Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-10-18

anu Ho regret, repentance Hof IePihShS,
Can bring to US again the buried Past
The silent sands of lie are falling fast;
Time tells our busy pulses one by one;
And shall our works, so needful and so vast,
Be all completed or but just begun,
When twilight shadows veil Liles dim, departing
sun!
What duties have our idle hands neglected,
What useful lesson have we learned and taught!
What warmth, what radiance have our minds re
fected
What rich and rare materials have we brought
For deep investigation, earnest thought
Concealed within the souls unfathomed mine,
How many sparkling gem remains unwrought,
That Industry might place on Learning's shrine,
Or lavish on the world to further Gods design.
The smallest bark, on Iife's tumul,uous ocean,
Will leave track behind for ever more;
The lightest wave Of influence, set in motion,
Extends and widens 10 the eternal shore.
We should be wary, then, who 60 before
A myriad yet TO be, and we should take
Our bearing carefully where breakers roar
And fearful fempests gather one mistake
May wreck unnumbered barks that follow in our
wake.
To effort We whom God has nobly gifted
With that prevailing power, undyng Song
For Human Good let every pen be lifted;
For Human Good let every heart be Strong
Is there on crying sin, no grievous wrong
That you may help to weaken repress!
In wayside hut and hovel, midst the throng
Down-trodden by privaton and distress.
is there no stricken heart that We can cheer and
bless!
Sing idle lays to idle harps no longer;
Go peal an anthem at the gate of Heaven
Exertion makes the faintng spirit stronger
Sing, till the bonds of Ignorance are riven,
Till dark oppression from the earth is driven.
Sing, till, from every land and every sea,
One universal triumph song is given,
To hail the long expected jubilee,
When every bond is broke, and every vassal free.
And ye: whose birthright is the glorious dover
OF Eloquence, to thrill the immortal soul,
Use not unwisely the transcendent power
To waken, guide, restrain, direct, control
The hearts deep, deep emotions; let the goal
OF your ambition be, name enshrned
By love and gratitude upon the scroll,
Where generations yet unborn shall find
The deathless deeds of those who loved and
blessed mankind.
Go, rouse the mighty energies that slumber
Unknown, unnumbered in the worlds greath heart;
Remove the stubborn errors that cucumber
The fields of Science, Literature and Ant;
Rend Supersttions dark ming veil apart,
And hurl to earth blind Bigotry, the ban
From which a thousand guevous evils start,
To thwar and mar the great Creators plan,
And break the ties that bind the Brotherhood of
Man.
And We who sit aloft in earth's high places,
Perchsnce amid your wealth ye scarcely know
That Want and Woe are leaving fearful traces,
Upon the toiling multitude below;
From your abundance, can ye not bestow
mite to smooth the thorny paths they tread
Have ye no sympathy with human woes
No ray of blessed hope and joy to shed
Upon the weary hearts that pine and toll for breadf
Your palaces, no longer idly stand,
While dens of wickedness and loahsome prisons,
Arise like Lightning plague-spots Der the land
Go speak word, and lend helping hand
Torescue men from Degradation's thrall,
Nor deem just and righteous God has banned
The toiling millions while the rain drops fall,
And blessed sunbeams shine from heaven alike for
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