The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-08-22

This HOVER Is planted OH the rave Vi lic !!
lllustrious dead, by the hand of enc who was
once his pupil.
Thy soul to its God thy corpse to its cell
BRIGHT star of the South, we bid thee farewell,
The spirit Of genius hangs over the bier, i
And weeps DER thy brilliant, but too brief
career.
Thy faults are forgotten; oblivions pail
Bv the cold hand Of death is thrown Ger them
all
Had'st been true to myself as thou vert to a
friend,
The world had not mourned thy premature end
Thy faults are forgotten, tthy virtues survive
In The mem'ry Of hundreds Of friends yet alive.
Though born in the North, thy race was begun
Meath the more genial rays of Southerly sun;
Here, here was enSi~dled Thy spirit of fire
That could sooth or exat, infame and in ire,
Unknown, unbefricnded, stranger you came,
And around your brews wreathed the chaplet
Of fame.
Thy vii, like shco; lightning thut plays in the
cloud
" tile il dazzled, delighted, ilumed the crowd.
Az PdthoS, like the Prophet of IsraePs spear,
Tin, stoniest heart could melt to a tear.
Pure Reason, that always seemed lunguid and
cold
Was light up and giowed, meath thy magical
II mould,
AnG- like the rays Of the sun thep houldst render
oil bright,
The commOnest theme, with a Ecsture Of light.
Thy Imagination when inspired, as il sprung
upon high,
Was sublime as the eagle thai sweeps through
the sky
But each feather in its wing; evero plume in
its crest,
Seemed pluc!ed from the Bird of Paridise'S
vest.
Oh, Eloquencc! how sadly, yea deeply. we
mourn
Der the cold stark form Of they glorious son,
He has sunk to rePose, ever hushed is the swell
Ofth Harp that could melt by its musical spell
All asSioaS felt aud acknowledged his sway,
And when he 5eckoned seemed bound to obey
And methnLs as the train moved slowly along
Some Of them Joined in the funeral throng,
Jov y ith grave look, and plle checked Fear,
Sorrola with sad brow, aud Pity with tear
And Lore with her soft eyes, all kneeAhg
around,
Cast cypress on The corpse as il sunk an the
ground.
He stood iu our Athens, an The cline OF his
birth,
BY the side Of the giant, a striplng IL youth
Ia the presence of him, whose thunder tone
Is echoed, and re-echoed from earlh's zone 20
zone,
Shoulder 10 shoulder. he has s;oOd by the side
OF The Sage Of lie West, Columbia's pride,
The Neptune of State, now Striving 10 calm
TIE ,are the tempest and lul the alarm,
And We, unscpsed his glory still shone
The Pee OF such giants, and second TO none
But alas! The Young giants gone 10 hi, grave,
While the old ones still linger, their country 10
save.
Bright child Of ElOquence! in his song DER the
Thy fav'i,e poet of England has said
'sWhen the gifted Sheriden breathsd out his
last,
Broke was ;hs die IN which he was cost.''*
Twas broken Ills true, twas marred in part
The cause OF thy sorrow, thine anguish Ofheor
Still the mould Of the mind, remained unim-
paired,
For his equal in genius, thy spirit appeared
And oh! could some Limner cen family have
saved
Thv meteor likeness, as brightly i, waved,
Some steuograph caught those words that die
burn
And fixed hem forever in historys urn
Thousands, unborn, on the picture would have
gazed,
Wondered, admired, ppplauGed, and praised.
Thousands, unborn, would again and again
Have hung DER thy thought and been wraPt b!
the strain,
But who could Daguerretype the glorious mas
OF the tightening, or the lone offs laundering
crash
We can tell Of its power, we can say IL wa
bright,
But we cannot impart eur rapture, delight.
Lost child Of ElOQuence! we are doubly beref
Of all thy bright thoughts, but fragments al
left.
Thy Temple o. Fame, can only be reared
With columns all broken, and pillars a
marred.
Still twill be beautiful, like the ruins Of old.
Relics Of past genius, now lifeless and cold.
Oh let them be gathered, twill bring som
relief,
Console the deep sorrow, Ossuags the dee
grief
Of the friends of his youth, who stand rOun
bis bier
And mourn Ger his brilliant, but too brie
career,
*Byron's monody on the death of Sheridan
CSighing that nature formed but one sue
man,
And broke the die in moulding Sheridan
or The French Minister Of Home affair
has consented to give to Louis Philippe Ii
o,callad Soanish Gallery Ofthe Louvre Co