New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-13

aAccuon = dear Re- ard.
Oh welcome to Thy fathers sight
Whose heart ocriows win new delight.
And icndcrest regard
W bile on thine eyes
Soft slumher lies
And. bending DER ;by face feel thy breath arise
Upon Thy mothers cheek
Are trembling tears oi joy:
W. have 10 thought Of worldly pain
Past hours Of bliss are felt again,
mingled with alloy;
MAY Heaven hear
The prayer sincere
Which, for thy earthly wcal, father offers here
May deaths relentless hand
some Aind protection spare,
To guide thy steps through chilshoods day
To turn thee Ia religions way,
By teaching early prayer
In every hour
Check evils power. flower
And in thy guileess heart, plant virtues iadeless
Youth hath a thousand dreams,
A. false a. they are fair;
And womanhoods sad season brings
The stern reality Of things
Too of the blight Of care
For man deccives.
And woman grevcs is leaves
When passion plucks JOYS flower and scaiiers al
May no such lot be thine
Ny loved aud only child
Nor sins rcmorse. nor sorrow ruth
But welded love and holy truth
Preserve thee indebted
And when life sun
Irs cour-e hath run. done
Be thy departing words" My God thy will be
a Fathers lament" is also beautifully expires
and joys,
is Fancy behold the home OF love.
Baihed in the sunlight OF azure June
Where the rich mountains LIT their forms above
The crystal calmncss Of the bright lagoon
Where tmd ieace, ike some domestic dove,
Broods in the lap OF Joy, and every boon
That harmOnzing Liberty can give,
Clnss round spot on which Us heaven 70 I'VE
/ see no splendid tyrant on throne,
ExtOTfing homage with baubc rod;
No senate needless of peoples moan
Cursing the produce o. the fertile sod
No sensual priest, with pampered pride oerblown,
Shielding oppression in The name Of God
No pensioned concubine-no pauper peer
TO scorn the widows the orphans tear
see no bondmsn at his brothers feet
The weak one fearing what the strong one saith;
No biased wealth upon the judgment scat;
Urging its victims to disgrace or death;
No vena piesdcTs, privileged To cheat
With ruth and f.sehood in the sefsame breath
No dungeon elooms-nO prisons for the poor
No partial laws 10 render power secure.
see no human prodigy of war.
Borne the wings of slaughter unto fame
The special favOrite of some evil star.
Sent forth 10 gather curses on his name -
Like him whose grave is DER the ocean far.
At once his couniry's idol and her shame,
The bloody vuture Of Imperial Gaul
Whose loiiiest flight sustain fatal fall.
see no honest toll unpaid. unfed--
No idlor reveling in lust ard wine;
No sweat and blood unproitably she'd
To answer every rash and dark design;
No violation OF the marriage bed
The worst transgression OF law divine
No tempting dew. IN the shape Of gold, sold.
For which mems hearts and minds are bought and
instead OF these. see graceful HILL eapins
On whose green sides unnumbered iocks are
see the sparkling sheen Of Hood and ril. ling
Through cultured wales their tuncful mazes keep
And human hahiiaiions 100 that fiji
pleasant space from leafy cOverts peeping
And bhihesomo swans upon their hOmeward way
Singing the burden Of some moral lay.
Beneath lovely and unbounded sky
Which wears is evening livery the while.
What scenes OF beauty capiivaie the eye
WhstspOts of biOom-vhat nelds of promise smile
And where yon calm and peopled dwellings lie,
There brcahes no slave, there beats no heart OF
But all Is freedom happiness, and quiet guile
Far from the world, it restlessness and riot
To heathful moderate, and mutual toll,
ion sons of Industry go forth al morn
Take from induigcni earth lawful spoil
Of juicy fruagc. and nutritious corn
Draw rich supplies from Plenty's flowing horn
There is no bondage, no privaiion there.
To hcave the breast, and dim the eye with care
There Woman moves with beauty moulded form,
First inspiration Of the Poets song
Her heart with iondesi, parest feeling warm,-
soul in her eyes and music on her tongue
Esteemed and taught she hives above the storm
OF social dscord. poverty. and wrong
Graceful and good intelligent and kind,
The loveiest temple OF The mighty mind
Her offspring too unfrtered as the fawn.
With elm eyes and cheeks that mock the rose,
Chase the wild bees DER many howery lawn
Or gather pebbles where the brookle flows
little world OF purity i drawn
Around their steps moral grandeur CLOVIS,
Serene in majesty. before their eyes,
Moulding ihlr thoughts and feelings as they rise.
Oh best Community calm spot Of earth
Where Love encrclcs all in his embrace
Where generous deeds and sentiments have birth.
Warming each heart and Frightening every face
Where pure Philosophy and temperate Mirth,
The lore of science and the witchine grace
OF neverdyng Poesy combine
To feed the hungry sou with food divine
NY light is finished, and my ft'u muse
Desccuds 10 cold reality again
Yet she hath dipped her garments in the hucs
OF hope and love. and she shall aid my pen,
With firm though feeble labor TO difiusc
The lore of truth among the sons of men.
And when her powers shall remble and decay,
May ottiei harps sustain the hallowed lay
thousand systems have been formed and wrought
Where man hath looked for good but looked IN
Ah0usand doctrines writ dlfiuspd and taught. vain
Adding links 10 Errors tangled chain
But oh the Apostles Of unieiered thought
Unwearied foes 10 falsehOod and her train
shall hii the veil Of mystery al last.
Aud future times atone for all the past