Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-11-23


ones Of the earth, and win mangle them with
horrid wounds. strip them Of wealth, repnta-
ton, life itself, and gil their last hour with
torment, Around their dying couchcs will
send serpent FORMS unfolding coil after coil
from out the darkness, brandishing their for
kei tongues to sting them and lick their
blood, as fierce flame licks up its fuel
thoughts shall become things. living things
TO moch and curse them And some in their
agony shall leap into this burning lake, in
h'rci9 eaFs III greater torture; and sceie
81. aold apon the brink, and rejoice v'an
i = ers nerve shrinking with agony -
csea sse.r startled gaze the horrors OF ,lst
PIT in which plunge them forever.
Yet this is not all ! know that you wi
laugh. {ii bends can laugh when | tel ye4
that will so manage that mankind sha'l al
along think me their friend. Thougi It Is
my mission to torture aud destroy the whole
race of Adam, yet SO win mix with their
business, their pleasures. aud their daily hab
its so Aatter aud delude their stupid senses
that they shall pronounce me good crea-
ture." nay creature of God. :" At their
wedding feasts l will be the source Of joy,
aud at the funeral gathering, the solace Of
their sorrow The rank grass shall grow
over those slain by my hand. and the mourn
ers shall forget it, and fall in tbeil turn
The father shall commend me to bis son, aud
Keeling 0 his grave. shall leave him as an iu-
hcritance, fondness for me; and the son
shall follow in the footsteps of bis father,
down to perdition. The physician shall in
woke my aid in sickness, and in 81 circles !
will plant myself securely, and make myself
companion and familiar, and men shall never
be SO merry as in the presence If their dead
lest foe.
Poetry shall lend me her rose garland. and
music Fer charm and the split of melody
shall speak from myriad bars to sound my
praises and witch the world with the idle
dream that am the inspirar of mirth and the
soul Of happiness and all good fellowship
if there be one Of all that glorious race, for
whom yon planets, from their golden urns
pour down their silent, everlasting cataract Of
light, who excels his fellows, will lure him
with song and visions Of beauty, and strcw
his path with rose leaves, till at last he sLall
walk needless into my tolls. And, once my
slave, though thousand should weave their
heart strings around him, and weep tears Of
blood, be shall in all his pride and beauty,
sink deeper and deeper. and in iribulation and
anguish unuttcrable, dig his own pathway
down to he'll will be at the feasts Of oil
the great aud wise of earth, where rank and
fashion reign supreme where forms not less
beautiful than those Of heaven, move to celes.
tial harmonies and where wit and nirth and
wine 60 round, and glasses sparkle on the
board. will lap their senses in Eysum and
the shall feel richer, wiser. stronger and more
witty than before. But at the last, will
hurl them down, one by one, fiom their fan
cied elevation and they shall drag out a
wretched existence in the hunger dens and
vilest purlieus Of the earth and sneak to dis
bonored graves. rejoicing to hide from the
whitening scorn of their species, and to give
their souls to eternal punishment in fres less
fierce than those in which | have tortured
them on earth. Nay the kings and govern
ments Of the earth shall pass laws for my pro-
lection. and that Of my emisaries, as we walk
the earth, decimating its inhabitants aud
tumbliug them into hell Give me then, o
Satan, the dominion Of the earth aud thou
shalt behold, through ages,
''lIcll's every wave break ON a living shore,
Heaped with NC damned like pebbles"
lie ceased. An unearthly yell Of applause
arose. amid the stamping Of countless feet
and the clashing Of adsmantiae shields. The
Arch Enemy stepped from bis throne, and
leading the horrid spectre to a seat at lis
hight hand. thus spake
Terrible being if thou canst indeed do
these things, thou art hencefortb my Vice
gerent upon the earth. Go forth. and my
realms shall be crowded with the souls Of men,
thick as ansumn leaves or sands upon the
shore. But tell US by what name to call
thee Z"
And the fend answered, "ALconoL!" So
saying, be spread his broad bat-like wings,
and hell grew lighter as he vanished
How hath be fulfilled bis mission?
For thousand years hath his fiery breath
smote the wide earth with crime and death,
And furnishedAnen, as daintiest food,
For the red hesh-worm's Shiny brood.
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