Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1845-04-19
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Lovlier than that which lifts its arch above
Down the far depths Of Ocean, ikea sheet
offlame is trcmbing!-tbe wild tcmpests ceas,
To wave their cloudy pInions!-Oh, It's sweet
7, To gaze on Ocean in his hour Of peace.
Wears have gone by, since first my infant eve
> Rested onthose waters Once again,
Ashore muse, the hours of childhood rise
Faint DER my memory, like some witchn
strain
IOfhalf forgotten music. Yon blue wave
Still, still rolls on in beauty-but the tide
IOf yearsrolls darkly DER the lonely grave
OF hopes that with my lfe's bright morning
died.
''Look! look!--the clouds ike shadows from
above,
Like fairy islands, DER the waters sweep
Oh have dream'd my spirit thus could love
To float forever on the boundless deep,
Communing with the elements;-to hear,
At midnight hour, the death winged tempest
rave,
Or gaze, admiring, on each starry sphere,
CLASSY its glories in the mirror wave;--
" To dream--deep mingling with the shades Of
eve
On Oceans spirits, caves and coral halls,
Where, cold and dark, the eternal pillows hoave,
No zephyr breathes, or struggling sunbeam
falls;
AS round some far isle of the burning zone,
Where tropic groves perfume the breath of
morn,
List TO the Ocean S melancholy tone,
Like lone mourner's on the night winds
borne;
I" To see the infant wave on yon blue verge,
Like young eagle, breast the sinking sun, .
And twilight dying on the crimson surge,
Till. down the deep dark zenith, one by one,
The lights of heaven were streaming or to
weep
The lost, the beautiful, that calmly rest
Beneath the eternal wave-then sink to sleep
Hush'd by the beating of the Oceans breast,
. Oh, it were joy to wander wild and free
Where southern pillows in the sunlight flash,
Or night sits brooding DER the northern sea,
And all is still, save the overwhelming dash
Of that dark world of waters there to view
The meteor hanging from its cloud on high,
Or see the northern fires, with blood re hue.
Shake their wild trcsscs DER the startled sl,v
. is sweet, It's sweet to gaze upon the deep, !
And muse upon its mysteries. --Thcre it roll'd, I
Ere yet that glorious sun had learned TO sweep
The blue profound, and battle the heavens in
gold;
he morning stars, as up the skies they came,
Heard their first music DER the Ocean rung.
And saw the first flash of their new born flame
Back from its depth in softer brightness funr !,
And there it rolls Age after age has swept
Down, down the eternal cataract of time,
den after men on earth's cold bosom slept,
Still there it rolls, unfading and sublime
IS bright those waves their sunny sparkes fling,
AS sweetly now the bending heaven they kiss,
IS when the Holy Spirits brooding wing
Moved DER the waters of the vast ABYSS
There, thereit rolls--Iye seen the clouds un
furl
Their raven banner from. the stormy vest :
We seen the wrathful Tempest-Sprt mrl h
His blueforked lightnngs at the Oceans
breast
he storm cloud pass 'd--the sinking wave was ;,
hush'd--
Those budding isles were glittering fresh and !,
fair
'renely bright the peaceful waters blush'd;
and heaven seemed painting its own beauties
there!
Ocean, farewell Upon thy mighty shore. a.
loved in childhood's fairy hours to dwell u.
It am wastng--lfe will soon be DER, Oh
And shall cease to gaze on thee--larewell -
lou still wilt glow as fair as now-the sky -
Still arch as proudly DER Interviewing steal g. g.
ong thy bosom with as soft dye H.,
All be as now--hut shall cease to feel. ~
e evening mists arc on their silent way, As
And thou art fading; faint their colors blend an
tn the last tinges of the dying day, 20
And deeper shadows up the skies ascend - wi
rewell farewell 1.-THE night is coming fart mC
n deeper tones thy wild notes seem to swell HI:
on the cold wings of the rising blast is ;
go-I go-dear Ocean, farc-thee ,wel" mi