Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-01-31
THE WORLDS HISTORY.
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The earliest history of our globe appears,
Wreathed with the mists of near six thousant
years. IL
The crowning glory of creations plan
Was making Earth the dwelling place of man.
An alma mater teaching him to rise
To more enduring mansions in the skies.
First Eden's garden must our theme engage,
With the perieeions Of the Golden Age
When open intercourse with heaven remained,
And perfect innocence the World retained.
And next the Fall of man from light and life,
To sins deep gloom and death and mortal strife.
Scarce sixteen hundred years had passed away,
Ere universal crime had gained the sway.
Soon then the awful Deluge ragged around,
And all mankind were in its billOws drowned,
Except eight persons, who the waters braved,
And In an ark were from destruction saved.
Then on Mount Ararat did Noah land,
And heaven was with Gods bow Of promise
spanHed.
Again, as years passed down tho tide of time,
Earth's population was immersed In crime.
BY impious hands the Tower Of Babel rose,
As wicked meu'would stil their Lord oppose.
Confusion in the language Of our race
Ensued, and drove them from their native place.
The hills and plains Of Asia wide and free,
Became the homo Of Shems posterilyj
To distant Europe Japeth's sons repaired.
The hunter Nimrod founded Babylon,
And Nnevah by Ashur was begun.
Twas thus the great Assyrian empire rose,
Where Queen Semiramus subdued her foes,
And where the hanging gardens she unfurled,
One Of the Seven Wonders Of the World.
When many centuries had passed away,
An fell beneath the Bnbylonian sway.
But Cyrus captured Babylon one night,
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But Alexander came from Macedon,
And Persian supremacy was gone.
The Parthian Empire next usurped the sway,
And governed nnny lands for many day.
The Arabs who believed Mahommeds creed,
Called Saracens, acquired the conquering lead,
And finally the Tartar tribes obtained
The realms where countless dynasties had reignod
The greatest nation Of old Africa
Was Egypt, in her mighty rheban day.
Long, long she waved the sceptre of her pride,
But long ago her fame and glory died.
Menes, Nitocris, and Sesostris, all
Have long been buried in their pageant pail.
Where Pharaohs reigned, and Ptolomies were
crowned,
Mid dosolaton desert winds rcsound,
And drifting sand the Sphinx has already hid,
Within the shade Of Cheops Pyramid.
Now let US glance at Israeps chosen race,
In their career Of glory and disgrace;
When Abraham had loft his native land.
To seek a home on Canaan's distant strand,
As he had been commanded from the skies,
The Israclitish nation took its rise.
70 feed their nocls and herds In pastures new,
They lived in tents, and roYcd the country
through.
With them we find the pure and simple ways,
Which cluster round the Patriarchal days,
In Egypt then, by iamine's power impelled
They were four hundred years in bondage held
When Moses through tho power Of God, arose
And led them safely from their maddened foes.
AZ Sinai they from Jthoyah's hands
Received the tables Of his ten commands,
And when against his goodness they rebellcd,
Through lribulaions were their murmers quelled
They wandered forty years In deserts wild,
Unfit 10 dwell in lands where nature smiled
Yet still lie guides them upon their way,
Within Gre BY night, and cloud by day.
And when at last they came to Canaan's shore,
And Jordan's turbid river had passed o'cr,
Assisted them their wicked foes to quell,
That all their Tribes nj ght there forever dwell.
The Jews upon their Judges long relied
Among the number Samson lived and died
They by and by resumed their murmuring,
And Saul the son of kish was chosen king.
The Hebrews were, whom Saul was oycrthrown,
The greatest nation Earth had ever known
In Dayids time, and thus they still remained,
While Solomon in all his glory reigned.
But dark is fate that follows erring waysi
And dark their fate becomes in after days!
The splendor Of the light that shone upon
The wisdom Of the gifted Solomon
The conquests Of his father Davids 9word
The Temple dedicated TO the Lord
The Hebrew nation-all have passed away,
Like dazzling splcndor in a midnight play
Ten missing Tribes are lost 50 utterly,
No human history tells their destiny.
feeble remnant from captivity
At Babylon, alone returned to see
The dcsolation Of their native shores,
Whore ages after ragged the darkest wars
That ever mans unhallowed passions waged,
Or 10 which human beings e'er engaged;
And eliminating in the curse to them
OF the destruction Of Jerusalem.
The Hebrew Prophets were race Of men
Inspired beyond all other mortals ken.
They all proclaimed, with uniform accord,
! The coming incarnation Of the Lord.
| Aud this event. the greatest In all time,
Occurred In old Judoa's favored cline.
An equal era to all human kind,
The Universe Of worlds can never find.
The Chinese Empire has history
Extending to remote antiquity
Quite isolated from cnlighted states,
\ Half civilized It as q nation rates.
It's theme of two aud twonty dynasties,
Extends through nearly forty centuries.
/ With Fohi's era China's life began
| The wise COnfucius was their greatest man.
| The Tartar records ever must retain
| The names Of Genghis Khan and Tamcrlano,
| Two bloody monsters Destiny had hurled
Like thunderbolts, against the northern world
But far away, in regions wild and free,
| Upon the borders Of the Egean sea,
| The arts and sciences obtained control
or all that elevates the human soul
And long maintained pure, onnobling sway,
| Upon the minds Of Thcbes and Attica.
Ten thousand are the famous deeds Of peace
And battle scenes that hallow classic Greece.
| Her poets, painters, and her sculptors held
An elevation never yet excelled.
In eloquence one other has alono
Attained the power Dcmosthcnos has shown.
sin unsurpassed in any sarhly lands,
Are the brave deeds Of The bold Spartan bands
The Argos expedition sailed before
The ten years Of the famous Trojan war.
The codes of soon and Tbales succeed
Lycurgus' laws, and Draco's bloody creed.
Ihermopyl@ immortal fame attanedj
Az salamis victory was gained.
Their star Of destiny shone brightest on
Platca's field and famous Marathon,
In which the Persian hosts were hurled aside
In wild dismay, and scottcrcd far and wide.
The names Of Cadmus and Of Socrates,
Pythagorns and Epimenides,
OF Plato, Homer, aud Themistoccs,
NiHAluANHf unN nNANh iNll'iiHf
In Grccan history have a noble place,
And ever will the Grocian annals grace.
In Philips reign and Alcxandcr's day
The Macedonian Empire gained the sway
OF all the world--but lost its transient power
! In royols Qf O bacchanalian hour.
Where yellow Tiber offers TRANQUILITY
Its tribute TO earths greatest inland sea,
Above The world, like colossal dome,
Arose the city Of Imperial Rome.
It's glory and majestic grandeur gave
To many a nation many vassals grave.
| While hosts Of famous heroes lived aud died,
II was In regal splondor, pomp and pride,
A thousand years the worlds controlling Fate,
From Romulus to Constantine the Great,
First seven kings roigucd here successyoly;
Then Consuls, Tribuncf aud Dictators, Sec
The Commonwealth, with many ncighborinl
states,
Was governed next by two Triumvirntcs.
Hero Alban ieats and Sabine acts abound
Aud further on three punic wars arc found.
The great deeds Of the latter ever shall
! BE linked with Tabius mud Hannibal.