Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-01-07
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CSC transit gloria n1undi"
O, Earth how Elusive and vain is thy trust!
How quickly thy glories are laid in the dust !
Columbia, thy queen, but a moment ago,
Was rejoicing secure-now is sabled in woe. t
Thy watchmen, proud city are waking in
vain
For the spark is ignited, and laid is the train
And the angel of darkness, with hell on his
brow,
With his fre-match is lurking-he's light
ing it now.
The miser, in secret, is viewing his gold
The merchant is casting the amount he has
sold
The banker is counting his gain and his
And the christian is musing and scanning
the cross:
And there is the wretch on his pallet OF
straw,
And the thief and assassin who curses the
law;
And the children of pride and Of fash on are
The rich, and the young. and the gay, and
the fair:
. The assembly is gathered in jewels and
dress,
And beauty is blushng in her loneliness, ,
! And bright eyes are piercing with their fatal
glance,
And the youth are carouslng in song and IN
dance.
Nor dreaming Of danger in pleasures career:
Son, on with the dance-there IS nothing
to fear"
But, thy foe, in the midst of the play, does
intrude,
And compel thee to listen to his i7aterlude.
Hark !-hark !-there's a tumuIt that now
greets the ear
| Thy fre-car is rolling with hook and with
Thy fre-bells are sounding TO spread the a
And thy people are rushing the foe to dis
arm.
O! the storm is careering-'tis awful am
loud
In letters Of fame it is writ on the cloud
Like the last angry tempest it teartully low
w men the SlOUc snail ulSSO1VS W 1l41 us Tell
pies and towers
Thy tiremen are gathered--the skillful an
But vain is their skill and their proves t
save;
Unnerved is the arm Of the strong and tn
bold,
They are scorched with the heat and stun
with the cold
Away with your engine-'tis powerless an
vain
: Your fountains are fettered-they are boun
, with chain;
l The fame and the frost are united thv foe
They both have assailed thee, and fearful
the blow.
Your ladders and fire hooks-what can the
avail?
/ Beware, lest the flames do their users as
sail:
] The wise and the fool, and the grave, an
, the gay,
Are palsied with terror, and sunk in dismay
t The wealth of the merchant-ah! where
1 it now?
|, He was rolling in splendor, with pride on hi
,
t But the red wave has rolled, and the dom
4 and the spire,
: And the halls of his mansion are sheeted i
fire!
: And beauty is fainting-go succour the fair
b Her tresses are flying dishevelled her hair
= The beau, and the belle, and the STRIPPING
and lass,
For once have forgotten their toilet and glass
q 80, Earth! how Elusive and vain is tn
trustw
Chow quickly thy glories are laid in tn
dustn
: Go, thou grand deceiver !--accomplish tn
" round:
Thou art destined to fame when the trun
f pet shall sound.
t. An! trust not, We mortals, in treasure that
: here
1t will break like reed, and twill pierc
+ like spear;
o There's nothing enduring on this earthl
: sod
S The only sheet-anchor is trusting in God
g There is fair city the fame will endure
e God is its maker-its foundation is sure;
Ills deathless in glory, and fadeless
e bloom
n Immortal! come cn;er-for still there
e room. AMOS.
: Hampton, \, y Jan. 1885.
/ THE sCOFFER REPROVED
/, Lady Huntingdon's heart was truly er
gagged to God. She laid herself out to
good.-The poor around her were the CT
), jects other attention She visited ther
/ in sickness, as we'll as relieved their necet