Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-03
CARRIERS ADDRESS
TO THE PATRONS OF THE
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE,
JANUARY /, 1888.

JANUARY !, 1883.
As wave succeeds to wave upon the deep,
The last one present as the former dies;
So following on in swift succession sleep,
The rolling years as other years arise,
And only one we dare to cs3 our own:
The feeting prescn.-that but lent awhile
To use for virtuous ends, or to atone
For unrepented sins and secret guile:
The year so lent us Reason says improve
Mans highest gratitude for boundless Love.
Sweet is the dawning of Newborn Year,
And sweet the pealing Anthem of the free,
And sweet the CALCULATIONS that we hear
Happy New Fear! ana many more 10 thee!''
Oh! if there be period Of delight
OF fond anticipation, and of thought
Rewriting to the pastor winged for flight,
The muses. inclinations should be brought,
1t is that period standing as Key,
Binding the past with that which is to be-
The world is ours, the gift of Supreme,
Stored with all things his creatures can enjoy,
And but for man himself, no fairy dream
Gould rival earth's realty of Joy:
Freedom would dwell, where Slavery clanks
her chains
Contentment smile, where misery abounds--
Feeling exist where avarice counts its gains,
And virtue reign where shameless vice resounds;
Lands where the men are brave and maidens far
Accused Ambition makes Expressions lair.
Is proof required that crime and tyranny
Lord it high handed DER the human racer
Or that cen Christians hesitate to be
The wick ed agents Of their own disgrace!
Is il required to sllew the ciI.,s0n brand
Wet with the blood of poor unfortunates,
Or TO hold up the hypocrite whose hand
Rests on that Bible of whose truths he prates3
Is il required to prove that such things are?-
Then look to Poland, and the fendish Car!
Oh. if there be on earth damning deed,
Sufficient to destroy tn immortal soul
1t is to make righteous nation bleed;
To smite brother as is smote each Pole;
To drive by cruelty people wild,
To desolate their dearest native plains,
To separate the parent and the child,
And load the living thousands with his chains;
Such deeds, Oh! Nicholas are hinem and fame,
With lasting INFAMY will brand thy name!
Fame, in recording lives of mortal men,
The savage spoiler with the humble good,
Amid the ceaseless drudgery of her pen,
Will sometimes hail the brightly beaming flood
OF talent and of virtue, in none
Purer or brighter has it late been seen,
Than in the Gem of Scotland-there it shone
With vivid splendor on Romance's green;
And while Time is-ScorT's works OF va
uerly"
Shall live in interest and morality!
And buried in the bosoms of the free
Isle, our oun, the patriot and the sage,
Who true firm. honest, bent no servile knee,
Nor ceased till death, T. embellish Freedom
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CARROLL the aged Signer and the last
Of those brave Spirits who in perils' hour
Needless of Despotism's aiming blast
OpSosed with life aud fortune Britain's pow'r;
And gave unto the world the classic scroll,
All must admire so long as Ages roll.
The tear of gratitude is amply due
To worth departed; and the spot how dear,
Where, henceforth hidden from all human view
Sleeps the loved Scholar, Patriot and Seer!
But whilst we mourn the still unconscious dead
Whose race of active usefulness is DER
With lively joy we hail the living tread
Of Native Genius on Columbia's shore
And in each branch of Literature, we see
The march of Talent to celebrity!
To strangers passing we might point with pride
To men whose names would grace-aye, anl
land;
ADAMS and IRVING, ranging side BY side,
Whose pow'rs the heights of Elegance com
mand;
CoopER, al home upon aHIndian soil,
Or where the " Rover" ploughs the briny sea
WILLIS and HALLEcK, SPRAouE and PAuLDINe
I while