The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-18
Sabbath Res,iGl3iailslI...
THE pATRIARcH,s INHERITANCE.


THE following is m extract from Poems, with
Auiobiographic and other Notes, by THOMAS II.
STocKroN, Chaplain to Congress. 1t occurs in a
poem entitled abraham, the Friend of God and
Father Of the Faithful"
Suddenly
'Tis God
Ills awe.struck eyes dilatc his soul
Starts at the vision. Every shadow melts
In more than sunshine, aud the swift winds pause.
The mountain summit, like golden throne,
burns with the splendOr Of the King OF kings,
And tremblcs at Ills step. And yet lie comes
Enshlined as man, and valid in glowing robe
OF shaded glory full Of light and love.
Prone lies the nOblest Of the sons Oi earth,
Unworthy cen to press the ground that CLEANS
With feet Divine: confessed very worm
A worm! but by the highest own'd friendI
And ha'd with friendly words Liflu thine eyes,
Look boldly forth from this superior hight,
The north and SOUTH the east and west behold
Thine all the boundless scene For thee It tbloons;
To thee and thine give the whole forever
Thy seed shall measure with the dust, and none
WHO counts not first the sand shall number them.
Arise, thou faithful one and walk the land
Explore It's length and breadth, the ample space
Shall be thy fair possession y
This pronounced,
The Radiant Form withdraws And now return
Sunshine and shade, and cool, delicious airs,
Restoring common joys. The sanity chief
Reviviug, stands erect and still his robes,
With lingering glory, make the moon beams pale
| Soon his senses feel the flowing SOUL
! Quick with new life and thrilling power intense.
! His eyes, undazzed, drink the pouring sun,
| And sweep entranced the swelling scane below
Mountains, and hills, and plains, and lakes, and
streams
o, blcst, enchanting visionl All around
Enrichd with purest green, and oil remote
Adorn'd with deepest blue; the bendingsky
| And lurthcst submits mingling fainter hues,
] w Wallnn the world with gnDDhirp. All he
| lie halls his own; and burns with lordly flame.
! His the down-rushing torrents his the brooks,
! Flashing from every vale and his the lakes,
Wide sparkling bright, as though shower OF gems
! On silver falling scatcrd countless lights
| His too the rolling woods, tho laughing meads,
| And rocks Of waving grapes-his every wind
| STIRRING the world with life and breathing far
| Fragrance and lDusic--his the silent cloud,
! That 1cctly glides along the soft mid-air,
Rejecting, moon-likc, from its upper plain
| OF snowy beauty, every ray from heaven;
And Ger the under landscape leading on
Its shadowy darkness, running up and down
| The eycr-changng mountains. Who may tell
! The many sources Of his gushing joy;
Not only Jordan, end Its palmy plains
| Lots Gifted Garden and the orient nights
| OF fruitful Gilcad, sweeping To the insrge
| OF Bashans mellow pastures not alone
Around, though fair, aud farer still remote,
| The visual charms delight hs ardent soul;
| But wider regOns-lost in distant hare,
! Or shut from sight by intclcepting bounds
Fairest Of all. Far flies his crcng thought
From Edom's southern plains to hermous brow,
Frost -wrcathcd, and lowlands stecpd in streaming
dew,
And on TO snow -prOwnd Lebanon, with slopes
! OF fadcless vcrdure, nursed by living fopnti,
! And glorious cedars, swayed by balny winds,
In whose high boughs the eagle builds hor nest,
! And on whose roots the fearful lion sleeps;
( Aud thence to Tabors central cone, and fields
/ Of Edcn-likc Esdrclon; and tho oaks
| OF howcFy Carmel waving ocI the sea;
Aud Sharon's rosy bloom, and Eshcul's vale,
/ Purple with vines from Hebron to tho coast.
! O'er nll the range his rayishd mind expands,
Warm with high hopes OF wondrous days to come.
! The promise like "a metcor-how IL lights
Tho gloom OF future ages Lonely there
The childless stranger stands sublime III faith
Sure that the ten throncd nations rcigning round,
In stately power, with pomp of idol shrincs,
Shall yield TO his descendants shall behold
His mightcr seed thick ns the shore sands -
Countless as stars that crowd the clcarest sk y
Pouring their myrads over hill and dale,
Casting the champion pride of princes down,
HaslinS tho tempted monsters in the dust,
Sounding the trump of triumph through the land
Thmngiug the scene with hoier, happier homes,
Aud rearing high, to flame with heavenly fire,
EaIth'S Only Altar to the Only God.