Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-17

There IS one man In the country who were h.
wholly the sea Of party politics Womb ne no
burning and a shining light ino horizon of ita
ature That man is Geo. d Prentice Do Won an te
IT. Listen to has OcEAa and sayif it is NOT cout
IN strength, beauty and richness to Byrons
ed stanzas Oh why is the lustre offne GOLD ~
Why has beauty become ashes9 e0'N uin
THE OCEAN.
+" How beautiful - From his blue throne on bigb
Inc sun looks downward with a face of love
Upon the silent waters and the sky,
Loye!ier than that which lifts its arch above
Down the far depths Of Ocean, like sheet
wave their cloudy pnions Oh It's sMss cease
To gaze on Ocean in his hour of peace!
Years have gone by since first my infant avos
Rested upon those waterss Once again.
AS here muse, the hours of childhood rise
FAINT Ger my memory, like some witchinc str:
Of halfforgotten music. sYon blue wave 'nan
Still, still rolls on in beauty. but the tide
Of wears rolls darkling Ger the lonely grave
VI hopes, that with my LIES bright mornino Ill,
!" Look look THE clouds light shadows from oho
Like fairy islands, DER the waters sweenI ""o'eT
Oh, have dreamed my spirit thus could love
To float for ever on the boundless deem -O's
CommuniDg with the elements $50 hear
At midnight hour, the death wingd tenpest r,,..
Or gaze, admiring, each starry sDere rave
Chasing its glories-in the mrror-wave-
To dream deep mingling with the shades of oro
On Oceans spirits, caves, and coral halls " eve
Where, cold and dark, the eternal bilious boo
As round some far isle of the bIrnpe falls;
st ne ar9pnc groves perfume the breath of morn
Like lone mourner's on the night-winds bo-
TO see the infant wave on Won tlpe veroo
Like young eagle, breast the snkinos snn
AM tWlhght dying on the crimson surge
mn III Il down the deep dark zenith one by one
Inc hghtS OF heaven were streaming:-or to ,yrean
= The lost the beautiful, that calmly rest - weep
beneath the eternal wave then sink to sleen
flushed by the beating of the Oceans breast.
Oh 1t were joy to wander wild and free
where southern pillows in the Sunlight flash
VI night SITS bTooding Ger the northern sea,
And all is still, save the Overwhelming dash
vi that dark world of waters there to view
The meteor hanging from its clouds on high
TO see the northern fires, with blood red hue
Shake their wild tresses DER the startled sky!
"'Tis sweet, tits sweet to gaze upon the deem
And muse upon its mysteries There If rppiIAd
Ere yet that glorious sun had learned to sween
The blue profound, and battle the heavens in poId
The morning stars, up the skies they came e'
Heard their frstmusic DER the Ocean rung
And saw the first Hash of their newborn fame
Back from its depths in softer brightness Runp
"And there it roIIs!-Age after age has swept
Down, down the eternal cataract of Time:
Men after men earth's cold bosom slept;
Still there it rolls unfadng and sublime.
AS bright those waves their sunny sparkles fling,
As sweetly the bending heaven they kiss
As when the Holy Spirits broodng wing
Moved DER the waters of the vast abyss!
There there it rolls-Tve seen the clouds unfurl
Their raven banner from the stormy West
I've seen the wrathful Tempest-Sprit hur
His blue forked beginnings at the Oceans breast:
The storm-cou passd-the sinking wave was hush'd-
Those budding isles gltter9g fresh and fair,
Serenity bright the peaceful waters blush'd;
And heaven seem'd painting its own beauties there
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Ocean farewell! -Upon thy mighty shore,
loved in childhoOds fairy hours to dwell
But am wasting-life will soon be Ger,
And shall cease to gaze on tEee-farewell!
Thou still wilt glow fair as now-the sky
Still arch proudly Ger thee-Eyening steal
Along thy bosom with as soft dye
All be as now-but 1 shall cease to feel
"The evening nists are on their silent way;
And thou art fadingi faint their colors blend
With the last tingcs Of the dying day,
And deeper shadows up the skies ascend
Farewell farewell the night is coming fast
In deeper tones thy wild notes seem to swell
Upon the cold wings of the rising blast
1goI go-dcar Ocean, fare the welll"