The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-02-23
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.The.c are hcurs long departed which memory briggs
Like blossoms Of Eden to :wiEe around the heart"
How Oft in my imagination. bright.
The pleasant scenes. the many happy spots.
(Where was woat to Iinger when in youth
I sported, SO joyous, free and hapfy,)
Appear to greet my enrapiured visioa.
Ia deepest ieyery wrapt. my bygone days
Are all before me. md | then am Lost
In thoughts too deep for utserance.
As in some gloomy forest vast muse.
And sit me down upon the huge remains
OF mighty oak" ex- monarch Of tue woods -
loneliness steals o'er me, underlined,
And existence, lost, seems from me taken
My mind absorbed in reYery go deep.
IT'S then, rnsthirss, my spirit wander, free,
And leaves IT'S tenement. this frail body,
At full pleasure to go shero it listeih,
And to hold communion sweet and rap,'rous.
With my young companions--fiiends of boyhood,
Who so Oft have shared my grisfs and pleasures
Sported with me in the b!iihe days of youth,
On margin fair OF streamiet sparkling bright
But who, by fate's decree, are far away!
Ever and anon. and oft wonder,
And my rnind revoves and asks. where are :hey?
Where those friends, ray youths companions,
row!
But obsion's dark curtain, gloomy,
Is drawn between us-mere conjecture all.
No, not all conjecture, though such it seema,
For the same and oft repeated story,
Told and confirmed, and told aud told again,
Byslumbering millions, and again confirmed,
Is being still retearsed, and as we hear,
II plainly tells US the sure fate Of tilose
With whom in mazy, whiriing dance Of life
We mingle. For some, the earth has opened.
And within her cold. her cold damp bosom
Now quietly they sunber! And will sleep.
Locked firm ia deaths embrace, sleep, deep and
long.
Till tn archangel with his trump sonoraua,
Shall rouse all nations. and call forth the dead
The sleeping millions-to stand in judgment
At the flaming bar. the bar tremendous
OF The ALMIGBTy!
Still there others !.
Who. like me-, ars graphing with The cold warl;
The world hard-hearted, low, groveing. selfish
And struggling midst its many troubles.
Its griefs and woes, and disappon.ments sure.
To gain living; or they are anxous
For lis natural to obtaiD a nams,
And wealth and honors that when they arc dead.
Are dead and mouldering, the world may read.
And gaze, and wonder!
Y ct there are othera,
The portion wiser, though not most num- GUS
Who are intent for nothing that's earthly
But what's needful to support fral nature
And are laying up rich and suro treasures.
And placing heart, mind an1 all affections,
Thoughts and desires things eternal.
All! with these my spirit seems to wander!
Yes, at Times close, and when vast eteraity.
With its realities. mnst dread and awful
Shall burst in spIendor upon my vision
| I shall arise and meet them, aud with jay
| With joy that's bornd!ess then shail join them
| Where oil congregated worlds shall witness,
| In the great judgment! There shal hail them
| On shores of Heaven; aud enter with them
Into the gold paved city, gloroas.
Through walls of emerald, jasper, sapphire.
| OF chalcedony, topaz and jncinh,
Chrysoprasus, Sardonyx, Sardius
Of chrysote, amethyst and beryl-
Through gates of pearl--three cp'ning on each
| sids-
Tllsn will we hear the prince Emanuel
Our advocate and elder brosher-say
"We done thou good and faithful servants. all,
The bliss Of Ieasea is thine! Enter Thy JOY
For you prepared from earih's foundation"
| The vision closes; and my thoughts return,
| The chilly dews of eve descending damp,
Give warning I should GEEK my couch, and there
Lie DOWN TO think. to ponder, and to sleep.
| Roois!oun, jim, 1858.