The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-11-17
B URN ED
OcfBER 9th, THE STEAMER SToSEwAL1
BY wELTILEA Z. GRAHAM.

hltCt DhO iS"A-A No -
where
when skies are pure as holy Sabbath
And red waves glide along with peace
full flow,
When Hope, our anchor, safely holds, and
calms
Steal over us)-where do the loved ones
go!
Down mid the yellow slime and sea-weed
OOze.
And depths of darkness deeper than the
past;
Down mid the broken spars and iron thews
Forever swaying to the ebb. and vast,
Wild untler-fiow of waves; OF Oh, STILL on,
Swept by the restless sweep out to sea,
There, till the resurrection's solemn dawn
ReposinS, royal c9ptives' chained yet
free
Oh, hearts we fondly-love, oh, pallid lips,
Oh, clinching palms and swiftly glazing
Ye bore our farewell kiss, from earths
eclipse
Safe home with Thee beyond the inn
mortal skies; > sf@
And ice! oh, God, the speechless agony,
despair, ....,-.
The trembling hands that gr;,sps in mem
DRY
For cherished forms and brows and
deathleSs hair
Ceaseless we dream within our cheerful
homes .s
Where the pare freight flickers gainst
our check,
As the sky deepens, and tho twilight
gloams.
BRING MS communion with the ones we
seek, 49, -EG
Bidding us see, unseen, and hear, unheard
Death scenes and agonizing tortued cries
Fierce strains for life, and every last sad
Echoed by denlonds of thessea and skies!
Oh tapping fame (tIlou glorious Judas
kiss)
Holding MS close within betraying arms
Oh rushing waters with thy seeming bliss,
Thine is the voice that sounds 10 false
OH Death, this is thy harvest, this Thy
Given ere the fond farewell had lost its
sweet ! -.sz..--. s.-.-
Rash gatherer of souls, to thee we bring
Our tears, and thou hast lain them at
our feet !
Hast thou no pity, hast thou not thy
feast
From out the loveliest and the loved of
earth,
That thon must steal upon Us when we
Looked for or even dreamed thy fearful
birth
And when the sw eft young lips that thou
hast chilled
Were calling "Mother' from your dark
some wave,
Was there no pity, when their murmurs
stiflled-
No vague regret for this their lonely
grave
ALI no, cold, stern and pitiless, in peaceful
guise fE-st
And sunny smile thou met them at the
mora, trse
And when the cleaning dimmed son wes-
tern skies,
Crushed the fair hopes that yet were
scarcely born
Alas! we feel thy horror, and thy face
Grows fearful when we think that We, zee
TOO, $500
Await thy coming with unwcleome grace
To meet tue lost ones, past yon archin%
blue.
SATAN IN a BURGEN TCNNEL.-Tiie
Newark Register says: Two wild bulls
fresh from the fields of Texas, escaped
from Slaughter house near Hoboken,
and went around the city at a clatter-
ing pace to see the sights They Leap
ed over the city walls into a sewer,
and ran across the meadows. Guns
were discharged at. the jovial bulls
without any effect; except to increase
their hilarity. They started for the
tunnel, bent on exploring that work
of science from end to end. A train
WIS dasliing into the entrance just as
the animals rushed in. The lamp
lighter of the tunnel, surprising that
his majesty from below had broken
loose, was frightened very badly. A
train from the opposition direction
struck one of the animals and threw
him from the track. The train wa!
delayed to allow the bulls time to con
slider their evil ways, butthey wouldn'
consider. A crowd gathered at the
entrance to the tunnel, and they beges
ed the beasts to come out; but the
bulls, enjoyed the scene vastly. ,ant
tossed their heads in proud disdain.--
AT length gang of men went over the
hill with firearms and fianked the enc
my, which preeipltately departed on q
gallop toward Hoboken.
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SocIaL CULTURE AMONG Boys.--lt is the
great trouble among boys when they get
old enough to 90 out into company. that
they don't know how to behave when they
get there. So they sit sheepishly around
on any handy corner they can find, and
wish they were in their sGirt sleeves, OF
any where else than in that "pesky parlor
There is nothing to rub off this rust but
contact with society. The only way to
feel at home in the parlor is to be familiar
with it, Here mothers are often greatly
at FAULT. The best room is kept shut and
darkened, aud the intruder who strayed