has sung the death-dirge of the by-gone year.
lis even so; I've seen the golden sheaf,
The garnered harvest and the yellow leaf,
And now, declining, yonder lurid sun
Proclaims another hasty circle run
Thus seasons change, and, in their whitening
fight,
Creation fades, decays in human sight
The greatest, least, Of attributes must fall
At that decree which comes but to appal.
Yes; autumn found the summer rose decayed,
And the lost Pleiad tells that stars must fade.
Come, now, ye hearts that feel kindred
power
With his who writes creep o err you at this hour,
Approach the altar of the closing year,
And memory's treasured legends lean to hear;
Come to the scenic stage while there she brings
The glowing image of her garnerings,
And, faithfully, her mirror holds to sight,
Where past and present glow with hallowed
Here let US look with an inquirng eve
Upon the deeds which mark the time gone BY
Spirit Of Freedom Glorious Spirit thou,
Who tellst man Of his bondage. even now.
Iaou makest earth thy footstool, and goest
forth.
Kimitiug the hearts o1 nauons, and thy worth
Is chainpioned by the mighty; It's To he
Honored among earth's brave, tohonor thee -
What are ihv fruits to empires look We where
The Egean's hillows roll, and read ii there.
Broken are thradoms manacles.-once more,
Peace crowns Olympus. as in days of yore,
When Greece, exuting won the need of fame,
Triunphed DER earth, and gloried in her name :;
When arts were nurtured there, and deftly. still,
The Nine 1eaped round the consecrated rill.
Rejoice, We nations the unerrng power
Ofkeen-eyed Justice has o'erthrown the Gaour,
The cross has triumphed; triumphed, though
still wet
With lifehood from the child of Mahomet.
Greece there were offered heartfelt prayers
for thee.
And worthy aspirations BY the free;
Nor were they vain; redemption is at hand,
The glad redemption of groaning land.
The isles of Greece-her sunny isles,
With golden plain and rocky shore,
May shout in jov. for Freedoms smiles
Are beaming brightly there once more.
And Grecias beauiies-Grecian girls,
With deep dark eyes Of radiant glow;
And winning smiles and glisiening curls,
Low hung upon neck of snow,
Shall gather, injured cline, within
The shadow Of the linden tree,
With harp, and lutte, and tambourin,
To sing of liberty and thee.
arch realm
Throned in thy power, successful to o'erwhelm,
Lo! followed by grim Battles thirsty brood,
Thou marched to triumph through path of
blood; [blade,
Yet, with one proud achievement sheathed thy
One virtuous deed-the ransom thou hast made
Queen of the ocean! Empress of the sea. y
Thou hast been neutrality-suspicious. yet may
be-
But be, thy gifted son, who loved thee well,
When mellow words breathed on his lyric she'll,
dark, prophetic thought, embodied there,
Which tells thy fall, thy ruin, thy despair.
Guilt. treachery, treason, all that kingdoms
know
Ofevil in their rulers, thou canst shew,-
Dominion of the usurper thine the fate,
To feel the yoke Ambition can create.
Kneel to thine idol, Miguel fond!y kneel,
Ere pinioned vengeance draws his whetted
steel.
In the proud bosoms of thy country's sons,
The slaves of thy oppression, deeply runs
The spirit of the mighty and the free,
Which shall not always slumber, but on thee
Shall rise and shake thy letters; and the brave
Shall triumph in thy fall Ambitions slave.
Italia land of beauty with whose name
Are high associations-works of fame,
And deeds of valor-would that he who writes
To please fastidious critics,-who ndites
Wofds OF dubious meaning, could but stand
And gather inspiration from thy and
To see thy glorious, sunset skies of gold,
A burning scroll of living fame enrolled,
To gaze intently on its milder hue,
Pure, even as purity, celestial blue;
To sadly trace, melancholy way,
The eternal city," glorious in decay,
To follow Tiber to its ocean mart
Yes, it were rapture grateful to the heart.
Columbia from the realms beyond the sea,
Where faction prowls and war holds jubilee,
The heart indignant turns, TO taste, even here,
All that is sacred. all the soul holds dear.
Thine is a lofty march, an envious way
Amid contendng nations, the high day
When thnn shalt claim ascendancy, is near,
The day of Fames. Of GIory's high career
We love thee, glorious land Of liberty!
Orr sweetest visions are combined with thee
Though other regions boast Of purer SKIES
Oflovelier plains. whers loftier mountains rise !;
Though orient realms their monuments display,
Ofhnman art, all crumbling in decay,
Majestic even in ruin; though the climes,
Beyond the sea, are linked with classic times,
And hallowed BY tradtian though they win
The heart with what we see,-yet all within
Is dark; vile Intrigue executes his plan,
And despots chain the very soul Of man.