Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-08-27
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THE SUBMARINE TELEGnApn.

The following prophetic lyric written years nr
by WILLIAM Ross WALLACE Of this city, and printed Il
The Journal Of Commerce, 4.Erst 4.'l
SONG OF THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETwEEN
AMERICA AND EUROPE. H.
SHALL stretch sal stretch rrorn world 10 WORLD
As electrical light from cach star to each star
Making Luminous harmony, deathles as Time,
In the great orbs that people the Heavens afar
o, how MAN will exult when the Flamc-Spirit nics
Ger my frame by the deep ocean. .billow enshrined
While he feels only less than the od or those spheres
As the thunder itself crouches down to his mind.
Ay the storm hepd may stamp on the as Of the sea.
And the levin bolt ceave for the vessel grave,
And the king Of the hurricane shout as he lifts
To a far thirsty Gnpamcni draughts ofthe wave
But I'll laugh as | hear all the battle above,
stilias calm ass lord ofthc wave in uv lar
Where the seas softest pulses alone can lie felt, M
Keeping time to my own like destiny there. -...
What triumph shall swell through my wonderful frame
As feel Ger 1t flashing the though, OF some soul
That is fixed like sun in its own quiet might nal
Over nations TO hold undisputed control
Or to bend on the broad realm Of science an eye
That allmly but revercnt through her deep pierce
Seeing God from the roots of Eterii iy's treo
blossom out in the stars Of Ills vast Universe.
As the stories ofearth-shaking battle-felds iv- 2
With the names fthe conquerors bathing in blood,
And the slaughtered who sleep and the wounded VIII,
. die,
But gladnoss as sweet as the bethlehem hymn RI
Shall be mine when feel through my sad bosom dart
Tie one blessed word Of "Peacc" and utterat last
God is planting His bow on Humanity heart.
Would you know other joys that arc destined for nol
Then but fhe h,
with hopes and their fears like mystical tune
Making discord or melody over all space - p, "nt
Now bathing the ivy-wrcathed toomb with its tears
NowGlling with laughter Llfe's roseate bowers.
Now counting each sow-creapine moment ly cIoufs
NoH erowning its fast-leeting forehead with flowers,
lshall wait, s,ptl wait for the lover afar.
Who Is severedby ptiless Fate from his own: &c.,
How his message shall burn with some beautiful word
leihng yetthat he lives for his pliglited plonei
" nat boundless bright Eden shall glow in a line,
But single sweet line, Tor her womnnly souli
And, oh, as speak it, what innocent Joy
Shall lirradate over my glorious goal!
Twill be mine, twill be mine for the exile to speak
The poor exile by tyrany hurled from his home
For some high, noble deed the Elect Ones of Earth
Would inscribe mid the stars in Eternity's dome,
Yes, by me shall the poor, pollii wandercrten -
10 some hearts far away in the land OF his birth,
That he lives still he lives with the hope of return
To the spot that for him is the dearest on Earth.
But you ask "What the messages through Ocean flashed
"lhforever be brightest, submest to me-
"hlle the giant companion of Time shall stretch
On the calm coral path ofthe deep rolling scar"
Ones the message that tells of some down-troden Cline
Seeing triumph again on her banners unfurled-
And know that blest Freedom must vet thunder down
To the dust all the tyraunous thrones of the world:
And the others the message that speaks of n land
That at last sees dawn on her heathenish night -.
AND with music from Zion's own oracle learned,
Marches up to the heavenly mountains oflipht.
What worship shall swell its hosannas around
What a sunburst shall fall upon some prophecy old
That till then in the eyes of long centuries lay
With meaning too vast to be ever unroledl
Then IN strctc then I'll stretch from each cline to each
cline,
As electrical light from each star TO each star
Making luminous harmony deatlIless as Time,
10 the great orbs that people the Heavens afar-
"hie the hearts of the Continents raised from despair
Feel the mad roar oftrumpcts at battle shall cease
ANA the Earth summer on through the Eden's Of air.
With her broad bosom filed with the roses of Pencci