The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-11-05
THE MUSES. BOWER.
FOR THE CADIz SENTINEL.
SUMMER RHAPSODIES
THE BARDs OF GREECE.
" THE LEYDoN BARD.

Immortal Bards renowned of by-gone days,
The worlds loved wonder and its wonted praise!
Sculptors by natures noble breath design'd
To mould the heart and beautiy the mind
Handmaids of Genius, and her faV'rtes too,
Creations Ministries to their calling true!
Who that draws nigh your humblest flights to name
But that he treads forbidden paths of fame!
Resplend ent oNEsi who first with cultured eye
Surveyed the fowery paths of Poesy!
Who with the Orphean Tyre attuned and strung,'
Taught the young muse to lisp in numbered tongue
And from Parnassus through the worlds wide throng
Sent forth lasting strain Of living song!
Who sought the fountain to its cool retreat
And every grove inspired with music sweet!
Who thrilled with Inspirations inward light,
Through fancys realms presumed their daring flight
Cued from their boudors, wreathed in fairest bloom
Their pristine odours and their first perfume!
Woke slumbering reason from its slohnl dream,
And sweiled its fountain to far-famed stream!
Who burst the letters which till then confn'd
! In dismal gloom the hopes of all mankind!
Stomed the minds prison, bade its gaoer fee,
And bade their grateful race henceforth be free!
II And mid the glories of their rise unfured
A lasting standard oer a newborn world!
Time-honored FOUNDERS! ye who first made known
The hidden truths of wisdoms cornerstone!
Revealed to all the world, through skilful art,
A happy sceptre for the human heart!
Which DER the senses spread its deep control
And captive took the portals of the soul
Threw off the beam that nobleness oppressed
And lined the forecast r,o Ssons Of tho hraastI
Reared new beacon in improvements arch,
N Plannd the first footsteps in refnement's march,
Seized the loud tocsin, toll'd sounding chime
} Whose echo follows still the flight of time!
YE! who alone in bold defiance stood
To brave the pillows of distinctions flood
d Look DER the path long ages since hath run,
Behold the works your ghty deeds have done!
Fair sunny GREECE! from whose Pieran springs
Have flown the splendor of all noble things!
From whence the first conceptions of the mind
Have all descended, polished and refined!
e Where fruitfulscience in her native sphere
u Began the journey other bright career!
- Where tho't and wisdom flowed mountain stream
And men noble in their martial dreams!
:, Where first around the splendors of throne
The twinklng star of freedom dimly shone
. Thou! who canst boast with undisputed pride
OF far eclipsing all the world beside!
In monuments of valor--t triumphs-fame--
d strewn o'cr thy soil and lavished on thy name!
Yes, thou art great DER all the world below,
But great because-thy Bards have made thee so!
;. lllustrious SHADES! companions of the past,
Broad is the shadow which your labors cast!
= Bright is the halo that in brilliance gows
Unceasing o er the land OF your repose
Fair yet the wreaths, formed from the aurels bough
i Which once adorned your aged poetic brows!
+ Sweet yet the strains ye've sung in oden time,
The proudest relict of your favoured cme
Peace to your mausoeums-gratelu peace,
Live on in triumnh honnred RARns OLE GnEEcEI