The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-09-02

By MRS. ANNA MARIA FERGUsoN.
"NO people can claim, country can appro-
pirate him. the boon OF Providence to the hu-
man race, his fame is eternity, and his resi-
denee creation"
PE1zIps
Well, ''the lips on which Senates have wonder
ing hung
The impress of silence eternal has sealed
The voice through the halls CT creation that
rung,
For mortals its last thrilling anthem has peal
ed,
volume of mind, as yon azure-bound page
Of the armament varied and deep in its lore
A missal illuming the shrine of the age,
With its truth glowing records, is closed ever
more.
A star, in the zenith of Freedom that shone,
Though its glory belonged net alone to that
cline,
But DER the broad earth as the day-be.r-. wac
thrown.
light to all nations-all races-au time
Has waned to that viewless Empyrean vast,
Where its splendOr is merged IN eternity S
morn;
Yet its trace, on the face of the Universe cast,
Shall remain as a beacon TO ages unborn.
A spirit whose grandeur continent filed,
While its shadows were flung DER the bounds
A master whose touch-strains Of eloquence thrill
led
That has echo-like reached Immortality s
An Autocrat swaying DER regions of thought,
Prophet deep read in futurity's aims,
A Presence with more of divinity fraught
Than the spark from the God head humanity
claims.
Is gone from our midst, nevermore to return;
And Columbia, deep-clad in the sables of woe,
Like Nlobe, grief-stricken, bends 'er the urn
Where the child of her lone, of her pride is
laid low.
There's void in her heart, like desolate home,
Whence sunshine has fled with one well belo-
we'd face;
Though loved ones yet inger to brighten its
gloom,
No other such radiance may shed in its place
Now memory recalls to her vision his form
In all the proud yigor of manhood arrayed,
With a smile on his lip Of benevolence warm,
AMI light in his eye that death only could
shade
As transcendant he stood in the noon of his
With the symbol of genius by Heaven en-
blazed
Flashing bright on his brow Ike holocaust
flame
Ger temple that sacred to Pallas is raised.
Like that statue to which, as my biologists tell,
AS to inspired Wisdom, paid homage the
crowd,
She beholds, as if chained by some magical
spell.
Before him, the worlds vast multitude bow
ed
She ponders again o'er each music-fraught word
Whose silyer-toned echo remembrance hath
,- kept,
I'LL the waves in her bosom's wild ocean are
stirred
As by the winds of sahara's waste swept;
.[ FOR the thought, with their melody, haunts her
VI that moment her bravest and truest that
"hen the Demon of Faction, with serpent-like
guile,
u" ,"ooed her sons to dishonor-to ruin-divide
Ief hopes on their funeral-pyre seemed
heaped,
,Ta, ms around her the bulwarks of Liberty reeled
III Inns MS spirit the trammels of Party o'erleaded
Hef breast from the shafts Of Disunion to
shield.
AIS arm was stretched forth to suecour and
his voice Ger the din of the tempest rose
loud,
-'O' Danger, but death for her sake he would
brave;
10 whom the deep love of his being was VOW
wen may she weep as she roams Ger the
track
"here the rainbow like tints of his spirit
were she'd
Every glory-fush'd beam rocol,ect;on b,;,,,s
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