The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-05-26
The Cecil Wing.
ELkTON, MAY 36, 1866.
THE EXILES.
BY REV. r. HAMPSTEAD.

BY REV. T. HAMPSTEAD.
All night the crystal battlements had shone
With fash of regal feet and sheathless blades
That fred the suen skies and deserts lone,
And burned the olive'gades.
The Primal Pair from Eden, sad and slow,
Went forth with faltering trend and tones forlorn;
Thus will the mother sob her speechless woe
Beside her dead first born;
The knowledge they had plucked was bitter fruit,
That ripened on sad, accursed tree,
Through heart and brain they felt its venom shoot,
Its rage they could not flee;
One glance they threw back on the whered trees
That 0 'er the shrouded walls rose grim and bare;
Back on the blasted palm that to the breeze
Shook his disheveed hair
Earth quailed as she the tread of vengeance knew,
The larks note sunk into funeral strain,
The lily turned to thorn, the rose oyew,
The amaranth to bane;
With spears the thistle fenced her shrvelled bloom
The lion Tapped his blood. bedabbled jaw,
The owlet shreked and filled the leprous gloom
With an unnatural awe;
The brig haired EARTH no longer fair and young,
Staggered and bled grew old, infrm and gray,
Her first born from her brow the crown had wrung
Anu eaS' ils SeHs AWAY
She lay before them like mighty tomb
Above whose jaws moaning cypress waves,
And shuddered as she saw adown the gloom
How thick must be the graves;
She shuddered for the evil days to come,
OF famine, plague and wars hot revelry:
When flames should sap the wall and rock the dome
And blood foam like sea-
She sighed to think upon a coming hour
When men should hurl at God their sullen scorns
And demons meet with kings in handed power
10 crown a MAN with thorns;
To think upon the days when wood and stones
Should steal the incense from the Eternal shrine,
And men should sit and mock each others groans
And drink of lust like wine;
Forth went the Exilcd Ones in fearful mood.
Through altered groves and ghosts of gores dead
10 where stretch of DIM funeral wood,
ghastly shadow spread;
Weeping they paused. for now there came sound,
still and low breathed murmur of the air
Like fountains heard in dreams it came and bound
And thrilled the Exiled Pair;
Family it crept at first. then stronger grew,
mi all the breeze was musics rosy way,
And from the stricken earth and fading blue,
1t said, or seemed to say
Ye who from the lighnngs fly,
Of Seepess, Holy Eye
And for whom the blaze of wings
From yon interdicted wells
Blasts the earth and drinks her springs
Wheresoe' er its spendor falls
ie who taste but the beginning
Of the bitter draught of SHINING,
Present tears and trembngs know,
But foretase of that woe
Which, with mingled fire and tears,
Shall baptze the future years,
Till the desert and the wave,
Mountain cleft and ocean cave,
All shall be a tomb, grave,
Whittier your pale tribes shall fly
With dull and leaden eve,
Stiff hands folded the breast,
Shrivelled brow and heart at rest;
le on whom in evil hour,
Fell shadow and power,
When in look and horied word
Pleased, a serpent's lore We heard
And spell was in his eye,
And upon his tongue lie,
And We smiled upon his smile,
Till he bound you with vile,
Know, upon your Borrowing eyes
Eden fields no more shall rise!
Yet faint ye not! brighter morn
Shall within the East be born;
Rolling in its golden car
Der the earth shall rise Star.
On the glimmering hills by night
Shepherds hail the glorious sight,
And rushing sound shall thrill
Through the midnight lone and still,
''GIory to the King on high,
10 the wanderers from his face,
Streams and springs that never dry
Blood upon Mount shall fall,
On that blood the dying call,
From Sleeper's deat h.couch cold,
Shall mighty stone be rolled,
And the pierced and shrouded clay,