The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-11-30


Immortal as the filth which frol her heart.
Her deed shels llstrr these ocean isles II,
Grim superstition with his gory rites,
Had ruled the ISLES for ages, and the sigh
OF souls fe;terei by tyrannous ia6s.
Ro-e pleading the mercy Of Heaven;
Twas answered by a voice to them unknown.
Whose spirit notes thrilled the Hawaiian heart.
Like that low voice in JOrlan's wilderness,
That cleared the way FOR more radiant light;
Il withering. blishtsd saperstitiOus ereeis,
The dreaded tabs broke. the grim gols hurled
FrOm temples rel with human sacrifice.
TIL the a~el people seemed earth's wonderment-
\ nation rel .:iOness. yet free in -oul
Then came the messengers of peace and love.
Who taught ,'.e pure and holy creed Of Christ;
And ne'er were sOwn the seysls Of gospel faith
In more vigorous AMI virgin soil
/ The light % faith fre-l kaPiolani's soul
With moral courage and high rSolve,
7 To break the lingering tie that bound her
To Pele. Haiae-crowne,i goddess Of thy cha-rn-
4 Ger frc-brUwnei elinkers and through tangled
woods,
I Up mountain stecTs hunirci miles she walked.
TrsmPliug the crecis of ages meath her feet,
Brlying the wrath Of all the mythic gods,
That like dark incub on heart and brain,
Hal checked the PrOsrrss Of Hawaii's race,
She sought thy depths to tempt AMI TO defy
The rage, the power Of their multiple gOls;
While awe-s;ruck thousands ON thy LOFTY rim,
GazeI treublingiy beneath in firm belief
That Peie in her wrath would hurl her fires
On one who dared her in her sulphury home.
Her brow all rAdiantly illumei by hope,
She stood beside thy rushing. liquid eide
OF rel hot lava in its madlest flow,
And as the sulphury vapors wrcathing, rolled
In e,llying fre-li; waves round her tall form,
She seemed divine thus she calmly spoke:
.'In His great name who died for men l cone,
To prove 10 my lost race the living God
And here. oh, Pele superstition's myth
1 do defy thee on thy throne ofp0wer
II thou existest whelm me meath thy waves,
Pour me all thy seorchiug Lava food.
Or suffoeate with thy sulphury breath,
Or close around me all thy lakes of fire -
But nO-the fresh breeze lifts the sulphury clouds,
The waves subside, the fiery jets decrease;
God calms thy vortex the restless sea;
trample here on thy pretended power,
And cry, 10 JehOva in thy depths;
10 Jehoya let the triumph ring,
Till all the isles shall know the living God 80
She passed. majestic o'er the lava vale,
As a triumphant smile illumed her face,
Go.l-like and noble, born Of faith and hope.
Now sable night hangs Ger thee, Kilauea,
But night ilIuminei by thy sulphury glare;
Thy seven seethng lakes light up the clouds
With unearthly and demoniac glow,
The lever flush from thy hot heart of fame,
The hectic glow Of expiring world;
/ watch their bubbling jets in fiery plav,
And deem that Vulcan in his boiling forge,
l. mOulling f4n:astically strange his forms,
While Cyclops, roused from slumber far beneath,
Pour the fused metal in internal mOulds-
Now the fash and ellying whirl and leap,
Gunst erumbling shores Of glass-like lava cliffs,
Where Pele's fair hair waves in sulphury steam;
IT,. fiery jets, fierce bubbling, chase each other,
Like iams-rnlnei coursers Oh their burning track,
Then disappear. lost in the raging gulf;
Ever with northwar1 How the sweeps,
Cracking and sparkling in rel assures deep,
- the cOolei surface breaks, like fields Of ice.
Aud dlrs-rei lava heaps in fiery drift
Thou seenest not Of earth; thy rel waves come,
UP-Tushing from that central, fiery sea,
Beneath earth's ocean that resistless wars
With all that forms this planets fragile crust.
And n / gaze upon thy deep abyss,
Thoughts q the grandeur Of Eternal Power,
Sweep DER the mind in wild magnihcence,
To FAR past ages, when Creative viii,
Flashed through this planets incandescent light
IRE the elrth's crust eoolel. or the vast sea,
Noflarh-lfE TEL from -srll4ii- htuiii- pliere,
On Lava be,l- just cooling round the poles
Around me Gods forges. in the domes
Of mountains vast that pierce the blue Of heaven,
And from their snowy diadeIns look down
On plains Of lava blackening To the sea,
And in the line Of lessening cones that sweep
From thy weir,I ehasm by pit-cra;ers deep;
Here in Tines morn, rel columns famed from ocean,
Harlel boiling back the hot and vapory waves.
With blaziuy c.taraets cf liouid FIRE
TIL this grezl; i-e was forrned. n smoking mass
or fre-soorchel einders. the giant tread
or the nal earthquake stamped It into form
Yet thou art nothing % the flaming spheres.
That forme'l our system the morning stars
Together sang each was formed FOR life;
Our glorious sun, the flaming keystone vast
OF the bright planetary arch which sweeps
From pale Urania. round his throne of fire,
Il boiling now just like thy liquid lakes,
In flaming wbirlpools and in fiery jets.
Stained with dark spots of cooling lava drift
Thou art light 10 Science. Kilaues-
Thou dying embers Of elrth's central fires
And in thy burning Phlegethons is writ
4 lesson deep of philosophc truth;
And as I contemplate the waning power
That heaved these sunny islands from the deep,
find my thoughts in silent prayer ascend
To that UNKNOWN. whose firm, resis,less laws
From nebular chaos formed the Universe
Yours, ever, Ia Psz
BISHOP & CO.. BanLerr.
Ofise, in the east corner Of MaLee's BIotk,