New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-29

Thoss c.bin pssse psers, the American Pesrses.
While YOU and I, and other iuckiess Josaai
Who work the ship, or suffel in Tue sNsssH
Hereckored dangerous csape ~u1 sss 90
Which roarsd ard rAteo ''dsHsN -''P~s -
A. 70, , ~ . rest. bis hate was warm and hsUy
Acarst al politicians and each party.
No club or council held him in communion;
No doubtful canvass lured him ITO oe,s;
lie never even helped to cave the Cnoa,
or 70 paw of our greatest Statesman deou;
Those ields Of Golden Cloth, on whioo, t"sa~
The Wal street heroes very often bled'
TIE poet Lifts the veil from the INTERIOR and sva
q picture Of bis hero at home.
F,,k;n xas childIess. In bis earlier life,
He had possessed that useful thing, WHO,
Rat failing TO keep psce with hlssTlt stridss
In the hot dash at fortune, by ms sice,
IOrp sirce che f.ltered, faded dropped ana aisa
He Kept his vow to cherish ana TO love her,
Nv building q great granite tomb sbove her.
Which to the world his welded virtues loio,
Jn,t in q them. too, etiG, hollow, and stone ccld
She never knee a mothers tender guy,
OR ess, perchance, its pure, fresh warmth saf
uer rsstso tesrt With new glow had tiu4
And with sacred sire myth her lite insPired;
Rut. in Ter wore than widowhood exusd.
Had taken to her heart an orphan COLD,
A daugtte, by adoption, upon whom,
After bis spouse lay shrined within her tomb,
Fukin himse # con lsceLtly had glanced,
And At. n by step had cautiously advanced,
I'ntil aha rsl.d lis household fer his keea,
Sssscious foresight, in the sirl had seen
A quick, bright spirit, tilted Tor c9nma.a,
And for bis own convenience, lie hsd piAhnco
That he wou'd be her guardian and protector,
Til he could marry her TO some Bank Drecto'
She was fair New. England maiden, born,
Eot here brosd fields OF yellow wheat aud con-
Through sunl.t valleys, wave aud galy tose
The quiet homeste ads with their golden fringe,
While Nature blends tneir warm ana geniS. nasa
In girlhcoo's buc ding glow and virgin Dlusn,
Nor on the hillsides Of the distant North,
Where. from the unfenced fore,ts gushing forth,
Der rocky beds SWEEP tte swift mountain streams,
Whose sparkling torrent, as it leaps and slssus,.
Il kindred to the keener IL Ash that beams
From laughing eyes on pure INSURED fac1,
Willie, ike the Nsiads, crowned with fsbied
Thew haunt and elsdden those dark Maple shsass
Our fairer wooG.nymphs, the GIee0 Mountain
maids,
Rut on the Eastern shore, where the waves brsAk
On rocky hesdlsnds, and the night Winds WAKE
TIE mouInful echoes Of the forest piaes,
Which stretch along the coast their droary lines;
And the sea breezes, as they cone aud 60,
On bt suty q cheek have left deeper glow,
And the eye kipdes like some far OF snip,
Struck with a sudden sunbe An, aud the lip
Wears the sad smile of those whose calmer moods
Are hursed 10y Ocean sands and soiitudes'
Such Was this Rachel; and her nature kept
Part Its early grace and seaside health,
In the spoiled city in her soul 1t slept
And woke. sometimes half CONSCIOUS, hsf By
stealth,
In sudden psases, its calm undertons
Heard by 20 other ear, scarce b. her own,
Nerying the virtue which did not forsake nor,
But kept its native beauty, fresh and green,
In spite Of Stewards and French dresslnaker,
Ard not put and oil, like crinoline-
Virtue, which drew its light and strength and love,
And eerse OF beauty, from source above
The level CT tie mirror, or the date
OF the la-t MODE, or the newest fashion plsts.
Erkin lipself was puzzled to understand
If lie or she had got the upper hand,
In the iccessaLt ehirmish and sword play
Their spirits waged together for the sway
Over each others will; for in the sphere,
Where woman seDse and wit are 81 ong aud cleN,
In the wide circuit Of the heart s donations
She had, AID claimed, and kept, her own opinions,
TIL he began to hate ner and, one day,
When SIZE had given her heart and hand away,
Against his Oft repeated, stern denial,
Ard brought his feeling ~ the final trial,
He threw her OIL, az lightly as the flower
Which IN his button-hole had bloomed On hour,
Placed by her hand perhaps ON some May mors-
ing;
The blow was struck without nome nt's wwnisE.
No present pity; for the past no thanks;
Ard quite forgetting all that bland urbsDity,
Which so distinguished him 10 downtown BSaks.
With its decent be mingled such profanity,
Az suited rather, 20 my VI use Just hints,
A Prince Ct Darkness, than Merchant Pfncs!
Poor Rachel proves to have married dolt, ono d
Q men Of genius about town, who sits for bis pof-
ut, as follows:
But Racheps huf band, for his purse, alas,
Was one Of that fine, brilliant, useless GLASS,
The men OF genius; IN some luckier sphere,
Where every bOcy should possess . clear,
Net Income OF, at least, ten Thousand year,
He might have been al ornament 10 society;
Ha NIL 6ferf Will hat
OF tastes and faculties and mental gifts,
Which, Ike the rapid eagle pirion, lifts
The soul sublimey through the empyrean.
Where chors Of beauty chan. their loftisst peas;
But on descending, hungry, from those upper
Regions Of song, goes starvipg for supper.
He was a master Of the theoretical,
The high-ideal, and the pure esthetical.
The imaginary, my site, and didac.ica
In short, Of everything, except the practical.
bis aims were glorious and mis- thoughts Intense.
Could plan new worlds without the lssst mis-
But in this planet couldn't mako living.
The splendid purposes and lofty schemes,
In which no waited life with golden dreams,
Might, in CtoYia, have made him Lord
Of the ascendant, but they paid no board,
Washing, or lodging in the Fifteenth Ward.
He trs tie variOus callings aad professions
by which men get their hcnors ard possession.
But all their substance his weak grasp eluded,
And still be stood, respondent and deluded,
Upon the brink 0. Fortune, while her tide
Ebbec fast away 40 there in aimless pride,
lie fingered, mrsicg, to his doubts Save;
While Others boldly dsshed into the wave
Divsc through the breakers with their frantic
wrirl,
And thro aga the rocks and quicksands srsspsd TIE
peai.
Luckily Re dies in good season, and Rachel 10
Iown On the forlorn resources Of tho widow. AZ
r trying many unsuccessful schemes, she 6nily