The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-01-22
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slatIly changing ouf scenes We
hnt leave childhood behind ne
Then youth then the yearsof ripen.
cd manhood. thcu The better and
more pleasing port ol old age
Truly, hfe " but n voyage, and q
swift one, too, lrom the cradle to
the grave; from tine 70 ctcruity,
from noihingucss 20 immortality
Our bark scts sail from The harbor
OF infancy, guidedby parental oilcc.
ton, we float along the placid sen
over an almost unrulllcd pathway,
Innocence now takes the helm,
and childhood, with its suubcams
and shadows, It's littlo waves of dis
appointments, and islands Of flowers
its long days of play and nights of
sweet dreams, passes away, and, ere
we know it, we have rounded the
bay, and are floating rapidly over
the wide cxpanse of youths smiling
waters. O, how cloudlcss and Sc
rcnc are the concave heavens, and,
at night, how the stars twinkle and
laugh at us from their blue vauItcd
height above! The musical waves
curl around the PROV of our airy
bark, and IEolus gently lifts the
silkcn sails as we go toward.
Far away in the distance, bcau'
tiful isle invites us to its shores
Unconsciously, we draw nearer an(
nearer. Joy and admiration soiz'
us as we gaze on its glorics. I'll
covered, as far as the eye can reach
with a carpet of emerald velvet
spanglcd with flowers of gloriou
beauty, whose odors float upon til
air, Silver sparkling fountains fa'
into basins of Parian marble, foN
over their edges, and moander o
between banks of snowdrops IN
lilies of the valley, that stoop
bathc their petals in the singin
waters. Whispering brcczcs rust
through groves and bowers, whe'
birds Of fsurpassing lovelincss warb
and twittcr from spray to spra
while the soul enhancing strain
wonderful bulbul,
"who sings, at the last his own death lay
sh- And In music and perfume dies away"
ok fills our heart with an ecstacy OF {
is light.
on High above, in the canopy
'on heaven, glitters o glorious, gold
star, in whose transccndant brillia
in cy all else is lost. With that gra
,us denr and sublimity it gazes doy
on, upon us, and seems to shine for
ior only, beckoning us away from o
icr fowery paradise of earthly To-
the and drawing us onward and upwa
ans to that higher, purcr surer p
{ OF where we can anchor In safety!
ro- Which shall we choose--to pal
in and harbor in this wilderness of
md lights, or follow the beckoning
en- your golden guide? Heaven 0
tier earth arc contending for the he
| of The waters are smooth and brig
pun alike any fair lake that the breeze is upc
ues When 1t breaks into dimples and laugh
val the SUM-"
ded The shore is near, but the star {
,ish allures us is far away, tar of,
she the billows, hard and high, t
her sweep between.
mes, Those of uswho choose the forl
,ccn glide gaily into the laughing, 81
ably ing stream. All seems joyous f
rips while, till we suddenly strike u
rnal an unseen, rock, called Disappo
ying ment. Trembling tothc centre f
cled the shock, we sail moro slowly
n ward, and five happily escape
def gulf of Intempcrance and the
mos OF DISSIPATION, toucn INC shor'
tain our Eden. There we are met
icul- lovely band, who scatter gems
{ the flowers around us. Flattery,
1T is her radiant smile and winning v
ex to comes, hand in hand, with Va
r ap- among whose raven curls
outh- twined flowers Of cvcrydye. I
some too, Fortune, sparkling with
IS cx- monds, pearls and jewels, leans
, dec her livery wheel, while, beyont
sur shining leaves Of Fames J
,ir, a crown cast a light around her
walk jestic brow.
ntour A little skiff shoots from
listin- shore, guided by a being pecrl
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