New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-09
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
From the Union Magazine for July
THF NEEDLE. PEN. AND SWORD.

By NKS. sicoUkNEf.
WHAT hast thou seen with thy shining eye
Thou Needle, 50 subtle and keen
L. have been ia Paradise stainless and fair,
And fitted the apron OF fg-lesves there,
To the form OF It's fallen Queen.
The nantes and wimples the hoods and wells,
That the bellies Of judah wore
When their naughty mien and their glance Of tre
Enkindied the eloquent prophets ire,
l helped TO fashion OF yofe.
The beaded belt Of the Indian maid
have decked with as true zeal
As the gorgeous run 81 the knight Of Old,
Or the monsrchs mantle OF purple and gold
Or the sstrsps broidered heel
I have lent ~ Beauty new power 70 relen
AZ bridal aud cOOrtly hsll
Or, welded " Fashion, have helped To BIND
Those gossamer links that the strongest mind
Have sometimes held IN thrsiL
| have drawn drop, so round and red
From the finger, small and white,
OF the startled child. As she stroye with care
Her doll b. deck with some gewgaw rare,
But wept at my punetore bright
have gazed on the mothers patient brow,
As my utmost speed she pied,
To shield from Winter her children dear
And the knell OF midnight smote her ear
While they slombered at her side.
/ have heard, m the nut VI tht pihtHS PVDAf
The shiyerng inmates sigh,
When faded the warmth Of her last FAINT brand
As slow. from her cold aud clammy hand.
She let me drop-to d'e -
What dost thou know, thou gray Goose Quill
And metbought, with spasm Of PRIDE,
1t sprang from the nkstaDd, and Auttered Ia vain
It's nib 10 free from the ebon stain,
As il feryently replied
Uhot d0 I kn0v LIE the lover tell
When into bis secret scroll
He ponreth the breath Of a magic Tyre
And traceth those mystical lines OF hfe
That move the maidens soul
Uzot do Ikno,o The wife can say
As the leaden seasons move,
And over the oceans widest sway
A blessed missye doth wend It's way,
Inspired by husbands love.
10 ve doubt nv power l--Of the statesman ask,
Who bullets Ambitions blast:
OF the convict, who shrinks in his cell OF care:
A flourish of mine hath sent him there,
And locked his letters fast
And n flourish Of mine can his prison ope-
From the gslowsi its victim save
Break of the treaty that kings have bound,
Make the oath of a nation an empty SOUND,
And 10 liberty lead the slave.
Saw. what were History, so wise and old
Or how could Music its sweetness store
Or Fancy and Fiction their treasures pour
Or what were POesy's heaven. taught lore,
Should the pen It's aid deny
Oh. doubt. If ye will, that the rose is fair,
That the planets pursue their way
(o question the fires of the noODtlde sun,
Or the countless streams that 20 ocean run
But ask no more what the Pen hath done
And it scorniully turned away.
What are thy deeds--thou fearful thing
By the lOrdly warriors sidei
And the Sword answ ered-stern and slow
.. The hearth stone lone, and the orphan, know,
And the pale and widowed bride
The shrek and the shroud Of the battle cloud,
And the field that doth rock below
The wolf that laps where the cash is red,
And tho vulture that tears ere the life hath He'd,
And the proving robber that strips the dead,
And the foul hyena know
The rusted plow, and the seed unsown,
>. And the grass that doth rankly grow
Der the rottng limb and the blood pool dark.
GauntF Famine that quenches life staggering spark
And the black-winged Pestilence, know.
Death. with the rush Of his harry brood,
Sad Earth, in her peng and throe.
Demons that riot in slaughter and crime,
And the thgoDg of the souls sent before their time
To the bar Of the Judgment know
Then the terrible Sword to its sheath returned,
While the Needle sped ON in peace;
But the Pen traced out from Book sublime,
The promise aud pledge OF that better time
When the warfare OF Earth shall cease