The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-05-21
Ny Father.

@, had thoughts, in words expressed
A magic power to scoths the breast,
Ia touch the Tyre and wake for thee
The sweetest lay Of minstrelsy;
On swift Pegasus pinions borne,
Id court the smiling beams Of morn,
And on it, dizzy height would stand
To esckon thee to prairie land
But, ahl no gift 50 sweet IL mine,
dare not tempt the sacred nine
on heavenly wing to mount me high,
To lave in beams of ycudsr sky
For when immerged in heavens own ray,
The tickle mnse would speed her way
And all betiimned with mildes dearth
NV fettsred soul would sink TO earth.
Ny Father, o. the magic Of that tone
As meath my window easement, lone
/ sit and dream-yes, waking--dream
80 sweetly. sadly, meath the moons pale beam
The clock has teIlsd the midnigh, hour,
The dews have kissed the gentle flower,
And nature bids me seek repose;
say, shall my lids in slunber close,
When burning thoughts come yelling fast
And bid me sock the dreamy past
And mid its SMILES, It's hopes and fears,
Survey the track Of two short years
Ny Father little hast thou known
The web Of fate around ksr thrown
Thine absent daaghter-little guessed
The weight Of grief her heart oppressed
When eheerful words shes borne to thee
To set thy anxious spirit free,
For love would Rot that thou shouldst bssr
one bar,ien more Of anxious care:
Though mad waves lashsd her puns bark
And for awhile the sport, the mark
of idle songuss,-and malice deep, inwrousht,
The very Likelihood Of har being sousht--
Though not star IN darkness, gsess-
To light her path. Lily daughter stood
El-l3ss4;--no loved one near 70 bleo,-
she stood slsae,-but scoSnsd redress.
Ny Father pale and eold the moon locks down
II night, IS Ei1 angry t:ow1,
On sogd and vsterS--but tie gentle waves
Swell p!oadly ou,--tts ripple lsvsg
The peaceful shors,--and q. mirror, CLEAN
The water. Of our own prond stream,
Tbs Missi=sippi, il wouldst thou know,
Thy axughter's heart stands rrm and rrus
Tie tsnpest's rage has spent Its might
And gentle stars with gliu'ring light
Sov ave- round thy loved enc CLEAN;
And cen the past, IS but dream.
4 troubled dream, sbs would forget
With seal upon rs dsrk wayes Set
Thy loved oEe nos IL spiris turns
10 ties ny FatbsE'-sni it yssrus
To clasp thy loyei iurEn once assi1
All have brss;hed f,ful SIR an
t. thee tonight DO notcaide;-
ras cold worlds frown rhs may ah!ds.--
But not thine anger--do not frown
Upon thy ehild,-az look ,hs moonbeans down
In pity, bless hsr trembling row
A thou diist Two short years ago,
And breathe those earnest words once more:
D speak 10 ms.-as once ofyore-
When claspsd my trembling hand Il thine,
Thou bai'st seek SUMMER cline;
Oh cold their hearts wh9 said unblsst
Thy daughter sought the besuteous west
aud false their love, who sweetly smile
Zen but to wound thy absent child.
D once more thy arms unfold
70 clasp thy daughter:--chili and colo
Her heart has gruwn:--but she cannot
Thy love distrusts--thy blessing YET
Nal wake her soul to light and love;
And blessed angels from above
win guide her trembling bark Alright
Thgugh, as a darkly eurtsined night
Her pathway seems; the present hies
q, fast avay-the future lies
CHtrod before her.
Father in Heaven,
] drink the cup that thou hast given;
Come life Or death, in good OF III,