The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-12-18


Have the snowy surfs not struggled
Many centuries in vain
That their lips might seal the union 7
Lock then Main to Main.
When the mighty God of nature
Made his favored continent,
He allowed ii yet answered,
That be sent,
Able, mindful of his purpose,
Prone to people, to snbdue
And TO bind the lands with iron,
Or to force them through
What the prophe t-navigator,
Seeking sir ATS to his Catais,*
But began, now consumma ate it
Make the strait and pass
Blessed eyes, that shall behold il,
When the pointing boom shall veer,
Leading through the parted Andes,
While the nations cheer!
There at Suez, Enrope's mattock
Cuts the briny road with skill,f
And must Darien bid defiance
To the pilot still!
Do we breathe this breath OF knowledge
Purely TO enjoy its zest :!
Shall the iron arm OF science
Like sluggard rest
Up then at il! earnest People.
Bravely wrought thy scornlng blade.
But there's resher fame in store yet,
Glory for the spade.
Must the globe be always girded
Ere get to Bramah's priest
Take the tissues OF your Lowells
Westward to the East.
Ye, that vanquish pain and distance,
Ye, enmeshing Time with wire,
Court We patiently for ever
Yon antartic ire
Shall the mariner for ever
Double the impeding capes
While his Lonesome and retracing
Needless course he shapes!
What was daring for our fathers,
To defy those pillows fierce,
Is but tame for their descendants
We are bid to pierce.
We that fight with printing armies,
Settle sons on forlorn track
As the Romans flung their eagles,
But to win them back;
Who, undoubting, worship boldness,
And, il bafIied, holder Use,
Should zoe lag when Grandeur beckons
To this good emprise
Let the vastness not appal us;
Greatness is thy destiny.
Let the doubters not recall us;
Venture suits the free.
Like seer see her throning
Winandt in protecting health,
Wardng peace both the waters,
Widest Commonwealth
Crowned with wreaihs that still grow greencr,
Guerdon for untiring pain,
For the wise, the stout and steadfas:
Rend the land in twain
Ceave America asunder,
This is worthy work for thee.
Hark! The seas roll up imploring-
. Make the ocean free."
*Catais and Zipanao the given to the eastern
part of ASIA toward which the greatest of navgators di
eced his westerly voyage Marco Polo had reached
,y eastward journey. Columbus having found that
continent debared him from continuing his WESTWARD
course, persevered in searching for straits which would
ow him passage to his wished-for Catais.
tEngsh French and Austrian engineers have actualy
out to commence the shpcannl through the Ishmus
Suez.
May not for once bestow upon nameless country
his good and plain Saxon name, which given by
first and Teutonc discoveries long before Columbus and
Yespucc The poet and all who desire speak with fer
and rich brevy stand in need Of more compre
iensve and concise than thar which conveys the idea Of
political relation. Above ALL they stand in need of
lae for the country and only Of official desgna-
ion, however honorable historical-a name around
which cluster associations of the heart well of po
al and International transactions. When the heroic Nell
# patchwork, his signals did proclaim " The United
lingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or, His Majesty
Aing George the Third expects every do his duty
the flag ship sgnalled England this day expects
very do his duty" and ia that brief dssylable
England centred everything that could stir men and
well the breasts OF oflcers-hono wives, sweethearts
arament, newspapers, fields farms fox hunting, peer
&c, prize fights habeas corpus brown stout pudding,
christmas merrmen and Ill. Columbia, which had be-
ONE In sort the poetic name for the United States
OF sufficiently specific; and Aleghana, which has been
aor, character of newness without freshness like we-
yashed wall shining hat Ii sounds made, and as il
1ade, too, for school geography yet why should we
Ike even book-name from that small and very partial
III OF hllocks We have gone far beyond. The ma me
Wnland, the contrary, is old, domatc, simple and
equres only be resumed would adapt itself all the
eeded grammatical formations Tor, the late Mr. Dupo-
eau would finely have sad is maeabe y it is brief and
GEMS every way sound