Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10

TlIlS AND TIE ACORN,
LIT ELLIS LEwis.


A. unused. like dream, by the side Of stream
That was bathd in the ht Of the moons borrow'i ses
I Like a mirror it showed, a unrufled it fo~ed,
/ The events Of the ps-t-the Worlds life in span;
/ All the arts aud the science that dignity man:
All the deeds Of renown that our histories tell,
( All the sins tha, criminal catalogues swell.
As the stream flowed apace each took rs lac
, In historical views of the AdAmite
But q mystical figure, with bones long. and bare
OF all fiesh and all muscle, for was thr.e,
In the rldst Of each scene, with skeleton frame,
omuipresent, untiring. and the same!
And the glass; with its sand which he held in his hand
-i"ss a. .A. $500, - s..s---s -ss-.
And his orelock Of gray, and his eythe, in its play,
And kept moving, ineessant, perpetual and fell
Were the symbols his mission Of terror TO tell
On the point ot Lis srythe he displayed the breeze
A small acorn, just severed FROM of the trees;
the leaves the branch the wings Of the germ,
As il -idr,l and whrled by each cottage ami farm,
Till its home in the wild blooming prairie it founi,
Where entansled in grassturfs it fell TO the ground.
Not moment he paused, put the sand in the glass,
And the WINGS and the scythe before. their race
Many seasons aud years till a century passed,
And an OAK stood revealed where the ACORN cast
And the still smile, and the winters still row
Aud the fisge puts FORTH aud the leaves autter down
While the sands they fall tel! tn. they so
Till the limbs of the bow their tops to ami fro!
And the King o: the Forest, with fear aud alarm,
Pays homage, in death, to the King of the Storm,
As it falls with loud crash with head in the dusti
And its roots to the SKY point to mortas their trasl
Ere the skeleton spoke, with his scythe, at stroke
lie removed a huge block from ube heart Of the oak.
And laid bare to the eye all the year=rowths ths; lie
Betwcen that and the bark of the uproo,ed tree,
50 that every b-hold-r its circles might see;
For those registers told every year a. it rolled:
And the tree when i, fell, thousand years oldi
And the skeleton said, LET the l-sson be read!
There is hope for the low for the high there is irssd
As the lowy are raised, and the proud overthrow,
Let the justice Of Time in his flight, be made knowni
Let the low be content with his tha;chc1vered cot;
Let the high think with fear OF his happier lot
And let all bear in mind there's Col that can smit',
And the kings the earth ledge Ills
And his wings like m eagles as upward it flies
In its through the air TO its home in the skes.
Keep their fight till the young. like the old become gray
And proud nations arise, and then sink in decay,
And period filed with their crimes aud their jars
With the floods and the fires nd the wrecks and the wars
That brought upon man BY his wicked career,
In the justice that Heaven administers here.
And the OAK is more! 1t has turned into earth.
To give fruit which bring forth
But the mound still the had ecnyed
And the pit which they made when up, i, displayed
And the skeleton spoke, as he looked where the oak
Had been s.epOm tho earth by his ruthless stroke
"All the deeds of this lif, have result. that abide
When the actions themselves fost away in the tide:
Be they base, lie they great, be they simple wise
They leave marks which defy Time - lie dies;
Zen the ship marks its way with bright bubbles and foam,