The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1869-01-29
For The Jasper Ccurier.l
ESSAY ON MAN.
A BRIEF REVIEW OF LAND FOREST. PLANr
AND ANNALS CT THE DIFFERENr EPocHs
TIE AARTe e-AUsPIcIoUs oMEHs OF
BRIGHTER ERA.

lhns Innd srose from out old Ocean,
Like STARS that dance around central ssn
And as all things from central points ex
i tend;
All living beings from centra: hearts ex.
i innd,
Thus A -is's ,he heart OF tn embryo.
The nsscent Earth, round hch the mem.
hers grow:
The Northern Pars tine briny blood frs,
forms;
The Southern then, and then the encirclipp
Thus round and round the clusrriop psr,s
txpsnd.
And form tor Man common Es,herlupd-
Now o" the hils, now on the arid plain,
he o'zy dsles. the sterile mountain .chsin,
Such germs. such sperns, that nurture suck
from air,
That grow mid slime, now on the Earth an
they die, they rot, from death springs life
UgsIn-
New beinps are born to su / the hills aud
plain;
Such pl"ns now germ, such beusts are born
thai live
10 the blue deep. mids, bocs aud mire
such beirgs that suit werner climate besl.
Sucn plants or beust that love the mon n,uin
crest;
Cosmopolmes tha, fl ,urish ip all climes,
In Epr'h central zone, or mid her two ex
and age on aye decay and growth pass on;
'-om Ampler beings nobler beings are born:
,hilisd Of oges. cifciiLg round aud round,
d growth and death, thus yield q better
ground.
Dark tangled forests loom now here now
there,
md RANK vegtation spreads now eversi,
where:
h'cse's OF terms. Of rank s,igmara,
u lepidodendrs. SigI'luriI* =
iesntic calamites with waving domes. :
nd to~'hng Pyrsmids Of Spenophy lIums;
EN- thousand giants Of Sylvan growth arise u
nd pierce the lofty spire the foggy skies; y
nd mid this scene OF wild uxuuanc., u
uee monsters dwell, aud breed, aud pass
from hence;
90 ibousa nd hideous IN onsiers of MI kind p
nat awe the eye, or O'erw he i'm the mind. I
" wnch The tongne is tasked TO Weld v,
name, e.
; th' Imagination to form q frsme. pI
iarp ioolh'd monsters with jiws like yawn. 70
ing guile, N
ere ravenous Than tiger, lion, wolves, er
ise amid the slime Of bilious green: s.'
crouch beneath some dun vegtsiive 'e
screen. ne
I'd here and there on mired trunks appear III
'ose horrid beings, breathing noxiouy air. 60
ep guirfsl groans arise new here and sa
there
omni0us silence rest then every where Co
ID gloomy iogs still shroud the youthfu, COZ
globe. prl
dusky ether 10 her envelope: rai
''cky hue presents the lesden sun: gr,
rpe'ua' mists surround the august moon. Ito
'e stars like fick'riug neb'lous lights up. po
pear, CO,
d scmbre twilight rests still every where. q :
ough now and then. a zigzsg streak Of hu
light. sny
ne phosphfan, fash, wakes the shade Of ps,
night, in
en- darker grows the impervious vsii We
= humid forest. sea. and stesming dale. yer
d noisome gass;s their deadly mantle hes
spresd
The vast solitude; On om'nous dread we,
'ebodes through drowsy nature dire Th,
alarm, fro,
feel BY instinct the impending harm. he
Deep sullen ,ones-harsh quiv'ring tre. iror
mors thrill gre
've. around, now out from deepes. hell wh,
m pole TO pole the vivid lightning runs, spe,
! TO the centre the hesving Earth now NEE
grosns wss
} thunders roll-the drunken Earth now san,
reels ersl
Ocean hesves and higher mounts; bis in !
swells The