The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-16

ny HENRY r'ARop.
lpubiishsd By Rtqaesfi
Here stretched nj ease beneath
This nalnemorigl pine,
Small sphere;
IL. dnskv fingers brought this morning here
And shown with bos-tiuI sniles>
! turn thy eleven sheath,
Through which the soft winnie hnrcs peer,
That with their @oSsamor bands,
Unite ike love. she sea divided lands;
Apa slowly thread by thread,
bras, forth tae folded strands.
Than which the trembling ine,
Isy " hose trail help yon startled spider fed
Down The tall spear grass from his swinging bed
Is more fine:
And rs the tangled Skcin
l'nravels in my hands,
EetwiXt me and the MONDAY light,
a veil SEEMS lifted. aud for mites and miles
The landscape broadcns ON my sight.
As in the li,tle boil there lnrked spell
Like that which. in the ocean she'll,
With mystic sound,
Break down the narrow walls that hrm us round,
And tnrns ne city lane
Into the restless main,
With all his eapcs and isle.,
Wonder bird
In those blue tracts above the thun1,r where
No vaporS cloud the st'inies- air,
And never sound i heard.
MESS ~ such rare time
" ken from the Gay "a. the Blest.
Rings DOWN crlt'"I chime.
So, not from his hi..t place
~ n cirque O: summer space,
~ idcis round Nr in mighty field
VIII IN rIuan.ed by and sands,
Doth hall It's earliest daylight i'll Tie beams
of gray Atlantic da>vns:
And broad as realms made mp of many hands
l. lost altar
Rchind she crimson hills and purple lawns
@. >u'te,', among piaus which roll their streams
Aeaius' the Evening star
Ana la 10 thu rcu"tcs' point 81 sight.
Although gaze ppnn no vast" oil SHOWS.
The endless field Is white:
And the whole landscape GlowS
For many y shining, league away,
With such accumulated light
As Polar sands world fash beneath rropic day
Nor lack there tfur the vision grows,
And the small, charm within my hands,
Nor potent even than the tabled one,
Which "pei whatever golden mystery
Law hid in fairy wood nr magic vuie,
The curious ointment OF the Arabian tale
Beyoud al mortal sense
Doh stretch Iuv sights horizon, and seq
l., neat. - siupi" Influence.
A. ii, with ri,l's crown
stood in great temple OF the Sun,
Ami looked. : tr.ei. down
Nor l;rN there pasture rich AMI fields all green
" ih I'll the common gifts -, God.
For temperate airs and fprrii shtrh
Weave Ed-n+ ri the sod
ihrsu1h !.utt- which took sea OF biii0wv gold
Broad rivers wind their devious WAYS.
\ hundred isles in their embraces. fold
a hundred luminous bays:
And through pItvp" haze
Vast mountains l:it their plumed peaks cloud
crowned;
And save where mp their sides the plowman creeps
Great irarkies> forests grid them grtndly r"nnd,
Ia who's. dark shades future navy sleeps
" stars which though uuSreu, yet with me gaze
pom his lnyr!i'st fragment of the earth
4 hou sun, that kndIr-i AL Thy gtntrs rays
Above it, "a I" yht tavorite hearth
\" Clouds. that IN temples in the West
See nothing brighter than its humbirst flowers
And Won. vc Winds that the oceans breast
Are Kissed to cGoine-S ere - reach It's bowers
Bear witness with me ia my song of praise
And 'rii thu world 'h"t, since the world began,
No t.,irer land hath fired a p"ct- lays,
Or given HON" to man
But these charms already widely blown!
His he The lncrd Whose pencils trace
Hath touched or very swamp with grace,
And round whose tunriul way
All Southern iaurels bloom;
The Poet 81 " 1ho Woodlands INTO whom
4 ii., known
Thr flutes low breathing; .nl he tiumpc,s conc,
And tie su:t M,st Wi'W's s2!.>
i;at Who shall inter al j:c debt,
., Land, wherein al r,w"rs met
1Eat bind peoples iIcaGr
The World du;l owe thee tnis day,
And which il never c.n rrpar.
Yet scarcely d"i-NS 10 own
Where sIrrI's tho poet >,ho shall iiily sing
The source Hhcreiru.n doth spring
I hal mighty commerce which, confined
10 the Inei.n ril:muc.~ OF selfish mart,
t,o.~ uut Ia every sfUr"
OF this broad ar'h, and thrones The with ships
That bear no thunder bushes hungry lips
lu alien lands
Joins with a delicate rb rrmo;cst strands;
And, qludlening rich and poor,
Doth lid p.:IisiaIl daHur,.
% feed the cor'u-,.sinokc of English ion,-,
Aud only bounds its blessings by mankind
Ii offices like th-st, thy mission lies,
My Country, and il hu not end
A. long rain shall al. and Heaven bend
IN blnc above thee; though thy toes be- hard
And cruel as their weapons, il shall guard
Thy hcarih-stonrs "a bulwArk make thee great
In whit" and boodlc>, state;
And hap.y, a. the year. nciease,-
Still working through it, humber reach
With thai large Wisdom which the ages teach
Revive iLe haf'icad dream of universal peace
As men who labor in q mine
Beneath the deep Atlantic bed
" hat time storm Is rolling overhead
Hear the dull booming al the world OF brine
Above them, and II mighty mutfied roar
ot winds and watcrs Yet toll calmly on,
Aud split tie rock, End pile the massive ore,
Or carve ii niche, or shape the archtd root;
So /, rs calmly my woot
Or song cheating the days 10 come,
Uneilenced. though the quiet summer air
Stirs with the bruit 81 battles; and ench dawn
Wakes from its starry silence TO the hum
pf lnnny gathering armies. Stli,
In that sometime hear
pom the Northern winds the voice of
Not wholly drowned III triumph, though know
The End mn't crown II, and IA tcw brief year,
Dry all oar tears.
may sing too gladly. To Thy will
K-ri-1I.d. q Lord cannot all forget
hat there is much even Victory regret.
And, Therefore, moi 100 long
From the great burthrn OF country's wrong
Delay our just rclc3!>.
And. il IL may be-
These sacred Fields of peace
From stain Of patriot OF OF hostile blood
OH help us, Lord 10 roll the crimson flood
lack on lis course, and, while, our banners wing
ard. rs fhti Sht,D