Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-01
0IEVELAND, TUEsDAY MORNING, JANU ARY 1,
THE VISION OF Tnn OLD YEAR,

THE VISION OF THE OLD YEAR.
It is midnight in mldwlnter, aud the stiffness of
Broods Ike bird Of evil omen, over woodland,
hill and wave
while tle world is wrapped ir slumber, / win
Sing ne deslS q Eighteen slstychnnt the
birth of Sixty One
I viii linn a rl,yfming picture of the sheen and
shadow cast, s-i fsI
From ne Plg@1egs Of Times pinlons in The val
Even Wilde iingsr gFoplng mid the dimness and
Where tile winds Of winter chill me with their
Painted on the Western heavens spanning all
the gloomy arch, I.
Pass the Old Year deeds and memories, in their
While the lishtping's cleaning splendor 'idmes
the panoramic SCROLL s. 81
And a thousand reoolleelions oyerwhelm the
There approaches from the darkness with his
lock- OF streaming white,
Father Time, who seats him eoldly on a snow
Lays aside bis 10y helmet--Iays aside his stoFied
And with pale hands sternly folded, mid the 81
Wa't, he for The faieful moment when the Old
Years freezing breath
Shall be stihed in his bosom by the vandal clutch
Of death.
Then with solemn finger pointing to that picture
in the clouds.
Where are seen the years dead children stalking
past US in their shrouds,
While his white hair streams behind him on the
moaning midnight blast,
be repeats the changeful story written on the
cheekered Past.
First, the sun Of Spring is shining over ali the
spreading plains
And q thousand rivers thunder with the food of
When the sound Of many voices, loud enough to
wake the dead,
Askswith nervous expectations, who shall be
For the great qiiadrenniaI Ifsyer-Presidentiul ~
phus-thrO5s
In ihe veins Of patriot statesman--lOOking out
See, where old Atlanties billow washes CarOii-
ma soil,
While TIE cotton buds are bursting, like the
hearts that mong them toll
Lo the great gavsashsd are gatliering from the
To perform the sacred ritual of the great Kilken-
ny feast
After many days Of watching after many night !
of hraWls,
After Donglas has exhausted all his myriad cater
Waus,
Things ezplode-the feast is endsd-caterwauls .
are heard no more, -
And they only leave this record Sine dis-BaI |
tmore."
Next, a few good -natured grand pas, in their do
cursing bemooratie traitors Black Republicans
and Whigs-
Gather at an inland yillage-drins their ten,
And conclude BY nominating Constitution
Everett, Bell
Hardly have these pictures vanished,er grand
Moves across the cloud hung canvas u the sound
For nations harp is waking from is sleep of
As its giant strings are mOistered By tie touch of
Freedoms tears. ssea...-
In the giant Prairie City-in the GOthm of the
Where the dying sunset glimmers on N inland
From the green hills Of New 'EngIand--lrori the
Gather freedoms bravest champions in he WIG
WAN OF THE FREE.
Very few but very. earnest are the vors they
I Witnessed by ten thousand gazers Of thelonest,
true and fair.
Hark hear ye the boom Of cannon, jarrini earth
and drending skies2
4 See ye not those white hands waving Mrk ye
not these flashing eyes9 t,
Cheer on cheer within is rising-blendingwith
Like grand explosive anthem--like a wvld's
exultant shout,
And the secret Of this madness--of this Wilt de
liriOus joy.
| Is, the choice for standard -beareT-ABEAM lIN-
coin, Illinois
| Here old fine relaxed his couutenance-smled
upon the picture fair,
/ Ere twas followed by another with its squaor
and despair.l
Once again the canvas. shifting, brings to or
One more Iaughsble edition of the great Kilke.
After weary days of watohing-after many
South Car'iina leads .isceessionr from the Dem.
cratic halls
After days Of dreadful effort, Ger the yawnin. |
One wing dies away with Douglas, and the Othe
/ Breckinridge.
at this point Old Time laughed outright, shOOl
his bony sides for glee,
Seeing death TO all corruption in the dead Democl
racyl
III not paint the thousand pictures that before
/ Of the s'Nide Awake professions and the tsRan.
| gers half asleep;
Of the thousand stump orations, filled with sting
OF the ihydra.headed fusion in the giant Empire
State;
Of the aiial Stephen hunting for the rna he could
And betrayed at every station into making
| l.at same speech;
OF the monster meetings gathered mid the can
And the ron Of martial music with gay banners
/ streaming DER;
OF the hopeful trust Of freemen-of the gallant
OF their enemies despairing in theirmutual cheat
and trade
must haste to other records ere their modest
In the East, the doubtful dawning ofItalia's
freedom might
Bursts in glorious morning. crowning ali her
grape hung hills with light
otpoesy,
Far across the blue Atlantic, ,ee can stretch our
weoo%e, GaSs ] iafest-born Of Freedom welcome
Suddenly shadow hOvers Ger that picture in
And a night upon the water looms before my
Naught is seen but cloud and billow. naught is
heard but plunging seas,
Where western palace steamer, with fresh
ming landward breeze,
Bears its freight Of life and pleasure O'er the
lightly dancing foam
dreaming Of their homes,
Mother dreaming-Hark Oh Heavens shrieks
OF terror pierce the air
And that mothers voice is rising in an sgonizing
prayer
} There are hands pressed hard in silence-pals
lips meet and part, for aye,
Hearts are pressed to hearts in token Of the words
I
surge-suTge-a all is over, save the floating
struggling few,
Left to tel how well and nobly.died the loved
ones and the true
Next aeross the canvas hitting comes a sprig o
Royalty.
S Prince of Wales and King Of Eugland-that is
in expectancy
He Is toasted at each viliags-bored with ever
g lasting fefes,
Danced with by the dear old ladies feasted Of
4 from borrowed plates
{ | Plants q tree at dear Mt Vernon manifests be
coming grief
As he bends above the ashes oft the glorious Rebe
e Chief
May our awkward pomp and kindness TO th,
Prince and retinue,
r Be another bond Of union twixt the old worlt
and the new.