New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-06

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BURIAL. OF HENRY CLAY BY AWE nHtptoa
Nor, Es..SSse
Over the crowded city. fhe light leaves
OF tire aeacias in the murmuring wind
Nodded, like hearse- plumes. The white summer clio
Swept like spirit army, with slow march
And silent; and the grey church towers looked up
To the serene. blue heavens, like mourncrs, while
A deep tone like miserere swelled
Along the trembling air. Across the streets
Black swaying folds, from somtre fsstbohs hing,
Like heavy, swooping wings From parapets
Entablathres and columns-trom the grand
Emporium, and the humble huckstcr's stall,
Fell dark funercal badges, and no sound
OF work-d day life was heard. The ttotoaghfares
Were thronged Nut not for trade The clankipg ring
Of sororous anvil, and the torge's hiss
The low roar of the blow-pipe, the swift whrr
Of busy shuttles and the heightened cry
OF carriers, were hushed. But booming DER
The grieved and quivcring air, came the deep roar
Of solemn minute guns; and on the streets
Stood fifty thousand nourners, while sothd
Like the low moan Of far of waves, went UP
From the dense multitude. The mufied sound
OF drums grew louder and the music deep
Of many instruments, on the wind
Came the slow, solemn dead march
Room Make way
Room for the mighty And the heaving waves
OF that great human sea divided, as
The chieftain was borne on. With dropping plumes
Fured banners draped in black and arms reversed,
The soldiery came foremost followed by
The patriots brother statesmen, who had come
To pay their last, sad homage. Slowly then
The burial-car, drawn by eight mikwhite steeds
Covered with housings of black Grape, and led
Each by faithful slave, arrayed in white,
With mourning badges. Its full, sweeping folds
Fell to the pavement. On its top was placed
A white urn, massive and magnificent,
And lowering DER the urn, with outspread wings.
silver eagle hel, within its beak
A pail of Grape, whose gloom, redundant, lay
A fitting emblem of the deep, dark woe
Shroudng our country, mourning DER the death
of him, her second Washington, Behind
Followed, with slow and measured tread, the bands
Of mystic brotherhood, with symbols strange
And standards yelled in black.
Across the street
From parapet to parapet, was reared
lofty arch of triumph From its roof
Hung in bright folds, DIR countrys glorious flag,
Caught in the centre. by the glittering beak
Of a great, golden eagle, covered DER
With the same gloomy drapery.
Onward came
The gorgeous pageant and when underneath
The hammered arch they passed, a requiem deep
And slow and mournfu on the silent air
Poured its full tide of wailing Men were there
OF every grade and passion, but no word
Ofribaldry-no jest or cath rrofcned
The deep sclen,nity. Had the great heart
Whose powerful pulses struggled and gave way
Beneath the superhuman efforts for
His country's veal ,-een as the faithful bird
That bears its mother dark lagoons,
And nosome swamps, where singing adders creep
10 healthful forests and clear shining lakes,
And then. its mission ended, dies where flowers
Are sprnging in the sunlight, and bright birds
Like fairy things singing,-had that heart
Been kindred with each one assembled there
Profounder sorrow, and weightiar sense
Of utter dark bereavement. had not bowed
Their patriot spirits.
With majestic march
Passed the august procession, toward the white
And towering portals, opening on the slopes
Of the green, lovely garden of the dead.
Where the tall shafts of marble CLEAN amid
The ancient trees like spirits where the shade
Falls with deeper umbrage and no life
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Like angels, guarding the long dreamless rest
Of the unconscious sleepers. Through the gates
Of iron entering, with mufiled tread
They bore him to dark. grey sepulchre
Within shaded dell, where the tall elms
Sway mournfuly, and sloping terraces
Ger which the long grass droops like heavy fringe
Arise like looming bastions, to protect
The mausoleum of the mighty dead.
And when upon the noon-tide air, the words
Of the impressive bural-service fell,
The bowed, uncovered heads, and silent lips
Of that great, patriot assemblage told
| How proud nations mighty pulses sank
Beneath her heavy trial In the tomb
They laid him. earth to earth and dust to dust =
And the loud cannon's booming thunder pealed
Like the deep wall of Liberty above
| Her best beloved and worthiest
Henry Clay
| Strong, fearless pilot, who amid the black
| And seethng waves Of Dscord, and the wild
And threatening tempest of Disunion, steered
The stately barge of Liberty, whose loss
| Had been worlds destructon,-eagle-ey eyed
| And mighty IIeimdala who upon the bright
| And soaring Bfrost of Il nations peace
Didst with the trumpet Of thine eoquence
Drive back the giant shapes Of party strife
Mightier than Cicero for, thy great mind
And God-like soul, and self denying heart
Have conquered every toe-not in the grand
And crystal domed Vahalla hast thou found
Thine apotheoss but in our hearts
Thy temple is erected, and the Runes
Engrayen on its columns, are thy deeds,
| And the high praises of thy fellow-men
| Thy name shall be the watchword Of the free
And when in IIistorys thronged Pantheon
Ages to come shall tread, thy place will be
| First in its adamantine halls, beside
Our immortal Washington.
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