The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-12-09

NJ =. nARNEY.

~ H. HAnNEY.
fever scorched my body, fred my brain!
Like lava in vesuvius, boiled my blood
Within the glowing caverns Of my heart.
! ragged with thirst, and begged fora cold clenr
draught
OF fountain water.-'Twas with tears denied.
drank nauseous febrifuge, and slept:
But rested not-harrassed with horrid dreams
OF burning deserts, and Of dusty plains,
Mountains disgorging dames-forcsts on FIRE,
Steam, sunshine, smoke, and boiling lakes
Hills Of hot sand, and glowing stones that seemed
Embers and ashes Of a burnt up world:
Thirst ragged within mel sought the deepest
vale
And called on all the rocks and caves for
water;-
climbed mountain, and from cliff to cliff,
Pursued q flying cloud, bowling for water:-
crushed the withered herbs, and gnawed dry
roots,
Still crying, water! water while the cliffs and
In horrid mockery, re-echoed "water!s
Below the mountains cleaned city red
With solar fame, upon the sandy bank
OF broad river.-"Soon, oh soon - cried,
"I'll cool my burning body in that food,
And quaff my 6ll."-I ran-I reached the shore.
The river was dried up. It's oozy bed
Was dust; and on its arid rocks, / saw
The scaly myriads fry beneath the sun!
Where sunk the channel deepest, beheld
A stirring multitude of human forms.
And heard faint, wild, lamentable wall
Thither sped, and joined the general cry
Of-sswater!'' They had delvcd a spacious pit
In search of hidden fountains--sad, sad sight!
saw them rend the rocks up in their rage,
With mad Impotence calling on the earth
To open and yield up her cooling fountains.
Meanwhile the skies, on which they dared not
gaze
Stood DER them like canopy Of brass,
Undimmed by moisture. The red dog-star ragged,
And Phobus from the house of Virgo shot
His scorching shafts. The thirsty multitude :
Grew still more frantic. Those who dug the
earth
Fell lieless on the rocks they strand upheave,
And filed again with their own carcasses
The pits they matchmaking their own work!
Despair at length drove out the laborers,
The death of hope. All !now no more was heard
The cry of sswatern' To the city next,
| Howing, we ran-all hurrying without aim:
Thence to the woods. The baked plain CAPPED
for moisture,
| And from its ARID breast beayed smoke, that
feemcd
| The breath of furnace-ferce, volcanic Gro,
Or hot Simeon, that raises Syrian sands
To clouds. Amid the forest we espicd
A faint and bleating herd. Sudden shrill
And horrid shout arose of ssblood blood blood p
We fell upon them with the tigers thirst,
And drank up all the blood that was not human
We were dyed in blood! Despair returned:
The cry Of blood was hushed. and dumt
confusion reigned.
Even then, when hope was dead!-past hope
l heard laugh: and saw a wretched man
Rip his own veins, and bleeding, drink
With eager joy. The example seized on all;
Each fell upon himself, tearing his veins
Fiercely in search of blood. And some Their
were,
Who, having emptied their own veins, did seiz
Upon their neighbours arms, and slew them 70
their blood
Oh happy then were mothers who gave suck.
They dashed theirlittle infants from their breast,
And their shrunk bosoms tortured to extract
The balmy juice, OH exquisitely sweet
To their parched tongues! IT'S done.- now a
is gone!
Blood, water, and the bosom's nectar,- all!
Trend, oh. ye lightnings! the sealed armament,
: And food burning world.-Rain. rain! pour
Open-ye windows of high heaven! and pour
The mighty deluge! Let us drown, and drink
! Luxuriousdeath! earthquakes, split the glob'
The solid, rock-ribbed globe land lay ALL bare
+ Its subterranean rivers, and fresh seas:'
Thus ragged the multitude. And many fall
In fierce commissions ;-many slew themselves.
And now I saw the city all in DANES
The forest burning-and the very earth On o.
+ saw the mountains open with a roar,
d Loud as the seven apocalyp4ic thunder,
And seas oflava rolling headlong down,
Through craokling forests, fierce, and hot asHe
Down to the plain-I turned to dy,-and wake
Down WITH THE BANKs!-The plan &
e putting down the monsters, contained in Il
following resolution, lately passed at pu
lie meeting in Wilmington, DEL, has O
.Imost hearty appreciation. Down with Their
-f~ - horosc tho NAV IN do IL.