The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-25

See how from far upon the eastern road
The startled wizards haste with odors sweet:
o rua, prevent them with thy humble ode,
And lay it lowly 1t his blessed feet:
Have thou the honor first, thy lord to greet,
And join Thy voice unto the angel qulre,.
From out his secret altar touch'd with hauowo nre'
THE HYMN.
It was the winter wild,
Wh1e the heav'n-born child
Ali ipeaDly wrapt Ii the rude msnger hes;
Naturo in awe to him
Had doft her gawdy trim.
With ner great Master so TO symrathlZe:
It was no season then for her
10 wanton with the sun her lusty paramour.
Only with speeches fair
She woo's the gentle air
To hide her guilty front with innocent snow,
And on her naked shame
Pollute with sinful blame.
The sanity veil of maiden white 70 throw,
COMPOUNDED, that her Makers eyes
Should look 30 near upon hor foul deformities.
But he her fears 20 cease,
Sent down the meek-ey d Peace;
She, crcwp'd 18th olive green. came softly slioln9
Down Through the turning sphere
His ready harblnger,
With turAe wing the amorous clouds Gv1dlnk'
And waving wid- her myrtle wand,
She snikos al unive rsal peace through sea and land.
No war, or battel's sound
Was heard the world around:
The idle spear aud shield were high up hung,
The hooked chariot stood,
Unstan'd wi b hos. lie blood,
The trumpet spAke not to the armed throng,
And kings sat snl with awful eye.
AS If they surely knew their sovran Lord was oy.
But peaceful was the night,
Wherein the krnce o. light
His reign OF peace upon the earth began:
ThewInds with wonder whist
Smoosnlv the waters K1st,
Wnisperln new JOYS to the mild ocean,,
Who now nath quite forgot TO rave,
While hi. ds OF calm sit breeding on the charmed wave.
The stars with deep amaze
Stand fx'd in steadla>t gaze,
BenGns one way their precious influence
And viii not take their nignL
For all the morning light.
or Ldciier that often warn'd them thence;
But in their gimmerinS Obs did glow,
Until theit Lord almselt besrake and bid them go.
And thocgh the shady gloon
Had z ven day her room,
Inc sun himself withae.d his wonted speed,
And mid his head for shame,
As his infsrio. fame
Ine new i.hgLten'd W rid no more should need;
Than his bright thro-e, or burning a~xletree. could bear
The shepherds on the lawn,
Or e'er the ponG OF dawn,
St suu. ly chAt1Dgi erusic row;
Full It'll thought they then,
That the IL lightly Pan
Was kindly come to live with them below;
Perh. ps their loves, or else their sheep,
haS al IQat uQ Billy tHOuSulb y pohy h0oP'
When such music sweet
Ih,i heart aud ears did greet,
As never was by mortal tnger srook,
Divneiy-warb. ed voice
Answering the stiinged noise,
AS all their s ulsln blisstul rapture took:
The ar, su-h pie sure 10th to lose.
With thousand ech.es sui p~rolongs each heavily close
Nature that heard such sound,
Beneath the hollow round
O.: Cynthias eeat, the aery region thrilling,
Now was almost won
To think her part was done,
And that her reign had here its last fulfilling;
She knew such harmony alone
Could hold all Heav'n and Earth in happier union.
At last surrounds their sight
4 globe Of circular Light,
That with long beams the shame-fac'd night arrayd;
The Lelmed Cherubim.
And swordet Seralhlm,
Aie seen in si.tterng ranks with wings display'd.
Earping IN loud and sol. mn qutre,
with INEXPENSIVE notes to Heavens newborn Heir.
Such music (ss tbs sad)
Before was never made,
But when Of old the sons of mornanss sung,
While the Creator great
HIS constella ions set,
And the wel-balanced world on hinges hung,
And cast the dark foundations deep,
And bid the ~weltering waves their oozy channel kespv~
Ring out 20 crystal Spheres,
Once bless our human ears,
If 20 have power to touch oNr senses SOY
u lcL your 1NS CuIaO
Move in melodIous timcn/
And let the base OF Haven's docp organ blow,
And with your ninsfSld harmony
MAKE up tWl copcort to tn angelic symphony.
e., w. 10y song
~; K. and fotchthO age of gold.
(ond dier
I3eIt a9Pm earthly mold,
~ mansions to the peerins day.
6siice then
49, "a to men.
SE@Sinbow; and like slories wearing
~ nj st Netween,
,9 uaoh radiant feet the issued clouds down steering,
&c IN Heav"n, as at some festival,
h open wide the gates OF her high palace hall. T..
Eas wisest Fate says no,
Thi: must not yet be so,
The babe lies yet in smiling infancy,
That on the bitter cross
Must redeem our loss;
SO both him; eli and US to glortfy:
Yet first to those ychain'd In sleep,
The wakeful trump Of doom must thunder through the
deep.
With such q horrid clang
AS mount Sinai rang.
while the red fire and amouldertng clouds outbrake:
The aged earth aghsst,
Shall from the surface to the centre ahAke;
When at the worlds last session.
The dreadful Judge IN middle air ahall spreadh his throne
And then at last our bliss
Full and perfectis
But nov begins; for from this happy day
tn old Dragon under ground,
In straiter limits bound,
Not halt 20 far casts his usurped sway,
And yroth to see his kingdom tail,
~swtndges tho scaly horror Of his folded tsl-
The oracles are dumb,
Runs through the archsd roof in words d~eceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,
With hollow shrek the steep OF Delphos leavin?.
No nightly trance, or bresthed spell,
1nspires the paleey'd priest nom b epsophetic cell.
The lonely mountains Ger,
And the resounding shore,
A voice OF weeping heard and loud lament;
From haunted spring and Ole
Edg'd with poplar pale,
The parting Genius Is with signing sent;
With dower.inwoven tresses torn
The Nymphs in twilight shade OF tangled thickets mourn.
In conse Grated earth,
The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plant;
In . rs, and affairs round,
Adrear ana dying sound
Afrights the tlameps O.. their service quaint;
And the chill marble seems to sweat,
While each peculiar Power forgoes his wonted seat.
Poor and Baalim
Forsale the'. temples dim,
With tina. tgice batter'd God Of Palestine;
And mooued Ashraroth,
Reav'n's queen and mother both,
Now sis not eirt with tapers' holy shine;
The Iibyc Harmon shrinks his horn,
In vain the Tyrian mazda thor wounded Thammui
mourn.
And sullen Mooch fed,
Hath left in shadows dread
His burning idol all Ct blacklist hue;
In vain wi 4 cymbals' ring
They cali tie gTisly king,
In dismal dance about the furnace blue;
The brutish Coos of Nile as fast,
Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
Nor Is Osiris seen