New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-17


To bold the honor OF the man love
Above all private feeling. Perjury
To the high Gods; distrust Of him whose cholcs
Hath touch'd a life with radiance, should not be
The primal sc's Of union-Ths demand
Made by The Oracle must eTpound-
And crushing nature, rsise PROSTATE Rome.
Written on every hand but strangely dark
To our groes vision, the DEGREES OF Jove
Break on the soul, pail in The wondermen.
OF its own blindness. " The M ,st prscions gift'-
Is rot the breathing consciousness we hod
A. Heavens choicest blessDg-is not thus
A tribute worthier 70 sppease It's soorce
Than Labor produce What Pri;'dof Rome
Have We not heard the very pavement shout,
As Cprtius iroce the street do We not give
The armor that he bears and IN tho lightning
Foresee bis coming fame Must repeat
A name all Rome has clamord
J. that should crown this day with Love best gin,
Nov point the way 70 death. Glory has shons
About thy brief career; no step OF thine
But Jeff irs trace of rsdiarce; thou alone,
BY modesiy prevented a. shield,
Hast walked unconscious; |, IN shade apart,
Have seen the open Heavens beckon thee
While earth yearrs for the last embrace of him,
Whose place above is won.
Now With one voice,
Ye Romans, shout your safety; for crave
The moor approval custom gives brave deeds
Yet first break silence thou of whose supper:
II would be sin 10 doubt-Nsrcus come hlther
Fold me TO thy heat-say have done WE'LL
Or else thy silence browns the thousand tongues
That urged me to the deed
No word No breath =
Dost thou repel me- and these friends stand fxd
Az statues to behold itl-FOol TO think
The cunning Gods had yet n psng reserved -
had not looked for this
(Ske falls upon the Paremeatj
But Curt US, though yielding for moment to
the weakness of humanity, proves no recreant 70
the call OF duty and shows himself worthy of the
high souled Roman lady who has thus pointed
out bis impending fate. He seeks another inter-
view with Lyteria, which is described in very
effective scene. We have room for a small por-
ton only
CURTIUs.
Hiss man no right - question The decree,
That claims the grea'ts' proof our faith can 0or
LYTERIA.
No, not the greatest for although the world
Counts ever pang that strikes the humas breast
In service - coLs pcdous, and lands
lAs it is meet 1t should the Champion doomd
In one great set 10 yield all men mos' prize
Yet stronger trust must nourish the long iIyes
or those who, IN obseurty and toll,
Receive poison with each vital draft
Which silll supplies the wasting heart OF Want
With energy Ia suffrr, -rhou hast been
Most blest in golden opportunity
q snow iNc VIRUS st"iu- III wy bft1Ni-
But think of hin, who feels, a. may be- longing
Strong az thine own for honorable service,
Whose feniue Cains plsce no less exalted, ltste
Than that where thou hast stood;-yet, bound by
To poverty or cbaif ed. with fetters forged
By lin Ancestral 10 some feeble frame,
That may not oct the mandate OF the will
Supports through life spirit vsiDy striving
With destiny 10 mortal strength can master.
have mark men unpitied aud uoknown,
Battling gairst hope, with stern anversuyi
49,. faRs. q nat fn IA va
OF our press being, drunk with the applause
OF geneI atioDs, present and Ia come.
Asks not 60 great a trust in Heavens love,
As 10 endure that being strippd OF all
That makes our bondage pleasant.
CURrIUs.
The SOUL fnd
With iis own misery, pictures as fair
All 9th forms ia which Woe stalks the earth;
And life, with sill lis agonies. is still
SO precious, thst We f1ndly cling 10 gross
Ard sensual nature, where old Use 50 ties
The won'ed spirit, that it shlinks TO leap
Into the upl nown future.
LYTEMA.
T ia well said.
There is q chilling GOODNESS in the grave
Which must fear, even when lies fever burns
Most pOteLtly within US: Some rude Jar
Must shake Us all, ~hen earth last tie is broke.
And most they feel, who pus led by Age or whippd
BY licensed vice, are hurried to tner DOOM
But to the scent Jove selects 10 free
His city from destruction-the great nigh.
OF breathing pature shall be liz with ores,
KiDded by love in every beating heart,
That thrills with its deiiverencs. A fame
TIE highest msn can covet shall be thine
SO long AZ Rome's great founder shat be borne
On tines enduring s'rs sm-so long as children
Learn the great justice that stern father dealt
To those whom he bad cherished thy brave name
Shall shine conspicuous. No age can oim
The luster Of such nozzle sacrifice.
Wien chiefs of present fame and bards who sing
Their praises, shall exist bat in che earth,
From whose full bresst new tribes shall draw sup
port,
Thou stll sbslt lve-immortal as the Right
Which beckoned thee to Glory
CURTIUs.
His blood flows
Less warmly than doth mine who could resist
Sucn utternnce. Lyteria-wife-torgiye
The lack of strength, that bred the sin Of cu,sd
Suspicion. Thou art true-true-an most faithful.
LYTERIa
Speak not OF that-buC tell me, | sm stampd
Once more with loves warm signet on thy heart.
cURrIUs.
blush that thou shouldst ak. A selfish churl
For some time u e sembsnce men call Curtius.
Now the true owner rules. i hear through thee,
THE voice of inspiration and OBEY
Its awful mandate Yet how strange to choose
One tied TO earth thus strongly! Why take hearts
Beating 30 quick 10 life's fresh hsrmonies,
While Thousands, bending beneath age and care,
Pray for the end, unanswered. To leave thee,
When fret rightly know thine excellence
Oh Z is fate too hard. No. bench not
Yet some complaint must struggle to the air,
When the celestial fountain of such love
IL rudely turn'd forever from his path,
Ii lesped from earth to gladden., and to bless.
The final catastrophe soon hsstens on; Cartius
plunges into the gulf; the pestiense is appesssd;
though not before Lyteris, to all appearance, has
been struck BY its fatal shaft. The bystanders
await her speedy death; when she revives, and
crowns the heroism Of her career by living for
her sged father, instead Of dying with her hus-
band. The character Of Lyteria is the most in.
terestiDg feature Of the poem. As an embodi-
me Mt of the m0st mhlima elementa of woman 4