Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-10-29


whirl'd, - ,
!, bl.z'd the iightnings Ger that billowy world,
nd plunged, while silence held her musing
he death hound wanderer in the booming main;
When. billow.toss'd, the proud ship dash'd the
uresd her light wings, aol kept her hcms-bound
way.
Morn kiss'd the water, and the waves
Roll'd glistening on from strand 70 stranu'
And, darling down thro' oceans caves
The sunbeams sought its moor OF saho;
Within whose amber chambers slept
A storm. bred wanderer OF the main,
ARGUED whose form the sea'weeds erept,
Like gore shrouds DER a-warricr slam; .
Where ocean stretch'd her coral spars
Of green and bright vermii'on hues;
And sunshine shed its cleaning bars
Der treasures bright as m0rnings dews;
Where spread the rays of spangles bright
And radiant as the gems OF air,
A tho the azure realms Of light
Had lost their sun.shorn spfendOrs there.
The mute FISH skim'd around his rest,
And reyel'i through the quiet scene,
As snort the birds DER natures breast,
And buoyaut sail the blue serene;
And sparry groves OF coral trees,
Their branches thick together twin'd,
anu neld the fountains OF the seas,
Beneath their stretching antlers shrin'd; :
And sea wreath'd shells of Iovelier hues
Than deck the oe,is of summers iowers,s.
With milky pearls were spread profuse
Through oceans lonely sparsy bowers;
When sorrowing there the sea Dympha trod
Their uournful pathway thro' the deIls,--s
As elfs DER earth's enchanted sod
Stray wild wnere Pan, their monarch, dwells;
And sought the hapless seaman's grave,
Aud bending Ger his clammy clay,
Along the clear aud yielding wave, Z
The ocean slumberer bore away;
And wove a shroud Of wEy green,
Aud swath'd him as dreaming child;
Then shought the oceans breast serene,
And sadly sung nis requiem wild:
REauIEM. sss
:. Deep down in the detls Of the sea,
The weed shrouded mariners's sleeping,
Fror, the howls Of the storm -demoa free,
And the rage of the. foam.biliows ieaping.
No more to be pip'd from repose,
Or dream of the storms Of the morrow,
He sleeps where the summer sun giows
Whose fervor their depths cannot borrow. :
He trusts not the treacherous gale,
Der ocean no longer rover;
Nor shrinks from the reef Of the sail,
For his hardships forever are over.
.. No thunder.clap startles his sleep,
Nor vessel ,shrouds rattle around him;
But freely the tangled weeds creep,
Where the sea's guarded treasures surround
him. 4,
81 Speed, ship! on thy psstilsnt digit,
Ere death Shall consigu to the waters,
The lov'd that were bid to recite
This tale TO homes beautiful daughters.
:. When the sorrow Of kindred grows wild,
And woe round their cottage doth hover,
Brastae, mother! the prayers Of thy child
Think, maid! Of the vows Of thy lover!
.ssleep, mariner! sleep!-for to slumber is
thine, &C. ~,
Released from the tsmpests' dread ravins.'
While thy comrades Ger oceans blue brine,
DEATHS pestlent horrors are-braving.
"The storms Of thy being are DER,
Reclin'd meath yon blue heaving billow,
With the image thy fond bosom wore,
To cheer the last pangs Of thy pillow.
Crest. mariner! rest! in old ocean repose,
Where the pillows above thee are swelling;
And the tide in IT'S circuit INCREASINGLY flows,
Far down in thy green ocean dwellng!"
Philadelphia, Oct. 81. 1888 7 g. 8.
We understand that snow fell for the depth Of
70 inches. in the Blue Ridge, on Monday last.
lr L,ndsav, the Madison mail carrier. informs