Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-05-02

Enlivens all my faculties.
And in this
Hurried change of seasons, my country too ha
changed.
When muse upon the PAST, in chsos laid,
And bold the PRESENT by Gim'y hair,
4 That's fritter'd into atoms by Tines siroccs,
A il sets the sea of Life in oscillation,
And sec the FUTURE coming swiftly an
existence
The angry ocean splash and foam; am
Inspir'd TO speak aloud to Time! When,
When wilt thou end and where didst thou begin,
Was mark'd by thee, and as his onward course
Has been, thou hast been ever busy, 20 note
his lofty strides along iIternty's proud way!
Thou rose to being, and in Nature sprung
| With Natures God; and as the sun and moon
And planets all rcvoSe around the eternal
Throne Of Day, thou wilt be busy still infinitely
Age the emp res of the earth date each tyrant's
rise,
| And mark each monsters fall Thou hast been
call'd,
In unabating skill, an attendant
To the bedside of the pregnant FUTURE,
And delivered her, writhing in travail,
OF another year IA year that's glorious
For the change of men,
A sleeping nation
Has been 'rous'd by the dread alarm OF tyrant,
Hurting the thuuderbolts OF dire corruption,
In ten-(old fury 'gainst the peoples head!
Twas sclf-prcseryation into action called them,
Aud scf-security can alone nbate
Their fiery zeal. A few more infant years,
Lake this, and they frce A few moro
struggles,
And their Gotters fall! They've learn'd that
Freedom
In their hands is safe, but from the people,
II cannot survive. Like some dark cloud,
Portentous DER our land has hung for many
years,
An apathy, that strikes torpor TO the souls OF
men,
And them hath led so far astray, to gain
Ambitions point, they sacrifice their freedom,
And idolize mankind.
This spell is broken
By the nceting year! The watch-word of the
sentinel
Is caught by ev'ry tongue, and the astounding
notes
or victry from ev'ry dale, from ev'ry city,
Town, throughout enchanting freedoms land is
sung.
A tyrant's band, like Crecian host of old,
Behind corruption's screen ensconc'd hath hid,
Or like the HORSE, that proved the overthrow
Of Troy,
Has been run to the very bastions of the
Constitution,
And the miscrcants, who thcmse,ve. his lank
Ribs beneath concealed, like helI-hounds, eager
To devour their dams very cntrails, have
gnaw'd,
And growl'd, and torn the flesh away, and now
In shameful nakcdness to ev'ry eye appear!
o thou, proud Time hath brought about this
change,
And as thy car moves onward to Eternity,
The fnish'd years, Just melting from thy mint,
Gllst'ning with the achievement of worthy
deeds,
Will all proclaim nations universal joy
From angry cloud the thunder that has peal'd,
Has sunk to rest: The lightning, whose fiery
wing
Has aash'd across the conclave of the sky,
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But thou, O mighty Time doth still survive
Doth count each day the reckless course Of
man;
Crnmble into dust the gaudy show Of art
Himself supreme, ON EARTH, the cause Of all!
And thou hast seen beard TO the brunt OLA
tyrant's rage,
The unshield'd arm of infant freedom,
Struggling in valor to loose OPPression's grasp;
And when he rose to battle with the storm,
Thou sawest him, manacled in chains,
Stand the giant of his country's hopes,
The contamination of his country's joy!
Midnights past I'm floating on the tide Of
Time
Into my twenty third And when that's too
past,
What shall gaze upon' Arc there faces
round me
That arc fair! Are there friends who love me
yet!
know there are, and yet Pm melancholy.
But il Death-o grim aud ghastly DEATH--
should
Now me with the falling grass around him,
Aud give my soul il summons 10 appear