The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-01-16
COMMUNICATED.
ADDRESS TO .......
BY "swIFT-wINoEp TINE"

"'Tis thine to head the crowd Of misty years.
And act thy part, on the great drama earth
Say; will thy page mark deeds Of mighty worth!
win freedom, justice, follow in thy train!
Dire famine's scourge and pestilential death
Thy presence nee, the earth no more to stain!
Aud Love- with thee, commence her bright eternal
reign."
FAIR One, who sang in 4" Minnesota dear"
And welcomed in g q happy, free New Year."
Dost thou invoke an omen from this source,
AS o'er the Garth Time speeds his onward course!
And dost thou the power to Tempus given
To lead g the crowd through misty gloom to Heaven,
Or sink them down beneath load of guilt,
Fen when the Soons have their fabric built!
And wouldst thou know the awful tragic Part,
To be performed by no poor faithloss heart
Then lend and Time will soon UNFOLD
What you may soon with wondering eyes behold;
For thou woudsi know if s'deeds OF mighty WORTH :"
VII WI, mark the page on the great drama Garth"
From East to West from North TO Southern wales,
And fan would ken if " famines" dreadful scourge
Shall stay its course onward still shall urge!
All this would know and yet the least would care
If Love" on earth commenced a bright career!
All. True ESoUIRER Should Time e'er disclose
One-lftieth part Of what on earth ne knows,
'Twould add laurel to thy wreath of fame
And none could rob the OF spOtless name.
Hast thou forgot! or didst thou read,
When for the truth Time zeacusly did plead
And soon from Gotham was required to sail
And Brooklin's heighths' he vaiiantly did scale.
Or wouldst thou 60 to Academic groves,
Where gems Of thought and sweetest music flows!
Then search for Scholars of the Eucline Hsll.n
Time left his mark within those marble walls;
Where youth and beauty offered at his shrine,
And Sases owned that Genius eould devine.
Or trace his way where wild Multnoma rolls,
Her mighty waters to the distant poIs:
And there encountered Lions in their den,
For noble hearts fear neither beasts nor men.
Go, ask the rosy golden fingered Morn,
lfthouwouldst know when swift wingd Time was born
Or seek the Planets in their distant sohcres,
Singing their anthems to revolving Years.
Times course is onward-still he wings his way
To regions bright amid Meridian dav,
While Fifty-two he holds with bride rein.
I'm hiS hrav aad fr0u Ca 81
Nor fears the darts thick hurting through the air.
From Rio Grande to green Winnousciss shore,
While Justice guides him Truth shall win the prize,
And bear the victor upward to the skvcs;
But not before this "Tailorish age" 10 past,
For furious winds now blow their keenest blast,
And Freedom trembled on shi. wicked earth,
As she approached her great Meridian birth
And though Benz for Freedom noby fell,
Tho many orphan mournful deeds could tell.
When JAMES X. POLK was NUMBERED with the deadi
Though famine RACES and ambition bold
Ha. crushed its victim with pernicious gold
In this our favored land, where once did reign
Eternal Justice as the guide for men;
And hydra-head orrid feuds arise,
In Congress now among the great and wise:--
Wait but moment till the storm 10 DER.
Twill soon be past, ambition rules more.
It's Heavens decree appearing OH the walls,
OF this great people in the Congress halls.
The Oregonan with its once crushed page,
ID not consigned to dark oblivon's shade,
But still it lives borne on the wings Of Time,
Where Cumberland roll. her Iimped rural stream,
And Pepin's lake attests the "icy train,"
Are kindred hearts that for the Union 20,
What eer its foes in Washington may do.
Our country's cause.-the Union, and the right.
Time still proclaims thro mists of darkest night;
To those who'd break the sacred tics that bind,
The North and South on base ambitious shrine.
When mon Of worth shall take the helm again,
And our dominion shall her rights maintain,
win "beams Of light" be scattered far and near,
Der every land on each returning year;
The Sons with |" Love, Fidelity and Truth"
Will bless the DAUoHrsRs In their blooming youth.
And Friendship sweet console the troubled mind.
Closing the drama by the act of-TINn.
E2-ini1,e, Minnesota. i'm. IL, 1854. .s.f