The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-21
For the New Orleans sunday Crescent
PROPHECIES.
BY coRINNE.

G1OE EGARDs
BY CoRNNE.
Night hath lain long upon our icountry Our
weary eyes are fixed upon the NORTH start looks
upon us coldly, unmoved, unpronising. What
hand shall lift away the gray vail tit lies between
us and the temple.light of peace Who the pur
pie vested prophet with the audeole about hb
brow to speak from the awful inspiration of hr.
less truth which shall reach the mia heart q our
mountain people, whispering comfbrt,
The cedsrs have fallen, but they shall be ~
placed with bay. The sun Is Hidden, but the
vspor shall pass away like the breath of babe.
High in air CLEANS the FURNISHED point of FAC.
staff, rising from hooded cupols--there floats
what once enthused every heart with an ecstacy
of national glory, but which is nots alas but dry
goods. In the chambers below s.tthe dealers In
our peoples privileges and-money.
Hush, let no football startle that eugust body;
they are working our peoples wdsl. are framing
laws for the security of our religious and political
tenets. protecting our commerce. Extending edu-
cation increasing the tdres. Spirit of Clay,
rise in thy president glory. and stand in their
midst that thy influence may be fftl Light the
beacon that the nation may ef0pe no more in
darkness. Let every hill wear a, grown of light.
Change thy beloved country's tlars to lustrous
pearls. Her soul is full Of care, bbd her heart ia
full of sorrow. Oh, Niobe, weepf for thy hero
children are slain From the bsIl-tower of the
church German PAuxerrois issied the signal
of the massacre of st. Bartholomew. From the
tower of St. Mary, in the Castle of La Terre,
glared the fire that lit up the Piedpsontese Easter
yea, and from the great sacred belfry Of America
shall sound the note for the todr he races Let
he no onvorod with ha mr. mia
from its own rankness.
The vine is dead and the fruit fallen, but the
root shall sprout again.
Thou dark-eyed Mnemosyne, icoaocast of Joy,
lead me to lighter thoughts; lend nse thine on
which to lean, that we may walk out unto pleasant
pastures and hills, where ooze sweet waters from
the earth. Now sit we here, let uslock the doors
and with the lamp of Hope in hssd. rest at the
mouth of the vast crypts of Time. and talk with
the nymphs as they issue. bearing lhe good things
of the Future to rs.
Change IL written on all things. This year we
love the anemones and roses wHch next year
will be gone from Us forever. We will welcome
their sisters but they will not be tb same blooms.
This century Is merry with things its offspring
robe for the sntqusted World, add though her
joints are unsupple, she wears 1t as nimbly as O
robin its new red In springtme.
In the days Of old our great grandmethers'
beaux buckled on their garters and tied their slip
fbsv vonId nlncE t;ss from ths htorS ~ = sa;rt.
hnt ss tns xrorjd craw r;ssr ~ go wassa "a
thsv zee forced 70 c,oshs their da,ghtars a.
gsrmsnf Of cold ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fSns aId bah,ts
9g;i come again. We viii Loan onr xSvss 20 on,
neichbors Sr a bannv EVENING Nth tbat bSnsst
confidenca which dissrms diebonor namonis
wife musf he secure with Pvthies
This IL a fashion of continental Eurone aans the
motive and a. much as We desnise their covsrn.
mental structures. in the same ratio do We love
their social svsteme vet we should deenlv mourn
the fall of our morals 10 the Ieyel Of the Enro
neans We adore their natnralnsss ana danlora
thar inedeIitv- Yes we sa;d loan onr vives ~.
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not AFRAID it, heat shall not tear their fair Metals.
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Ana nlsntsd In onr midst the tbAorjes az that nro
fonndlv nh,losonhic- jnsaneIv Commanding pao-
ME the Germans. The glare ~ the crown shall
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