St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-08-26
The Cable of the World.

The world is finished its spinal cord is laid
and now it begins to think \ living nerve
has been unwound from the Anglo-SaXon heart,
and tied in true love-knot between the olo
World and the New Time turns loitcrer on
its westward way, and Sea, the narrow sclv-
edge of the globe,
When the CRYSTAL Palace was opened in
London like great eye, its rctina painted
with all forms of art and science and indus
trial skill everywhere from the marble that
only waited Divinity smile to kindle into
life. sing Memnanian song, and bid humani-
tv make room for it in heart and household,
to the tall corn, that had waved its green
sabrcs and salutcd prairie morning; from
the India lace, - the woven air y of DacCa,
that one nights dcws could hide, to the
American canvas that stands unrcnt, like a
sea-bird's wing, the ppings of Cape Horn /:
when that great eye of the laboring Age was
thus filled with its shapes of beauty, there
came to it in sealed case a HANDFUL or
and sent all fresh and fragrant as they were, 4
token to the Old.
We remembered what long years of expert
mental toll, alternately darkcncd by defeat,
and frightened by glimmers of success, that
little gift had cost what earnest workers,
what horizon Makers had died without the
sight; what mines had been wrought, what
FORCES glowed, what chemists studied, what
Fultons triumphed and of all these. those
western flowers were token. The leaves must
fade, they said, but can we narrow space and
lead captive time, and lay them blooming yet
within that Engli'h heart beyond the sea-
| 1t seemed to Ills then-that nosegay-like a
| fresh thought, borne over the waters even as
the olive branch of old and like that branch,
token of love and peace. 1t was a bringing
near Of the ends of the earth 1t was n flower
that had grown beside a kindred Saxon $
door we were neighbors we were friends.
1t seems to us now-this Oceanic Telegraph
a kindred triumph, through a closer bond
There has been WEDDING in the English
household, and this morning the Old World
woke like Adam, with bride, and found the
New World sleeping by his side
To-day, We hope, but if not to-day, if not
already, then some other day, there shall come
| from the Court of St. James, to the President
of this Republic the pleasant voice of wo-
man it shall bid him and it, " Good morn
ing and good morrow "a wish for now and
hope for then it shall be the voice of Eng.
lands royal lady and then, face to face in
that sweet presence, as earnest as a prayer,
the President shall answer for himself and for
us, GoD SAVE THE QUEEN 4"
And beyond the golden mantle of our west
en noon, those words, the greeting and re-
Spouse shall go down into the deep, dry-shod,
as went the Pilgrims guided by the God of the
Clefted Sea and they shall come up, here
and there, from the sublime baptism, with all
the freshness and freedom of a spoken an
swcr.
And this is no achievement to make mere
wonder; within the sea, set like n precious
writing in a mighty emerald, is one line more
of the earthly Gospel of sweet peace. No Bit
ter thoughts can grow invetcrate now no
time for weaving dark Suspicious web; no
space to make the warm word cold. The
azure curtain hung SO low between two Cont
nents, that its folds were trailing on the deep,
a radiant hand has put aside, and in the blue
embrasure, like two friends, they stand and
whisper round the world.
And when we think of those weary tossings
on the winter sea, month after month when
We remember how like the " Ancient Mari
ner." they hung for breathless weeks amid
the summer Gains, that lay upon the water
like the Savior's peace" on stormy Cali.
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