The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-28
BY HORSLEY BROS. & FIGUERS:
GEMS OF POETRY.
Honc. Fn,th ,n,I I.ov.

Hope. Faith and Love,
Hope is like a hareboll trembling from its biri b
Love Is like rose, tho joy of all the earth;
Faith is like q lily lifted high and white.
Love is . io7ely rose, the world delight;
Harebslls and sweet lilies show thornless
But the rose with all its thorns exceis them
both.
Christina G.. Rosse,i.
Love.
1 think that love is like play,
Where tears and smilos are blinded !;
Or like n faithlcss April day,
Whose shine with shower is endcd;-
Like Col nbrook paw, ment. r.ther rough
Like trade, exposed to losses;
And like a Highland plaid, all stuff,
and very full of fcrOsses.-Irded.
Reason.
Iwould make
Reason my guide, but she should sometimes sill
Partially by the way y-side, while traced
The mazes or the pleasant wilderness
Around me. She would be my counselor,
Aut not my tyrant. For the spirit needs
Impulses from a deeper source than hers,
And there are motions in the mind vi man
That she must look upon with awe.-Brydnt.
Hope.
Can wisdom lend. with all her heavenly power,
The pleose of oys auti"ipated hour?
All, no! she dimly sees the face Of man,
Her dim horizon bounded to a span;
Or, she hold an image TO the view,
lis nature painted too severely true,
With thee. sweet Hope. resides the heavenly
light,
That yours rcmOtost rapture on the sight
Beyond.
Yet if. as holiest men have deemed, thero be
A land of souls beyond that sable shore,
To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee
And sophists madly vain of dubious lore;
How sweet it were in concert to adore
With those who made our mortal labors light
To hear each voice we feared to hear no mole
Behold each mighty shade revealed to sight,
The Bactrian, Samian, sage. and all who taught
the right.-By'On.
To Browning.
There is delight in singing, tho none hear
Besides the singer; and there is delight
In Praising, though the praiser sit alone
And see the praised far off him, far above:
Therefore on him on speech and brieffor thee,
Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,
No man hath walks along our roads with
SO active, so inquiring an eye, OF tongue or step
so varied in discourse. But warmer climes
Give brighter plumage, stronger wing; the
breeze
Of Alpine nights thou play..st with borne on
beyond Sorrento and Amalf where
The siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Waller SdUoge Lanoor.
Prayer.
Great 9 cd /! 1 ask Thee for no meaner pelf,
Than that may not disappOint myself,
That in my actions may soar as high
AS | can now discern with this clear eye;
\ nd next in value what Thy kindness lends,
That may greatly disappoint my fir ends,
How er they think or hope that it might be,
They may not dream how ThOu'st distinguished
me;
That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,
And my life practice more than my tongue
saith;
That my low conduct may not show,
Nor my relenting lines,
That Thy purpose did not know,
Or overrated Thy designs.
The Proxy Saint.
Each for himself must do his Masters work,
Or at his peril leave it all undOne:
Witness the fate of one who sought to Shirk
The sanctuary's service, yet would shun
The penalty. A man of earthly aims
$50 rung the apologue), whose pious spouse
Would oft remind him of the church'g claims.
Still answered thus; Go thou and pay our
For thee and me" Now, when at Peters cato
The twain together had arrived at last.
lie let the woman in; then to her mate,
Shutting the door ''ThOu hast already passed
By proxy" said the saint-'Just in the way
That thou on earth vast wont 10 last and
pray"
l. o. GuTe.