The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-11-23
For the National Era
THE ANGE ELM ISIS ION
BY MARY IRVING.

BY MARY IRVING.
Far in the youth Of unverses. One
Snll filled lmmensiiy. The Uncreae,
Who hung the lamps Of Heaven in nothmgnrSs.
And the music of the morning stars,
Looked up the vista OF intending years,
And saw hmself-alone.
There is a word
That haunt. the world of finite hearts forever
Since world OF finite hearts was walked To boing;
Coiling about the shud,lering exile's soul
Changing henr,-knell in the captives cell
Tearing with phantom hand the fines, chords
God ever to sorrow in the soul,
Till the wrung heart avenges wo, in madness!
And that word is" Alone >
Ininiiy
May only faihom ii. The All-in-all
Only. of all, may brook 10 BE- alone
Alone among the everlasting hour.
The Eternal reigned. lie looked upon His work.
And il beautiful Each flashing orb,
Kindled AT Pnritys FIRST toun OF fire.
Shot DER the gulf of Chaos, on the tide
Oh one nil-powerful, unsireing win.
The eye OF the All-seeing looked on tIese,
Aud, from the Heart that buoyed them into being.
Gods syDspoltieS gushed forth.
On lightning wings
The shrinking wave. of space they overswepi,
And woke soulless universe 10 life!
Breathings from ont the Heart of measureess Love.
Winged by the calm will Of omniPoience.
First baptism OF that immortality,
Which stamped the creature OF our earth-born clOd
Al heir OF endless ages
Ere the first
WOKE up in Eden, prince Of Eartls estate,
The Unseen Ones their work OF love began,
Weaving the light God smiled about the world
Into its tiniest tissue-subtleSt cod.
Oh. not IN vain imagining, beheld
The wonder-fabcrs OF Times childish day,
A Nymph in every dancing wave-a Faun
la every forest nook-or Dryad pale.
Wailing by starlight DER the stricken oak
Noryet in vsn-vvhen Nereid. melted from
The crested sea-brine and the world laughed ou
Upon such pagan drvellers-did the child
Shll shiver in the church ards ghostly shade.
Or hunt the fairies down the devices dell;
Or Nor-eman, knceng TO the frosted heaven.
View goblin hosts in dread encounter driven.
With clash and clangor not of Earth.
The TSuuh,
Warped to the measure OF the smallest soul,
Still cannot lie BE it that evil hearts
In evil guise, clad Heavens unehangng ones!
We, thai have fallen on wiser days may losc
The glory gliInpses. with the nIiss that marred.
Blest he the iruest-hcarted,
They took form
Such form as dreams wear dmly in minds heaven;
Aud brightness. like the nloonbeam's mirroring Of
The Dny-Siar's golden glory; and from out
The waning clouds OF Earths young orient sky,
They walked with Enrtii's FIRST worshppersihe few.
The godlike few. whose clear, iaih-lishted eyes
Mirrored in purify the Shining Ones,
And knew God. angels!
They with vet,
Aye, never from tho Hand that giveih life
Upfose a soul TO strive with human woe,
One angel for its minister!
But now
We veil our eyes. and grope this whirlng world.
Drowning in Customs dizzy din the voice
God sent TO whisper OF Himself to us.
But-when the wide earth spums from lis brensi-
When strong towers totter-when. in dark dsmay,
Deserted helpless, lost we lie--we turn,
Mnning our fnces up and listen then
When, as the Dove by Bethabara's stream,
Breathed upon Jesus from Fathers heart,
Come from the Comforter blessed ones,
To whisper peace tho world may never know;
To win us 10 the Heart that winged them forth
That So pure spirits, we and they may stand
One day before His ,hrone-foiever
One with Him.