The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-08


shattered soul'wrecks, mid stalking ghosts of crime
Revealing corpses, hideous though they be,
Just symbols of curs'd deformity.
When the years were young in the olden time
In parallels spake God to man,
sud when years We're merged in the stately rhyme
OF centuries spake God again,
"a fables, and both were fraught
With az glorious truths as ever were taught.
SO, Brothers Of the Press, with your permission
l parableize aged Editors Vision
What be saw in a dream in his sanctum Sanctorum
Whittier perfumes of roses and sweeter ma forum
bEeathed in at his window,-those angels of flowers
transporting the soul from this black world of ours
To word that is holier, purer, and brighter,
Where hopes are no less, though the burdens be
lighter.
An aged editor sat in his ricketty chair
Before him a pile of exchanges
His SCISSORS were clipping, first here and then there
4 paragraph now, now a joke light air,
And he looked the cold patriarch. " radiant. rare
Win the sunlight Of God streaming down on his
goasamer shroud Ger the burrows of care
hat told how the plowshare of time had been there
Still he sat in his rickety office chair
Dssecting his office exchanges
The hours fitted by as on unseen wings,
And still In the work of dissection
The old Editor sat as King amid Kings
Anatomatizng the joints and springs
OF journal hte-the hidden strings
That move the BOdy PotUic'til the drowsy wings
OF sleep famed out all sgblunary things
and stopped the erk of dissection.
The sllvered head Topped down tina table
CAS- matter of course, TO make perfect our fabIe)
And on OF his nose fell the gold mounted quzzors,
And free from his grasp fell the talented scissors
While the veteran of letters succumbed to the
poppy
And totally ignored the Devils shoutngs for copy.
Oh sweet We're his slumbers, for " Natures Re
st0reFo
Fad stolen his soul, and left him-a snorer.
While the spirit went roaming those bright fields
Elysian,
With angels who showed it this beautiful vision
Out hanging in the vault OF night
8ejeweled with the stars. bedecked
With Gods mysterious handiwork,
Two symbols hung III golden light
Attesting Gods supremacy.
The one, golden Pen and
glttering Sword whose scabbard was
The sheeted lightning OF His Will
Who spake from chaos, order truth.
Above the one, in rainent white
As is the character OF God,
Appeared the guardian OF the Right
As Thoughts We're born Of heaven to guard
The Truth from error. Above the Sword
Revealed il crimson fame the 80 God
OF War" stood on a battlement
OF cloud and waved his bloody pennant
In face OF heavens cherubic host.
Till thunders shook the armament,
Rolling their echoing Diapson
Unto creations utmost verge
As if to test the power of Jove
Then spanned the armament
Gods bow OF promise, circlipg in
The actors of Heavens Tragedy
While spake the Majesty of God
As though 'twere Sinai that spake-
Peace be stu and the Wild tempest b
As Graded il the love Of God,
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Now dipped the Pen its crystal point
Il the azure blue and wrote high on
The jeweled armament Of heaven,
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And Underscore With lines of blood
blood drawn from veins nf princes Kiras
tihastiv forms Of mother babes
Rnfcbsre,i Il ,nakoa beeatcnn1k
sacrifice M pornp az mower
Yea blood that flowed from Calvary's cross
Attesting innocence in death
Then we're the heavens busbea and there
Was wepTing for wrono mad triumnhed
Then wrote the pen .sTr3nb Ip1tst ,5raroiy >,
And round the sacred sentiment
4 halo gathered as though the souls
OF all the maytyred dead were smiling
Although the wicked mournfulpast
And asking benediction DER
The just decree
As though twere bosSmed in the clouds
And uttered by eherubic hosts
ssOur God Il lgre'-"H is 9eerssd
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M Brotherhood or man shall c0H
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