Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-08-30
FoR THE NATIONAL IsTELLIsExcEa.
THE SONG OF IRON.

The tempting CLEAN of gold,
With which, BY the arts Of the grasping few,
The nations are bought and sold
Yetis nay presence more priceless far
Than the blaze Of eartb's royal gem,
That ever has kinded ducal star,
Or famed in diadem.
In the fearful depths of the rayless mine
My giant strength was laid,
Ere the sun, or the moon, or the stars that shine
10 the boundless heavens were made;
Ere darkness was rolled from the deep away
Ere the skies were spread abroad;
Ere the words that called up the light Of day
Were brealhed by the lips of God!
Ye were but poor and poweress race
Till ye wisely sought my aid;
Ye dwelt like the beasts OF the savage chase,
In the gloom Of the forest shade
Where often the nomad yielded his hearth
To the WOLF in pale alright,
And the tooth of the lion stained the earth
With the blood of the troglodyte.
How helpless ye saw the descending rain,
The waters resstless flow,
And the binding drifts of snow
For you no steer his neck would yield
No steed your slave would be;
Ye uac'd no burrows along the field, "
No pathways Ger the sea
The myriad stars came forth at even;
The bow of God was bent,
Inscribing the wondrous laws Of Heaven
Der the measureless armament.
Bright consultations rose and fed;
The fair moon waxed and waned;
But the record which they nightly spread
Unknown to you remained.
But when some president spark Of mind
Invaded my lone retreat,
And ye learned my Proteus form to bind,
And fashion, with fervent heat,
The cleaning sword from the flames Ieapd out
And the hook for the golden grain;
And the air grew vocal with freedoms shou,
Where the tyrants of earth were slain
Then rose the dome and the lofty tower
Where the grooming forest fell;
And the massive guns look'd frowning Der
The walls of the citadel.
ne dizzy and tapering steeple sprung,
And flashed in the summer air,
And the pendant bell in the turret swung
To summon the world to prayer!
Stout ships encountered the bowling storms
On the trackless sea secure
For held the fate of their gallant forms,
And my grasp is strong and sure.
Midst the lightnng's CLEAN and the tempes.'s roar,
They feared not the angry main,
For they cast their trusty anchors DER,
And laughed at the hurricane
AT my touch the massive column soar'd
The graceful arch was thrown!
And forms Of beauty the world adored
Rose up in deathless stone.
Ye rivalled the tints of the blsshing dawn
With the hues my dust supplied,
Till the humblest work Of art has shown
Like the mist by rainbows dyed.
come where the suffering patient lies
On his couch, all wan and weak;
And the lustre returns to his sunken eyes,
And the bloom to his pslid cheek.
Ye fear not the roar Of The thunder loud
Ye sleep with the storms around;
For the bolt clutch in the threatening cloud
Falls harmless to the ground.
Where tread, the crooked paths grow straight,
The old hills disappear
And draw each distant hostile State,
In friendly commerce, near
Swift through veins BY the lightning hurl'd,
Your thoughts like the tempest sweep,
Till knowledge has covered the rolling world,
As the waters have covered the Deep
And soon ye shall see my massive ore
In many grander pile
Than adorned the Theirs shore,
Or the banks of the sncien, Nile.
The sacred temple shall rear its roof,
The cottage Tor social gee,
The frowning fortress, thunder proof,
And the ships of every sea.
Then hura ye fearless sons of toll
Your nsion's strength and pride
May ye resp harvest of golden spoil
Der the earth and the ocean wide
Msy your ponderous hammers ever smite
With the power Of the mountain stream;
Or thunder beneath the earthquake might
That dwes in the Of steam
srEAx on TIE EarE CAS.L--The steam tow boat Ja.
inds hove in sight Monday morning about ten oclo'
ding through the waters Of the enlarged Erie canal
arcey ripple perceivsbe before or behind the noble yes
disturb the inhabitants the once grand Erie canal at
e OF FIVE miles per hour, with canal craft In lose
th pig irop and her horses snugy slowed in the ho
ION after passing she up to and passed canal craft