New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-01
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tInser5sd 70 tie Memory # Sir 5o5a Fraakiin.) T.
Roll on, roll on, thou Northern Sea, ~ N4
Under the cold, eternal stars .--
NJ That gaze upon thy mystery
Between the melancholy bars 4s- ~ %
OF clouds and mist-whiie evermore
The shadowy waves in darkness hurled
Seem chanting by 8 houseess shore t
The dirgss Of dying world!
Roll on, roll on thine icebergs tall E''f' IN
And aEful in their grim array i, s-rses ~,
Whare Winters demons spread the pail
OF raven wings on faded Day Is. .E
Where Night and Death have built their shrines
- On that bleak fbod and barren sod, ' '
And even the sun no longer, shines il 3ei.H n
The proud Embassador Of God. 55.
III.
Oh, hadst thou mot, stern Northern Sea-
From souess matter dgrklipg there, 50 .fI q
Enough Of awful majesty
In waiting wave and icy aire 20 t'''' .'
Must mau4 the restless and the proud, b. 5Y.
all ready crowned with orient might,
Go sounding through thy spectral cloud llii
To give new grandeur to the night
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"The world the world is mine 10 he cries 20
Half dust, half god With fire and steel ee7 -
He bids adieu to Southern skies
And stamps defiant on the keel:s- Is '''9''
| The Boreaiis lights his way,
! Or glimmers o'er the ice-bound deck.
4 Where rythrnic wind and freezing spray - a5i
Are cold; pale prophets Of the wreck 5 .,.
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! But on, and on upon his brow, = IL s'HsA- y.
shadow like some mystic word n.-
4 And. sweeping round the crashing PROV,
I The moan of tempests in his beard W 70 '1
A little longer--wbat remains p. ss. Y
I band Of corpses stark and white
Awilderness Of icy, plains 4"'" e-E
! bloodred sun---a spectral night! a e5.s.,.,
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Vail xva;l a ra,,,;ar, Nort,Jor,, soa ~
In cloudy rhythm and sad, low rhyme
BETTING well the mystery t a.
That brobds DER all the Arctic CLINE:
But never bid thy cruel blast,
Like triumph's trump, souorous sweep
Where eoemnly by the Ymouldering mast,
At last the glorious Vikings sleep.
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Their very failure is sublime
For THERE the upcenquersble will
That in the Spirits mountain cline
Holds Godheed on its summit still
'Tis not the wreath alone that makes
The workers forehead bright and grand
The stdrt that no danger shakes, m4
Gives glory also in the land. y . tZN-
But Wild North Sea if, cruel yet,
Thou bidst the Tempest clap his palms,
And where the seal of Death is set
Roll out the stern, triumphant psalms,
Bid on, bid on--a prophet light
Looms up the far-off waiting years,
That give thine isles calmer night,
And softer airs and happier spheres. 5s So
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The world is Mans Awhile the King
May wait for many a glorious gem, 3 45t
And hero-toil and time shall bring s..3 -.,,,
Z All jewels to his diadem:
The fre-crowned Monarch yet shall stand n r
With every element his own z5.., 5.7, .,.
Cloud, Thunder Ocean, Air, and Land, '3N a.
All tanned and crouehing by his Throne. so
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Then roll, roll on, Northern Sea!
Defiant unto us If thou
Canst not as yet the conquered be
e Beneath Vikings plunging PROV. 5
But see. the partner of the Brave,
Who sitteth in her widowed woe,
For whom, beside the Eastern wave, za 4
y Even Hope herself has ceased to glow
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And for awhilethy tempest still, "a .5v-
Nor loudly draw thine icy breath,
Where on the Norland's snowy hill = z.-'-@
The oe.an-Rider lies in death.
No iceberg laundering down the Deep }sz. .s ~
Gould make thee sublime. as when
Such stiffness brooked o'er the sleep
OF lost, buttsti uneonquered Men! ~
Nsv York, 1854. [Journal of Commerce.