The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-01-07
StItet 3)ottrp.
Ftrrf.. From tho New York journal.
ILOYE THE BEAUTIFUL.


/ love the beautifHli Oh, let me find
4 pathway loT my spirit where on high
The nddnish stars their shining leaves haystwined
And hung a wreath OF glory round the sky
BlossOms of light whose beamy petals sceIn
Dripping with silver or with amber dew,
While tr milling DER me, how I love 70 arvsm
That troops Of angels tend the gurdvrS where ye
grew.
aud when, along The far horizons verge,
The twilight clouds lie bright as fairy land,
hove to watch the OCEAN pillows surgO,
And ssem TO break upon that purple strand:
Whn the full moon seems waited by the waves,
Onward and upward gently to the skies,
As some vastgem, upheaved from ocean caves,
And cast upon the dim blue shores of paradise
And Vi hen he night with sable drspery seems,
Hiding the whole immensely of SPACE,
love to watch the morn with pencil beams;
On he vast canvass of the darkness trace
"A picture of the universe, the lines
So dim at first, aoS ds, Acids and gray,
Then Lrightnng--lil earth's punoroma shines
Made perfect through the eided istas of the day.
Morn seems 10 lean h T easel OH the skies,
And from the fountains Ct the sunlight thero,
Stealing bright drops to mix her mntchless dyes,
Painis with her magic hand, ill passing fair,
picture hides that canvass dark and vas.,
" whose God created hues man still once Mora
Will strive TO initiate, but, foiled at last,
Can only look upon it, wonder, aud adore.
Up:o the storm. clouds have often gazed,
When far uoft their gloomy grandeur grew,
And thought they were like huge volcanoes raised,
To bound an ocean beautiful and blue;
Tlcn hen the lhundcrs mstfed bells were iUaed,
And from those phantom craters enped the glare
az the rcd lightning. To- its hot floods rolled
Like lava sweeping down the pathways of the air.
rlove the beuuti lu! Oh, letme go
Into the forests Silly depths afar,
Where in the dark, ten thousand firefies glow,
Like atoms waited from s)ms shattered star
Where there is stiffness profound it fills
The soul with silence; aud we almost start
To hear the dew which Memory distills,
Dropping upon the folded blossoms of the heart
love 10 see theruddy life blood gush
Up from the hearts tull fountain, and then etea
fayer the brow Of beauty in blush,
tDt Inyely innocence, the rosy seal0
And by Il { voice of loves ihnpassoned vaST.
5Eosee lofty nature gently stirred,
As sgenty as the uspenS graceful bough
Is shaken by the song Of some " lid forest bird,
! lave to watch the host of butterflies
10 which the breezes Of the sp. ing gave birth.
Like mimic angels deeting from the skies
'Fowake themyiac bossomsscf the earth;
Stirring the leaves on every graceful stem,
10 find The honey in its pertumed bowl,
As aiair woman seeking for the gem
Of genius hidden still within her childs pure se,J
love The beautiful! the gushing swell,
Tta low lameut, the sott unceasiag vail
Oimusic sweeping through an ocean shell,
ruato my listening fancy tells n tale
OF some lost Peri VINO once made her home
Within that mystic cell; so passing fair,
Her fuding beauty frshedts peary dome,
And her de partiug spirit left its death song there
Up to the west, where scattered fragments slime
Ofday's rich banquet, l would love to go;
When the red light, like rosy ripping wine,
From evenings sapphire goblet seems to how
There would qnnff the splendor she distills,
And then amid her cloudy realms explore
The caves o light thatriit those purple hills,
And mid their wcndcrs seek tho sunsets colder
ore
On fnncys sea flaunch my spirit bost,