New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-02

Hangs DER the valley like a broodng cloud,
Which from Nesuyius quenchless crater streams,
UniuTiing OcT green earth It's murky shrOud
Across heavens blue cOncavity CLEANS
OF lightning tell the Titan soul with which teens
And why these flashes OF deep passioni Why
Do his big pulses bound in tuTbid race,
And his clenched, sinewy palms entreat the sky
why should such lowering gloOmluess d"lace
That brow, calm Contemp.atons dwelling plsce
Why is that manly, patient spirit bowed,
Letting Despair and Agony erase
Upon that check OF bronze, before so proud
The pregnant burrows ictlizing Thought had pOwcd
lie weareth not the Moslein's hated dress -
He seeth not, in Memory's glass displayed
Through eaio's binding tears OF bitterness
The shaded fountain where his children played
Left lone and desOlate within this glade
No brother fell beneath the Christian sword
No plighod maiden, pelld and afraid,
Der whom, as from sn urn, his love was poured
is ravshed from his 10 serve some foreign lord
No stranger treads bis temples from his hand
No shyered, unayensing weapon fell;
Famine and Faction with the traitOrband
Surrendered not his leagured citadel
His Is the greater grief that hears the kne
OF dead Hope, slain by fate and circumstance
What have been. have been and with Memory dwell
II deeper hell, when isdeth as a trance
lmsgnStOns uneDJOycd inheritance.
A soung boy sits beside him, who in his
Has intertwined his hand Ills eager eye,
Unmindful OF those racking rcverics,
Mirrors the distant pageant meruly
Heavens coudless, clear tranquility doth lie
Upon his face where, scarcely IN theif Olfth,
Thoughts giimmor like the restless butterfly
And, like fountain sparkling from the earth
Burts bubblng from his breast the melody OF Mirth
Unthoughtful and uncomprehendingly
His vision tracked thai triumph Ger inc piain'
Restless and dazzed-when a sudden cry
Escaped his ips-he turned as If in psn
His fathers grasp with convulsive strain
Had iightened upon his. We'll might he shrink
Prom iis7, distorted glance Of hcreo disdsn
AZ, at the iouut where he was wont 10 drink brink
Some clustering redeyed snake had scared him from the
And his young gaze Of roundeyod Nanderment
Questioned his father with its muN appeal
Aud still he strove, with srtless Establishment,
10 win him from that mood Ills loving zeal
Hath half its purpose those pale lips unseal
Ills spirit from It's slumbor half awoke;
! Wild words his haunting fantasies reveal
| Unconscious of companionship, the yoke
| Fell from his soul in stern soliloquy he spoke
| " O human trust on what broken reed
DO thy fond victims vanly lean for rest
How dost thou warmed there like the viper breed.
sting into anguish mans deluded breast
How many sob of agony repressed,
And tear OF blood are shed upon thy shrine
! How many an imprccaiiOn uncxpresscd
Rings in the empty heart at thee and thine
While round barren path thy knocking neteors shine
My cherished, visionary hopes are led,
Like Mornings souess, unsubsantial mist
| Through years of weary poverty thsy led
Me on, till Youth in lingering farewell kissed
| My soawom cheek and Manhood did enlist
Me in his struggling lcgions now, alas
Zach crumblDg foothod ceaseth to exist
And giant forms Of human grandeur pass
Elusive as the shapes that crowd the wzsTds glass
| In vain my spirit did conccye-n vain
Did the dark biOws round the frozen pole
| Utter the salution, at whose strain
The sleeping embryo stirred within my soul
| And thrillinsly there darted through the whole
OF my rspt being deep feeling, trsusht
With the electric fame Promctheus stole
From the defrsuded Godhead. Esrth hath nausht
OF rapture like the ihrob that tells the birth OF Thought
And with a spirit grasp II bore ON.
Month after weary month OF dull delay,
While Doubt and Caution coldly looked upon
My grand, incomprehensible essay
II ted with fire my eyes undaZzled ray,
And Gained the ebb and dow OF LIES red tide
Mid rcyalty's ephemeral array,
And through AZ pcrils, like goddess bride,
stood, with sustaining presence ever by my side.
| 81 d though; to yindcae the spirits claims
To proud prominence IN courts of kings
hat the calm step which leads to peaceful aims.
Might trsmpe into dust all meancr things
/ That high above Tie path where venomed siinss
Ot creeping passions wound our tOiilng feet.
Geniue might soar on tirclcss eagle wings
Careless OF all the battling storms that beat
To some cioudeeSving pinnacle is regal seat
i met till now undsuntcdy and bold
! Tho supeiSlnoNs sneeY, me frozen giance,
My prophet vision rocked not Of the cold
| Unsympathizing human ooUntousnce.
| What we've the guerdOns OF the puny Lance.
Their acres, castles, counted al IN one.
Titles OF proud. heTalding uttersnce.
Tony broad realms White handed Thought hath won.
Beneath the midnight track OF the ulsleopins sun,
! Hath won ali, no in vain alas in vain
dras my shacklcd limbs aon, the shore.
Bound In Necessity's unyiedipg chain.
| Whose iron eatoth 10 my beings core
Vsuly did Thought on doye-iks wing explore
The western waste OF waters. and did brug
Its tribute. like the w6nderer of yore
Necr shall greet those fair shores welcoming,
Nor Ter these weary limbs their green borders fling
"'Tis not the elements that bar my claim
To that ses.bon inheritance. Unswsycd
BY pornp power, dear earth Is still the same
| For every flisl son her waves have made
| Themselves my the bright sun, srrsyed,
IS in barbaric mordchs QsnOply,
| With euerns golden spells, and gems nlad,
Doth in his wcsiering footsteps beckon me
| To follow 10 his throne beyond the barrier ses.
It's Man who fails me ,-ysiuly have sued
| To him 10 aid my mighty enterprise;
I've suak my natures sieTnncss 10 each mood,
| Zach tone 10 which his tickle heart replies
Glory and Gain before his greedy eyes
| We painted dazz.ngly have pierced the veil
| That guards The holer spirits mysteries,
Trusting through noAlsr impulse 10 prevail.
i Bu, Sloth and Envy stA forbid 10 hoist the sail
"Trsitors and unbelievns : they would reap
| Anoiher's harvcst-held but stil the Sea
| Doth well her unconnded secret keep
/ Or they would have the lions share Zen she
That paragon Of magnAiiimty-
\ Beneath waQse mstron scep;re emile sway
ID stretch hemisphere sSonseS
Urged by taeir cairf ansels rs away,
Nor grants those unbound realms 4 s,es to ooey
Now Hope Is dead UNDECIDED nd forget
My bones must on nameess scpuichfc;
! No lineage shall deck my burid-sp0t
| Or wear the crown Columbus doth confer.
Would might liz each spirit murderer
As IN M eagles talOns 20 the SKY,
Point him those lands than Eden loveher-
Then dash the tortoise minded wretch from high.
| And In his shvered amor let him euiysfne lie
lie sank upon the ground 1T was sn hour
OF sgony that seeketh not relief
Ills gOadCd spiut bent beneath the power
z Oh that ocrsweepins hurricane OF Gfief
But when the ruthless storm hath speut lis brief
Ungoverned interval OF frenzied rsgs
Allghtterinsly upon the AutGmnleal
Hangs the bright rsindrop--winds 70 longer wage
Their wariare-snd soit showers esrths woes sssusse