Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-10-01

And now, thou art nameless thing;
So abect, yet alive! p
| Is this the man of thousand thrones,
| Who strewed our earth with hostile bones,
And can he thus survive?
| Since he miscalled the morning star,
Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
"fle who smote the people in wrath with
continual stroke is prosecuted, and none
hindreih. How art thou fallen from hea-
ven, 0 Lncfer, son of the morning: how
art thou cut down to the ground, which did
weaken nations! They that see thee shall
narrow WY look upon thee, and consider thee,
saying, Is this the man that made the earth
to tremble; lha. did shake kingdoms that
made the world as wilderness -
The chariot of Carmaa, in Sou,hey'.
l'Kehama," will remind you OF Ezekiel's
sublime vision of the wheels and cheru-
bin and the "winged hands, armIess and
bodlless," which bear the magic globe into
the cave of Lorinile, will also remind you
Of the hand which brought the roll Of
book 10 the prophet, and of the hands
which he discerned beneath the wings of
the cherubm.
The manlles-
AS the swans breast, and bright as mountain
| snow, ..-
In which Kailyal and Landurdad are array
ed, as alone enabling them to pass The fiery
food which inlerposes between them and
the throne of Yamen, will suggest to You
the Scripture metaphors Of "lhe wedding
garment" and the ''fne linen, dean and
white, which is the rig hteousness of the
saints"
In one Of the passages Of this fervent and
golden hearted historian, as we'll as poet, the
crowning charm lies in descriptive phrase
which frequently occurs in the Bible. Gas
the soldiers were carrying him (Sir John
Moore) slowly along, he made them fire.
quently turn round, that he might see the
field of battle, and listen to the firing, and he
was pleased when the sounc grew fainter.
A spring wagon came up, bearing Col.
Wynch, who was wounded: the colonel
asked who was in the blanket, and being told
i, was Sir John Moore, wished him 10 be
placed in the wagon. Sir John asked one
of the Highlanders, whether he thought tho
wagon or the blanket the best, and The man
said, the blanket would not shake him so
much, as lie and the other soldiers would
keep The step and carry him easy. SO they
proceeded with him to his quarters a. Co.
runna, sceeping as they aoent."
CampbelI's expression.
"IIer march is on the mountain wave,
Her home is on the deep"
will remind you of The Psalmisl's-"Thy
path is in the sea, and thy footsteps in the
great deep" When a poet said that an
Apollo Belvidere appears to have shot the
arrow, "less by an effort than command"
he expressed noble idea, worthy the deity
in stone. But when Habakkuk says of the
Holy one, HE s,ood-and measured the
earth, be beheId-and drove asunder the
nations," the sublime conception of power
exercised by the mere volI,ion of will, is
carried to height worthy the true living
God-lhe God Of heaven? Young we'll ex-
presses the same style Of sentiment:
"Whose word was Natures birth,
The shadow of whose hand is Natures shield
Her dissolution, his suspended sme.''
But the grand treasure house for thoughts
Of this order is the Old Testament, Thou
openest thine handihey are filled with good:
thou hdest thy face, they are troubled; thou
lakest away their breath, they die and return
TO their dust; thou sendest forth thy Spirit,
they are created; and thou renewest the
face of the earth. The glory Of The Lord
shall endure forcve. the Lord shall rejoice.
in his works. lie looke,h on the earth,
and it ,rembIeth; he ,ouche.h The hills, and
they smoke"
Washington Irving says of the oak, That
II "asslmllates in the grandeur Of its attri-
butes, to heroic and intellectual man: and
is an emblem of wha, nobemsn should
be-a refuge for the weak, shelter for the
oppressed, and defence for the delenceless;
warding off from them the pel'ings of the
storm, or the scorchng rays Of arbitrary
power" A fine simillude, but not, surely,
finer than the prophets: The tree that
thou sawest, which grew and was strong,
whose height reached unto heaven, and the
sight thereof to all The earth whose leaves
were fair, and The fruit thereof much, and
in it was meat for all; under which tho
beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose
branches the fowls of the heaven had their
habla,ion. 1t is thou, 0 king, that art
grown and become s,rong."-.Miss Jecs~
bury.
What is the dlfrence between a young
girl and an old hat? Merely one Of time
the one has feeling and The other has felt
The pride of the father often is centered
on his sons, but his affection in expended
on his daughters.
Every human being is intended to have
character Of his own, to be what no other
is, TO do what no other can.
"Dis-cord is horrible," as the musical
negro said when he was about To be hung.
To neglect advertising is about as bad as