Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-08
RICHMOND WHIG.
FOR THE wHIG,
NATIONAL RETRIBUTION.

NATIONAL RETRlBUTl0N.
10 travelling through the vreck-strewn past.
This lessons learned, of import vast,
Tat God is King of kings and states
The arbiter OF nations fates;
Nor waits times final hour.
This he DEGREES, who rules on high, .
Glinst nations crimes and tyranny
Wrong is disease, decay, aud death,
Mixed in the being, breathed with breath,
While Right is health and power"
We see in Tyre, or Blbylon,
That "not one stone Is IGf. unon
Another: ruined tower, and wall,
And throne, are silent meath pAll,
0i gloom; ard Chaos reigns.
Where stsod their tsmples, jickAls roam;
Their wealth and glory, like the foam
That sparkled on the crested wave,
Are gone; and Fste's eternal grave,
Their power and pride contains.
And Carthage falls TO rise no more
Rome's eagles aJat triumphant Ger
The conquered realm anon, Rome drinks
brimming cup of wrath, and sinks
To wreck, and wo, and gloom.
She silks by slow, but sure decay;
Her power is wasted, and her day
As dismal Us her day was bright
Alas, her dreadful doom!
The crumbng walls, and towers, and fanes,
Tha. crowd their vice sepllchral pains,
Blu, mark 'he torbs OF guilty powers,
From whom, In Gods appointed hturS
Vengeance demanded blood.
Uron each ruin desolA'e,
Decay, employed by helrtlesS Fate,
Has deeply graved "Here lies the icst
ol earth, who paid the fearful ccs',
U! breaking faith with God"
As Gods vicegerents, they, in trust
Were placed, conditioned 20 be Just
And righ;fdl; bu,, in Laws despite
They ruled, ssssrliug might as right,
Till were "si; 5 wages" paid.
E,ch record Of an empire's fall
Is Gods "haId-Writing OF the wall )"
Pr,mol shiug each rscreant state
OF death, il wong preiominate,
When His account is made.
Again, behold, in modern the,
The retribution Of Gaui's crime,
Ia giving TO that monster power,
Who So! ang In al accursed hour,
From Resoiatioas dime.
Ger hapiess earth the giant strobe;
Carnage and ruin marked his road
He ushed the kings and gave their crowns
To miHiols, as to hungry hohnda,
hun.er tiings his game.
Her reckoning rlme, Franc, was repaid;
Woes yu!ture-hkc, upon her preyei
She barely 'scaped from runs shock,
While he, upon barren rcck,
Grolned out his wroiched life.
+ q, oucf-volcalic iss o. gloom.
TYPED well the later lie, aud doom
o; that proud prisoner, whose so1l
Had holy burned, 70 gain coltrol
OF earth by wrong and strife.
IT'S thus we fad, hat 5 aies to God
Nus, answer; and whers vo and blood
They mctc, these shall TO them again
BE ,a,ured ;asiiee shall obtain
The sum Of her demand.
Right lhs's FOREVER, as cement
To S''tos; bl. wrong with pc yer bent
h ruin; for the Holy 0le
DEGREES, th4t II on wrong throne
b. b4sod, j! shall not stand.
To States, a, well rs men ia given
Free vii, ald for their conduct, Il saven
WIil Judgment chin; TO thwart this plan,
L. fer poor, WAX presunp,uous mla
To challenge God 10 strife.
Tyraunie powers, dow n.trampling night,
Like SaPless plants, ths. lack the light
cs asAyen's smile, and husoandry,
Viii waste aplee. and surely die
Right is q nstioL's life.
'Tis pain, then, why Fate's shelmiug waves
Have swept TO their eternal graves
All ancient S.stcs; why ruins tsck
Tbs o 'ei; as ma ~ a wreck
Marks evCrV ocean strand.
A nation nos. stands God dsfyipg,
Struck With ike phrenzy OF the dying
FlAunijaR her banner nj sht makes right"
Wh.Ia Vengeance, armed With Heavens might,
I,tts nov has hImSg brand.
And ful, che mus; haoellh the ban,
ICED and our right ttaules in our van,
Strike, SOuibT0rs. I'll our land Is free
Or v1sled and the mo4aing sea
LsySs bI; vOiceless shore
o God may peace tlow like river y
q may &roug oesse, and nan forever
- arm war no mere Spare no. THY rod
'rill comes ,ha. promised time, when blood