The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-09
For the National Wing.
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" His brandsld sword did blind men with It's beams,
" His arms spread wider than Dragons wings,
/" His sparkling eyes replete with wrathiul fire,
" More dazzled aud drove back his enemies,
THAN midday sun fierce bent against their aces
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Forth from the ea-grt Isle whose green tnf rears
In memorable bulk above the waves
That surge their sllvery strand: u warrior rose,
AT whose quick birth Mars with Bellona rode
Triumphant through the crcumambient air,
Loud heraldng with sonorous breathing throat,
The man ofdesiiny' Atlongth full mail ID he comes
Like the unpent simeon, shaking the earth,
And tumbling princes headong from lhet thrones,
In state imperial sat, high DER their heads
Then looking down, disdaind the kingly herd
Al his glance the thunder speaking cannon
Furious roar'd turret and castle fell
And monarch's how'd before his iron car
His earthquake tread eonvnlsed the aflirghteI globe
That rambling echo'd 10 his chariot wheels.
At his nod, leeions went forth and conquered
As victory were thing Of certain doom. 4
Then nations stood aghasl as wondering why
Heaven In It's ire had snatch'd the flaming sword
From angel hands 10 enfx In human grasp,
Onward he went bestriding thrones al WILL
Where er he rode, as though grant was seafd
From high Omnpotence, TO clutch the earth
AT length pride, bloated grown: the height attaind
The which beyond, mere mortal may not pass,
He toppled, rceled and fell, before the world
That eager look'd and view'd him with amaze
As some huge lion greedy Tor his prey
Securing the forest wide, now high ascends
The dangerous cliff, intent to battle his fangs
With blood Of choicest game, and flesh his NAV
With yiands rare fances beyond the shrub
That gently waves DER the deep preelpice
| The long wsh'd prize and bounds at single leap
| Beyond its outer edge with yenturous spring,
| Then headlong tumbling in the yawning gulf
l nuf, holnpI hran la lie 4 IN .
| BY desperate grapple al each juting twig
| AMI shelving point projecting: even
Fell the great earth's renownd in shnddoring haste
| Bare 'scaping with his life the dreadful shock
| Respired the nations then with freer lungs,
| And the glad world rejoiced: behold him nov
| Chain'd to the beellng rock oerlooking ocean
| In her anerier mood !: sad! suiien lane!
| Brooding DER past, but fame revolving years,
| Now registered with those beyond the flood:
Courtlers, thrones, scepres farn, power displaced
| Escutcheon blghted wItherd all his hopes [strewr
| Fortunes, crowns, kingdoms wreck'd and corpse,
Broadcast athwart the globe in spectfed view y
| Stalking before his vision, who beheld
But yesterday the gaping world outstrech'd
| To do him reyerence Az the forest king
When caught and Gagged secure no longer rights
With angry growl, and thunder sounding roar,
| But vainly bellows to the curious crowd:
| So chaied earth's highest monarch to the roar
| Ofthe resounding waves, that spent their surges
'Ganst the cliff crown'd Isle, as tho in mockery
Offaded grandeur and of fallen state
Alas the fate of genius msapped, the godlike gift
| Bestow'd to bless and 'meliorate mankind
| Perverted from its uses to vain self!
| How sad n lesson to the unheeding world
Oh! earth, and are there none sent from thy bowel
| Heaven-bes to our race; with dews of Eden
Glistn'ng DER their brow; and rays of deity
| llumining each feature stamp'd divine
BY Gods own hand none yet !? to unbind the chains
Canking around the soul, these long, long years
Receding-numbered on the page Of time?
Shall all withhold that from the plastic hand
OF teeming nature slide into the lists
Eager for the race All no, the look'd for long
Shall yet appear with thunder arm'd: red lightning
In his eye: flashing like steel the sun,
| Bright panoplied in truths proof tempered mail
With heart transparent MS the light of love
And driving couchant Tyranny to his den,
Bid Freedom leap full tiedg'd, DER ransom'd earth.