The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-15

In this free Pantheon of the air and sun,
Where stubborn granite grudgingly gives place
To petted turf, the gardens dalnt1er race
OF flowers, and Art hath slowly won
smile II ON grim, pr meyai, barrenness
What alien Form doth stand?
Where scarcely yet the heroes of the land
As in their Futures haven. fl ON the stress
OF all opposing tides, find quiet deep
OF bronze or marble sleep,
What Stranger comes to join the scanty band ?
Who nauseS here, one that muses.
While centuries of men go by
And unto all questioning refuses
His clear infallible reply?
Who hath his will of us beneath the New World sky
Here in his right, be stands
No sweep of earth-dividing seas can bar
The breeze Of morning or the morning star
From visiting lands:
His wit. the breeze, his wisdom, as the star
Shone where oi.T earliest NE was set and blew
To freshen deed and plan
In brains Amerlcan,-
To urge, resist. encourage, and subduel
He came, household ghost we could not ban:
He sat, on Winter nights, by cabin-hres;
His Summer fairies linked their hands
Along yellow sands.
lie preached within the shadow of cur spires
And when the certain Fate drew nigh to cleave
The birth-cord. and separate being leave,
He, in our ranks of patent-hearted men,
Wrought with the boundless forces of his fame
Victorious, and became
Inc Master OF our Thought the Lana nrst citizen
If here, his image seem
OF softer scenes and gayer skies to dream
Thatched cot and rustic tavern. ivied hall
The cuckuO's April cali,
And cowslip- meads beside the Avon stream
He shall not fail that other home to find,
We could not leave behind
The forms of Passion which his fancy drew
In MS their ancient hkenesses beget:
So, from our lives forever born anew,
He stands amid his own creations yet
Here comes lean Cassius, OF conventions tried,
Here, IN his coach, luxurious Antony,
Beside his Egypt, still Of men admired,
and Brutus plans puFer liberty
thousand Shy locks, jew and Christian, pass
hundred Hamlets by their times betrayed:
And Sweet Anne Page comes tripping DER the grass
And antlered Falstaf pants beneath the shade
Here toss upon the wanton summer wind
The locks of Rosalind;
Here some gay glove the damned spot conceals
Which Lady Macbeth feels
His ease here smiling smooth Iago takes,
And o1itcast Lear gives passage to his woe.
And here some toiied Retormer sadly breaks
His wand of Prospero,
Here, Justice Shallow, famous for delay
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Opes with portentous menace to the day
The mouth so seldom shut
In iveried splendor, side by side,
Nick Bottom and Titania ride:
And Portia, flushed with cheers OF men,
Disdains dear, faithful Inogtn,
And Puck, beside the form Of Morse
Stops on his forty-lnipute course:
And Ariel from his hanging bough
blossom casts on Bryant's blow;
Until, as summoned from his broo ling brain,
be sees his children all again
In us, as on our lips, each fresh, immortal strain
Be welcome, Master In our active air
Keep the calm strength we need to learn of thee
steadfast anchor be
Through passions that exhaust and times that wear
Thy kindred race, that scarcely knows
What power is III Repose,
What permanence in Patience, what renown
In silent faith aud plodding toll of Art
That slyIy works apart.
All these in thee unconsciously doth crown =
Forgotten virtue feels in thee restored,
And through its genius gives to thine award.
Tile Many grow though honor to the One
And what of loftier life do not live
This form shall help to give,
In our free Pantheon OF the air and sun,
Here, where the noise of Trade Is loudest,
It builds shrine august
10 show, when pomp of wealth is proudest
How brief is gilded dust,
How Art succeeds, though long
And DER the tumult of the generations
The sole enduring spirit of the nations
How speaks the voice of Song
bur City, at the gateways of the sea,
lwlneE bay around the mural crown upon her
And wins new love and uobler dignity
Giving the Poet honor,
II what he was we never can renew
Still. knowing, honoring him, we may We wise an,
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