New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-25

Only with speeches fair I'
6he woos the gentle air -N
To hide her guilty front with innocent snow; -
And on her naked shame,
Pollute with sinful blame,
The sanity veil of maiden white to throw;
Confounded, that her Makers eyes -.F
Should look SO near upon her foul deformties
But He, her fears to cease -o. ... 5 .
Sent down the meeked-ey'd Peace;
She, csown'd with olives green, came softly sliding
Down through the turning sphere
His ready harbinger,
With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing:
And, waving wide her myrtle wand,
She arikes universal peace through sea and land
No war, or battles sound,
Was heard the world around:
The idle spear and shield were high up hung;
The hooked chariot stood
Unstan'd with hostile blood WI
The trumpet spake not to the armed thropc
And Kings sat still with awful eye
As If they surely knew theh sorran Lord was by.
But peaceful Was the night, .,4s
Wherein the Prince of light t
His reign Of Peace upon the earth began
The winds, with wonder whist, 4.a.
Smoothly the waters kist,
Whispering new joys to the mild ocean,
Who now hath quite forgot to rave, q. 6 ..-
While birds Of calm sit broodng the charmed wsye
vi.
The stars with deep amaze m-.M
Stand 6x'd in steadfast gaze,
Bending one way their precious influence
And will not take their flight, # ".+
For all the morning light,
Or Lucifer, that often warn'd them thence;
But In their glimmering orbs did glow,
Until their Lord himself bespake, and bid them 20.
And, though the shady gloom
Had given day her room M&
The sun himself withheld his wonted speed
And hid his head for shame,
The new enlightened world no more should need
He a greater appear
Than his bright throne burning axetrse could bear
The shepherds on the lawn,
Or eer the point Of dawn,
Sat simply chatting in q rnstick row;
| Full little thought they then,
That the mighty Pan
| Was kindly come to live with them below;
Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep,
Was all that did their silly thoughts SO busy keep.
When such musick sweet
Their hearts and did greet,
As never was by mortal fingers trook;
| DiVinely. .warbled voice
| Answering the strnged noise,
As all their souls in blissul rapture took:
The air, such pleasure 10th to lose
With thousand echoes still proougs each heavenly Close
Nature that heard such sound,
Beneath the hollow round
0fCynthia's seat, the aery region thrilling,
Now was almost won
To think her part was done.
And that her reign had here its last fulfilling
| Bhe knew such harmony alone -.=J
1 No.. bold apA ha1o ,,nslrx
At last surrounds their sight
| globe of circular light
That with long beams the shamefac'd night srrsy'd
l The helmed Cherubim,
And eworded Seraphim
Are in glittsrins ranks with wings display'd,
Harpipg in loud and solemn Quire,
With unexpressiVe notes, to Heavens new born Heir.
| Such musick las tits ssid)
| Before never made,
But when Of old the sons Of morning sung,
| While the Creator Great
| His consultations set,
| And the well l-balanc,d world on hinges hung;
| And cast the dark foundations deep,
And bid the weering waves their oozy channel keep.
| Ring out ye crystal Spheres
| Once bless our human ears,
|
| And let your silver chime
| Move in meodous time;
| And let the base of Heavens deep organ blow
| And with your ninefold harmony
Make up full consort to the angelick Symphony.
| For, IL such holy song
Inwrap our fancy long,
Time will run back and fetch the age Of gold;
| And spleekled Vanity
| Viii sicken soon and die, @
| And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould
| And He'll itself will pass away,
And leave her eoorous mansions to the peerinS day
| Yea, Truth and Justice then
| Will down return to men,
| 0rbd in rainbow and like gories wearing,
| Mercy will sit between,
| Thron'd in celestial sheen,
With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering
And Heaven as at some festival
VIII open wide the gates of her high palace hall.
But wisest Fate says no.
This must not yet be so,
| The Babe yet lies in smiling infancy,
That the bitter
| Must redeem our loss zs.=elg. ,5
| So both himself and us to glorify -
Yet first to those ychand in sleep,
The wakeful trump Of doom must thunder through th
| deep;
| XVII.
| With such horrd ciang E. Z-
| As on mount Sinai rang,
While the red ire and smouldering clouds out hraks
| The aged earth sghsst zr.@.-
| With terror of that blast,
| Shall from the surfaee to the center shake; .
! When, at thu worlds last session,
The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his thren
| XVIII
| And then at last our bliss
| Pull and perfect is, G5sz.~. ~
/ But now begins; for, from this happy day,
| The old Dragon, under ground
| In etraiter limits bound, eE 4s ,. #4-
| Not half so far casts his usurpsd sway; .E
| And wroth to see his kingdom tall
sWindges the scaly horror Of his folded tail.
4 -Z XIX.
The oraeles are dumb,
/ No voice or hdeous hum
i Runs through the arched roof in words deoeiYing
1 Apollo from his shrine