The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-28

BIZ AIGERNoN CHARLES SWIM
nv che waters of Babylon we sat down and wept,
s,,at ,0r ages Of agony hast endured and slept,
And wouldst not see.
By the waters of Babylon we stood up and sang,
That blast Of deliverance in the darkness rang,
To set thee free.
There WAS feastings with revelling, there was
sleep with dreams,
Until thine hour.
And they slept and they rioted on their rose-hung
BEDS
sS With mouths on fame,
And with love-l0cks vine-chapleted, and Win
rcse-crowned heads,
= And robes Of shame.
By che rivers Of Italy, by the dry streams beds,
When thy time came,
their young mems heads,
The crowns OF shame
; AZ 4 water In January the frost confines,
Thy kings bound thee;
AZ q water in April is, in the new-blown vines,
Thy sons made free.
In thy grief had we followed thee in thy passion
r. loved,
Loved In thy loss; IA, .,,,
m thy shame we stood 1ast 10 tnee, "i'n 'hJ
pangs were moved,
Chung to thy cross.
& IN the hillside Of Calvary we beheld thy blood,
A . mofher;s l M In bitterness, an Aebbing flood,
Years upon years.
{ ana the North was Gethsemane, without leaf or
y. ssI bloom,
ssst A garden sealed:
And the South was Aceldana, for sanguine
fume
Hid all the field.
30 the stone Of the sepulchre we returned 10
s. ~ s.g weep,
rI the Guards G W by it Keeping it we behed asleep,
But thou vast risen.
And an angels simitude by the uusealed grave
Ana the voice was angelical, to whose words Goa
Strength like his own.
sya the graye-clothes OF Italy that are folded up
Ana the guards as men wrought upon with
charmed cup,
By the open tomb.
A,d her body most beautiful, and her shining
.ssSsssts head,
Fave ye no fear.
As Of old time she spake to yon and you hardly
Hardly took heed.
30 now also she saith to you, yet another word,
.t.s Who is risen indeed.
II NV saving she saith to you in, your ears she
saith
VINO hear these things, .-,,r r,.:x ,,s,,.
Put no trust In mems roy atles, nor LII gfeos MSn
~ = brpafh
Nor words OF Kings.
For the life OF them yauishes and Is no more seep,
Nor sSsn Su lE any G,S remember him If crown hath
been,
Or where throne.
unto each man his handiwork, unto each his
Tne Just Fate gives;
whose takes the worlds life on him ana ms own
lays down,
BE, dying SO, lives.
Z whose bears the whole heaviness Of the wronged
worlds weight
e K g wen with him. suffering, though he face
kz4 mans fate;
How should he dies
seejng death has no part in him any more, no
power
e he has bought bis eternity with little nour,
And Is not dead.
ror an hour If ye look for him, he is no more
6t found,
For one hours space;
Then We Lift up your eyes to him and behold MIN
ei Z crowned,
A ieathless face.
on the mountains Of memory, by the worlds
wellsprings,
Whete & the @ light Of the life Of him is on past
things,
Death only dies.
Eot sne light that was quenched for us, nor the
deeds that were,
~ Nor the ancient days.
nor the sorrows not sorrowful, nor the race
most fair
OF perfect praisen
so the angel OF Itaiy's resurrection said,
so yet he saith;
SO tne son Of her suffering, that from breasts nigh
sFS dead,
Drew life, not death.
mat the pavement Of Golgoths should be white
,7SsSTss as snow,
3 III y Not red, but white;
: nat the waters OF Babylon should no longer
fiow,
And men see light. ,..,...
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