Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-12-07
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BY RUFUS DAWES.

The fountains of the grca, deep were broken up"
lHERE was Grange in Nature; Winter came
With an unwontcd coldness-Spring returned
But not with her returned the voice of birds,
Nor the bland air, nor the green, dropping herb,
The rose nor violet, nor the genial glow,
That crimsons DER the bounding veins of youth.
But rather strange vIcissltudes appeared
OF heat and cold unusual-till the plague
Spotted the CHASTITY cheek of frighted man.
Men thought, but cared not speak-at length there
came
Through Leo, blazing, the high-fevered sun,
Drying the clserns where the rain distilled,
I'LL the poor fearless heritage dropped and died.
Then came the fear of misunderstanding thoughts
Strange prophecies of voices in the air,
And smohcred shriekS, though of drowning
men
When, 10 i; comet, cleaning from the north,
Lighted the glazing stare of maniac eyes.
Day dawneu, and nj ght succeeded-it was there,
Like to the flaming sword, DER Eden erst
Extended, lest the impure.shquld venture Heaven
Day dawned, and night sucteeded-stiIl it came,
Flercel and redder, till its fiery hair
Yelled half the face of heaven; and not obscured,
Though the pale moon gave her reluctant wealth.
And the stars showered their prod al gifts Of light
TO calm men apprehensions. Sail it came;
TN even the sky of morning DOTTED its TENTS,
And slckened at the harbinger of wo.
Stlll on 1t came-on, to its perIheon.
OH Hope, where now has fled thy spreading smile?
Where are the iron nerves, the mailed hearts,
The eye that never quailed, the blanchless cheek?
Man then encountered man, and muttering, pass d.
Girls, with disordered locks, ran to and fro,
Wrmglng their bloodess hands, while mothers left
Their furnished babes and children left their parents
Who rent their garments, and, bl .spheming loud,
Tore the dry hair from off th5ir ievered brows.
Some ran about for graves; and drowned them
selves.
Strange fear! that hurres man to drug with death
The Horror that must awake immortality!
1t came-the waters rose-and still it came,
And still the waters rose; till DER the wales
One angry waste appeared; the mountain tops
Were covered with live creatures, faint with fears,
And now with louder, more continued sound,
Than the storm thunder, the huge crust of earth
Cracked and heaYed upward-from her sulphurous
caves
The subterrancan waters, believing forth,
Rose like another world; and wheImed the old
Gods counter fiat spake-one awful shrek,
From all the millions of Earth's sinful mould
Went up to Heaven, and with it went the
And every living thing. Earth trembed then;
Out rushed her central fires and, suddenly
Qucnched by the world of waters, sent on high
Unathomabe clouds-primeval rocks
Were split asunder-and the marble beds
Drunk in the mingled lava beasts and birds,
ForeSls ana towers ana palaces, toGether
Rushed to promscuous Iuln; the great deep
Threw UP his giants on the flinty rocks,
And mixed their skeletons with all the tribes
That crawlcd upon his sands the icy North
Oped his tanged jaws to grasp the tropc beast,
And prisoned it for ever.
Where was now
Thy beauty, Nature? where thy hills and Wales,
Thy sunny upands, sprnked Ger with iocks?
Where the soft ripping brooks, the me ldowfowers,
The voice, the smile of woman the loud laugh
That rang above the banquet!-all were gone
Buried in water-hopelessly destroyed!
For DER them hung the stled canopy.
Where Death sat throncd, crammed with the rot
ting dead,
Yet longing for more food-whlc at his side,
SIN langushed that her votares more!