New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-06

In thei1 deaths Gods warning to wait.
Tho mountain wooded 10 the peak, the lawn,
And winding glades high up Ike ways to Heaven.
The slender coeos dropping crown Of pumes.
The lightning fash OF insect and OF bird.
The luster of the long cobvoNuluses
That cooled around the stately stems and ran
lr Evn 10 the limit Of the lend the CLOVIS
And glories Of the broad belt Of the world.
An these he saw; hut whit he iain had seen
He could not see. the kindly human face,
Nor ever hear 4 kindly voice, but heard
The myriad shriel, Of wheeling ocean.fowl.
The lelg ue.loDg roller laundering on the reel
Tic moving whisper Of huge trees that branohd
A nd blossoIned in the zenith. or the sweep
or some PERCEPTIONS rivuht to the wave,
A. down the shoro DC ranged, or all day long
Sst often in the seward gazing gorge.
A slipwreekd sailor, waiting for a sail:
No gail from day o. day, but every day
The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts
Among The palms and ferns and preciplceI
The blaze upon the waters 70 the esst
The blaze upon his island overhead;
The blaze upon the waters 10 the west;
Then the great stars thst globed themselves in
Heaven,
The follower believing ocean, and again
The scarlet shafts Of sunfise-but no sail.
There onenes Re wa,chd d.. or seemd to watch,
So SILL. tlc golden lizard On him paused,
4 phantom made Of many Ihantoms moved
Before him haunting him, OF he himself
Moved haunting people tl,pss and places known
The babes. their babbie. Annie. the small house.
The climbing street. the hill the leafy lanes,
The peacock yewtrec and q e lonely Hail.
The horse he drove the boat he soid the chill
November dawDs and dcwy glOOmhg downs,
The gentle shower the smell Of dying leaves.
And tho low moan Of leaden'colord tess.
oil. Once likewise. in shs ringing Of his ears.
Tho family. merTily- f,l aud far away
H0 heard the pealing Of bis parish bells
.., Then. tho lie knes not wherefore, started up
ShGddcring and wheu the bcauteOus. hateful isle
ReiUrn'd upon him, had not his poor heart
Spoken with That, Which being everywhere,
Lets none. who speaks with Him, seem al alone,
Surely the man had died OF solitude.
Thus the sunny and rainy seasons came and went
yeer after year, Eaoch stll hoping TO see his own,
and pace the old familiar fields, when lis lonely
doom is brought toa Sudden end. A ship is cast
upon the coast Enoch succeeds in making himself
known 20 the astonished mariners; no is taken off,
and carried 10 the very halbor from which he had
sailed so many years before.
Then down the long street having slowly stolen.
HE heart fOreshsdowing oil calamity,
His ewes upon the stones. be reacfd The home
Where Annie lived Ohd loved him. al his babes
IN those flr-oG soyen happy years were borni
But indii neither light nor murmur there
a bill OF sale geaTn'd thro' the drizzle) orept
Still downward thinking dead or dead TO mer
Down 10 Che pool aud narrow wharf he vent
Seeking tavern which OF old he knew.
A front OF tnber.crost antiquity,
HI thought II must have gone; bnt he was gone
Who kept IL; and his widow. Miriam Lane,
With DALI -dwindling profits held the house;
4 haunt OF Drawing se1Mcn once, but now
Stiler, with yet a bed l0r wandering men.
There Enooh rested silent many days.
But Enoch yearns TO look once more on the sweet
face he had loved SO well, till haunted by the
thought, he takes dull November twilight TO seize
,tealtby view Of the dear ones who now belonged
to smother.
Now whom tbe dead nan come TO life behcld
HE VITO his wife more, and saw me babe
Hers. yet not his, np0i the fathers knee,
And al tho warmth. the peace, the happiness,
~. And his own children tai and beautiful,
And him, that other, rcigning in his place.
Lord Of his rights and Of his children's love-
Then he, tho Miriam Lane had told him all,
Because things seen are Ddgiaier than things
heard,
Staggered and shook. holding the branch, and
ieard
TO send abroad shri and terrible CIV.
Which IN one moment. like the blast OF doom,
Would shafter all the happiness Of the hearth.
he therefore tuning softly ike fhiei,
Lest the harsh single should gratc underfoot.
And feeling all along the garden wall
Lest lie should swoOn and tumble ard be found,
Crept 10 the gate. and open'd it. and closed,
As lightly a. a sick mans chaubcr-door.
Behind him, and came ont upon the waste.
From this time, his only wish was not to betray
himself and ruin the happiness he had gazed on by
letting his return be known.
lie wss not al unhappy. His resolve
UYboTe hin, and firm i.Ll. ald syefmore