Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-03-08

: Saw the heavens Sill with cgElEaeree4 ergo
Pilots Of the purple twilight, dropping down
with costly baless
Heard the heavens nj with shouting, and
there rained a CHASTITY dew
From the nations airy navies graphing In
the central blues
Far along the worldwide whisper of the
southswiLld rushing warm,
I With the standards Of the peoples -plunging
through the thunderstorm
TIL the 7var-dTJiIIl tlirobbed no longer, and
the battle-flags We're furled ass ,--.,E g.
In the Parliament of man, the Federation
Of the world;
There the common sense OF most shan. hold
a Inet4ul realm IN awe
AEldttlae kin y satlI shall slunnbers lapt In
universal law.
So 1 triumphed, ere my passion sweeping
thFo0gh me left me dry,
Left me With the palsted heart, and left me
with the jaundIced eye;
Eye, to which al order testers, an things
Science moves but slowly. slowly, creeping
on FROM point to point:
Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lions
creeping higher,
Glares at one that mods. and 1Tlnt1s behind s.
sloWly-dylng hre
Yet doubt net through the ages one In
And the thoughts Of men are wtdened with
the process Of the suns
what is that to him that Teaps not harvest
Though the deep heart Of existence beat for
ever ike a boy 3
Knowledge comes. but wisdom fingers, and
And the Individual VTlfhers, and the world
is more and more -.E
knowledge comes, but wisdom fingers, and
al he bears q laden breast a+
Fun Of sd e eEHeTienee :. moving toward the
stiffness Of his rest
E ing on the bugle-heEn, ,e-
They to whom my foolish passion were a,
Z target 6or their scaEu fa
Shall il not be seorn TO me 90 laarpapn such
s.na sIiaIS.ezI through al my nature 20 have
loved 50 slight 2 thing
weakness to be W-roth vita ygealznessl WO-
MANS pleasure, woman s pain
Nature made them hlfnder motions bound-
ed in shallOWer brain;
woman is the lesser man, and all thy pas
siOTls, matched With u1inesI
Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as wa
Here at least. where nature sicEeBss noth-1
Deep in yonder shining Orient, where my
life began to beat
Where in wild 8Iahratta-battIe fell my faith
was left a tramPied orphan, and a selfish
uncle's ward.
Or to burst all links Of halit--there to. wan
STa-ss fer s,,rrr -
On rom Sl isiand 5i9 unto island at the gateways
of the day.
Larger consultations burning, mellow
Breadths Of tropic shade and palms in elus-
ter, knots Of Paradise
Never comes the trader. never floats an Eu-
Slides the bird DER lustrous woodland,
swings the trailer from the crag;
Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs
the heavy fruited tree
summer isles Of Eden lying in dark-purple
spheres of sea.
There methfnI1s would be enjoyment more
than in this march Of mind,
In the steamship, in the railway, in the
thoughts that shake mankind.
There the passions eraEnPed noIongers shall
viii take some savage woman, she shall
rear my dusl1y race,
Iron-iointed. suppIe-sinewed, they shall
Catch the wild goat BY the hair, and hurl
their Ianees in the sun;
whistle back the parrots can, and leap the
rainboWs Of the brooks -e
Not with l.l 6hnded eyesigHf PofinE over mis-
Fool, again the dream, the fancyl bat I
know my words are Wild,
But count the gray barbarian lower than
the Christian child.
]. to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of
Like a beast with lower pleasures like y
beast with lower painsi
Mated with a squalid savage-what to me
were sun or eiime2
I I.tlleheir Of all the ages, in the foremost
files OF time
Z that rather held it better men should per-
Es rish10ue by one,
Than that earth should stand at gaze like
JOsilaa's moon in AJalonI
Not in. vain the distance beaeOns. Forward
forward let us range
let the great world spin forever down the
ringing grooves OF change.
Through the shadow of the globe we sweep
into the younger day:
BetteI. hftv years of Europe than 81 cycle Of
Cathay.
BTother-ssge, Cfor mine know nof,l help me
as when life l1egEln
Rift the hills and roll the waters, fash the
lfghtnings, weigh the sun
%, I see the crescent promise of my spirit
Ancient founts of inspiration we1 through
all my fancy yet.
Howsoever these things be, a long farewell
to LOcksley Hall I HHr.
Now for me the woods may wither, now for
me the uOOf-tree fall
Comes a vapor from the margin, bIackening
over heath and holt
Cramming an the blast before it, in its
breast 3 thundeE0olt.
Let It fan on LocIslev HAN, with rain, aor
For the fa1ghttg wind arises, roaring sea-
ward and 60. a9 aal
Alfred TennVson.