Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-14

I With slight Observance and a careless glance,
! The sun that now has closed his radiant eye,
Below the dim horizons dusly verge,
! So long as we behold him In the he-vens,
And know that Gods Omnlpotence comPsls
1 His due return. We give no elrnest thanks
/ or heartfelt gratitude for this great gift
I or light the largest blessing OF them all.
/ 10! no has sunk beneath the grassy sea
! or the broad prairie, whose great emerald lid
/ Shuts slowly over him. II never more
Tnat glorious orb should rise 10 light the earth,
/ Men, staggering blIndly through unnatural
night,
| Would understand the blessing they had lost,
/ And public Jlltties would be done the sun"
"Afier a long, dark night, starless night,
I Ia which the thin moon early ST. uggied down
/ To where the sky and desert met together,
/ PIunging with hard endeayor through the surf
And spray that gloOmed along the tortured
heaven
I After a long. dark night OF storm and sect,
( The daylight comes with slow aud feeble steps
[ How imperceptibly the d avn gins,
After the storm has sobbed Itself asleep,
I To shine upon The eyeiids OF the East.
/ By slow degrees the distant snowy erests
/ OF the great mountains, where, for age on age
Tempests have vsinly thundered, are dIscerned
I he strainlog eye then makes the contour out
| or the near forests. Then rosy mist
/ Spreads like blush upon the purple clouds,
Becoming by degrees a crimson light;
/ Until at last, AFTER q weary watch,
Kept by cold vOyagers on distant seas,
Orstorm-veKed travellers on vide desert plains,
The broad sun ru shes through the eddying mist,
/ Finging II OF, as from frigate's prov
Flash back the sparkling waves The wakened
world,
Gladdened with light. TtJoices In her strength,
And men dOre the imperatOTlal sun
SO shall IL be with Truth. Long ages are
The minuIts OF her twilight The white sails
or the dawn's boat are erimsoned by her II sht
Where It lies rocking ear the eastern strand,
Waiting pilot TO assume the helm,
And steer It round the circle of the sky;
For Truth below the horizon fingers yet.
But after you and are dead and cold,
Our bones all mouldered to a little dust,
Our monuments all crumbled into clay,
She, like the sun, shall rise and light the world,
Never 10 set. The bumb'est man has power
To accelerate her coming; and the words
We speak or write, in that effect shall live
Long after we are gathe ed 10 tie dead.
Thought shakes the world as the strong earth
qualze's tread
Shakes the old mountains and the impatient
Each written word. teaching the humblest
truth,
No matter In what homsly garb arTayeI,
Is one OF thOss uncounted myriad drops
That make the stream OF ThOaght, which irst
sprung forth
A slender, feeble rfl, when all the earth
Was dark as midnight, from the Utmost caves
And deep recesses OF the human mind,
Where It was torn. Think you one drop IL lost
or all by which thai stream hes grown so great?
No longer tIickling over the gray rocks,
Or fOaning over precipics and crsg,
It rolls along, broad, deep, Tranquil stream,
Resistless in calm energy and strength,
Through the great plsins,-and feels the giant
pulse,
50 near it is TO universal power,
or ocean throbbing in its great blue heart.
Let US work on for surely It Is true
That none work faithfully without result.
What if we do moi the result perceive?
God sees lit is preseut a0i0 TO Him.
So that we know our labor is not 10 t"
Content you, friend! I shall not cease TO
work.
1 am the harnesssd champion Of Truth,
Cuirassed and gresved, sworn % her glorious
cause,
With beauty's favor g,ittering In my helm.
Bat heRcefOrth shall labor in the peace
And quietuess OF my beIoTg home.
80 good is wrought by minsliog in the fray
OF plrty-wsr. Under these kingly trees,
Encouraged by my children's loving eyes,
SOothed TO serene and self-possessed content,
By all the sights and sounds that bless me here,
WIN work ever in the noble cause.
The words OF Truth should flow upon the ears
M the M q 10
Even as the crystal waters OF yon spring,
That, night AID day, all seasons OF the year,
Indifferent 10 censure or TO praise,
Seen and unseen, singing their quiet tune,
Leap Joyfully over its grassy brIm,
Starred with bright flowers; rain on the
thankful sward,
Where now The almo d droTs Its rosy flowers,
And the syriDga trails its dropping twigs,
Fringed thlckly with It's small and snowy
blooms;
And murm uriDg their gratitude to God,
Flow onward, seekipg patiently the sea:
Not other now, than when for many en- age,
Primevsl forests hid It from all sight,
Save the fond stars; no lip benz down TO drink
And since creations morning not an eye
Ofman had seen 1t. 'Fis a pregnant lesson"
- &c its waters cleaning in the light
or the young moon, and hear the slender sound
or the stirred pebbles IN It's narrow bed.
II men would do their duty. like the springs,
Committing the result, and their reward,
To God, who IOvtth all, the golden age,
That most delicious fable of Old rhyme
Would come indeed
~, for my single Eelf
Shall stil live on in this the peaceful calm
And golden ease OF my dear humble home:
As 10 the sheltered har5or of some Isle,
Enclosed by Southerx seas, the st0 rna-w worn ship
Escaped the waves, old Oceans hungry hounds,
That cry and chafe without, furls all her sails,
And sleeps within the shadow Of the trees,
Rocked by the undulations caused by storm,
That vexes all the ocean round the isle.
Here viii l make myself q golden age.
Here live content. and happier than a king.
Ncr bird that swings and sleeps In his small
nest,
Nor bee that rsvels in the Jasmine blooms,
Nor humming-bI rd that robs the hOneysucl.le, F.
Nor cricket, nested under the warm hearth,
Shall sing or werk more chterfuiIy than ="
With this the moon, opening one azure Ia.
Had some time poured her light upon the birds, +
Among the green leaves Of the ancient oaks;
The drops rained thick upon the bright green
grass,
From the springs b'Im. like a swim silver hail
The meadow seemed a wide clear, level lake
or molten silver, by her alchemy;
Ths shoulders OF the Northern mountains
glittered
With new glory, and one spllntered peak
shot up in bold relief against the sky,
WAN one large star resting upon his crown,
beaeon-bght on Titanic tower
Around hat peak, 10 Nor.h and East stretched
out
The line OF dusky forest. far away,
Bounding the prairie like a rampant there
throughout Christendom. Edwsarp. !
Second, of England, made nth,
seizure Of their property, on theyes
p nesday after Epiphany, 1908, andilnd. [
=" transferred by act of Parliament gnu
Order of st. John, in 1923. Accom-. /
n to Mills, however, the history
en- Templars does not end here and
or der of succession of Grand Mast'he
ReFfsatr Eae64 III xr from s5ui he
The merry mimic Of our Southern woods
Poured ont large waves of gushing melody,