New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-06-22

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TaFRr i.a puif Of waters, daik and deep,
To which Earth, other waiers-whether bound
In the sti bosom Of the rock-ubbed hills
Or sent with .oam and thunder 70 the ses-
Bear small resemblance. Silent and alone
II laveS the feet OF mountain, tlai are bleak
And bald with des0lsiiOn. Not 4 tree
Lifts from Their sides IL tall top 70 the Sun:
Not a green ierb sucks ffol. tie brack.sh SOL
Its Sckly ngtlmeni, or siOop. 10 ki',
Tie briny Wage, or to return H. shade.
The drearine,s and curse OF endless drought
Encrcie 1t, and residential tunes
Sweat from iae burning sands, and SAT- ne gloon'
There plays ~iths that sullen, ledden D0od'
No fish, Whose cleaning sides Of white ani gold
Flash, a. he seeks hi, nook beneath TIE shore
No bird OF cheerful carol wakes b. note
Above to bosom; or, with shining wing,
Kppes It, surface in his Joyous fight.
The grateful breeze OF even doth not STIR
It's still cois cheek Of mOtsu denth, or curl
A single b.llow into smiles And when
Fen the loud tempest comes wi.h darkness down,
And yOLey Ing thunder, from tbs gorges dark
OF girding mouDta.ns-when the ieaFi1l Voise
OF the storn-Splrit hOwls amid the crash
or elemental war, those waters dark
suD sleep an iron slumber, deeper made
BY tina, whch racks above them nor despatch
wratbful wave 10 lash the irghted shore.
There holds the Genus OF Solitude
His voiceless- throne; aud scarce wandering foot
OF man or brute disturb, his realms; save when
The lone and musing traveller comes to ut
And ponder DER that silent surgeless sea,
And tune hi, harp to sadness while he sings.
IT j. no, that in after LONELINESS
Those waters hc, that not transient bird
Break. the dead silence OF rs solemn shores;
II is not that the tenants Of the flood
No home can ind within those briny dceps;
Nor yet that parched desolalon rcigns
Supreme DER all-'tIs not for these alone
That such a spell enthras the gazer there.
no that Sea, 90 dark and biliOwless,
Il eloquent, though voiccles,; and from out
It's pchy deptIs--to desolafioD sealed
Cometh tale Of horror. And the heart
Shrinks when It reads the awful characters
A God OF vengeance hath recorded there.
Ages on ages hath that silent wave
Stood the memoi sl of Almighty wrath,
And ayes still TO come shall learn from thence
How Sodom Admsh, and Zebone fell
Will lost GomorrIa, IN a sea OF FIRE.
# WAS the last day Of Sodom; but the crowd
That slept within rs portals knew il not
Scarce hadth prayer OF righteous Abraham
Died on the Angels ear; and sill within
That fa,ed ciiy's walls the messengers
OF it, impending doom were lingering.
Nainly baI gone the fearful summons forth.
" Up. get you out, for Sodom falls to day"
II seemed the mockery OF an idle dream,
And none repented; and as now the sun
Tipped the tar mountains with his coming beam,
How looked tina, guilty city, sunk in sin,
And ciadled in pollution The repose
Plat settled there was that Of jewellers
S pcnt, sata,c and o'er~eary. There lhey lay,
Grouped or alonc each where bis deed of crime
Was latest done, or where, in vain retreat,
Failed, mid The dark 10 guide, ms cropping hand.
In streets, because OF early morn yet sill,
IntreQuent paced the Weakened citizen,
And as ne met ms neghbor, might tie heard
curse upon his last nights i'll success;
Or shameless boast of deeds men blush to name.
And see around The door OF righteous Lot
The crew that grope, bewildefed and bla.phsne.
Them, rio,ous at midnight in debauch
Angelic power had made astray and blind.
Each house breaibed rank corruption every heart
The darkcned center OF srocity;
And cen the dreams Of those who .iumber Still
Are rite with last aud slra,sgem and spoil
Ill fated city full Of damning crimes.
Thy measure OF enormity is brimmed;
And ere yon Sun hath climbed the nights Of noos-
Thou shalt be bioited from The things that be
OVER the vale of Sodom CATERING Clouds
Grow dense ana lowering. Summoned from aiar,
The huge, stern masses thiIher speed their way,
And knot and swell, and blacken. # the gloom
Not OF transient tempest; but il hangs
Like solid wrath and darkness in he sky,
And stoops as though with vengeance pregnant
A howl as loud a. mingled thundsrings
Breaks from ven mountain, and runs believing on
Adown the chain, And 10. az on il goes
How shake the rocks, and trembc the tall tops
OF trees, as though an earthquake piiowed Them
Anon another, yet more loud whSreat
The men OF Sodom silent stand, ana pale,
Aud ashen lips and cha>ily cheeks grow rife.
And the tear starts mid whispers OF alarm.
Heavens! nov that cloud of irowuing wrath Is rent
And To- descends a huge and jagged stream
OF molten ore that scalhes and dsLlles See
A yawnng f,sure opes To bury IL,
And out fash lurid flames
Ohouor.
The very hills have burst with helli>h din.
And iIom a thousand fountains upward leap
With stencil OF vapor. long imprisoned fires
That hiss and and spout the lava streams
That madden down the valley Chasms rive
u NJ everlasting To'h>s ana >ulphurnus Hhiit>
Sweat from the ooTy soil that rccks and boHs.
The very clouds out-pour the p!tcLy rain,
And torrent birthstone, kindling As It fails,
And pinclng fallen. into blazing streams
That meet and deepen, I'll 4 >nrcing sea
or quenchless fire ocrwhelms-eugorges ali.
The Sun was up when at the walls OF Zoa
Lot turned him toward the iatsd plain, and 10.
The smoke thereof a. OF a furnace vast,
Went black and foul TO heaven.
Look thou on
That dead and snlemn Sea ard liam ihe ra.i.