Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-30
The CHRONICLE.
For the CHRONICLE.
ApOstrOphe to Nelson Ledge.


Old ocean with her fierce and hoary locks,
Stern, proud Niagara's bold impetuous form,
The broad, majestic stream that seaWsro
The dancing rivulet that laves my feet,
Flow right gracefully 70 song.
Sun, moon and stars. that rule the day and
deck
Nights bright diadem.-an court the muses.
Yet, Nelson standest bard-slighted and
None daring tune thy grandeur into rhyme;
Art thou too hard a subject for song9
Is thy magnihcence too melancholy
To be portrayed by goddes-gifted penn
Methinks thai thou m1ghtest SUI tne lava
OF PASSIONS eloouence within the soul;
and bursting forth. fuIlwell, attune thyself
To grandeur on the page, as old nature
Formed thee, grand al nrst-
All, yes Thou hast the vain sought secret
When was thy far beginning2 When God
Let there be light" did that most perfect
Smile on excrescense strangely thus de-
As, II some treacherous element cen then
Or sportively strict systems rule unbentg
Or did after ages, rather, witness
The wonders Of thy mighty origin;
When mother earth, grown wrathiul with
OF sinful children. constant fretting her
Kind, forbearing heart It'll II aSsunder
Burst with dread agony beyond control?
Now, let me muse; as here stand atfoot
OF thy colossal greatness; and look up
Unto thy towering, iutty crags; and down
Into thy deep-sunken, Shiny caYerni
Let me conjure up the direful, startling
Vicissitude that lifted thee from out
The bosom Of the sleeping earth with throes
OF maddened horror that sent singing
Thrill along the swollen veins ana grleI-
Nerves Of that hitherto wise. indulgent
Parent. What shivering Of thy giant crags;
What horrid, strange bewilderment. as In
haste
Each Ieaped and piled on each, seeking q
Resting place. What groaning and terrific
Shrieking rent the atmosphere, and reacheo
The blacSened circle of the armament.
Was nature then and there alone, with none
To witness and report the tragic jar
OF this dire intestinal commouonI
Or did some SOdom sink into the gap;
Some guilty Dathan and Abiram drop
into the chasm; their sin upon them?
We know not, and thou wilt not tell the tale
To crafty our anxious longing for
Thy hidden history; but, boldly stand
A silent monument Of Almighty
rOWeT. ever EEdCQluk u1du llc AEnaOA
Of his ignorance and wasting frailty.
Thousands walk to and fro among thy cells,
And DER thy SUBMITS. with eager, varied
Gaze. Science strives to drink in ALL Ignor-
wonders and admires. old-age with un-
covered
Head worships within thy sanctuary.
Gay childhood skips along thy thoroughfare
And drinks thy sparkling waters with the
Zest
Of native innocence. Lovers, arm in arm,
Walk through thy stately palaces with
Blissful footstep; or, seated on princely
Divan, breaths vows which thou wilt ne'er
disclose.
,Iisers behold within thy fiinty crest
The glitter Of their all-absorbing dreams.
Pale poverty forgets his tattered rags
And stops to gaze, as though subltm1ty
Had spread her feast for him alone.
Rose, verdant beauties, deck thy quiet brow;
tray roots weave chaplets Ger thy naughty
Irame;
sweet songsters carol notes of revelry.
And night-hawks nap their pinions on thy
breast;
Thou heedest not, firm and Independent
Is should be right principles OF mind in
dan-thou standest and wilt stand until the |
lame Omnipotence that placed thee here
Command what seemeth good.
A VISITOR.