Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-01-05
CARRIERS ADDRESS. the Patrons of the True Democrat.
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JANUARY l, l85

s1yrnn the expanse of the returnless hooo sflfTime whose shoreless waves lhloid
 Fn ave all mortal things, we now oenold lnother year numbered with those that stand Among the palmy ones ot old.
 And tbus the stars of Time on this broad earth Have risen. and, perchance, in glory set, sOv faded in the inessentlal dearth .0fSballowing light, while slowly round them
 met
 .ohivion's gulphing deep, whose dreary frown
 Grew gloomer as each ray
 In dimness wore away
 And their brief morn of life and hope went
 down.
 How like. how very like. wondrous dream .Are our thoughts of them in this weary world We scan their images till our spirits seem To live and wander where their brows are
 pearled.
 4 But tis the lot of man! For change prevails From Aries sands to Zemba's icy vales- Where peace and plenty smiling dwell to-day, To-morrow's dawn sends pillage and decay: And though no vile monarch on nations frown, Nor barbarous horde tread feebler neighbors
 down,
 Their own corruptions ripening with their age, Oerturn, and blot their names from historys
 page.
 Even here, where late our banner we unfurled, And fondlv named our prize a new born world - Perhaps tall cities once rejoiced in pride, And men in countless myriads lived and died. How long they fourshed, or by whom they fell, Tradtion shows not nor can history tell. That once they lived, a thousand relics show; That they are gone, enough for us. we know Psfhaps the red man fierce and cruel came, Swept them from the earth and plotted out
 their name And be, too, change. 'Tis not the world alone, And all things round ir wild confusion thrown It is ourselves Our beings but a stream; Silent and gentle then its current flows And turns aside as rising rocks oppose; Still gathering, as 1t winds amongst the hills, The tribute of thousand gushing rills: Aye, changing still its hue and character, As these rush turbid or flow calm and clear; Thus wild 1t goes meandering OCT the earth, Far from the narrow dell which gave it birth Fil strong and deep, all barriers it spurns, Rolls headlong on, and never more returns"
 Fl hls know we by the past, For longer than the unretuming train
 sOl ages, at the last sEall the great tissue of events remain; And prove that mortals never here below The priceless need of happiness can know.
 Then turn thee to the past
 Sublime immortal vas: treat garner of the wrecks that evermore Forth from the wiudings of the shadowy shore
 Of present life are cast. Among its lanes and phantom temples walk, Till a its frowning heroes round thee stalk, Fill ftfully its dream like melodies Come chiming like the sound of whisp'ring seas, And its untading memories. deeply fraught With all Lfe's lessons, meet thy spirits thought There learn that wisdom which alone is true, Which lives forever in the christening view )f sinless virtue and of infinite love srst dmly symboled by the Elysian dove. 50 shall holier life spring in thy heart,
 Like murmuring waters wake; and thou
 shalt go Forth to perform thy brief and changeful part In this wide world of wo With none more mindful of thy veal and joy Than one, who is the humble CARRIER Boy