The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-07-20
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Der mossy rock and hoary trunk slov crumb.
ling TO decay,
Thro' shade and sheen, shrs' dim ra,ins long
Far from the noisy halls Of Art, amid the qus,
And in the I.afy wildsrnss, and solitud. Of
Brooms
Lies, ofsprng 81 tiny nll, nor oval, square,
nor round,
Embosemed IN the silent hills, dark, srest-girt
Page Pond.
Thrs' many tangled underground ofb.ach and
Dor many \ Wild and rugged steep swept BY
tho gla,sring fire.
Thro' many Z gorge with shadows black and
tract with bossoms gay,
Thy weary foot shall rice to whore these t"rbid
4 sl,ou along i,' sl.-y breast like lone 'riri.
broods,
And eircI,ng round in giant ranks high tower
the ancient woods
The ssmbre hemiock STOPPING a"gs ito image
on the tide,
And the gray naples branches paint their shad
Ows dark and wide,
Green o'er the black and trembling m,rge the
humble laurel crerps,
And spreads nsvsr-fadng screen along the
bordering sleeps;
And tho sullen sadnsu sits upon thy tommy
shore,
And though gloom like midnight stoops the
livid waters Ger,
With many a strange and agile form the leafv
wil.ls are rite,
And thro' the dark abysses bound tho might and
co,,.a IN 10y Joy S Sf.'as' ,,, d.,
inhcting sting,
The spotted rattle-snake is seen. dread, ac-
cursed thing:
And wo 10 him whose needless step shall unde-
Tended fall
Where the quick monster fiery eye CLEANS
thro his messy wall.
Her brood the spockled partridge leads along
the lonely dells,
While her coy mates deep, mufIied drum 10
mimic thunder swel!s,
And high o'srhead, like stars, are seen the red
birds flaming wings,
While in the rocking wind unframed her callow
covey swings;
All day the swallows auowy wing disturbs the
storrnes water,
An insect pirate, feet and brave whose hoart is
bent on slaughter;
Hers, to the sunny Southland bound from cold
Canadian lakes,
The gray wild goose upon the wave, nocturnal
respite takes;
Engirt with dapplcd mail Or armed with growth
ofpointed steel,
The perch and sluggish catfish thro' the saffron
waters wheel,
And deep within his halls of slime dark turks
the Titan eel,
Midst fallen trunks and qusggy shoals from
dawn 10 set day.
Shark of this infant sea, the pike desets his fiy-
ing prey;
And here from noon to eYs is heard, from eve to
burning noon.
And slowly ,rembes DER the wave, the bullfrog q
deep bassoon;
Unwieldly metamorphosis, half fish and half a
frog
The tsdpole, ,acturn, obese, Tolls on the ro,tins
log.
Full two score yenrs have rolled away a. fades
very dream,
A bubble on the heaving tide Of Times far rusi-
ing stream,
Since Ls whose nntnc this Letfe bears, among
usese shadows dresr,
And up these wild and rustling sleeps pursued
the psUtisg deer;
Hers with scream tho panther died and here
the shaggy bear,
And hence tho wolf was tracked with blood into
his n:ouctaiu lair, &C..
And here the rife. fatal ring ieapt on from
height to height,
And here the hurt'r's knot-fire blazed through
ullthe Winter night.
Those glorious Gays are with the Past, the times
degenerate grown,
The mighty race of hunters sleep--onr daring
sres nrc gone,
Yet many an antler'd heud has fail'n and many
a stately doe,
Beneath the glance ef"David's Bir' and wary
Dick Nlunroe.
Lethe tho Panther seeks thee not, thy Hunter
il at rest,
And tho Iron stceds deep shunder-ueigh rolls
booming oier thy breast;
Yet, now as e'cr their Shiny floor thy gloomy
waters flow,
30 tho stern Indian gazed on thee q huadred
years ago. T.
Brsome Co., ~ Y.
""PAeE PoSp," says the author in letter to
the Editor, els an oblivous pool au idst the hills
and primevai forcsts Of Broome county, N. Y.
On su au,er day when tho frogs will permit,
and the heat Of the sun has driven the remainder
of animated nature 10 tho forest shadows, the
solitude is terrific. 1t seems to weigh like lead