Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-05
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DEATH .oE THE YnAR.
BY oEoEaE D.PKESrrcE.

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BY oEoEGE D. PRENTICE.
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IiatI lisl what fearful tone was thatwbleh rosseli
Upon the wind or M mmldInight2 Nature sounda 10; M
no knell DER earth for the departed year
Yet when its last breath passed into the void q
orbygone eternity, heard = - .'i
Echoed within the chambers Of rn5 soul ~ 'S7'l
Wild strange and disERas it were wall t ~,
low and blended wall, from all the grayes tsilf.a
And sepulchres ofoceen and ofearth "a v,se 81
Upon the Silly air. Oh Yas It not
The solemn voice OF old Eternity c 81 --.9.7 asapN
Utterirg One cry one wild and deep lament, ,.i
Forthis dead chldf bHe .gi.2 si,iJ q. 3fs'.ssy
i-stsiae sHs ,hsJisct--l, sssd sl.i l.t-a s:i
V u1aGli a1Iu The year1 aLasl ia gone lliIr
Forever hom the worldI He seenedtoo stradgS las
Too mighty e'er to die. He laid his hand .ssi
On breathing millions, and they sank beneath
The green3grass OF the sravei he blew aloud ar-SA
The trumpet blast or battle, and dark hosts NJ;
Met in the mortal shock, and when the flame -.
And smoke of conflict had gone by. they lay ~ -
Like autumns rod leayeson tho plaInI he passed 's
o'et e4fth and ut each wave Of his broad vsnga ~
Volcano, earth qlE keS whirlvyind storm and food
sprang up beneath the silent spell and wrought = ~
The fearful errands OF their destiny 7r's.' tti'l
Yetnow his owngreat mission done, he liSs 2 81
On scorched and broken pnions with the dead 7ee7t
There, there to sleep forever. 9'sn.
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What is time2 K
a giantp0weT, stern, vast and bodileSs,
That may feel; but never see. We gaze HTIsS 2
With aching eyes into the past, and there ~ e ..
We sec thousand shapes OF light and gloom - -
Floating like atoms in the pallid beams ~ >
ofmournful memory, but tho perished year ts9
Is all unseen. Prom thence we sadly turn, s'i't+''
And gazing on the future. we behold sA
Dim, countless phanto1ns trooring from its dark
Unathomed ocean TO the lonely shore ..-s-r
or earthly being, but the coming years .1 p,
Are all invisible. And then we pause =. :. -
And gaze above, around beneath, and loI
Our eyesare startled by the mighty deeds
or the now passing time; the iron weight ~. d,
or his stern presence rests upon our souls; rt-y.
We feel the awful spectre touch our brows le.. =
With his cold deeth.iike hngerj and we hear -s-
The deep and mingled roar that rises up 475,s
From al his mighty doinga on our earth; sfT
And yetshe has TO form to cast its glean ~ 7s
Or shadow our sight. r'-g ssl. g7sEi i = t5Ir ~
The parted year
Called forth from earth blooming Paradise
ofsweet spring AoWers-he waved hia antu.nn Wand
And they were hot He woke in human souls s 5e,
Myriads Of hopes and Joys and burning loves, F a
That seemed like things Of Immortality -i5f
He touched them and they died. Another year sis
The gift of God. is cast beneath the skies, -zrs
And what is darkly hidden in the still 5zi- .,-..
And silent depths OF its mysterious mopthss .l. E
We maysnot knyw, thank God, MAJ not know 5tfrs
We only ,knowithat with each passing month
And day, and hour. the low, deep wall of grisi,
The lhaddened cry. of agony, the shout
or fierce ambition, the loud thun1e rshoek
OF bloody conflict, and the knca OF death
win echo, EACH its one briefmoInent o'er.
The OF times and then be swallowed up. -
And lost forever in the onward sweep ,,s 49, ie
ofits Implying waves.
- tsss-.,at e i.sgs,il The midnight akisss! li
Are weeping silent tears as IL they ygrievedds e5as
For the old year, and the pale stars look sad
And tremhle, as sifliving, sorrowing hearts a9yias
Were throbbng In their breasts. In vaI. in vainl
The Iaded year is nothing nowl The flowers.
The birds, the waves, the thousand melodies
OF verIal life and nature Ssill come back, iHe
But he returns no more The winds may search
q For him in their far i0urneying; the grand ''
sold ocean withits thunder tones may call 9l
iForeve tohim inits ceasetSss dash ~ s5 }A
Beneath the heavens; the bright and burning SARA
With their high tones of Eden minstrelsy -a9n
NIayspeak his 1lamc In their eternal sweep -
Along their flaming path; the comets wild
May seek him by the bansfut btsze they spread
Through realms of ancient nights butnon OF these
Shall ever find him, for he liyethEot
III all the universe OF God. Years die
And centuries die, and there will come day b,
When tho dread Angel OF, tho Apocalypse, i5...,-
Standing on land and sea, will hit his hand l..,
And swear that time shall be no more. 4.
Yetthou,
Sung by the stars around the midnight throno. Tz
oh man, viii Eever die. The earth viii pass
Like wild dreamHway, the very, ,hes Yenst sjst.fe
lie erollcd together a scroll, but He.
Beneath whose feet the sun and stars dust,
Hath said that thou shalt never die. Those great
And awful words of tho omnipotent
Are caught up and re.eehoed to thy soul - -
BY ellthe world OF nature.sHA a, deep voice srs
That tells thee of thy immortality - si,s
Speaks in the breeze and In he harficanej
3 Biends the gentle Innsicof the stream, y al
The loud rusll Of the cataract peal
. 3iFromthe dark bosom or tho cloud, and all
q The th6uA6hd msstic cad6ncess6f nighti G Fy'i
Deep rningles with the everlasting roar eh lS 80
Z or ocean IN his wild unrest, and swells ~ =
Forever in the angels symphonies. - , - 30.