The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-09-12
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For the Cecil H'hig
TIE DEATH OF HOPE.

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In one harmonious concert swell,
That from liie's turmoil had strdyed
To spend an hour in solitude;
And VIII re Il sparkling fountain played,
lay me down in pcnsvc mood,
L" ponder Ger the llccting day
Oh life, that HES so fast away
II golden dreams, that quickly fly,
Like tiutS that deck Summer SKY.
Soon Fancy onhcr airy wing,
Was sporting mid Elysian bowers,
Where tiowcrs of sweetest odor spring,y,
And birds Of tinsal'd plumigc sing
Away the sprng-tima golden hours.
Before me roIl'd, in silver tide,
y stately river, deep and wide,
Thro' emerald meadows bright and gay,
Anl fragrant with the breath Of May.
There music rose from golden bees
That humm'd the ilowery lea along,
Borne onward by each gentle breeze
That shook the blossoms from the trceE
Or. waited wild bird-notcs of song;
.lnd fountains with their dewy spray,
In GOODNESS bathcd the brow of day,
Asdpvn tn, sleeps they laughing dow, |
Till mingled with the floods below;
Ans. that silvcr-tdcd stream
Whose waves reflect the golden CLEAN I
OF lilies proudly DER it bending,
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With laugh, and shout, and jocunl song.
In haste its lowry banks descending
some stiovc to loiter on the way
Anl Gull the fruits that tempting lay,
Strawn DER that fairy land,
Or, wearled with the Snltry ray,
Sought shades that wood on every hanl
But by resistlsss fate they sacm'd
Urged onward, as that river streamed,
Whose banks they trod 50 gay;
Vet of n lin~ar;ur look thcv cnst
Erhind tn scenes Of pleasure MAST
Nav f.dinr fast away.
And in bright gondolas some glide
Upon that flashing silver tide,
While light guitars they touch, ard sing
Ana r,rb r,y vessel IN i 'IS nr ~"
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But one among the youthful band
That blithc!y trud the flow'ry land,
Sccm'd not Of earthly mould:
Her checks beneath her peerless eyes, I
Giow'd with the hue OF Western skies
That evening rays unfold;
Her shining wrcltl!s of yellow hair
Flowed u'cr her neck 50 snowy fair,
Like clustering grapes Of gold;
And in her mcn, the eve could trace
A lofty pride-a heavenly grace!
Sine chcrred and helped those on the WAY
Who lltgg'd beneath the moontide ray,
And noint..a to Elysjau fields.
Whose skies no storm cloud Ger conccals
Where tropic fruits, and wild aow'rs grew
And from whose valics spice winds blew.
There. mountain peaks arose on high,
IrutD their SUBMITS pierced the sky
Where Fame bright temple rcar'd its spirc
And an her alter ~lowrd the fires
That light to deeds sublime;
And from those gi'ttcr'ns towers sac blcV
\ blast "hich 'lionSauM u. echoes Threw,
UP from the wales Oh Time:
Mu!tltnosS no" OUT me pam g..
And strove those sninlhs spires TO gam,
That flashed amid me SKY;
But ic" c or reached li'"t gorgeous nall
W hence CLARION notes SO ionuly call
70 thosc VINO s,eviily oa',ie L "te,
Or yielding, i"ll disconSo!ate,
Before me erasS tha' lie,
Looming arainst that mountain grim,
Whose ton was in the sky!
While thus view q, or SCENE 10 Wow
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