The Nevada Democrat., 1861-06-29
PIE ROSE EEFHRoNEp.

qHE ROSE EFTHRoNEn.
II melts and settles, the chaos that shall grow
To adamant beneath the house Of life:
In hissing hatred clash, and 60
To meet intenser strife.
And ere that fever leaves the granite veins,
Down thunders DER the waste tOrrid sea;
Now Flood, now Fire, alternate reigns;-
Immortal foes to be.
BuiN by the warning elements they rise,
The massive earth .fou ndations tier on tier,
Where shiny monsters with unhuman eyes
Their hdeous heads uprear.
The building of the world is not for you
TO glare upon each other, and devour;
Race floating after race FADES out Of view,
Till beauty springs from power.
Meanwhile from crumbKng rocks and shoals of death
shoots up rank yerdure to the hidden sum-
The gulfsare eddying TO the vague, sweet breath
Ofrcher life begun
Richer and sweetcr far than aught before,
Though rooted in the grave OF what has been.
LJnuumbered burials yet must heap earth's floor,
Ere she her heir shall win;
For nourishment Of that which is to GOMEZ
While mid the ruins Of the work she planned
sits Nature, blind and dumb.
For whom .r what she plans, she knows nomore
Than any mother of her unborn child
Yet beautiful forewarnings murmur o'er
Her desoation wild.
Slowly the clamor and the clash subside
Earth's restlessness her patient hopes suodue'
Mid oceans shoreward heave a pulse-ike tide
The skies are veiled with blue
And life works through the growing quietness
Beauty her fairest Possible would dress
In coiors pure and warm.
Within the depths Of palptatng seas
A tender tint;--anon a line OF grace
Some lovely thought from its duh atom trees,
The coming JOY TO trace
A DeneiIled moss on tablets of the sand,
such as shall veil the unbudded maiden blush
OF beauty yet to gladden. the green land-
A breathing through the hush,
OF some sealed perfume longing to burst out
And give its prsOned rapture to the air
A brooding hope, promise through doubt
90 Is whispered everywhere.
And, every dawn a shade more clear, the skies
flush as from the heart of heaven DISCLOSE
Through earth, and sea, and air q message dies,
Prophetic OF the Rose.
Al last morning comes of sunshine still,
When not dew-drOp trembles on the grass;
When all winds sleep, and every pool and rail-
Is like FURNISHED glass
Where a long looked.for guest may lean 10 gaze;
When day and earth rests rOyally,-a crown
Ofmolten glory, flashing diamond rays,
From heaven let lightly down.
In golden silence, breathlcss, all things stand.
What answer meets this questioning reposef
audden gush Of light and Odors bland,
And, lol the Rose the Rosel
The birds break into canticlcs around
Tho winds lift Jubilate to the skies
Fen twn-born with the rose Eden ground,
Love blooms In human eyes.
Lies marvellous queennower blossoms only SO,
Ia dust of low ideals rooted fast.
Eyer the Beautiful Is moulded slow
From truth Ia errors past.
What fiery fields Of Chaos must be won,
What battling Titans rear themselves . tomb,
What, births and reHurrections meet the sun,
Before the rose can blooml
And of sOme woRder-bossOm yet we dream,
Whercofthe time that Is infolds the seed -
Some flower OF light, to which the rose shall seem
A fair and fragile weed
-[Atlantic Monthly.