Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-03-05
THE GAZETTE.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH ). 1852

SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH ;. 1852.
THE SLEET.--Hf IT. LEGER L>Np"> CARTER.
Awake. awake the san is ny; awake aud sally
forth,
View. had N rain of j-wrlry from out the frozen
north
The eartl, is robbed in dazzling white, each tree il
hung with gems,
And diamonds in ten thousand shape, are hang
ing from their .teme.
Each bush and every humble shrub. sith precious
stones is strung.
Aud all the purest. brightest thing lay handful
round are flung:
The cinrald and the amethyst. the topa1es behold.
And here and there. rub. red is sparkling in tn"
cold.
The chrysoli,e and jasper see. aud that bright
.ardnc stone,
TIE holy pa'mos prophet saw upon the heavenly
throne.
Here all the gold of ophr shines, with all Golcon-
da, stere.
Aud Who could ever number up the countless my
riads more!
The holly in its darkcs, green with crimson fruit
Enchased in soid silver toe, how rich is lie display.
In green and gold the shaggy pine seems almost i'll
blaze,
With all the suns reflected light. yet softencd t"
the gaze.
The cedar, o, thou favored tree! in Scripture it is
tod
They laid thee in the house of God and corerd
thee with gold;
But great a. was King solomon, he nor the house
he made
We're dressed in such magnifccnce rs tkou hast
here displayed!
l., ,c and
shining threads,
It's brittle boughs all bending low 10 earth their
dropping heads,
And now and then some broken limb comes crash
ing from on high,
And showering down u world OF gems that sparkle
they fly.
The lofty oak, the hundred-li mhd Brareus Of the
trees.
Spreads out his pond'rous lev arms loud cracking
in the breeze,
And as the roused-up lion shakes the dew drops
So does the woodland monarch shake his crystals
DER the plain.
But time would fail to tell of all that bright and
starry host
The northwmd brings to witch the world from
out the realms of frost.
The meancst thng--the most deforrnod-the dry
and sapless bough
The bramble rude, the rugged thorn, are pure aud
spotlcss now.
Ye councillors of earth! come forth, We princes who
have gold.
Your diadcn,s, We Kings. bring here, the jewelled
crowns We hold:
Come. woman in thine ornaments, in all their
costly sheen,
And let them he the lovelest ones that ever graced
queen;
This grass that under foot, this weed with branch
ing arms,
Thus gstenins in the morning sun, hath fifty-fold
their charms.
Then cast your bauhles vile away, ami bend III
solemn thought
TO Him who has this gorgeous scene from storm
and tempest wrought.
Yet this fair pageant must fade before the
breath of noon,
And by the fiat from on high your wealth shall
fade As soon.
o. lay not worthless riches up. which ''inoth and
rust assail,
But those which at the Judgment day, through
Christ. will then avail.
What though the sun SO soon must melt this frost
work aud its forms,
He speaks them into life again who rides AMID the
storms.
So in the twinklinS of AL eye at his last trumpet
dread.
Our bodies. fashioned goriously shall rise up from
the dead.
The sun goes up his destined way, how few do heed
my calls!
In tears the vision ruel,s away the baseless fabric
falls.
too, could shed some tears, alas that this sweet
scene is passed,
For scenes a. sweet it brings to mind, which hea
AWAY FAST