The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-01-02
COMMUNICATED.
Address to Eighteen hundred and Fifty.

The flight of ages. swelIs the rolling surge
OF nanieless years now numbered with the dead,
Whose shadowy forms come clustering on thy verge,
To claim their kindred, whose insidous tread,
Has left the world in darkness and in dread
To mix its annals of disease and blood,
In the great cliasm, whence the past has leui
Where pierceless darkness DER Its orgies brood,
In one eternal night, to guard against intrude.
And swift winged Time with cuichcned step appears,
To usher in thy glory omened birth;
IT'S thine to tread the crowd OF misty years,
And act thy part, on the great drama EARTH.
Say; will thy page mark deeds of mighty worth!
Will freedom justice. follow in thy train!
Dire famine's scOurge and pestilential denth-
Thy presence hee, the earth no more to stain:
And Love, with thee, commence her bright, eternal
reign!
Thou wak'st upon a world of gloom and dread;
Where deep despair ard b0dng storms assail;
Where vengeance turks beneath the tyrants tread,
And borne upon the breath OF every gale,
Ascends the widows groan and orphans wall;
While stoater hearts, bleed by the despot's Chain,
Where over right, the might will Oft prevail,
And darkest crime and deep injustice stain,
Earths fres fields and there theirhaeiul sway MAN.
tain,
The breath of freedom kissed sicilians Isle,
And fingered in her spicy fraught perfume,
But perjured faith and answering trcachery s smile,
Poison her breath and her life blood consume.
And Rome, once peerless mistress Of the globe,
Is clad in sackclo,h, and with mourning bowed,
stripped Of her hopes deserted by her lord,
And swayed by tyIsrts, who IL fury crowd
Her sons. proud to kneel and kiss the Papa
shroud.
And perjurcd France has dealt a treacherous blow
At Freedoms side and her corrupt designs
Wakes passions fires, and wiets ambitions glow;
TIL ON this wrestling chaos of the mind,
An answering echos borne upon the wind;
From Elhr's side where brutal fury sheds,
Consuming light and Freedoms farest kindj
Ard Ireland tells tale of mournfu dread,
OF souls ia bondage bartered for their bread.
And with the Magyar waters they flow,
l. min gled freemcns blood; her hills and plains
Altho' the fruits which liberty overthrow,
Ard where a Kossuth Dembnski reigned.
Or the brave Benz, the crimson soil has stained;
Shall spring mp spirits by their birthright Tree;
Whose souls shall tyrants usurped power disciam,
Whose arm shall freedoms mighty herald be,
And spread on eastern lands the banner OF the free.
Roll on thy course; and may the hand apply
The balm of peace, in Naples sunny cline;
Re- TO e the bleeding wounds OF Hungary!
Ard feed the thousands that i'll Ireland pine.
To scatter beams of truth and light be thine;
Where dai kness broods, let heather powers decay,
Let swords mantain that kings are not divre,
And holy Truth and Freedom brighter glow each day
But in onr land Of glory and OF pride,
4 land from trouble and disnnion free,
We welcome thee, and DER thy birth preside,
With dance and song and gay tcstivty
10 ALL where Freedoms eagle proudly scars,
From fair New Engands sunny streamlcts clear,
TO Saoramcnto's distant golden shores,
But most Of all, to Minnesota dear,
Wit! welcome hand, We wish ahappy. free New ear