The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-07-13

To world that is hotter, purer and brighter,
Where hopes ars no less tho the burdens be light
An aged editor sat in rickety chair
Before him pile of exchanges,
His scissors clipping first here, and then the
A paragraph now, joke light as air,
And he looked the cold patriarch, radiant, rare,
With the sunlight OF God streaming down on his ha
gossamer shroud Der the burrows OF care
That told how the piougshare of time had been the
Still he sat III his rickety office chair
Dissecfing his Office exchanges.
The hours fitted by as-on unseen wings,
Aud still in the work of dissection,
The old Editor sat as a King amid Kings
AnatomatiZiag the joints aud springs
OF Journal Ife-the hidden strings,
That move the Body E0fdic-'tll the drowsy win
Of sleep famed out all sublunary things
And stopped the work Of dissection,
The sIiyercd head Topped down ON the table,
CAS- matter ofcoarse, to make perfect our fable,)
And off ms fell the gold mounted quizzers,
And free from his grasp fell the talented scissors.
While the veteran of Letters succumbed to the popr
And totally ignored the DEVILS shoutings for copy
Oh sweet was his slambers, for Natures Restore
Had stolen the soul and left him a-snorer
While the spirit went roaming those bright feel
Elysian.
with angels who showed it this beautiful vision.
Out hanging in the vault o + night
Beeweied with the stars, bedecked
With Gods my Storiaus handIwork,
Two symbols hung i'll golden light
Eftesting Gods supremacy,
Tho one golden Pen, and one
glittering Sword whose scabbard was
The sheeted Ii yhtning of His viii
Who spake from chaos, order truth.
Above the one in rament white
As in the character of God,
Appeared the guardian of the Right
as though twere born Of heaven to guard
The truth from error. Above the SWORD
Revealed in crimson fame the "God
Of War stood a sattlement
Ofcloud, and waved his bloody pennant
In face of heavens cheruhic host
Till thunders shook the armament,
Rolling their echo Diapason
Unto creations utmost verge,
As if to test the power of Jove.
They spanned the armament
Gods bow of promise, circling in
The actors of Heavens Tragedy
While spake the Majesty of God
As though 'twere Sinai that spake-
'sPeace be still'-and the wild tempest hushed
As Graded in the love of God,
And aagels with insignia
OF heaven closed round to greet the scene.
Now dipped the pen It's crystal point
In the azure blue and wrote high on
The jeweled armament OF heaven,
con earth be peace, good will tc men
And the cherubic hosts sent back Amen"
And angels punctuated with
The stars
From ont its scabbard drawn,
The Sword ciasped in unseen hand
Now carved upon the battlement
OF cloud, s.-Tis might makes right and ghosts
OF Wars CLAIM progeny did rise
A ma u,.,terseore with. lines ofbIood-
Blood drawn from veins OF Princes, Kings
rhe headiess trunks Of 1Ionarehs-the
Classify iorms OF mothefs-babes
Butchered to make hecatomb-
sacrifice TO pomp OF power
Yea blood that flowed from Calvary's cross
Attesting Innocence in death.
Then were the heavens hushed and there
Was weeping for wrong had triumphed.
Then wrote the Pen, Truth must prevail" .
And round the sacred sentiment
halo gathered though the souls
OF al & martyred dead were smiling
through the wicked mournful past
And asking benediction DER
The Just decree.
Then spalze voice
As though 'twer bcsomed III the clouds
And uttered 10y cherubic hosts,
.Our God is loye'-"It Is decreed
The Pen shall write the victories
The Sword shall carve ii battling wrong,
And both shall be exalted, yea
Each be recognized through all the earth
As ministers of justiCe,-Gods
Ambassadors, till Error yield.
Right triumph Truth prevail and all
The brotherhood OF man shall call
jehovah blessed"
Now vanished
From out the armament the types
The symbols of the aveugin. forces
And in the vault, the stars
Again did altogether sing
As III historic morn of old,
And all the chorus of the skies
Joined in the iubilce-tiil adowni
The unknown pathway of the years
That are to come, their echoes dying
Geil Ike whisper on the ear
OF God, breathing the joy OF Earth
To Heaven.
The veteran slept, while angel forms unseen
Were lowering earth and heaven between
The veteran slePt--aInid the click of type
The veteran sept--a steep with dreaming ripe,
For unseen hands had beciloned him away,
Where soul is merged in Immortality
And through the gates aiar, God 5 glory shone
With gliding light from out the great Unknown,
Gliding locks sjlVered with frost Of years
With golden light such rs the God-head wears
The veteran slept-amd The click OF type,
The veteran slept-a sleep with dreaming ripe
Another tenant unto earth Is given,
Another star to deck the galaxy of heaven.
Thus gathers God his harvest
Into the great Unllnovn-tlat garner
Where men wheat. and angels
Reapers-passed to eternity
The vision and the Saint; the one,
A myth, and yet symbolic truth,
And one living sentient truth
Born Into brighter realms beyond
The Kin of mortal viSion- but whittier
The hearts affection, hopes and loves
May reach unto the golden cord
OF merci uniting earth with heaven.
Truth claims ,no'sire Creations dawn
Found symhelized in Gods Just law,
The burning principle innutable.
Adown the centuries. and keeping pace
With Times swift chariot of years,
Truth hand in hand with Equity
And JUSTICE glorious trio)
. Hath iourneyed 10 the marvellous present,
n 10 faint, Flemish hath o'ercast
The pure Triuse perciisf-ce the dust
OF Time 5 revolving wheels h2th hid
Their gorgeous coronet, but "F2ith"
The unseen harbin@er Of God
Hath wiped away the hlemshed cloud
And with God speed ckeered them OF
Unto the everything No5c.
Shall not harbor tbem2 The Pen
Must write the eiIct>-the DEGREES
OF God-for It's Gods light 70 reason
The Press promulgate truth Till Earth
Shall send its greeting buck 70 heaven,
"Tay Ba5iatSterS hare closed The cAGSa
Which Error rent and ieroliJ hath tcidene3.
The goide1a cord ts,iting man 10 God
Hath bcesa Telc0ccIt.
Notp let the
Morning stars again together sing
: Fbr Pt4lce Earth. good ti}t to men
Is fcgit all the tables "a the land
Then shall
And through the vast eSVanse shall roll
The Hos2unaS Of angelic hosts
And Gods armament shall be
The signing Of a covenant
And the glad tidings shall be known abroad
And beginnings blaze the autograph of God.