New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-09
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A DREAM THAT WAS DREAMED.
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From the Louisville Journall
lreamed that God was dead. An awful dread
| erwhelmed my soul. universe bereayed
blasted orphanage, with tokens dark
tYoes imitable, aghast and still
lied in the vaults of space. The Fount NJ life
ed up. The ceaseless miracles divine
| Eating forms and tints and tones. and all
Ae energies of palpitating life
trOugh countless planes and magnitudes and
| spheres,
tthont their Cod were not. All His works.
| ndlstlnct omnipresent paused and died.
hdyet-iYed on, both life and death the same.
hestars, imposed and toppled DER, along
DER GIys'al paths were strewn, like stranded
Andfr around creations outer walls
| Ibg glared ike tun'ral torches pale and sad
Ana uai GUESS came and stood before the stars,
Yet ND them not, Light came and fed upon
The darkness, yet consumed it not both light
cheek, ~
IND died Love signing, looked its sad last wish,
WI s! aisd' Hope came-desparing came-and
The Angels, with their hushed and stringless
Archangels, Cherubm, and seraphim,
A Aha spirits OF the Beautiful and Just
me Prlncely Son and Mighty Spirit came
bloody, fearful, Christ bright scroll enwrapped
nlo IN It's serpent form, like muftiing hood
The furtive yisage of the noiseless thief;
Eternity, with all its seconds, came
ana space in all its countless ponts-e'en Death
triumphant came in awe, to die with God.
All things seemed .dual-and yet one-a dead
and living universe embraced. Around,
Above, below, an emptiness not empty
A phantom world all papabe-a world
| 10 sense alive-to dreaming consciousness
ALI dead-a contradiction infinite
! dreamed that then, by strange consent, as if
All skies and world and depths and sentent
h. things
We're swayed by one omniscient thought and will.
me universe in boundless gloom and awe
and pomp of state unutterable, prepared
Fhe funeral of Cod Nought moved or spoke,
md yet, in dreams, perplexed by lifeless life,
y stagnant motion and by toneess sounds,
| y signals strange and rayeas fires along
he beaconheights Of goddess empires grand,
| felt that-His shroud unwoven and
ALLOWING like wool Of light; His grave
acres vast and of unfathOmed depth.
Eg by no mortal hand Himself his tomb
Il srt and watched by clouds, IN circuits wide,
fled up in Titanic masonry.
Is topless walls of gloom His hearse and bier
| distance screened in mystery sublime
is kne the toing deep of bells unwrought,
card only in the ear of waiting thought
| nd swung on high in eVer-deep'ning domes;
ID dirge, unrythm'd, yoiceless, speGtraltoned,
nd chanted by upmoving lips Of choirs
fwingess winds with loud and solemn roars
oceans dead His pail the dusky skirts
| woven shadows dim felt that all
I.-ALL-was ready, mutely waiting for
We dWfM burial of COP.
palled, could bear no more. The dreamer
woke
oy, Joy, We sad mortas The horror is past
he dreaming had ended--the days breaking fast
HE sun on the hills and its sheen in the air
nscrbe on the spheres that our God ia still there.
III.
The food in the fields and the buds on the stems,
&fe worlds round His brows like glittering gems,
| he barneriDg clouds and wide-rolng tides
| reclaim that bis power forever abides.
| Nv.
Without our God what things could be
| In earth or air or heaving sea;
What sounds arise what eolors glow
Upon earth s canvas here below
See the kindness,
See the gladness,
III In our blindness,
M In our madness.
He forever pours upon us,
Sinking downward TO our dust!
Oh the joy, and oh the bliss!
We poor mortals have in this
Our father God
All good things giveth
Our Father God,
Forever liUeth
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