Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-09-07
KILOGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
The AMERICAN INSTITUTE.
FORTxRTA RxHXBETEO.v.



NEW YORK, Sept 1s71.-The formal opening
of the fortieth exhibition of the American Insti-
tute took place to-day. At u O'Clock m. the
managers and invited guests assembled in the
center of the Institute building, and the exer-
cises were commenced with the american
Institute Grand March," after which a prayer
was offered by Rev. Or. Deems, of the Church
cradle length, composed by Walt whitman for
the occasion, was then recited by the author.
The poem opens as follows:
After all. no. to create only i; or found only,
But to bring, perhaps from afar, what Is already
To give it our own identity, average limtless free;
To I'll the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious
Not to repel destroy so much as accept fuse, re-
To obey, a; wen as cOmmand-to follow, more than
These also are the lessons Of our New World;
While how little he New, after all-how much the
Long and long has the rain been falling,
Long has the globe been rolling round.
Come, Muse: MIGRATE :, from Greece and Ionia:
Cross out, please, those immensely oyerpaid &C
That matter e Troy, and Achilles wrath, and
Placard = Remorsd" and " To Tsi" on the rocks Of
Repeat at jerussle mHpIace the notice high on Jaf
fa's gate; and on Mount MSrish;
" ihedTais, and German an French and spanish
For know a better, fresher, buster sphere-s wide,
untried domain awaits, demands you.
Responsive TO our summons,
Or rather 70 ter long IIIsd inclination,
She comes this famous Female-as was indeed to be
flor WHO, 60 ever-youthfuI, cute and handsome,
would wish to stay in mansion ssuch those,
when oner d quarters with all the modern improve
With an The fun that's goins-and all the best co.
cietyD
she comes hear the yustlins Of her gown;
scent the odor OF her breath delicious fragrance;
msrk her step divine-her curious eyes aturning,
Upon this very scene.
The Dame Of Danes can believe then,
Those ancient temples classic and castles strong and
Nor shades Of virgil and Dante@nor myriad memo
rice, poems, old associations, magnetic and
But that she's LETT them all-and here?
Yes if yen will allow me to say so,
I'm my iTesds 40 mot can plainly see HsT
Out fir. IN her .yolu,ions hther come-submerged the
Hidden and cOyerd by to-day 's-foundation Of to-
Ended, deeeas d, through time, her vOiceby Casta-
Silent through time the brokenlipgd sphyn. in
Closed Tor the epcs Of Asia Europes helmeted
CallicPes csil forever closed-Clio, MelpOmene,
ended hs Ss y Rs q Sna and
Jerusalem handful OF ashes blown BY the wind
The Cruz adeis streams of shadowy midnight troops,
Amadis, Tancred, utterly sone-Charlemagne, Ro-
PaimsTin, ogre, dsparted-vanshd the turrets that
Arthur 1anishd with all his kniehts-Merln and
Lancelot and Galshad-all sone-dssOlv'd ut
Pass pass for us forever pass a that once so
mighty, wOrld-nOw void, inanimate, phantom
Enbrcider a, dazzling World with all its gorgeous
Its kings and barons proud-its priests and warlke
Pas. to ts charmed yault-Iaid the shelf-cof,nd
with Crown and Armor on,
siszGnd with Shakespeares purple page,
say see my friends, if you do not, the Animus Of
Escaped. bequeathd vital fugaciou. as ever Ieav.
ing those dead remains, and now this spot ap-
And can hear what may be you do not-a terrible
esthetical cemmotion,
With bowling desperate gulp Of flower" and
With q sonnet to Matthias Eyebrow" quite, quite
With gushing, sentimental reading circles turnd to
ice or stone;
New York, PhiisdeIphia, London;
As she ess Inn & true n
CONSIDERABLY
A'l9s a1ss, G5 1 a
By thad q machinery and shrill steam-whistle
Bluff Sah6 nei BIZ by drainpp gasOmeters, ar
smiling and pleased with palRable intent to stay,
She's here, installed amid the kitchen ware
The poet proceeds to depict the edifce they
were engaged in building to-day
IhE great e,G ;t sacred IndustTyono tomb
and thtn enters upon the busy scenes to be
exhibited within its walls. He glorifies Labor
and the campaigns OF Industry inferventstrains,
and then goes on TO say:
say bring thee, Muse, to day and here,
All occupations, duties broad and close,
TOLL healthy toll and sweat endless, without cessa
The Old, old general burdens, interests, JOYS,
The house cSmforts-the house itself, AMI all its be-
Eoed ana iIs preservatons-chemistry applied to it:
WhateN foIms the avers strong, complete, sweet
hlooded Man or wCman-the perfect longeve
And helps its present life to health and happiness
ard shapes it's Soul,
For the eternal Real Life to come.
v it'll latest materials, works,
steam power, the great Express lines, gas, petro-
These tTiumphs of time, the Atlanti, Is delicate
The Pacific Railroad the suez canal, the Mont Cents
Science advanced, in grandeur and reality, analyz-
This world ali spaIn with iron rails-wi.h lines of
steamships threading every sea,
Our own Rondure, the current globe bring.
10.
Ard thou, high towering One-Americai
Thy .waIm OF offspring towering high-yst higher
thee above all towering,
With Victory on thy left, and at thy ri ght hand
Law;
Thou Union, holding all-fusing, absorb ig, tole
rating all.
Thee, ever thee, bring.
Thou-also thou. q world
With all thy wide Biographies, manifold, d ferent,
distant,
Rounded by thee in one-one common o-bic Ian
guage,
One common indivisible destiny and Union.
u.
And By the spells which ye vouchsafe,
To those, your ministers In earnest,
/ here personify and call my themes,
To make thtm pass before ye.
Sister y
For thee come troOpins mp thy waters and thy
Behold thy fields and farms, tbs far-of woods and
mountains,
As in procession coming.
Behold the sea ITSELF
And on Its limillees, heaving breast, the ships:
See where their white sails, belying In tis wind
epeekle the green and blue
r. NO and 0Qiu afoa I'm,