Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-08-09
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The aash of wit, the dazzling CLEAN of thought,
Whose magic power the charmed attention caught,
The sportive beam, tho lightning shafts that flew,
With power blightng, and with aim true,
Chamising folly, and rcbukng wrong
Were thine; and with thy power, the purpose strong
To win thy way, idly dream away,
In blank oblivion, lifes allotted day.
Thou had'st achieved thy purpose--when tho hour
OF age stole on; disease. with fearful power,
Bowed the fral frame, the trembling unsrung,
And the proud mind with fearful anguish wrung;
Yet still, from midst the clouds, the burning ray
Of thought undying tho gloom would play;
As glenn the wntry slars through some lone pile
Though the frail fabrc to ruin sink the while.
Yet gentest virtue mingled with tho light
so wildly brilliant, SO intensely bright;
Thy tender care, undying, fondy clupg
To her who oer thy infant sleep had hung.
In manhoods prime. thy boybood's hnunts TO trace
Thy steps would turn, from e's ambitious race.
To cheer mothers heart with love repoy
A mothers love, and gild fe's closing day.
Alas how vain tho strife OF life appears,
Seen through the darkning mists Of vanished years
The heros conflicts and the battles spos,
Tho civic triumph, or the statosman's toll,
The words Of burning eoquence, whose spell
The hrobbng heart in all its dephscan tell,
All on the surging tide of time borne.
Leaving the startled brcast, with grief how vain, 10
mourn
Yet, er the chaos. 8 the rndiant star,
Shining In deptls of from afar
Cleans the turbid stream with holy ray,
Bright heinld of n calm, uneDdiDg day
Faith midst the wild turmoil beams among the strife
Or doVe.liko hroods, above :he waves Of life,
Cheering tho darkness, ard with wings Of pence,
Bidding the billow' raging chaos cease
While sank the wasted frame to slow decay.
What thought had power the parting soul to sway
Turned then the mind to cnrth's Illusions proud
The friendly plaudi, the admring crowd
No! like tho mountain msts, they pass'd away,
While on the spirit eternal day -
'Twns not forensic strife, the warm applause,
The balled rval the triumphant cause,
Had power Ia the spirit, ere IL passed,
To reach iis home the brightest, the Inst
Broathed from the dying lip the murrnured prnyer:
And 10 an angel visitant wus there
For who tell, how the free spirit flies.
More feet than CLEANS tho lightning DER tho skies
Bright to thy vision his radnnt throne,
As e'er the martyr saw, thy Saviour shone!
l"I know that my Redeemer liveth, :" softly broke
From the pnle lips-and Heaven the spirit woke
Where widowed love and Glal fondness weep,
My heart would too its tcnder vigiis keep
| I.ast Of household that wlom, sido by side,
Sprung where the Rappnbannock rolls its tide;
Where lofty cliffs its dimpling waters bound,
And the deep forest spreads its gloom around -
There midst the forest depths, the wild play,
Thy dawning spirit caugh its feryid ray.
The stream rolls on, the lofty cliffs still rise,
Green the hills and blue the erching skies,
Nature smiles unconscious of decay;
But sorowing love asks where Oh, where they
Sundered ainr thor moudering ashes sleep:
Oh! shelterug grave the precious relics keep
Till the bright angel rainbow.crowncd shall stand,
" One foot upon the and on land"
In thunder crying +" Time shall be more"
And God to man, eternal life restore.