The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-22
DAILY CRESCENT.

LINES AT PARTING....BY n L. FARRIs.
There is stiffness in the eventime;
A solemn sadness in each shadowy dell;
But night Egyptian circles every cline
In which fond hearts do part which o'ed ~ ohs W
Alasl It's even so with me II part
From those knit 10 me by enduring cords;
Not ties con nguine-but where heart meets heart,
Commiu Cling sweet with bliss earth affords.
And have tried to dream away the past
Blu, can not, for know not how 10 be,
Save on the ebbless pillows OF the vast ,
Unmessured waste Of Loves alboundng, boundlesssea
But must back to EARTH and mix with those.
Whose whole ambition lies in little things
Flooding along until ifes itful close
With Just enough of JOY to point Pains sharpest sting
Well, be it SOL always of those,
In my poor way, resembling Esop's oak
Which when the stemess tide OF storms arose,
Bent not with plant reeds but snapped at the first stroke
Vet I still stand-though Eurus' pcis' nous breath
Hath touched the cool oasis of the mind;
And hopes which seemed to hold truce with death,
Lie blasted by the touch of Envys ueach rous wind
Let it be strong-look upward and around
There is night without gladstone star
And when Dark's gloomies hour lies most profound
Dizziness herself insructs that Morn cannot be far
NAPoLEoN's PRoPHECY-Now IN COURSE OF
FuLFILMENT-"Before fifty years. SAID Napoleon
TO Las Casas one day at ST. Helena, Europe will
be Republican or Cossack. ~,
throne amidst the acclamations OF the people II
he !. no more France will become republic again
for no hand would dare to grasp sceptre which 1t
could not WELD. :, .
"The branch of Orleans, though agreeable, is
too ,pauk it clings too much to the other Bour-
hons and il will have the same fate if it does not
prefer living as simple citizens, whatever changes
arrive.
"Once again France will be republic, and the
other countries will follow its example: Germans,
Prussans, Poles, Italians, Danes, Swedes and Rus
sans will Join her in a crusade in favor OF liberty:
They will arm against their sovereigns, who Will
hasten to make them concessions, in order to retain
a mart of their ancient authority they will call
themselves constitutional kings possessing limited
powers Thus the feudal system will receive Its
death blow like the mist, it will vanish be-
fore the first ray Of the sun of liberty.
"But things will not rest there the wheel OF
Revolution will not stop at that point; its lmpeu-
osy will increase fvefold, and its rapidity in pro-
portion. When people RECEIVERS part of its rights,
IL becomes enthusiastic from victory; and, having
tasted the sweets of liberty, becomes more enter
prising in order TO obtain more. The States OF
Europe will be, perhaps, for some years, IN con-
tinual state of agitation, like the ground the moment
before an earthquake; but at last the lava breaks
forth, and the explosion ends all.
ssThe bankruptcy of England will be the lava
which will shake the world, deUour kingS and ars-
tocracies but cement by its outbreak the interests
of democracy. Believe me, Las Casas, as the vines
plauted in the ashes which cover the feet of Etna
and Vesuvus, produce the most delicious wines, so
the tree of liberty will become imm0vable when 1t
has its roots in the revolutionary lava which will
overflow all the nondrchies. May it flourish for
ages! These sentiments may, perhaps, appear
strange to you in a month they are mine, how
ever.
al was born a republican but destiny and the
opposition of Europe made me Emperor. ! now
await the future