The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1840-07-24
lIISCEI4I NEOUS.
T7Re Past.
Turn 70 the mighty past
Sublime. Immoral. vast


Lone garner Of fhe wrecks that evermore
Forth from the winnings ofthe shadowy shore
Ofpresent life are st.-f0TwAx CrRRAY.
The unbounded ocean, the dull dead sea
Of caos spread over the universe. No breeze
stirred its surface, no wave rufied lis bosom
the dreary stiffness the tomb held its
reign, and darkness brooded over It with is
raven wings. A voice of Almighty energy
startled the profound silence, and at its awful
man0ate the demon Of daFkness furled its
wings and fed to the impenetrable womb Of
unfathomed distance. The ocean heaved in
pillows, and from its profundity myriad Of
worlds sprang into life and motion. The
melody ofmusic shod lis modulations around,
and tie choir of
spheres sublime
Pealed their FIRST notes 70 sound the march Of
Time.'
Our earth in her primeYal innocene smiled
amid that happy company and man, spotless
from the hand of his creator, reposed upon
its bosom, a,holy and happy being. The
foul breath of pollution had never mingled
with tie spring gales Of Eden,s garden; and
the light had never witnessed sight Of
blood. The spirit Of evil oblruded upon The
abode of bIessedness, and at his touch the
beautiful scenes vanished as the work Of
enchaniment. The mark Of crime burned
upon mans forehead, and his restless spirit
hurried him TO and fro over earth, which
brought fourth weeds and thisllos to torment
him.
The heart Of mankind was SET in them to
do evil, and sin, and pollution, in theirmest
disgusting forms, stalked through the ma
tions. They knew not the enthusiastic de-
vesion at the shrine Of their own unbribled
passions. The Omniscient saw il, and
spread forth bis hand. The waters Of the
great deep rushed from their confinement;
the fountains Of heaven we're unsealed, and
poured their tOsrent-il0ods upon an over
whelmed earth. Il was cleansed and puri-
ed The waters subsidized, and once more
man held possession Of the soil.-He soon
however, forgot the dreadful exhibition of
Gods warth, and went astray after the fool
ish devices Of his own heart In the rash
ness of his ambition, lie attempted 10 scale
the abode Of the Omnipotent, and place him-.
So beyond the reach of misery. The Eler-
nal laughed at his folly:-he knew not the
language and speech Of bis brother; and
Bobei's tower fell ruin on tho plains Oh
Shlnar
They fled from the monument Of their dis
grace and the tide of mankind rolled on
ward 10 the west. Palmyra-the beautiful
white rose, whose three thousand collossean
pillars even now speak of its former grandeur
spFang up ii the midst of the Syrian des-
ert and Tyre, wrapped ID her roy ple,
held the sceptre Of q queen over ed-
ilerranean. The glory Of the great God set-
tied down ii Palestine, and the fragrant
cloud Of incense went-up from the gorgeous
temple Of Solomon. The sublime anthem an
praise ring through its extended pallarias
The sun shed lis prisons on that ticence.
and pgotracled It's TespeIs upon lis golden
pinnacie But the fool 81 the in6del has
entered the holy place, and the unneanine
mummasp a superstition has seeded the
worship 81 he true God
The latlerof waters spread out bis fer
lille fields for mans benefit. Young Ar
ssopped0n Che plans Of the Nile and 81 hef
bidding the eternal pyramids shot upwards 70
the SKY The hundred gated Thebes threw
wide lier portals "a receive The wealth al
nations and Babylon and Memphis flourish
Cd q al iheil glory But The brazen gates
have crumbled % The dust, tie viper and the /
dragon have made thor nests Whefelhe I'M
nensa palace Of Eemiramis stood. and the
city Sc lie good Sesostfis has become 9ittIe
more than fhe city oftonbs.
The LIGHT moved towards Greece The
thunder of IIsfmes son fell on tie ear 5fl
gecI0pia pillared state, aud Ircrgo0s
1laged BIS passport ioimmoraIitl upon lhe
tablets 81 Stern Sparta history. Ihe senes
abla form If Philosophy moved through Use
groves ST the academy. and 8Isbnanin;ts