The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-03-24

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preston The following beautiful poem the emansuor
Of high order OF poetic feeing-jousd with rare gf
Of genuine songl
Sheer from the glaciers of the frozen zone,
Bugled and crowned with ltt'ring icioles,
The Storm Queen comes, with thunder drum,
and trumpets. lyen
The great stars boldly stride the noor Of llea
Naked and laughing while in corners crouch
Huddled together, drowsy with the cold,
The wiring consultations. Wildly tolls,
His fierce eyes flashing fire, the Northern Bear
Among the coud-drfts, like bison bull
Bafiied mid SHOWS Of the Wind River noun.
tains.
The dead gods OF the Norsemen seem alive,
Rushing tow'rds Asgard for a mighty wassail
And waves Of tumult dash against the shore,
From out sea of darkness, as il all
Valaskislf, the silver house Of 0dln,
And all vahalIa ran with blsoi, and skulls
Were brimmed incessant by cup.bearing Ida.
l care not for this royal storm commander,
Nor for the darkness, nor for all the cold,
Nor all the naked dancing in midether,
To freezing music, of the voiceless planets.
The Allies cannot scale my steep sscarpments
Nor spike my bolts, nor shatter with their
cannon.
Rock'mapie, sycamore, and silver pine,
Prairie and white oak, blaze stern defiance,
And shield me with Malakotf of fire.
Slppsred and wrappered like an Ottoman,
On my divan reclining, essay
To comfort me with what find about me,
And what ] find not, fashion.
Books which stand
Like turrets, whence the disemb bodied souls
or their immortal authors gaze toward Heaven,
Throng round me tipped with sunset; and
grand thoughts,
Winged like the cherabim, swoop from their
height, TIN
And fan the dull earth downward, downward
My feet upliited move among the stars.
The vague Morgans deepens. At q word
My unseen servants bow to me, their lord.
And run on king like errauds. Stone by stone,
Silent as Solomon his Temple bnilded,
They build palace for me, and retire.
Air-pillar'd are its soft.hued galleries,
And iountain'd halls and vista'd corridors;
Yet from their walls, festooned with banners,
blaze
RGnlgent glories Of the Vatican.
And through them. in perfected beauty flow,
With gentle undglations, those love,
Clothed with the robes Of immortality.
ripping murmur follows as they 90;
ApAf ra, 81.
Celestial. rises at their fee, translucent.
Soft ming their brightness "a a mountain mist
A moon rise Of Glenhelen. Earnes, hopes
Float downward TO me from Invisible height.
OF possible futures, till the present thrills
With benedictions and with prophecies.
The thunder clouds Of trouble pause afar,
With all their lightning IN them and stand
Amid the trophies Of victorious battles,
And firm resolves, which buoy me like wings
Through zones OF conscious capabilities.
Whole heca,onbs Of hours / sacrifice
Daily TO Hermes, yet the stern god frowns
Til! all the sunlight daTkeus. Pitless
he points towards my affairs. reared to him,
And they pas int nsihingness. Ny heart
frembles within ne till the twilight comes.
And gate opens 10 f,irer realm.
Andholisf, than h!s--so small. 40 vast,
so bslmy with the music air Of Eden,
so shadosy With the tree. Of Paradise,
80 sersph.haunted and so .iiyer.riyer'd.
That all Aoaia cannot vie with i.
The Great Sea, syria A-.W!a.
And The Desert, DO lie about ,hi, vailed
And marm roa. Palestine. wherein repose
spirits serene, harmonious while without.
The weary, actual. million notrVed men,
Wrestle with shadows u imagined i..
Hournfal, and all pcryAius, ss the roar
OF FAR OF breakers IN the star yht. or
"A % !ansmcrabic nuli!iades
seleagn.ring \ city o. the .ea. theirs.
Their cry wall. rorni me. sad ny cry with
soon, when the sawning broaden. INTO yhi,
AMI saur.-e, burning "a The hI.. a:No7b,
CTmsons the c'ir. %: Jalsh. m..t We meet:
Asi they S.il conquer --Po.lt.ls tOx I'd. the
hills
persiyely. beyond Which lie. ny place
And harle.. ne 20 implements Whose use
.nos Mt, Az! sIoE ..ek Of Axsrt TO irArh.
still clash he elemental di.,ord. sull
The hurried mA.ca.ag d defeated Day
Echoes across he battle .Gs.i MEN.
Conminglng With ,ae - .r'.n,. = 70 r.,rs5r.
And I, .eH crowned .1g rl''rg tli uora
Phantom. ase ins0rporsA e.-sncs..
Resign M .c.p,rs for a. A-asn spear.
,aaps aks lil4rs b.. EA o @ aa-as..
SAM Pa l. girsL -r, L.
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