Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-05-26
POETRY.

Br woRDswo RTH.


Amoso the dwelers in tho silent fields
The natural heart is touched, and public way
And crowded street resound with ballad strains,
Inspired by ONE whose very bespeaks
Favor divine, exang human love
Whom, since her birth, bleak Northumbria's coast
Known unto few, but priced as far as known,
single act endears TO high and low
Through the whole and-to Manhood, moved in spite
OF the worlds freezing cares--to generous Youth
To infancy that lisps her praise-and Age,
Whose eye reflects il, glistonng through tear
OF tremuous admiration. Such true fnme
Awaits her noD but, verify, good deeds
Do no imperishable record find
Save in the rolls Of heaven, whero hers may live
a theme for angels, when hOy celebrate
The high-souled virtues which forgctul earth
Has Witnessed Oh that winds and could speak,
or things which their united power called forth
From the pure depths of her humanity!
a maiden gentle, yet, at duty's call,
Firm and unainching as the lighthouse reared
On the isand-rock, her lonely dwelling pluce
Or like the invincible rock itself, that braves,
Age after nge, the hostile elements,
As when it guarded holy Cuthbsr's cell,
An night the stern had ragged, ceased nor paused
When as day broke, the maid, through misty air
Espies far off wreck, amid the surf,
Beating on one of those disastrous isles
Haul vessel-half-no more the rest
Had vanished, swallowed up with all that there
Had for the common safety striven in vain,
VI thlther thronged for refuge With quick glance
Daughter and sire through optic glass discern,
Clinginy about the remnant of this ship
Sreatures-how precious in the maiden's sight!
For whom, belize, the old man grieyes still more
Ihan for their fellow sufferers ongufod
Where every parting agony is hushed,
" But courage, father! let us out to sea-
few may yet be saved" The daughters words.
Her earnest tone, and look beaming with faith
Dlspel the fathers doubts nor do they lack
The undetermined mothers helping hand
To launch the boat ana with her blessing cheered
And inwardly sustained by silent prayer,
Together they put fort h, father and child!
Each gfasps an oar, and struggling, on they 20,
Rivals in effort and alike intent
Here to elude and there surmouu they witch
The pillows frightening, mutually crossed
And shattered, and re-gatheTng their might
As it the wrath and trouble of the sea
We're by the ALMIGHTY's suferance prolonged
That woman's fortitude-so tried so proved
May brighten more and more
True to the mark
Ihey stem the current of that perous gorge,
her arms still strengthening with the strengthening hoart
Enough danger, as the wreck is near'd, becomes
More imminent Not unseen do they Approach;
And rapture, with varieties of fear
necessarily conflicting, thrills the frames
OF those who, in that dauntless energy,
Foretaste delivernnce but the least perturbed
nan scarcely trust his eyes, when he perceives
lhat OF the pair-tossed on the waves to bring
Hope to the hopeless to the dying life
one IS woman, poor earthly sister,
Or, be the vsitant other than she seems
a guardian spirit sent from plying heaven,
IN IN womans shape, But why proong the talo
Tasting weak words amid host of thoughts
Armed to rep9l them? Every hazard faced
And difficulty mastered with resolve
Ihat no one breathing should be left to perish
This last remainder of the crew are all
flaced III the little boat, then DER the deem
Are safely horne, landed upon the beach,
And, IN fulhlment of COPS mercy, lodged
within the sheering lighthouse. Shout, We waves!
ripe glad song of triumph, ye fierce winds
ae screaming seamews, in the concer, join
ana would that some immortal voice, a voice
Filly nttuncd to all that gratitude
" the survivors, TO the clouds might bear
offended with praise of that parental love-
beneath whose watchtul eye the maiden grew
rlous and pure, modest, and yet so brave
iinough young 80 wise, though meek so resolutel--
Might carry to the clouds and TO the stars
fes, to celestial choirs, Grace Dlrllng's name!