The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-19
POETRY.
IF a Man Die Shall He Live Again"
BY MRS. sTANsBuRY.

Dim is the eye that with ardor once burned.
Pale is the cheek that once revealed In
bloom,
Mute is the tongue of the witty and
Iearn'd,
And tho chambers of thought are now ST.
lent In gloom,
Shall that eye again flush. that cheek, again
fire!
Shall that tongue again move as the soui
melting lyer?
Cold is the brow that SO lately was warm,
PoTerless the hand ever wont to obey,
Still is the heart and it fears no alarm.
The once active frame Is now changing to
clay,
And shall life warm the brow, with strength
nerve the hand?
Shall that heart ever throb and with feelings
expand?
O tell me, who can tell friends stand
round the grave,
Dark is the mansion and heavy the chains,
Dust mingles with dust,-is there no arm
to save,
And rescue o brother from deaths close do-
mains?
When corruption has seized worms made him
prey,
Shall friends ever greet him ?-Oh will We not
say
urge the pursuit turn all around,
seek for relief, my heart pants to know,
Ye planets that roll, ye thnnders that
sound,
Ye lightnings that flash :-ye fierce winds
that blow:
In the times ye have lived, and the distance
you've sped,
Have We learned to say Shall man rise
from the dead?
Alas there's no voice, the planets roll on,
The thunder has died in the distance away.
The lightning has sped the wind ceased
to moan,
And still I am left in darkness to stray.
Ye heavens of blue, spread out like tent,
Has man ever passed you, as upward he
went? Cf a1
Old ocean what wrecks on your waves
you have borne, asaa4e r
What myriads of souls have in you found a
rest ra 7vs,.s Ere ra s.
Have the captives you've made from your
prisons been torn,
Or do they now live in your watery breast ?
My inquiries are vain. Silence reigns in the
sky, - 9d @
And the proud old ocean racer deigns no
reply a
Shall he live Shall he live! darkness
profound
On all things it siezes-my souls lost il
night,
1 seek for a sunbeam in deep anguish
bound, t lth s1
There is no day star glimmering, no flash.
ing of light, @
IN mercy In mercy the wretched relieve
And if a man die o say, shall he live
He shall live-he shall live-death's power
is gone, 18so 5G s. 5I0 1u,r
The slumberer shall wakon, the7eye lids
unclose,
The dust shall be gathered-and morning
shall dawn
On the virgo Of the pit, there shall blossom
the rose, fsti@ llaa1 2cia 10
The word has been spoken, the power has
been given, es 9E3 9la earHd3 eI
The tomb has been made pathway to
heaven So 81 q d 81 1s.l.al Ii
81 have met with the dread foc--he fell by
my arm, Is9gg a .g01 u sisv
Tho fierce was the struggle the conquest
1won, ra ,,
My own blood stained my garments and
yet without harm. tH llad
l chained down the monster, my work then
was done---a Is3su s9oE II Mil. ,ez
And | left the drear tomb as upward few,--
To prepare in yon glory, a mansion for you.''
WhO-who is my ransom, thus powerfuItc
save, ri arsaaer ad4 I'll.
And throw on the tomb rich mantle Of
light, f,-....
Whose arm is SO powerful totear from the
grave, 8" t8sa
The spoils of his hand-and where is the
might, ~ Ell a-9 2.sum 20
That opened the jaws of the enemy death, 21a
And gave to the slumbering legions new
breath M Iaea y.rE s-, ri
81 am Jesus The heavens were formed BY
my hand, @ af4 60 goa osa
The stars in their courses made swiftly ctc
run, ta re- b ~ sr
all things created by sea and by hand, a.
The planets that turn-the glorious sun,
From the throne of my glory, 1 stoop'd te
n save,
I rolled back the storm and breasted The
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