The Arkansas advocate., 1834-04-25
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Concluded. He say the relics of the Indian race, Melting away like snow wrcaths from the
 tide Of the resistless white man-tiil their
 trace Was seen no more upon the mountain side, Or by the river brink, on the face Of the broad plain--no longer, far and Echoed tho wild rcd huator's ery-nor He chased the deer tue hills and valleys
 OCT. Ayunta ga2ed upon those silent mounds, The sad nementos Of the andehned And unlsnosgn race that here did once .,.....esa se99,ha %asa .qs ssa, or aggs--uau rrr
 wind Sweeping around them with its tougneless
 sounds, Seemed like responses breathing from the
 blind, Unlighted past--and through his swelling
 soul Sad thoughts fled fast, as thunder shadows
 roll. These, then, are all, to tell the history Cf nations now anHilillalG lGu--dit A mound or two ia stern simplicity A ruae entrenchmeht, or a circular wall An idol grinning as i'll mockery-- 4 riag-an arrow-or perhaps, the small, Disjointed Fragments of a mouldering And shapeless skeleton, which time's cold
 wiog Is flaming into dust--and tbis may teach, SboUia teach mankind to feel and know
 what they And all their works are--the fierce pan-
 thers scneech Echoes a6ovc the ruins, where the day Once dawned on eities-and, as on
 beach The fragments of ship, washed and
 gray, These fragments of antiquity are spread Oyer the land to tell us of the dead. Go, bigot, learn humiIity-behold All that IS left of nations, faiths and ages And as oblivion doth so npsh infoid, Think that time may come wien histo.
 rys pages No word of you or of your craeds may hold And you may be forgotten, as the sagcs Gf the unnumbered nations that have past , Like morning mist, into oblivion's vast. Change, change, forever! Nations fade
 away, Vanish and are fosgotten-the light dew Eahing at night to rise again by day The sunset clouds with theiI surpassing
 hue--
 All matter, from the foaming ocean spray To the hard graniteand the worIds- that
 through The ether roll, are subject to the laws Of change, that never in its work doth
 pause. A thousand nations of forgotten name Have gone, nor left vestge to declare That they existed--mul titudes whose fame Seems like fable, light as empty air, Rose, flourished, feii-Flme the destroyer
 came, And withered with his foo,steps---from his
 lair
 Destruction rushed--and they did pass
 away,
 Like nights dim shadows at the light o
 day.
 And some were swallowed in the hunger
 ing sea, Lost even to history-and some drd fade And deserts grew around them, where the
 free,
 Wild Arabs over buried cities wade Some Tn their greenness, like branching
 tree,
 Were cut down by the base invaders
 blade, Add some were earthquake-shattexed-and
 on some rhe fierce volcano'a liquid fire did come. The life of nations, like the life of man, Hath It's duration-some by slo,y deerees faflo nd fA li,.. |. And die in dotage--others, unliko these. Spring tip in youth, and aim to lead the van Of the gigantic world, and boldly seize Power aud dominion; these die sudden
 deaths, Like men infected by the plaguc's hot
 breath. Life, death, decay and change, " hat are ye Of the same thing the nominal degrees Man crawls Tn Nature's great and mighty
 hall, Judging Of every thing from hat he sees- Builds up his theories with names, and calls The visions of his brain realities snstead of thoughts and ideas, names and
 words And theories, come pouring forth in herds. What IS the earth but ono vast senulthra Cireiiag around the a.,n--its constant lis constant operation, DEArn--men fear That little word--yet the first breath they
 draw, Death is inbaled--even with the atmos-
 phere The serpent change. or Death, begins to
 gnaw Upon their yitals--ail is death, death feeds On human hearts as snakes on poisonous
 weeds. A n,-nrn l F n,,s.hf If nir tha ,rn ;..s.;...