Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

o. We were so struck with the beauty of the
following wild dream of The German Poet ScHIL.
LER, recited by Mr. Huston at the close Of his
Lecture on Astronomy last week, that we resolv
ed at once to obtain copy Of it, cost what might
The oftener we read it, the more we admire it
and if it affords our subscribers half as much en-
oymsn. as it has afforded us, they will not grrdge
the payment of this years subscription to the
Spirit Chans1ersb,ag Spirit
GoD called up from dreams man into the YES
thule of Heaven, saying, "Come up hither. and
see the glory of my haase.'' And to the servants
who stood around his throae he said, ssTake him
and undress him from his robes of flesh cleanse
his visin put new breath into his nustriIs ;
only touch not with any change his human heart,
the heart That weeps 8. trembles." 1t was done,
and with mighty angel for his guide the man
stood aeady tor his infinite voyage ; and from the
terraces OF heaven, al once, without sound or fare
well, they wheeled away into endless space
Sometimes with the solemn fligh. Of angel wing
they fled through zaarahs of darkness, through
wildernesses Of death divided the worlds of light
sometimes they swept over frontiers that were
quiekeak,g ssisder aaEosaletic motions from God.-
Then from distance that is counted only in heav-
en-, light dawned for time through sleepy film.
BY unutterabe pace the light swept 10 them
they by nnatterable pace to the kigh.. In a mo-
meat the hashiag of planets was upon them-in
a moment the blazing of suns was around them.
Then came etenies Of twilight that revealed
but were not revealed. On the right hand and
on the left lowered mighty consultations, that by
seG-Eepetitions and from afar, that BY
counter positions, built up triumphal gates, whose
archltrayes, whose archways- horizontal-upright
rested rose-at altitude by spans that seemed
ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were
the aTchitraves, past numheE were the archways,
beyofd the memory were the gates Within were
stairs that scaled the ,exEemities below above
was below, below was above, to the map stripped
of gravitating body depth was swallowed up in
height insuEmountable, height was swallowed up
in depth unfathomable. Suddenly as thus they
rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly as thus they
tilted over abyssmal worlds, a mighty cry arose
that systems more mysterious. that worlds more
billowy, other heights and other depths, were
coming, were nearing, We're al hand.
Then the man sighed and stopt, shuddesed and
wept. At length his oMerladened heart uttered
itself in words, and he said ''Aagel, will go no
further, for the heart Of man acheth with this in
finity; let me lie down in the grave, and hide me
from the infinite, for end see there is noHe 2.-
And from all the stars that shone around issued a
CHORAL voice, "Ihe man speaks truly !; end there
is none that ever yet we heard Of" "End is
there none? % the angel solemnly demanded sis
there indeed no end, and is this the sorrow that
kills you 2" But no one answered, that he might
answer himself. Then the mighty Angel threw
up his glorious hands to heaven saying, "End is
there none to the Universe Of God 10 also thare
is no beginning!"