Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-02-17

hrtthcrs; here IN TINS black, hitter dcp;h ui
winter, will have II world of slriug. No
storms shall enter it, nor hurricanes, nor
frost hIights, nor drowning dcadness Of rain.
will bring the far Hills together to sur
round it /; it shall he only large enough for
the beautiful Of the earth, and for their
rorts all ofugly and uuc.ng,nial will put
outside the bills.
And wiIbsprinklo the ground with violcts.
that rhildrcn, pcruSing the BRONX side. may
never fail to meet the little blue faces peep
ing from out the reeds.
And | will star the woods with forest
flowers, and the fields with daisies and all
dark, hidden lakes will lamp with silver
lilies but in the gl.w outside the sunshine
will grow alive, and bloom into roses, slicing
all the summer air.
And all the little, merry, living things
shall know and love me | will lie i'll the
woods and sing back challenges to the saucy
birds, watching the pretty sideway slyn'ss ot
their eyes the bees Will follow me" teasing
for my gathered roses II handful of wood
bin" will coax the coy, quick lumning- bird
to nav side; ; | will come unaware uluu the
water snakr. and he will dart for the "ddcs
the dragpn-llv will sit on my FINGER and flash
the green gold from lis royal win,,- | will
tax" the cosy field mouse in my hand M
frightened, and the quaint. blind, soft Iittl"
mole.
And will study sound. 50 close and rove
rcntly that simple brook talk viii become ar
ticulate and | shall understand the meanings
and StriviugS of the poor, imprisoned sea.
And will light and color my world with
sunset, and will warm and quicken it with
June and will frcshrn it with all the
goriousncss of water. the strengthcncr, the
Neutrality-suspicious. eager in catarTctS or
tender in sun haze,o or dainty sweet in fragrant
dropping showers.
And will people my world, beside our-
selves, with nymphs, and dryads, and fairies,
till every seeming solitary place he populous
with care-iree, taste-trce, happy hali-huna-
nifty
So all our lives shall he spent in keeping
ourselves unspotted from the world without
us, holding us ever in harmony with the
beautiful, suffering no discordant issues Of
life to vex our quiet. putting all of ugllness
or pain, or common, coarse lite-druggcry, far
outside the hills.
And the keeper of this carc-free world is
Pocsy, to whom be reverence for evcrmore.
II.
| will make Il world said brother poet :;
here. amid the sullen sOurncss of the l'igut :
gloom, will have sphere of pleasure. No
stormy changes shall enter it. nor FROST
blights of custom, nor deadening dullness of
convention and restraint
1t shall he only large enough for the Joyous
of the earth, and for their poets all of age,
and grief and weakness and daily. coarse life
drudgcry, will puB.outside the hills.
Scatter thy liolcts sparscly hy the brook
side, oh. brother. pleased with little but |
will carpet the earth thick that our feet
shall be lost in living fragrance: tend with
painful care thy few irail roses, but will
cast mine down and heap them for couchcs-
heap them, large and red, all alive, with the
haughtincss of new beauty vet about them
what care we for their qucenliness Let
them die of their too-much life to-day. for
already the sun is busy with the buildings.
filling and bursting their red d;frkness for
our Tomorrow pleasure Content thine
ear with brook music and the sound of larkS,
but harp and tlnte and woman voice, trans
cend them. Suffice thy thirst in water, if
freshness alone suffice thee; but only the
wnc-cup concentrates life into a dav
Hear | will raise thy scattered violcts, and
frcshen them against the fair hrows of beauty ::
will glority thy roses to cnzone the swaving
of Il yet more naughty gracctulness will
drown thy talking brook in loud songs of
mirth and drevel | will reddcn thy silver lilies
in wine.
And SO our lives shall lapse in light and
music pain, and toll, and too much thought
and the bigot's morbid conscience, shall be
put outside the hills forever.
And the master of this cure-frce world is
Pleasure. to whom be all the rrnisc for ever
more.
III.
| will make world. said vet another; nav.
but 1 SEE it. even now. around rs it is in the
haunts. and homes, and hearts, of our brother
men. ltisapL,e of toll and ruin, and trial
WORSE than all, of doubt. | see one amonu
the many. bewill,rrd. almost oyrrvenried in
his search for the Truth OF life On ne ,,r,u,cs.
with ii central faith still glimmerin.y through
the darkness OF his heart feeling IA.infulv.
.one hy one, the forest maze of errors that
check his progress: rising surely. st,n hy
STEP into Il clear country and "A higher ground
of knowledge and love.
And ever. from his latest stand noiut the
chaos more and more resolves into order tine
o horizon widcus, the heavens grow yustcr ;
.lif,'s rommon words are ouick with meaning
willie. close involved in his being as child
viii, mother, life's one purpose grentens in
his s,ul,
To grow better,
Dream at thine ease in the oui,t oh Gentle
indolent prattlr thy harmless RHYMES TO the
few left in the valley; but from the mountain
ton | So. the r,onlr in urorrrss, Humanity
is nv7lk kpulng the fountains of the ornut doom
of selfshneSs ,,e broken. and mirhty issues
of rioht and wrong disturb thc rartb IN its
centre wrongs are being riqhtcd. sorrows are
beine healed: Slavery trpmLlos. drsrotis,ns
are dlsmaycd -eyerywhcrn. The nnorls Of
progress are busy between eortb and heaven
dream on. poor deluded. tbou hast sold ti,y
birthright thou hast exchanged thy world
awakening clarion for a reed, Thou bost
lnrged on the Journey. and Inr the nni,rrse
is moving on without thee,
To CROW hetterl
Bury the, in ros IS. oh sensual l,,,rl.l
of thine awfulimmortnlitv cyennnw tl,r r,in
and weakness and loatLi9g discomfort no hills
can bar. are -clnmorous about thee. POOR. rur-
poseless immortal thou hast wasted thy
uuiyrr. thuu hast attuued ia outter fshnes.
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