The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-02-02

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What linHsr paints the varied hues--
The mssshiess shades Of Rlora's wreath!
And WHO doth into each ipfuss
Its own. distinctive, fragrant breathf
Whss Ph~bus mount; hls asm'ns steed,
And Als tho earth With genial glow,
Whs gesminates tho mort seedl
Whe vegetstes and makes Il grows
Wbas s.ehemist tho ebrysalis
Tssusmutes into butterfly,
Which sports-in sun shine and II bliss
An hour, then webs itself to disf
Who placed tho camel in those lands
Whsss Sirius forever reigns,
Adapting him 70 track the sands
And bide the thirst Of torrld plains1
Who ITS tho mountain goat and stag
To thrive on soanty Alpine fare
To stand secure on beetliug oray,
And respirate tho frozen alr1
Who to the beaver doth impart
The civil engineers degrse1
Who teaches him the builders art-
The mason's craft and uysteryl
Who learns the ants and honey. bees
Political economy
To organize communities
And exercise State, polity7
Who wells with thin transparent hood,
Tho amphibious reptiles eyo.
Through which It see, to eeek it's food,
Whiio shielding It from injury7
Who tells the hulbul and cuckoo
When winters frosts and snow are done,
And sends them forth to greet and WOO
The bursting buds and vernal sum-
Who whispers in its ear that word
That noiseloss, wondrous ahibboleth-
Which warns tho migratory bird,
When Boroas comes with 10y breath?
Who congregates tho finny clans
With voice of uccult horaldry,
And furnishes them charts and plans
With which to navigate the soar
What power ovokes tho mniden's blush,
That stnins her check with crimson dyer
Who paints Der brow with pm ssion's Aush,
And lights with 6ro her sparkling eye?
Who transagures this shrinking maid,
Soon as her frst-borno oluims her care,
Into matron grsvo and stnid,
Lifo's duties all prepared to share7
Who sonds her tender babe In quest
(Ero reasons light assumes oontroD
OF nurture, to ;.s mothers breast,
With aim like magnets to the pole7
Responsive to tho mute demand,
Who opens there O magic fount,
And causes, With his mystic wnnd,
The tactical currents there 10 mount?
Who wipes the rusts from Neptune's brow,
Condensing them in clouds and rain,
Which falling, through the rivers aow
Back to their ocean home again2
Who bids the night succeed the day7
Who leads tho sonsons' endless chare?
Who guides the plunots on their wayi
The comets flight through traokless space
Who on pais Dian Lroathes thnt spell,
by which she holds, in death. like trance
The sea, or makes ita bosom sweil
And throb Throughout its broad expanso7
Who lit the vestal lamps, that glow
Forever, on the domo Of night7
From whose oxhautlcss oruses how
The oils that feed their quenohless light?
Whence como these wonders Of tho earlh7
Those marvels of tho sea ami sky?
Who gavo these adnptation's birth,
And institutos this harmony7
Is chance the genius who planned
With ouoh inta}lin.,t lov:x,1
The architect whoso skillful hand
Hath wrought such symuelry divine7
Is Accident the wise statist
Who framed such equitable laws7
Is Chance-blind Chance The harnontst
Who so adnpts effect to oause7
Is Chance the wizard nature tends7
Whose spirit over nature broods
Who its nli creatures for their ends?
Who instinct plants and aptitudes?
Methinks there is great Fret Cause,
Who natures self conceived and planned,
Who wrote the code of natures laws,
And holds all chances in His handf
Me,hiuks the land, the sen, tho sky,
Abound with symbols, tokens grand
OF tho Elohim, throned on high
Of His creative, primal hand.
There's not beast, in wood or park,
But furnishes some evidence
But hoars somo imprint, sign or mark
Ofan All wise Intelligence.
The frniest insects prove and teach,
Tho existence Of Deity
Are missionaries, sent to preach
a sunny gospel from the sky.
The humblsst flower that scents the field
Tho meekest shrub by brook or lynn,
Some trnces Of their Maker yield
Or their celestial origin.
The smallest bird, whose fcnthered throat
Trills forth Its song, in silver tone,
Repeats some sound, ech0s somo note
From IIcaven's grand diapason.
So, all mans faculties royoal
The touch and workmanship Of God,
While MI cYeation bcnrs His scnl
And shows tho footprints where IIe trod.
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