Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

I heard parson of the school of BALKAN
Lift up the lesson of the flaming town,
And. like peddler in the will of Heaven,
Show how its sins invoked the Sovereign frowD
Thus the dead lion ever is insulted
By asses colts, whose pity is blow,
And fallen empires find their last misfortune
In shallow platitudes from fool to foe.
Bright. Christian chapel of lakes and prairie,
Heaven had no interest in thy scourge and
scath;
Thou vert the newest shrine of our religion,
The youngest witness of our hope and faith.
Not in thy embers do We rake for folly,
But like martyrs ashes gather thee,
With chastened pride and tender melancholy,
The miracle thou vast, and yet will be !
Not merely in the homages of churches,
Or bells of praise tolled DER the inland seas,
Thou gorifled our God and human nature
With meter works and grauder melodies,
OF cheerful toll and willing enterprises,
OF hearty faith in freedom and in man;
The boar old capitals looked on in wonder
To see the swift, strong race this STRIPPING ran,
How like the sun he rose above the marshes,
And built the world beneath his airy feet,
And changed the course of immemorial rivers,
And tapped the lakes for waters pure and
sweet
How skillfully the golden grain transmitted
To birds of sail and meteors of spark,
And, like another Noah, bade creation
March in the teeming masses of his ark.
Yet in his power, most frank and democratic,
He reused no envious witness of his joy;
And in the stature of the Prince and hero,
We saw the laughing dimples Of boy
Still wise and apt among the oldest merchants,
His young example steered the wary mart
And amplest credit poured its gold around him,
And trade imperial gave tcope for art.
His architectures passed all heather splendor,
| lThe immigrating Goth drew wondering near;
To see his shafts and arches tall and slender,
Branch DER the new homes of this pioneer.
The Greek and Roman there might see rebuilded,
In vastncss equal and in style as pure,
ThSmerchants' markets like palace gilded,
With marble halls and deep entablature.
His two score bridges swinging on their pivots,
The long and laden line of vessels sped,
While he, impatient, marched beneath the
sluices
His hosts, like Cyrus, on the river bed.
Then, when all weak predictions proved but
scandal,
And the wild marshes grew a soyereign's home,
A doing COW oerset an urchin's candle,
Z Once more fool hal fired the Ephesian dome.
The artless winds that blew DER plains of cattle,
And cooled thecorn through all the Summer
days,
Plunged like wild steeds in pastime or in battle,
Straight in the binding brightness of the blaze,
And down fell bridge, ard parapet, and Intel,
The blazing barks went drifting, one by one,
The mighty city wrapped its head in splendor,
And sank into the waters like sun
Oh thou, my master, champion of the people,
Tribune, august, who e'or kept righteous court,
Long after fire had toPpled church and steeple,
Thou stOodst among tie ruins like fort
Ugh and serene thy cornices extended,
Though scorched by smoke and of the fame the
prey,
Above the vault where, grim and calm, and
splendid,
The sleeping lions of thy presses lay.
Till looking round thee in the wondrous Pity,
Thysef alone erect, intact, VI reared,
to outive the glorious city,
With innate heat TRANSPORTED, diapp2ared.
let, from the grave Chicago's wondrous spirit
Comes forth all brightness, Ger the darkened
town,
To say again ''Lo ! am with you, brethren;
With al my thorns, wear my civic crown.
To die is sweet embalmed in your compassion,
Your oil and wine make life in every rent.
IN let me lean a little while upon you,
And walk to strength in your eneOurs cement"
Cincinnati, oct. Is, ISL.