The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-04-27
Che aTeeklp Aonparfil.
THE PRESENT CRISIS.
sr yAxrs RUSSELL 1owr,r

THE PRESENT CRISIS.
Br JAMES RussELL IowEU.
VIXEN > deed is aone for Yreesou. thrUrrs IN. 49,.
ezrth's aching breast
nuns ihI, q ioy prophetic, trembling ea from Ea
And ths slave -hereerh he COVERS fleets the soul with
70 the awful verge Of manhood as the energy spsl,,,
of eentaty bursts full bicssamea on the tkorpy 81.
Of Time. 80
Through the walls o. hut ard palace ssoa.s ~,
while the savAii Of the Ages wrings ear,hs system
Atihe tirtk of each new Era win recognizing
sA'n nd looks al nation, standing with mute LIP
And glad s truth. re. nlrt,er m,n-es,,s
the Futures heart.
50 The Evils triumph sendesh With terror ard .ehi,,
Under continent TO continent fhe sense a. rirn III
Ana the slave whereer he covers, feels his sympathe
with God
In hot ,sar-drups ebbing earthwsrs Ia he s,r,k mn :,
TIL corpse eraws unburie, deiving in the no
bier eIusi.
For manknd are one in spirit. and an instinc. bear
Round the eshs electrie circle the swift FASH o, righ
| wrong;
Whether conscious uneonscious YET Hun,any's vast
Through It's sundered sres feels the cusb Of 10,
4 shame.
In the gain or loss of race all the res. have equal
claim
Once to every man and nation the moment to de-
In the strife Of Truth Faisehood for the good or
evil side;
Some great cause. Gods new Messiah Offering each the
bloom OF blight,
Parts the goats upon the ef, hand and the sheen ro
the tight,
And tie choice BY forever twixt that ard
that light.
Hast thou chosen. my pc pie, on whose party thou
shalt stand
Ere the Dooul from its worn sandals shakes the dust
against eur land?
Though the eauss u evil prosper yet MS Truth alone
And aibri, she wander outeast now see around her
fhTotE
Troops teaatg a,l angels to cnshield her from all
haIIa.
Backward tok acrcss the ages and the beacon moments
That kg peaks II snuk continent Jnt through ob-
Not an car IA court market for the low forebodIng
OF these Crises. Go.Fs stern winnowers from whose
Teet eartb's cbaa must fy;
Never shows The choiee mpmeEtpus till the Judgment
hath passed by.
casesss the great Ayeuger; Hstorys pages but
One dea'' rsappte in the darkness twx old systems
ard the Word
Truth forever On the scaa5ld, Wrong forever on the
Yet that caa5id sways the future, and behind the dim
unknown
standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above
his ewn.
We see dIry in the Present what is small and what is
great:
Slow Of faith how weak an arm may turn the helm Of
fltes
Bu the soul stiil oracIsr amid the markets Gin
List The ominous stern whisper from he DeipAic caves
They enslave lhelr ehilarcns children who make
savcry tbe earrh-born cyclops, fetcs of the giant
brood,
Sons of british Force and Darkness wboha drenchel
the earth with blood,
famished In his seituade desert blinded by our puger
day,
Gropes in yet unblasted regions for his miserable
Shall We guide his sory Gngers where helpless chill
d.eu play?
Then to side with T,uth Is ncble when we share her
Ere her cause hgiu fame and pron and It's prosperous
TO be juSt;
Then IL Is brave man chooses; while the coward
stands aside
Doubling abjeet spirit till his Lord Is cruriGed,
And the multitude make virtue Of the faith they had
denied.
Count me DER esrth's chosen hcroes-they were men
wha stood alone,
While the they agl nzcd for hurled the cunume;i
+ vs. stone;
Stood serene and down the future saw the golden
To the perfect justice mastered by their faith
divine
By one rans plain truth to nsrh ,od, and to Geds
pycmo design.
By the light Of burning hereties Chriss bleeding feet
Telling up calvares with the cross that turns
not back;
And those mounts Of anguish number how each genera
onc uew word Of that grand CREpo which in prophet
hearts hath buried
Since the rs stood sodeJnguered with his face 10
heaven upturned
For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the mar
On the usgeow croucbcs Judas with the silver his
haads:
Far IN rot The stands ready, and the cracking
While the 30 ting mob of yesterday in silent awe
To CLEAN ap the sacred ashes EIstcr golden
'Tjs easy to te heroes to SIT the ii'e slaves
az leccadary virtue carved non aGT fathers graves
wotshpCrs Of light ancestral make the present light
crime
was the Marraer launched BY towards steercd BY
eebiad their tiueS
Turn these trsckx toward Pas, or Future that make
Plymouth Rock sualmep
Ther were men present vao- MD eenociast
Uheouvn ed by sibbett that all vr,ue was the
Bat VIC nssc their truth our fasehood thinking hath
HoaE1ins it in meuldy pa'chmsn's, while our tender
spirits Gee
The rude blast Of that great Impulse which drove them
across the sea
Their have igh.s who dare nj ain them are trai
uFs sTes-
smasherias in ,heir haIy ashes FFecics nev- altar
Ares
shall ue nsske sar creed cur 5siJega Shall &C IN
haste 10 s}ay.
Fror the tabs e the cid prophets steal the funeral
lamps away.
To Ikh, up TIE maryrfsegox rOuni IN prophets OF io-
eaSP
New occssigns teach new dnfiesi Time makes ancient
eas3 snrEufh
II ey must upward s;E and onward, ~so would keep
abreast q Truthi
Lo before rs sIcArn hsr esuy-ares oBrseive must
pilgrims te,
Launch eaF as,rowsr ard s,eez satdT ,hrsuEb the tes
pefste winter
Net si;emp, Faturrs psrtsl with The rssf's blood
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