The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-01-08
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@ "BEDFCRD GAZETTE"
The worlds a stage, the "Bard of Avon" said
Stage coach he should have titled it instead.
For does it not through Times domnions roll
Just like mail-hack> unto yon to~n of coal 2
And bears it not like those s'swift wagons" too
Its passengers ofevety shape and hue
Who blndiy trust INTO the drivers skill,
Security TO give from every i'll,
Though oft through Dangers realms their journey
leads,
Where sits Misfortune and her horrors breeds7
Then turn We ard through Mem'ry's glass explore
The cleaning track the last years world moved
o'er.
From Arctic shores that bound the Northern main,
To where South Shetland breaks Anarctic's plain;
From indian seas, where coral islands grow,
To Western lands where tropic flowers blow
From Africs wastes 10 where the Andes chain
Lifts up It's peak, as 'twere, in proud dsdaIn;
From English Thames, from Shannon and from
Clyde,
To where far yolga pours his roaring :ids;
In brief, whereer hath trod the foot Of
The year that's gone in retrospect
Mid Winters storms evenifu days We see
Some marked by sorrow, some by nirth and gIee.
There's one whose hours call forth nations sighs,
And one that makes the PATRIOTS hopes TO rise.
Behold the star that lit the Arctic night!
Eclipsed BY DEATHS dark shadow is its light.
Nay, still it CLEANS, lostrous than before,
bright effect whose exists no more.
The name Of KANE shall never cease 10 shine,
Though fed forever is his soul divine =
Again: yon Statesman raised above the crowd
Whose nlaudits rise like peals of thunder loud,
The Kevstone's favorite son. the Nations choice
Declared our chief by the great peoples voice.
Receives into his hand the helm of State,
To save the country it be too late
The months move on Springs fragran; zephyrs
blow,
And e'peeps the violet from its bed OF snow;
The changeful April and the Ieaf-cro~ned May
And aowery June, all quickly pass away =
Nor bring they such events as here might claim
"A local habitation and a name"
But soon that glorious day, whose haIlowed light
Shines DER the world 10 make its darkness bright,
Dawns, mid the thunder of the village drum
And guns discharged, and all the mingled hum
OF merry noises that distract the ear
When patriots know that Freedoms day IS near
The August sun, from out a 'brazen sky,"
down where men IN scores io9tlhet H'e'
The starry banner proudly DER them floats,
Cheers long and loud break from a hundred throats
DsmoerarV's the motto on that flag Of stars,
J)>r,,cyacy. the burden of tnose wild huzzas!
day goes by upon the self-same spot,
Where Yesterday the sun shone burning hot,
T. shines aeaip. but different far the scene -
ranting speaker, who if not so ''grssn,"
A Black Republican might we'll be called
ITO reckon from his soph:stry so bald)
Harangues an audience Of dozen men
Who swear ,hey'll never ssvote with him again.
September passes, too, mid like these,
And soon October crimsons DER the trees.
Election day has and candidates
Think moocily upon their coming fates.
Great @ Wimot '.sumps" no longer Packer frai! "a
But writhes beneath the Democratic fail.
His Kansas stories all were told in vain,
His humbug speeches could not Tor him gain
The suffrages Of men who mold II true
That Pennsyvanians have enough todo
To make laws for themselves and hence
To act like men of good, sound common sense,
We should not NEEDLE with the Kansas folk
Though half their villains did in ha!ters choke.
So cup Salt River he has sailed away,
On board the Abolition ship, DrsMAy.
The "panic'' RACES with November's storms.
The Banks ''suspend'; most ruinous alarms
Seize on the merchant and he shuts has door
On all who credit claim within his store.
The poor man scarce his wouted crust obtains
Now that the Banks lack their i-gotten gains.
And now December with its gloomy skies
Moves slowly by; the wasted Old Year dies;
But, phpnix-ke forth from its ashes springs,
The merry New on swiftly flying wings
And though full many scene has passed US by
Without recognition from our eyes
Though India's escaped our passing glance
Though in zig-zag, cursory advance
We failed to note tn Atlantic Telegraph,
The Fillibusteros, the winged Giraffe,
And other things we should have looked at, too,
We now must close our hurried review
And bidding you adeu, Oh! patrons dear,
Wish you most heartily glad New Year.
Sometimes called Hopewell.