Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-03-04
Poetry.
The Southern Nation.
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For ia Vssdfcafsy.


The Southern Nation.
DEDICATED TO THE PRACTICAL PRINTERS OF THH G
sxDRRATH sTArEs.
Hail all hail The Southern NationI
Land, from bondage dearly bought.
On, ye Powers of Education
Let THIS PEOPLE al be taught.
Flow of, Truth, thou heaithful fountainl
Flood this land, Oh Living Streaml
Light Celestial, gid each mountain
Darling life in every beam.
Land of ibles! Home Of knowledgsi
Oni 7 tides Of learning, roll
Would that Church, and School, and College,
Shed their light on every soul;
Mount Oh Truth! our lofty "Ridges;"
Pierce, with light, orr dingy dells;
Span each gulf with blessed bridges
Calls. where Gu3ging Error dwellss
Flow ys Oh, Celestiai Waters!
Tertilise eachlowIy cot:
Bless its thirsty sons and daughters
Let tie poorsst eli b. tough
"Tribes Dispersed, "-of Judah's Lion
Cub,, returning from "the spoiP'-
Lamb-like scale the cliffs Of Zion.
Dawn awaits your night OF toll.
Burning vision Melting glory!
Jew and Gentle, JOINED IN Oabl!
Spresd-Oh spread the Gospel Storyi!
Honor give to GOD THE son II!
Steam, with all its mighty wonders,
Were too weak to bring that Day:
IT'S TUE PRESS, with its sharp thunders,
Clears the mental clouds away.
Not tie school, and not the college,
Nor the Desk can stem the tide;
'Tis the Press, with freighs ofknoulsdge.
Ger the dsrs abyss mus. ride.
Oh how dark and dresr the winter,
That o'arspread the human mind,
When tie worl& knew nos printer,
Nhsn the blind hvs led the blind
Ages dark !--whsn Wit Nilotic
Wrote on towing pyramid
Mighty dseds OF mep derpotic =
Men, whose very names srs hid
lid beneath the rolling Volume
That Oblivion beth h1rpc
Or temple, obell.k, and column,
Decking oncs thes Eggpa world
Time that mighty world hsth asndcr'd;
ger its wreck tho cand-wsvss sweep;
And, where Thebsn shousands shunder'd,
Gates and walls lie befied deep.
Wit siotio Al hox gladly
Would read shozs mystic scrolls!
Bearing TO NE quantity, sadly
Transcript Of thoae ancient souls
Wonc'rous pyramids what fixtures
Fi1'd to brave q thousand storms
Cary'd ell Ger with telling picturss
Bride. and beasts, and human forms!
By such means, In Times dresr winter,
6trovs the mind, with struggling wit,
Thuf, fos wan. Of type and prinssr,
Down It's thinkings to transmit.
Thus, Its joys and grisfs pathetic
Rpsko In fgures-bsss:s SAD men
ssg.s symbolic or phonss;e---
Carv'd 9Th Natures radess pen.
CgmbfeUs task + thst way OF etshins
Tssk, With soiisome lsber fraughsl--
Ger spacious surfsce stretching
Ono poor. sinpls, common shoughsI
Bail ell he'll! she Ara Of Printing B.
"Ars Pvessrs asivs Of Arss!''
Wondrous Power that, without ssinting,
knowledge to the mass imports,
H8il FHa CsAyTszax, GAArHo-T1p1c!
Hail the Printing Noontide Bay!
Wintry darkness, hierog yphic,
Yields to our efulgent Day.
Soon the earth viii tesin With learning,
Lands benishsed, lei The Light
Even now the scale is turning.
Ignorance is plumb for flight
Where the great Hoang members,
Waiting junks In crowded asets;
Or She Ysnk-tse- Kiang wandsrs,
Bkirted with her princely seats;
Where the Isle Of Niphons ccdars
Tow'sed erst in lonely pride;
Nov behold "KcGagsy's Rsass~s,"
Flowing IN on every tide
Where the classic Ganges, rsddsn'd
With the blood OF victims slain,
Bears her thousand wretchss, dssden'd
TO the kesnest sense Of pain;
Who're the Niger lost her waters
In the bouudless sea Of sand
Regions vsst Whose sons and daughters
Know none but their native land-
These, all these. ct last "ars .prsad.~o
Torss :...'r sunas for Holy Light"
knowledge on .heir sight 10 shoidies
Beams with morning radiance Bright,
Speed the type, shen; speed the Prsssss-
Spreading knowledge far and wide
Till the most obscure rscesses
Feel the flowing Of the tide.
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