The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-01-01

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THE LAST We '' N - sSuMN. !
per the bare woods, whose outstreched hanss-~
riesd with ihe leaden heavens in vain,
see, beyond the valley lands
The seas long level dim with rain.
Around me all things, stark and dumb.
Seem praying for the SHOWS 10 come, ~
\ Tor The summer bloom and greenness gone n
IN winters sunset lights and dazzling morns atone
Alons the rivers summer walk
Hhe withered tufts of ascrs nod;
q trembes on its arid stalk
! boar plume of the golden-rod
go The wind, that fails 10 stir
pre- studded Juniper, r.
- birch itsbuds OF purple shows ~
berries tell where blOomed the sweet wild
70 81 sound Of horns and bells,
:, ssc "a 81 iSsos - 2
Storm-sent, from Arctic Iuoors and .l.
Like great arrow through thu skv
Two dusky lines eonverged in one
Casing the soutlwarday sun;
Nhlslne brave snow-bird and the hardy inv
all 10 ghcm from the pines, as if 10 bid them s,,v
Ipa,sed this way year ago.
Use wind blew South; the noon of dav
Vas warm as Junes; and save that snovv
Fec,ed the wild mountains far away
And thai the notwithstanding breeze
Knocked AIDED grass and eafess trees
might have dreamed OF summer as | Law
Watching the fallenIeayes with the soft wind at pla
since ,bcn The winter blasts have piled
The white pagodas OF the snow
On these rough slopes, and strong and wild
Yoa its overflow
J Oi sprng-tms rain and sun, set free
Crashed ices 10 the sea-
And over ihe>t gray fields, then rsen and eol&---
The summer mas waved, the tnn<efs organ ROLES
|Shnt pomp o rise and SHUT Of day,
hat hues wherewiih our Northern elm,
Makes autumn's droppisg woodlands gay,
What airs outbown from fSrny dels
And clover bloom and syicerbrer smells,
Int songs of brooks and birds, what fruits and flowers
cen woods moon-lii SHOWS, have in its round been
oars,
TT VII.
know not how, IN otler lands
The changing seasons come and go;
What spendors fall on Syrian sands, ~
What purple lights on Alpine snow
Nor how the pomp OF sunrise waits
On Venice at her watery gates;
A dream alone 10 is Arno vale,
and The Alhambrs's halls are but a travellers tale.
VIII.
Yet, on lfe's current, lie who drifts
Is one with him who rows sails
And he who wandcrs widest, ils
No more OF beau,y's Jealous wells
Thaa he who from his doorway sees
The miracle Of flowers and trees,
rse s The Orient in the MONDAY air,
rom cloud minareis hears the call prayer
!. X
may we'll be glad that looks
trese>.. 49, tt~
= Bus he who his no rso<-
- r s.1,Eh- = De s',e has ;,en IL, 4
fha ashie palace 81 Ind
Ksst round ham in llie snow and wind; i
f'foa. @.l one su.v,..bricr Pefsian iIaLs smiles
Aud Romes cathedral is in his woodland aises.
y Anc nus IL my fancy blends
4. II near at hand and CIR aud rare;
Aud While The same horlpn bends
Above the silver-sprnkled hair
Wa n flashed the light ofmorning skies
On cnldhood's wondcr-lided eyes,
Within round of and sky and field,
Earll wheels with all her zones the Ko-nos stands
yealed
And thus the SEX man on his bed
1l,e torer 10 his task work bound
Be- I'D their prison-vvaS oujspread
III Their clipped horizon widen round
Willie freedom-giving fancy waits
s. I4ks Peters angel Al the gates,
The 20 yer is theirs To battle circ and pam
10 brng the lost world back, and make theirs again!
XII.
W.,at lack OF goodly pany,
when masters OF liz ancient Tyre
& Obey my call, and trace br me
Their words OF mingled tears and fire
l talk with Bacon. grave and wi-e
read the world VITA Pa4cal'S eyes;
Aad priest aud sage. with SOLEMN irovS austare
And poets, garland-bound, the Lords of Thought draw
near!
NH
h Msthaks oh friend, heir .1ce say
sin vain The human heart we mock;
Bring living guests who love The dav
n Not ghosts who fly n row Of cock.
The herbs share with llesh and blood
are better than ambro.Ia food.
Wth lsurelled shades" grant it, nothing 10TH
pat doubly bcst is he who can parlake OF both
XIV.
lie who NIGH, Plao's banquet grace,
Have not seen before iuc sill
And watched his puritanr face
With more than Eastern wisdom lit!
Shrcwd mystic who upon The back
sOf his Poor Richards Almlanack
wrhhg the SUITS song, the Genloos dream
Links Menus age thought to Fuons age OF steam!
Here too Of answering love secure
-, s'-@~-e.an-.rsg icon.c, to my hearth
T. % ~. 'roubadour,
VW &c ~rded half the earth;
NlNrrreon the Eastern lover SAT- IT
- hor,f me Rhine lands purple vines, z.
Nusia's iawny sands and Phfygia's mountain pines ~
NvL not
And he, who TO Tue lettered wealth vi
I OF ages adds the lore unpriced, OF
Fae wisdom and the moral health ly
The ethics of the school of Christ: L
The statesman 10 his holy trust han
As the AtLenitm archer just to g
q * down, exied Ike him for truth alone HUI
he not era ed my home with beauty all his own thei