The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-07-18
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have the following splendid poem which must take
the rank of high order of poetry "..
THE EXILEs.
All night the Crystal battcmcnts had shono
With fash Of regal feet and shoathless blades
That fired the sullen skies and deserts lone,
And burned the olive. glades.
The Primal Pair from Eden, sad and slow
Went forth with fatering tread and tones forlorh;
Thus will the mother sob her specchess woe
Beside her dead frst-borni
That rpancd on a sad, accurscd tree.
Through heart ard brain they felt its venom shoot
It's rage they could not flee;
Gne glance they threw back on the withered tree.
That DER the shrouled walls rose grim and bare
Back on the blasted palm that to the breeze
Shook his dishovclled hair
Earth quailod as she the tread of vengeance knew
The l,rk's note sn lk into funeral strain,
The lily turned to thorn. the rose to ycw,
The amaranth to bIne:
With spears the thistle fenced her shriveed bloom.
The lion tapped his bloolbelabb! ed jaw,
The owle shriskcd and filled the lerrous gloom
With an unnatural awe
The bright haired earth, no longer fair and yourg
Staggered and bled grew old, inflm and gray,
1lcr iirs,.born from her brow the crown had wrung
And cast its gems away
She lay before them like mighty tomb
Above whose jaws moaning cypress waves,
a., H., 4 a.
How thick must be the graves;
She shudlered for the evil days to come.
Of famine, plague and wars hot revery;
When flames should sap the wall and rock the dome
And blood foam like sea;
She sighed to think upon coming hour
When men shoall hurl at dol their sullen s:orns
And demons meet with kings in banded power
10 crown a MAN with thorns;
To think upon the days when wood and stones
Should steal the incense from the Eternal shrine
And men should sit and mock each others groans
And drink of lust like Wine;
Forth went the Exilcd Ones in fearful mood
Through altered groves and ghosts pfglorics dead
' To where II stretch Of dim, funercal wood,
Bhasuy SHADOW spread
Weeping they paused for now there came sound
A still and 10 breathed murmur of the air,
Like fountains heard in dreams it came and bound
And thrilled the Exilcd Pair;
Tuintly it crept at first tken stronger grew,
Till all the breeze was musics rosy way,
And from the stricken -arth and fading blue,
1t said, or seemed to say
We who from the lighhings fly;
OF Slecyless, Holy Eye
And for whom the blaze of wings
From yon intcrdictel walls
Blasts the earth aud Kinks her springs
Whercsoc'cr its spcndor falls
Yc who taste but the beginning
of The bitter draught Of SHINING,
Present tears and trcmblinss know,
But II furctnsic of that woe,
Which. with minglr, fire aud tears,
Shall baptizc the future years.
I'LL the desert and the wave,
Mountain ccf and cave,
All shall he II tomb, grave,
Whittier your pale tribes shall fly
With dali car and leldcn eye,
Stiff hands folded on the breast,
Shrvclied brow and heart at rest;
Ie on whom in evil hour,
Fell u shadow and power,
When in look and honicd word,
Pleased, serpcnt's lore ye heard,
And spell was in his eye,
And upon his tongue lie,
And We smiled upon his smile.
Till he bound you with vile. ..
Know, upon your sorrowing eyes
Eden fields more shall rise.
Yet faint We not. brighter morn
Shall within the Fast be BORN
Rolling in its golden car,
Ger the earth shall rise Star,
On the glmmsring hills by night,
Shepherds hail the glorious sight,
And rushing sound shall thrill
Through the midnight lone and still,
GLORY 20 the King on high,
To the wanderers from his ficc,
streaais and springs that never dry
of his agonizing grace
,f Blood upon a Mount shall fall,
On that blood the dying call
From Slecper's death-couch cold,
Shall mighty stone be rolled,
And the pierced and shrouded clay,
From its cerements burst away,
,Wecpcrs who your doom dcplore,
Calmly go and weep no more,
From your Father torn and tost
Ye arc exilcd but not lost - IT,
New PnEsros, COM. T. II.