Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-26

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sometimes feel a. could blot,
Alltraces OF mankind from easah
asif ,twere wrong 10 blast them no',
They 40 degrade. so shame tne!r birth.
To mink thai earth should be so lar,
so beautiful and bright thing:
Thai nature should come forth and wear
Such glorious apparreing;
That sky, sea, air, should 1--we ana glow
With light, and love. holiness,
And vet men never feel o! know
How much a God can love and bless
How deep their debt OF thanSfuiness
Pve seen the sun go down and iirh,
Like hoods Of gold poured on the sky
When ever tree and flower was bright,
And every pulse was beating high
And the foil soul was gushing love,
And longing for lie houIe above
And then when men would soar, II ever
To the high homes OF thought and soul
When LIES degrading ties should sever,
And the free spirit sparn con,rol-
Then have seen, ON. how my cheek
Is burning with the shame feel,
That truth is In the words speak,
I've seen nv fellow-creaturcs steal
Away 10 their unhaowed mirth;
As If the reyeries of earth
Were all tina, they could feel or share,
And glorious heavens were scarcely worth
EtH pdssHh- ipst'S VI sASh Su'~'
I've said was worshipner
AT woman's strine-yet even there
And when / deemed Just had caught
The radiance Of that holy light
Which makes earth beautiful and bright
When cyes Of fire their flashes sent,
And rosy lips look'd eloquent
Oh, | have turn'd and wcpt TO find
Beneath il al air!fiin. mind.
was in one OF those high hills,
Where genius breathes IN scnlptured stone,
Where shaded light in sofiness falls
On pencild beauty. They were gone
Whose hearts Of fire and hands Of skill
Had wrought such power-but they spoke
To me in every feature still,
And fresh lips breathd and dark eyes woke,
And crimson cheeks flushed glow ingly
To life and motion. had knelt
And wepi with Mary at the tree
Where Jesus sutfered-f had felt
The warm blood rushing 10 my brow
At the stern buffet Of the Jew
Had seen the blood OF glory bow,
And bleed for sins he never knew,
And had wept. / thought that all
Must feel like me-and when there came,
A stranger, bright and beautiful,
With step OF grace and eye OF fiame,
And tone and look most sweetly bent
TO make her presence eloquent.
Oh, then look'd for tears. We stood
Before the scene Of Calvary.
saw the piercing spear-!he blood
The gall the wrath of agony
saw his gGiverDg lips IN prayer,
ssFather forgive them"-al was there.
turned, in bitterness OF soul,
And spoke OF Jesus. had though;
Her feelings would refuse control
For woman's heart, | knew. was franght
With gushing sympathies. She gaz'd
moment on II caIeiessly,
And cojy ourld her lip, aud praised
The high priests garment! Gould II DC
That look was meant, Dear Lord, for thee
Oh, what is woman-what her smile
Her lip Of lov--her eyes Of light
What Is she, ii her lips rcsc
The Lowry Jesus: Love may write
His name upon lie. marble brow,
And linger In her curS Of Jet
The light spring flower may scarcely bow
Beneath her step, and ye;-ard yet
Without that mecker grace she III be
lighter thing than vanity.