Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1845-01-02
sTANZAS.

STANZAS.
To one who can understand them.
Written on the Loper Mississippi)
"Not in those climes, where hava late
been straying, =
Though beauty then hath long been match
less deemed,
Not in those visions to the heart displaying
Forms which it signs but only to nave
dreamed;
Hath anght like these in truth fancy
seemed"
Byron.
A night of loneliness and power,
The Heaven without cloud above,
And consecIated is the hour.
To dreams of memory and love.
The land wind breathes from beds Of flow
Soft as the kisses from thy mouth.
And noisclessly, the gliding hours,
Are counted in the sunny South.
II thou vert only by my side.
How doubly beautiful the scene,
With mighty waters sweeping wide,
The smooth and verdant banks between.
Some newer beauty glads the sight.
Sumo fairer glimpse each bend withholds
Till swiftly rounded mellower light,
A more enchanting chart unfnlds..
The Moon deeper radiance sheds,
While bright the living landscape glows
And broader still the river spreads,
And fnster yet, its current flows:
But swifter than its hurrying speed,
To meet and breast the parent sea,
It bears me Ike bounding steed.
NV own hearts treasure, unto thee.
God keep thee, dearest-unforgot
And more beloved, though far away;
The shadows Of thy lonely lot
Shall shortly dawn to brighter day.
The clouds which wrap my fate about,
And glooms my forward path with black
Will turn its '.lver lining" out,
Above thy unpurturbed track.
Would this most sweet and swift winged
air,
NV soft and sola companion here,
Could my impassioned musings bear,
In gentle murmcrs to thine ear,
To keep thy feelings fresh and green.
For why should trusting hearts dcspondl
The tedious hours that intervene,
hnf Cnnd.
"W have scotch'd the snake, not killed
it. "--Macbeth.
The leader OF the last Gazette consists oil
an extract from u "card" to which refer
ence has heretofore been made. We say
an extract because the uhole was promised :,
but as il even his own blunted sense had
in il something Of vegetable if not of ANNA
life. he shrinks from tho mirrored image .
scrvilitv and basencss which il gives bach
to his own face The work is Of itself ~
autobiography and the man who wonl'
anglise the integral components OF his mar
row intellect can find "under his owr
proper name and signature comprehen'
sive delneaton Of the Instincts of the Jack
all and the prowling propensities Of the
Hyena.
In the beautiful economy of nature every
creature has an adaptness of organization
| for the purposes both Of sustenance ant
defence. The teeth Of the tiger. the quils'
Of the hedge hog and the stencil OF tn
pole cat, are alike means Of protect ion
these are single endowments, but in the
person of .James CMrke reproductive powe
has multiplied and concentrated. Denic'
the qualities of attraction and the prompt
ings OF mind, he is Prodigally gifted witt
the features Of repnlsion and the appetite
NJ "A brute and to make Kim alone OF III
class there is superadded to him the s''n
Of the Scorpion. the unus Of the Rattle
snake and the intolerabe fetor OF tn
Skunk. W.
4 aa.sTbc autographs (of the members o
1.-The Convcntion) can be obtained bu
heads Of such wisdom and experience ar
antipodal to hair-like peeled inguns. =
Davenport Gazette.
All, that explains tive noticed tn
other evening that the scalp Of oar fr'em
! Jim was becoming denuded OF its bristlln
embellishments. but we did not at that mi
ment .hink Of the convention AMI thos
speeches. We are since informed tina, e
i.w. d,yS prev;ouc IN uuttinp his ma