Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-04-12
THE VOICE OF TIE pFsTILENcE

THE VOICE OF THE PESTILENCE.
| This splendid poem was written in 1891, on III
approach of the Cholera from the East toward I'll
Western parts Of Europe, and is appropriate to il
renewed apparition and Westward progress,
mentioned in recent Journals. Tribune.l
Breathless the course Of the Pale White Horse,
Bearing the CHASTITY Form
Rapid and dark the spectre bark
When it sweeps before the storm! i.
Balefully bright through the torrid night
EnSangnlned meteorS glare
Fiercely the spires OF volcanic fires
! Stream On the suphureous air!
| Shades Of the slain through the Murderer,s brain
| Fit terrible and drear-
shadowy and swift the blackstone drift
Doth trample the atmosphere!
But swifter than all, with darker pail
Ofterror around my path,
have arisen from my lampless prison
Slave Of the high Gods wrath
deep Voice went from the Firmament,
Anu 1t pierced the caves of Earth
therefore came on my wings Of fame
From the dark place of my birth
And 1t said ssGo forth from the South TO the Nortl
Over yon wandering ball
SIN is the King of that doomed Thing,
And the sin-beguiled must fall p
Forth from the Gate of the Uncreatc,
From the portals of the abyss
from the caverns dim where vague Forms swim,
And shapeless chaos isl
FROM HayoeS Womo-fr0m the jOyless tomb
or Erebus and Old Night
From the unseen deep where Death and S,eep
Brood in their mystic might
come come-before me are dumb
The nations, aghast for dread
Lo! have past as the desert blast
And the millions Of Earth lie dead!
voice Of fear from the Hemisphere
Tracketh me where fly t
Earth weeping aloud for her widowhood-
A n1efn
Thrones and Dominions beneath my pinions
Cover like meanest things
Melt from my presence the pride and pleasance
Of pallor-stricken Kingsl
Sorrow and mourning supremely scorning,
My throne is the boundless Air
My chosen shroud is the dark -plumed cloud
Which the whirling breezes bear
Was not borne on the wings of the Morn
From the iungies Of Jessore, 81.
Over the plain of the purple main
To the far Mauritian shore!
To the isles which sleep on the sunbrigkt deep
Ola cora-paved sea, a8#
Where the blue waves weller beneath the shelter
From the womb of the waters athirs for slaughters
rose that thirst to sate--
These green isles are graves in the waste of the
waves,
Their beauty is desolate!
From the wide Erythean the noise of my Pecan
Rolled on the Southern blast
Eternal Taurus made laundering. chorus,
From his glaciers lone and vast!
Did not pass his granite mass,
And the ridged Caucasian hill
Over burning sands-over frost-chained lands, 9#
Borne at my own wild will?
Then bark to the beat of my Fastening feet,
Thou shrined in the sea-
Where are thy dreams that the Ocean streams
Would be safety unto thee?
Awaken I! awaken my wings are shaken
Athwart the troubled sky
Streams the red glance of my meteor lance,
And the glare of mine eager eye.
Harken! oh harken my coming shall darkcn
The light Of thy festal cheer;
In thy storm-rocked home, on the Northern foam
Nursing of Ocean--hear!
HOME ron THE PERsEcUTED PoRTU-
cuEsE.-Arrangements have been entered
into by which the 600 Protestant Portu-
guese, driven from the Island Of Madeira
on account Of their religion, are 10 remove
10 place in the State of Illinois, about
midway between Springfield and Jacks
vile, on the Meredosia and Springfield
railroad, and there to be employed by the
American Hemp Company. Those Of the
refugees now here, will proceed immedi-
ately to their new location, while those
still remaining at Trinidad will embark
with the least possible delay for New Or
leans, and thence go up the Mississippi.
Said Company has agreed 10 furnish the
refugees with houses and every thing me-
cessary for their comfort, for one year,
without charge. Besides this, the Com
pany have engaged to give every family
Of the colony, in all one hundred and thir-
ty-one families, ten acres Of land in fee
and unincumbered, on which house can
be built, where they can have perma-
nent home. These ten acre lots are 10 be
on the same tract of land, contiguous to
each other. The expense Of transporting
this large number Of emigrants to Illinois,
is to be borne by the American Protestant
Society.-[N. Y. Jour. Com.
.Naruellous Coincidences.-One of those
remarkable cases Of presentiment, or "se-
cond-sight," that have occurred at inter-
walls to the confusion Of all human specu-