The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-06-11
From the Columbia Spy.
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ny S. MOORE smurE, PHILADELPHIA.

Y S. VI oOR sHt r l., rHlLADLLrHiA.
Death great proprietor of all It's thine
10 tread out empire and to quench the stars,
The sun himself by thy permission shines,
And, one day, thou shalt pluck him from his
sphere louNG.
1t is truth, as evident to the minds of
all intelligent beings, as tina, one thinks
and exists, that at some period in the I'M
mutable and eternal administration of the
Deity's whitman must die. And it is
equally evident, that I'LL must experience
the same fate. At the period in which
the great, uncreatcd spirit of the Almighty
breathed the vivifying flame through the
damp bed of Chaos, this was as equally
manifest in the statute book of His will,
as now: and one generation may rise,
flourish, and return TO its former self
and another, and another, and man still
'bide the mandate of the grim-visaged
monarch. lis not IN human impotence
to flee his power! The hand, that on
the gorgeous fame of Babylon's impious
King did'st "Tekcl' write-permits not
a single moment to speed its flight, with
out Witnessing his goary lance, bathed in
the life blood of earth's wretched sons.
And thus the bright, and beautiful of
earth, the proudest, and the humblest of
her numerous population, feel alike the
imperial power of Death.
And yet, notwithstanding the certainty
of such fate to each and every created
mortal, man generally, needs not this fix
ed fiat, but with blindness, IA principle
yet to be accounted for) rushes on through
life, and awakcns to the reality of the
frightlul abyss he is leaping into, only in
the very act
1t is a strange absurdity! In the very
moment in which we have lisped par
ent's name, eminatcs the truth of this
dread reality. Not day, from our in
fancy to the tomb, but that brings It's les
son of human frailty: and the means OF
the bcreavcd friends and relatives, tell still
more forcibly the fate of universal man.
Yet it produces no lasting effect. We
still dream of pleasures eternal, paint
upon our glowing imagination the bright
prospects of future bliss: build our tow.
erng projects on an airy basis: and be-
fore we have sufficiently shaken off al
this drowsy, visionary sloth, sink into
the opening tomb, and are iorgottcn.-
That man must die, that
"Mmtaha tacto pe'iJunt"
is a truth which has been demonstrated
Throughout every hour, of nearly 81,
thousand years. He spreads his sable
wings not only over one portion of tn,
globe, at one period, but over all, durin!
all periods he hurls his mighty shafts no
only upon the heads of distant strangers
but strikes off from being, those bound Il
us by the dearest ties of nature; h
brcathes his ioetldc breath, not only owe
the moss crowned roof of the humble cot
but reveIs DER the ruins of the lofty dome
Nothing can be shielded from his night
'"Thc cloud apt towers, the gcogcous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which 1t inherit, shall Dissolve;
And, like the baselcss fabric OF a vision,
Leave not wreck behind"
Draw aside the vale that has so lon
hung over the Past Recall the shade
of departed centuries Bid them unro
the dusty records of things long sine
forgotten ! Loose the imagination lroi
) her moorngs, and bid her course, b,
: through portion Of our earth And tie
me of that which hath not or which cal
, not ever feel his corroding touch! Whcl
I arc the mighty nations who ilourished
. the Past! Where their great chiefs
-lLclhe's waves rest DER their iorgoltC