The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-05-14

DESPAIR.
FROM "KATHR1NA," BY J. G. HOLLAND.

All what is so dead as persisted delight
Or passion outlived! or scheme over
Save the bankrupt heart it has left in its flight
Still as quick as the eye, but as cold as
stonel
The treasure it gathers in joy from the dow
The flavor and flush of the sweet summer
-- hours. -.--l--H--.
But a pleasure expires at its earliest breath;
No labor can hoard it, no cunning can save /;
For tho song of its life is the sigh of its death,
And the sense it has thrilled is its shroud
and its grave
All what is our love, with its tincture of lust.
And its pleasure that pains us and pain that
But joy in an armful of beautiful dust
That crumbles, and flies on the wings of the
yearss
And what is ambition for, glory and power,
But desire to be reckoned the uppermost fool
OF million of fools, for pitiful hour,
And be cursed for tyrant, or kicked for a
| tool? ~ -. s5........ Fl
Nay, what is the noblest that art can achieve,
But tC com jure vision OF light to the eyes,
That will pale ere We paint it, and pail ere we
leave
On tie heart it betrays and the hand it de-
We love- and we long with an infinite greed
For a love that will fill our deep longing in
The cup that we drink of is pleasant, indeed
Yet it holds but drop of the heavenly rain.
We plan for our powers the divinest we can;
| We do with our powers the supremest we
may;
The best that we garner is-rest and decay
Observation-Disclosures wins them? Look
They are held without thought by the dolts
and the drones:
| 'Tis the slave who in carelessness carries the
And the novels have kinglier men than the
thrones.
The maid sings of love to the hum of her
And her lover responds as he follows his
team; s.i-
They We'd and their children come quickly to
In fullllment the. pledge Of their loftiest
With humblest ambitions and homliest fare,
Contented, tho toiiing, they travel abreast,
Till the Kind hand of death lifts their burden
of care, -
And they sink, in the faith of their fathers,
to rest. -- T.. ,,.-...- s....f E ..--
Did beg to be born? Did seek to exist?
Did bargain for prompting gs to loftier gains ?
Did ask fer a brain, with contempt fthe fist
That could win reward for its labor and
palms, RS, fE
Was it kindathe ld-,ss strong promise that girded
Was 1t good-the endowment of motive and
:, skilf9 SYfEss
Was it well to succeed, when success was, in
truth,
But the saddest of failure? Make answer.
who will!
Do rave without reason? Why, look yor, 1
have won all sought of the highest and
best;
But it brings me no guerdon; and hopeless, to-
am poorer than when set out on the quest.
Oh! emptiness! Life, what art thou but lie,
Which / greeted and honored with hopeful
est trust?
Bah the beautiful apples that tempted my eye
Break dead on my tongue into ashes and
dust!
"a father who loves all the children of men,? ?
"A future to fill all these bottomless gaps''?
But one life has failed: can fasten again
With my faith and my hope to a specious
Perhaps? ~
o! man who begot mel o! woman who bore
Why, why did you call me to being and
breath?
With ruin behind me and darkness before,
have nothing to long for, or live for, but
death!