The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-11


With i.r,ent thoughts, % Alu-e ~, miuI s-i.irs.
Aud teach my hand 90 wake the heavenly tyre
Tho loftest strain, . give me 20 command.
To sing the gories Of my native land.
No oensure meets child t13 partial love,
Who lands has parents worth all men above
Affection s sacred faith With virtue blends,
And, though unwiss oT blind IL none offends.
80 patriot bards, in songs more fond than trnr,
OF praise their country when no praise j. due
With partial love they every hemish dress.
While fancied good il all that they possess
But, O America what mortal strain
Can the full measure of thy worth contain
What utmost stretch IT human thought can SPAN
The rich domain Of lavish good 10 man
Who~e verse can live in thy eternal ftme.
OT bear the lIstre uf thy star-srt name
Here Hope aud joy ia radiant union shine,
With glorious Liberty, thy ''right Divine "
Wide rolling seas thy sacred coasts enfold,
To- separate the New World from the Old
Nature grand moats round fret,h'm's Holy Land,
To guard Heavens gifts from yrti4tS IRON Hand
Thy borders strrt.h mum ~herr bleak winter'-
breath
Wraps Nature la the ~ oWy shrOuIs of death
Where virtue, strength, aud enefpy snhlIae,
Endue the sons of ril,' rous Northern CLINE
To vher. u troplc sun anl Genial br,ele
Invite the SDuthrOn 10 luxurious ease,
Amid magnolia shsd- ami rich perfume,
Aud grows amhrusiil with the Orange blr.m.
fhus varied clmes that hushaR,rS may rais,.
Tie wheat, the rye, the harley, and the rnaizs.
To make thy garnered stores carth's granary,
Where charity may feed and gold may buy.
For cotton fOTe and narcotic wcrd.
Grand maintain ranges drink from rl"uls the
rains,
Aud send majestic rivers through thy plains,
Upon whose waters gallant steamers ride,
To bear interior wealth To- outward tide.
Thy eastern coast is deckei with marIs of trade
Where merchant princes are by traffic made
Whose snmPtuOrIs taste, and rich, palstisl state,
Old EurOpe's pruudest cities emulate.
Thet.ee, westward, roll away the fertile plains,
That yield such plenty to the farmers pains.
Vast prairos sweep in seas Of tnrfy soil,
Where grasses spring without the aid Of toll;
Noble old forests with their giants tax
The craftmans saw, the wvodman's telling axe
When nature wild her myriad family feeds
" With clustering berry, dropping nuts, and seeds
Then hill and valley, streamlet, lake, and sky,
In variegated Icauty charm the eye;
SON, balmy breezes catch the fragrant breath
of dewy flowers, that carpet all the heath
And warbling birds, ia joyous concert. raise
To smiling nature noies vi grateful praise:
While every spot is animate and rife
With swarming buzz of happy insect life.
Thus kind Benodccuce, with bOunteOus hand.
Strews choicest blessings DER our favored land
While meath the surface, lie oxhaustlsss store.
OF iron, copper, lead, and othei ores.
Mans every need here rich provision finds,
And no dependent want our progress binds.
Nor yet las nature stinted her supplies,
To meet alone mans chi, ncc,ssites;
But widest freaks che plays IA her domain
Cur wondering admiration 10 enChan;
ln matchiess grandeur rolls Niagara,
Whose thun,trs fill the soul with s.eechi--- awe
Then Natnre arChlue Bridge, stu,sensots, stant-.
: TO shame AL rival work Of human hands,
I " hiIe Mammoth Csyerns penetrate the earth.
I TO where laystctiuu echoes have their birth
Where grim sttiagrlitas mark the lapse Of time
/ ~, drop Iy drop, tie water heaps it, lime;
Aud hig stalactite dOmes, by torches light
I Illusions perfect give Of starry night.
' As civilization trOle these scenes among,
At every step magic city sprung,
whose courts hounteous wealth aud fnIine-s
swell,
/ Where men, Yet living, heard the savage veil
1 O'er all the sceae Peace holds enchanting sway
With town and Vile TO line the Travelled way
Beyond these scenes, towards the western sky
l In Wild, unp-opled waste, vast regions lie,
Where nature spreads, in panoramic view,
Her helds fur countless ages 20 sub1ue.
Here, in the distance thar the vision strains
I Like serpents sewn tlIe long mie rating trains
And bison herds, like shadows, sweep the space
I With Indian hunters cOursing i'm the chase
/ Then loi the III Dorado of the Vest,
. Where gIlded spleudors parting day invest;
Whose mountains drink the clouds sufiusing tint.
I Aud golden ingots mould for coming minis
Euficing 20 seek their gliftering store
n And haste the peOpling Of Pacifc's shore;
That Freedoms halo, fully arching here,
Man. rsisnt, light the whole terrestrial spkefr
- land of promise blest abode Of nIau
O fairest spot in all creation plan
What gratitude in every bosom gows,
To natures Cod, whose lave perennial flows
In richest bountirs, DER our heritage
Unequallei since the Paradisian age
Yet mockiug gifts were these frum natures hand
II ieft Co the tyrsut's RUE and stern command
II selfish pride, and pOmp, and rVysl might,
Should Ecrs defy the law VI equal right