Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-05-25
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From Charles Dickens new periodical, ".4H the
Year Round"
THE CITY OF EARTHLY EDEN.

LIE VIII OF -uc crown aFailGLA iAOL
To expedite their prOmis'd lot;
But mine is strong and stern as Fate;
And I or the earth will emulate
The porap OK thst celestial state;
Till, IKE planet vast aud bright,
That dazzies The day ard kills the night;
And waneth never, nor tskeih flight,
In the heavens shall hang the golden ligh:
of the city of Earthly Eden
Depart, then, to tie mines tha. lie
In the caves Of the mountains far and nigh,
And out of the heat and the swsrthy gioons
OF Naiu.e's subterranean roons
Bring heavy Jumps OF burning gold,
And lar. of silver. white and cold,
And the ehrysOlise, glancing yellow and green,
And the emerald, arro-y, quick and keen,
And The ruby's throbbing heart OF splerdo1r,
Where TIE prison a light beats soft and tender.
Anc trsrabies, tEixt love and sorrow ana bliss,
Fer TIE outer Eight which it can bu, kiss,
But neVer shall join through tie endless ages:
And lei the lords and the greybesrd sases
Search cut, with diliSea. toll snd pain,
A spot on soue delightful plain,
Where rivers fcur form mountain single
Their waves with IrurnuEing measure mingie;
And there, TO SQUAD of choral song,
Build the bases steady aad strong,
And lifl the terraces Iight and long,
In the City Of Earthly Eden"
The Tassals heard, and how'd, AMI went
Their several ways, and the HoRderment
Was blown abroad to the Itternost So1nd
OF the great esrth's ali containing round;
And the tribes and nators hurried forth
FROM beyond the nation, of the North,
And fran out of the windy Seythian waste,
And the Indian jungies intsrlaced,
And the valleys Graded in the stone
or Kaf. the wOrld's gigantic zone,%
And wide Arneni2's pastoral lands,
And awful Egypt, and the sands
At the solemn heart Of Africa,
obedieHt to their mighty Shah,
They sEsrn'd like dies; and, after these,
Froa the distant Islands Of the seas
CaIne more and more; and all ADDRESSED
Their minds towards that strange behest,
That they might see, With living eyes,
Like slowly kindiing dawn, uprise
The glow Of this new paradise,
The City O: Earthly Eden.
For twenty years, With IaSour stark,
They mined and dug by light and dark,
And the naked divers dived for pearls
In the Indian oceans perilous sNirls,
And the slaves collected, piece By piece,
Saffron and Eyrrh and anhsrgris. o
Then they sesreh'd ths deserts far away,
And the grassy sieppes; till, on day,
They found plain o; vast extent,
TArspeh which four flashing rivers bent
Their iuterweYen course from where,
In the hot horizons qni7eriug air,
The sOft blue mountains lay like smoke,
Or nists OF morning; and they breke
The soil, and, under the hollow sphere
OF The heavens, e,s.nal and aus:ere,
They marked the circuit Of The walIs,
And tie fanking towers at intervals,
And cried, with roaring. B2cchsnal sound,
''Behold, behold, the chosen ground
That shall, in the lapse Of time, be croEnd
By the City Of Earthly Eden"
Then day BY day, and year BY year,
The severins deserts, sandy AID sere,
Were cross'd by the long professional lines
or the c&aels moving from the mines
Moving sIerly under the sun,
Endlessly moving, one By one,
Each over his gliding shadow steering
His ship-like way, as the shadow, yeering,
And dsindiing now, and now dlia;ing,
On the suns grea: course kept hunbly waiting.
From the tracts snd countries across the sea
Came the winged vessels bouEGinsly,
With jasper, Of naAy a tfezkish stain,
And the spiky coral Eish biusaing grain,
All virSin-fresh from the cloister'd caves
And the lonely diERess Under the waves,
And agate, and red cornslian.
And pe-fumed wood. from which there ran
With . motion that inf sr'd reluctantly there
Gums worthy to weep in the glamsrr and glare,
And to breathe their odours into tie air,
or the City of Earthly Eden.
Up IN is loyeliness rose the CLEAN
or the pSlsces wrought in that city Of dream;
Up rose each lofty pavilion,
Tier by tier, till it ligh.en'd and shone
Far over the plain with restless rain
OF splendour, d4EIling eyes and brain.
In channels OF gold, through the streets below,
The wandering rivers we're made to flow,
Feeding with freshness, up from their roofs
CTin the ssp lAugh'd out ir.o hOvers and frui.s,)
The trees that were planted reposngiy
Wherever the water sIinmsr'd by:
And high in the heavens, like ice and fire
CoDningled, one central diamond spire
Froze in its burning across the domes,
And the towers and temples and sybarite homes,
And the columns and rsmpsrts and pyramids
AllEring and distant, Ike something that bids
All men turn aside from the deserts, and rest
From the fever and fune and the wearisome quest
or life, and repoSe, as bird in its nest,
In the City Of Earthly Eden.
Proud and exuiting, the Ruler of men
Saw his vision of glory completed; and thsn
BE marshali'd his warriors, host on host,
Many and bright as the waves on the coast,
And trooping like waves in e measured accord,
And the women who own'd him as husband and Il
And the dancing usicens, dancing in time
To the rythm Of their ankiet's chime,
And the sIaves and the courtiers, and all who lay
In the light of his presence like in the ray
or the moon. when the moon is full-orb'd in the S
And he in the midst, with his sovereign eye,
That kindled superbly whenever the blast
Or the trumpets came Ehirling and eddying past,
PROCLAIMED The new Paradise made by his will
As he spoke. the air, hardening, droppd aSfully
And when he lad fnish'd, that princely rout,
In the freshness Of early dawn. set cut
With much Of hGpe, and something Of doubt.
And fatter Of fear that erept about
Tor the City o. Earthly Eden.
Into the deserts they rode. Each night
They dreamt some dream Of the coming delight,
And all day long through the trampIing throng
FloE'd the wave Of a heart-uplifling song.
At length, Ger the solitude, lucid and vast,
And dilating and sun-like, the city grew fast;
v hen suddenly, ont of the distance, came
cry of such might that it burnt like fame
Through the hosts Of the monarch, and parch'd
sand