, 1872-10-20

CHICAGO.


BT REV. PROFESSOR ". 6: BLANCHARD.
Proud city, Queen Of all the West,
In fiery robes so lately dressed,
Like magic, in her sovereign pride,
She stands, proud Queen, her lake beside,
Rebuilt ere one short year is done,
Flashing new splenGors in the SUM-
Rebuilt to glow in radiance bright,
Darling fresh beams Of living light,
EncbantmeDt to the gaZer's sight,
With dome and apira flung quick On high :,
Vast wondrous piles,-they prophesy
That perifs fate, she can defy!
Resplendent, peerless, from the first,
A newborn Phoenix she hath burst -
From her charred ruins, sorabee dust,
Golden her wings, her plumage fair,
With crest hiBh-.owering IN the air,
New grandeur, greatness, abe doth ahare!
Her past, all brilliant, fled away,
Pales now before her dawuiug day.
Great day Of glory set to be,
Hailed by the lands from sea to sea,
To grow, increase, to wax supreme,
Light, light The earth with central beam
OF courage vRlor, prowess, skill,
While patriot deeds shall brighten still
Her volce,-'tis power: it fills with awe,
Deepens its tone for righteous law,
Waking with clarion-echoe5 round;
Her blasted mould turns hallowed ground;
Dark desolatiou,s fearful blight
Teens with new homes Of joy, delight,
New, matchlesa wonders, unsurpassed,
Where etrode, where ragged the fiery blast,
Lift their proud forms, imperial, grand,
A wilderness, In beauty staud,
Showing the Artists cunning hand,
Emb1azoning genius Ger the land!
Gorgeous, unparalleled, sublime,
The Krande6t wonder she of Tlrnc,
No Pharo8 Of the Elder World
Such beacon-1ights hath yet uufu1Ied;
No land such symbols bath unsea!ed,
Such crowniug eHblems get revealed,
Such ensigns fonrished, grandly great:
To lure, invite, thrill, captIyate.
Baalhec's wonders crunahlc down; c:
TEeY noiQt but to a mast rerowu
Where once imperial puppies flowed,
The bat, the owl, nuke their abode,
Egyptian obelisk, dumb Sphinx,
Grow obsolete, here marble thinks:
From basement story, loftiest towcr-,
Smlles greet the rosy-circling hours;
With more than Grecian, Roman fame,
Decks, gilds, adorns Chicagos nameI
Gigantic in her early race,
Her Future shall her Past etface.
Her Commerce, with colossal tread
filings wide its arms, q world to wed;
With eagle gaze, its lightning glance
Goes with the sunbeam in advance
Mid Heavens great splendor waves It's rod.
Carriers the golden sheayes Of God!
Realms, Kingdoms, empires vast, from Tar,
Drawn by her beacpninG, Frightening star,
For Fortunes smiles shall here repair,
Her spoilS to lands remote shall bear,
And while to her they turn their eye,
And come and traffic, sell, and buy,
with flowing chest,
6hn shall unladc to them her breast.
She'll eoothe, ease earth'a long-fes,erirg Voc;
Make knowledge, Learning, state1ier grow;
With new-escutcheoned, upreared fnme,
Gire Science, Art, worldwide reigo;
With moral virtues, noble, grand,
Arcn bow OF promise On each land.
Commerce, FAITH handmade make to bs:
By good impaired, nations free!
That ba thy toll, thy labor long,
Regaled BY Freedoms waking song;
In splendor, pomp, az thou shalt rise,
lllume, bedeck these Western Skies
Be thou Enrth,s glorious central rnarf-
Where thousand streams Of blessing start,
Whose silver currents, as they flow,
Nations shall less Of sorrow know.
Pure as the flowers that kiss thy feet,
Thine Influence be as fragrant, sweet,
In energy, With soul Of fire,
Mankind with grandest deeds inspire.
Ages unborn, yet loud to chime,
Haft, watt thy power, vast, great, tuhliEael
Rising in august grandeur, pride,
Thy aky-tinged beauteous lake beside,
These prairie-Eealms, vast empires, greet,
Magnificent denesues, estate,
Vast Paradise Of earthly good,
Where Nature, in her proudest mood.
Gives man and beast abundant food,
Where hangs empurpGug, clustered vine,
Where spark1es Euby-1usteced wine,
y There days are gold, where stars deep-shinc,
Shere birds in beauty deck the air,
Hhere focks and herds, unnumbered, rare,
aoam Ger the land, bhthe, free from care,
Where landscapes, shtmmeriuR in the sun,
Tell Of i golden age begun,
3hal speak thy fulness, regal dover.
la thou shalt rise, Ger lands shalt tower!
y endless resources, glorious, grand
Held in thy roynl, Queenly band,
Thou the great almoner Of God,
'halt spread His treasures abroad.
rom land to land, from sea to sea,
Jailed, welcomed, shall thy coming be!
10 Lybian monarch in his, pride,
10 august conqueror, deiaed,
4 fame with thee shall stand beside.
10 r1atchless temple OF the sun
fifth trellised foliage century.spun,
fith thy bright affairs shall compare,
peak, tell Of gift, so costly, rare.