Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-07

ing his long absence, or VI his sudden and myster-
IOus return. And yet he has been dead or seemed
to be, and now refugees in q renewal Of his old pow
ers. And Ut n spring evening, all the woods are
vocal with TIE minstreisy Of myriods Of reptiles
that We spurn from our path and they, too, are
loudly rejoicing in What is, to them, a resurrection;
and from, the vast tomb Of q dead vegetation,
cUmeth up leaf, bud aud blossom, gifted with con
scious lie aud vitality, aud oasb tiny rower.bud VI
sp.re Of grass seem 20
Enjoy the air it b.eathes"
But man, th9 noJlcst work Of God, for him
Earth has no resurrection. Our friends, oui loved
ones, the cherished dariugs OF our humes, 90 iortl
alone aud unattended on their yieNless journey,
aud they come not ogaia. They are free IRON The
toll. the care, The disqu etude. the SORROW und nr
sui,h Vi mvrtals ihey have yut OIf the burden U
morlaii y, The ieIter Of clay, and can Fever wenl
lie chain again. E4rth, beautiful US The All-Fatne,
has mnde It, attracts them not ia the new lie IL
which they cGultIngly rejoice, aud they loiter MOI
among lis fading bowers, lite typical beauties, unle's
perchauce upon sUme mission vi love, they lingei
On vleHless pinion to WOO US aaay from the triles
wish which We are 70 busy, aud which are st.
vain.
May De, when we yiela 70 the soft delicious in
hu,ucos Of tie spring tame, aud sometimes fancy
chat we do leel the uist faint luuerings Oi oui
own hidden wings, ana long to soar away lion,
The peuy cares that ieuer US, and keep the up.
springiug spirit bound when we would be free,
"heD We resolve to be better Ia word, thought aud
deed, to be something more ;han II self resulauna
machine Tor tie performance Ut our daily iaburs,
to do something worthy OF lIie,an oi our glorious
destiny, iAstead ut l0.ung all that is lest anu
purest within rust Uutin Il forced iuactiUn may
W this is hut The pure prom ptiigs they Oring Us
who were once wltn US IN the aeon and still pres.
ent in epirIE to buoy us up On their angelic pm
ions into II nIgHOr atmosphere, aud To exult wiz
them IN u 'newne7s OF llte.' even while We iin,e
III lhis bright ,esubulo Of the Unseen. May he
they are angels Unto Nhom charge is given" t.
bear us ny lest AZ any time our feet should dael
against a stone.
Are they not near when sorrow, uurepinin &,
Yield up lies treasa res unto linn VINO give?
W hen martyrs, all things lor HIS sake reoISulng
Led on the march OF death, serenely brave ?
Sweet is this inuer Consciousness of immortaIit,
this dim, ~shadUwy remembrance Of au eternity
UebIh1, whose joys nave bCen ours, aEu Mhus'
memyries family lingrr within. aud sometimet
IAuil us win strange mysterious power, us ,he,
come flooding back from sumo unknown source
vague, broken aud iraGmentury, yet bright an,
U%eauuiuii aud sweet sull Is the strange something
tor which | have no name aud eau hardly dcscrID
the toll ccrtainty Of a present life, dlsauct aut
separate from the physique, oi Il lie whose 'c.nl.
food L. NOT earthly aud perIshaOle, D; wants an,
needs tor which earth III her outward forms, la
H. supply eVeu, though her highest forms q
Ueauty and g%raudGer seem gifted with u soul an,
are vocal WIth Intelligence, aud each leaf, bu,
aud blUsSUm presents no unmeanlng page ~ gu
inner oye. Aud sometimes :he veil seems 50 tia
that hides the Unseen from cur longing eyes, thu
through It's gtuZy curtains there sulues into GU
svuis u hSht Immortal, and music that Is not U
earth holds the ilstulng spirit entranccd by It's mel
ody, aud We know vi a surety that Ne are sllenti
q walking upon the Guruers vi The Unseen land, ali,
ttaI Ito my sterIeS are all around Gnd within us
=. und we exauit IN tie glorious consciousness, Iha
though suns and systems may pass away
g The sui immortal as its sire
=. SLal! never know decay
CELESllA Il. COLBY.