The Gonzales inquirer. [volume] (Gonzales, Tex.) 1853-current, 1853-07-02
For the Inquirer.
A Oream.

infidc philosophy, which is now in state of
incipicncy throughout the land
IL we hear, in childhood, thnt the dead,
about midnight, when our sleep rcacles near
Tie soul and darkcns our dreams, awake out
OF theirs, and in the church mimic the c.wor.
ship of the living, We shutldcr Mt Death by
reason of the dead, and in solitude turn our
eyes from the long silent windows of the
church and fear to search in their cleaning.
whether it proceed from the moon
Childhood, and rather its tcrrors than its
raptures, take wings and radiance again i'm
dreams and sport, like tirc-ilics, in the night
OF the som!. Crush not these Pickering sparks
Leave us even our dark, painful dreams as
higher shadows Of reality! And whcrcwith
will you replace to us those dreams which bear
us away from the tumult of the waterfall into
the silent heights Of past childhood, where the
stream OF life yet ran noisccssly in its little
plain and flowed toward its abysscs, mirror
of the Hcavcny
! was lying, not long since, in secluded
valley, where the cottonwood and pecan grow
in their greatest magnccncc, and where, only
hy itiul CLEANS, the sun pccpcd through the
dark green foliage, and | fell asleep. Me-
thought awokc in the churcl-yard. All the
graves were open, and the, iron doors of the
cnarncl-ho''se were swinging TO and fro by in
visible hands. On the wall fitted shadows,
which proceeded from nothing, and other shad-
ows stretchedupwaras in the pale air. In the
open collins none now lay sleeping but the
children. Over the whole heaven hung, in
large folds, grey, sultry mist, which giant
shadow, like vapor, was drawing down nearer
aud hotter. Above me, / heard tho distant
fall of avaanchcs; under me, the first sten of
the boundlcss earthquake. Tho church wa
vcrcd up and down with two intcrininablc dis
sonanccs, which struggled with each other IN
it, cndcavoring in vain to mingc in unison.
AZ times grey gli,nmcr hoyercd along the
windows, and under II the lead and iron fell
down molten. The net of the mist and the
tottcring cnrth brought me into the hidcous
temple, Mt the door of which, in two poisonous
bushes, two gttcring basilisks lay brooding.
passed through unknown shadows, on whom
ancient countries were Impressed. All were
standing around The naked altar; and in all.
not the heart hut the breast, auiycred and
pulsed. One dead man only, who had lust
been buried there, still lay on his coffin with
out quivering breast, and on his smiling coun-
tcnance stood happy dream but Mt the en-
trance OF one living he awokc and smiled no
longer lilo lifted his ey cds, but within was
10 eye, and in his beating breast there Law. in.
stead of n heart, a wound. He held np his
hands and folded them to pray, but the arms
lengthcned out and dissolved and the hands.
still folded together, fell away. Above, ON the
church dome, stood the dial-platc of eternity,
whcrcon no number appeared and which was
its own index; but black finger pointed
thereon and tho dead sought to sec sho time
by it.
Now sank from alon noble form, with n
look OF inoiiaceablc sorrow, down To the altar,
aud nl' the dead cried ut---"Christ, Is there
no Gody' He answered There Is nonc.n
The whole shadow of each of them shu,l.
dcTcd.-not the breast alone; aud one al)cr ,hc
other, all. in this sluddcring, shock To pieces
Christ continued; 81 went through tho
worlds, ! mounted into the suns. and flew
through the wastes Of heaven, but there Is 40
God ] descended as far ~ Being casts its
shadow, and looked down into the abyss aud
cried Father, where art thonY But | heard
only the everlasting storm which no one
guides, and the cleaning rainbow of creation
hung, without the sun that made Il. ever the
abyss; aud when | looked up tn tie i,nmee.
sntahlc worsd for the Divine Eye, il glsrc, on
me With sn empty, black, bostomless eye-svci.et,
and eternity lay upon chaos, eating Il end
Illuminating it, Cry on, We ,issonanece ar,
away the shadows, for lie is no, y
The pale shadows ili;ted away, as white ya.
por, which fsost has formed, with the warm
: hreash disappears and all WAS void q, thct,.
csnas, tSaitul for the hcsri. the ,lessi children
who lsad l'ccn awakened in the church ward,
into thr t>'nplc, and cast themselves telor, ,hc
/ eh Eosm oa the altar. ard sai,l--.s.i s.,,s
have Nc ac ts,hess" And hc answered. with
s,rcainsne sycs~," We arv all orphans and
ycu, We arr Without Father"
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ttie qusyeTing walls pf tls tetNp,c parted es,a,.
,lef, ssai tho temple shd tte eiii,lrra Aink
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