Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1854-05-04
% Oar New York correspondent
furnishes us with the following -
PRIZE ODE FOR THE RElNAUCURA-
TION OF TIE CRYSTAL PALACE.

PRIZE ODE FOR THE REINAUGURA--
TIoN OF TIE CRYSTAL PALACE.
The award oil fhe Committee appoint.
cd by The Directors Of the Crystal Pal
ace Association, 10 select Two prize
Odes 10 be sung or recited at ths Re-
inauguration OF the 4lh of May, is an
bounced in the subjoined hitter TO the
! President oi the Boasd:
NV York, "Wednesday, April rs. 1854
Z. T. BARNum, Esq, Preside t, SC. ,Nc., &c:
sIR-The undersigned "A committee apr ONT
ell To selec. an ode L. be sung NJ the Re inauga-
ration Of the Crystal Palace, have carefslS *
amined two hundred and fifty manuscripts sub
mtted to their Inspc:lion, aud have UNANIMOUS
y tw rled the prize of Ohe liurIred Dollars,
offered by the Association to an ode by William.
Ross Wallace.
i'ley have also sssiduously examined mas
Of poetcal contributions presented for the pur-
pose OF being recited at the ceremonies oi Re
inauguration, but none has seemed 10 them adr-
qusIe To the occasion or worthy the prize oeer-
dby the Association.
f IL. CIiAPIN,
GEORGE RIPLEY, Comis.
GEORGE WM. CURTIS.
The following is the Ode to which tho
prize cl One Hundred Dollars has been
awarded:
PRIZE ODE,
To be rung at the Re Inauguration OF the Cryttui
Palace, New York, May 4, le54.
BY WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE
Lo the transitory darkness
From our Palace floats away;
Lo 1.-THE glorious gems Of Genus
Glitter in the rising day.
See again the mighty Nations
Meet and clasp each others pa ilns,.
AMI by Labor's glowing altar
Lift on high according psalms.
Here behold the true Evangel
Notir War may Earth increase !;
God has stamped his shining patent
Only on the brow of Peace.
Oily by the arm OF Labor,
Swinging to Inventions chime,
Can the Nations buiIo their Eden
In the wilderness Of Time. ..
Nations here that mighty music
Rolling through the mountain-bars---
Fhnting deserts, bridging oceans,
Marrying the choral stars
Telling that our Crystal Pa'aco
Glorii"s the joyous sod
Making Man, with Art ami Nature
Worthy oi,hc Builder-God!
Nations then re joice that dai kne,s
From our Palace floats away,
And the glowing gems OF Genus
Clutter in the light Of da,
I'VE should have been better plcwcd wthh
.hl. card il few Of its cxpr, ions had beeu
modified. As, however, ihe ~ri p,'s nase II
affixed % n, We ieel Obliged t. publish 1t ~
written, or not at all--EDs. J. &.
II, as the Committee state, this pre-.
ducton is the best of the ESQ odts sub-
mlttci for their Judgment, yr Gods |!
what must The ,rorst be 2 and lf what
material can thot mass OF poeiica! mat.
ter be composed, from which the gcni'.-
men who unanimously awarded ono
hundred dollars Tor The above 2S lines,
could no, select a piece We rthy Of Duh-
lie recitation
Mr.. Wallace has written one or two.
cadable thin 8 in his day, bui jus. be-
lore he composed this prize ode, he'
mus; have ELLEN ~ love with soma ot
Laura Ma,ilja'S swrc, rlnsions !; one.
,i her stlnzas runs somewhat thus -
"W here is Cupid crinson motion
Billowy ecsiacy of woe
Bear ne straight meanderirg ocean
Where the s,ngnsnt torrents aow."
II these ieur lines would not fl cl,v-.
,rly in between Marrying the choral
tar,, ana telling that oar Crystal Pal
ice GIorifes the yous God, lhen am
10 judg Of poetry and some one hod'
,slter let down ths 'nounta,n bare and
~, me out TO grass