Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-10-08

Icsm-sgie1tcd tor ,Ae ha,ioaal in,eas,aeer.l
Th. morn is up; with cold and dewy eye,
Az ves,al's popping bushing forth
Liz ,hsr old affairs in tho clear blue NORTH;
Their Incense is tho breath ofshrubhery,
Their canopy the kindlns depths of Heaven,
. Their smoke tho clouds tina, their submits lice,
Natures eternal worship 'tom them driven,
Man idols i0ng have shrnnk scofnd sh"notoss and von
Ills noon, but husld ~ midnight, tho hum
Ofthe wild bee, or l,ard IN the grass;
Faint sounds startling. for ts ono " lido tomb
And sul you pause AMI ponder you pass,
Here desola,i"n il, and cnpIo was!
No stone, however rude. but 80 q wear
some trace OF mlud--aud still with cautious pace,
And slow, unwcc;ingy you tread, nor dare
With too foe breath iuhno the spirit OF that air.
Noon hush'd as midnight crushd by ruins stroke,
The mausoleums ofambton's trust
The marble, with the breathing hand that woke
Its l'ielessncss 10 feeling, shrunk to dust
Broken and cankcr'd by oblivou's rust
Alike the watcts sword aud poets Tyre
From yon iall'n capital remove tho crust
Less freshly springs the nounls the bIar-
Than IT from common mould their ranSncss did aspo.
But il is; tho midnight earthquake shakes
Cities to du,t-ihe armd myrisds OF to-day,
Tomorrow rot-tho barrow comes aud rakcs
The soil, thoy fertiliro their kindred clay:
But nature bounds all joyous from decay,
Frosh as IL Garth wcro not n charncl.cayo--
m Deem'st thou, Tor thso, the dows are wcpt away,
The tesrs of night? ifsh,d upon thy gravo,
The flower with csher bloom nockory there shall
Tho daylight fados DER old Cyllenes hill
-, And son and pure, and silently they fall
Wheose the bright stars look countless forth, as still
Smiling upon their alarsi but tho tall
Dark cypress like msurner gently bends,
Wet with the drops of night n twere with tears,
Ahke o'er shrine and wotslipper, and blends,
Az dim and lonely, with the wreck ofyears, rears.
Where moudering shaf her shattered outline
Thoro sits the Queen OF Temples srcy and lone
siiil "a despite oihavock and of time,
shc looks forth proudly from her rock-buit throne,
a vct'rau Psas doubtless aud sublimoi
How sadly faint tho moonbsams thore recluo,
Like the gone glory ofihs land they light,
Whose splsndor now bot fnoby braves decline
And tho majestic mountains heave IN sight.
In scorn OF the decay OF mans Wanted might.
Go thou who hast no lover aud o homos
Yon groupct Of still unshalScn columns trace
Nor mourn the lot that doomd or led to
49, Look ON their deep lmpeTshnble base,
Their sunkcn nutings toweriko shafts, nnd hear
The loud winds thunder in their aged fsco
Then, slowly turn thine eye where nouliers
C@sar's nrch,t and the blue depth OF space
Vaults like sepulchrc the wrecks of q past
Is il not better with the Eromiie
Where tho weeds rustic DER his airy cavcll
fcIchsd on thoir summit through the long still night,
TO sit, and watch their shadows slowly wavo-
While OFT some fragment sapp'd by dull decay,
Ia thunder breaks tho slence, and tho owl
or ruin hoots-nnd turn in away,
OF all man builds, time towels, and tho cowl
Awards her mopns sage IN common with tho owl!
Or whore the palm, at tvilisht's holy hour,
by Thesous' ianc hor lonely vigil keeps
Conc are her sisters of tho loaf md Hover,
Mown by the silent scythe that ruthless, sweeps
Man and his bidding kindred of tho clay,
Alike forgot, To darkness and decay
But these rovIve-o'or human ashes wocps,
Vainly the spring her quickcmin= dows away,
Aud love as vainly mourns and moufns alas for aye.
Or make the dou tho forest shade thy home,
Tho desert, than hold converse with thy kinda
There, thy free steps ut may roam,
Nor friend ntIudo, nor kindred, falsely kind
Well was the boy-God painted, nods'd and blind,
Whose ,erch is iaun'd by woman's fcklo sigh
And iIcpe.H whose bud no rPenins loaf entwind,
That ever waves her wing she would ~.
And lures but mocks the grasp like rainhow of tho sky.
AN IDLER, u. 5. Ship -.
he PaLthenon, or the temple of Minerva
nins of tho toiaple Of Jupiter Olympus.
riumphal Arch Of iadran.
stone Hermitage still taCdns tho ontuba,urc of these
ms
opo represented by Sncens holding halhblown