The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-03-01
Written E5r the p. Adv-rtf-erI
The Mountains Of Hawaii-Kea, Loa, and
HualalaL
pEpteArEp ToT. -

Majestic Triad As mons rliiant hEnt
Tints your far -nauy domss with rosy hu-s,
And psneis 6rest, glade and Wild deep GIN,
In magical variety of Iisht and shaIs
gaze uppn ye from Wamea's plain,
Where flashing emerald lawn aud grove,
smile Ia the foreground % the grand-r scene
Beyond, the .ky sf psi-.=sl steel.
MARKS the Char outline q your Ioity forms-
=eatrie. % szr.i When the ne~-born stars.
Shouted together ereafion's dawn.
Ye ookei FAR DER virgin eontinent,
FIarinE he red v0Lcane torch of time,
A. usons q ages marked bis ceaseexs light
Ye were ths burning peaks of a grand chain,
Twin brother % the Andes. tls shock
Of grand eonvui.ions and the earthquakes tread,
Mads your tall SUBMITS quiver a reed,
A. Dreams engalfed the trembling land.
And myriad Hf- beneath its ssrges slept
Prom your red Eiarinz erater-, ye booked down.
birth of 10. from adaptatiau' womb.
And an the and varied changes wrought,
Throagh EyoluIi1n BY those living laws,
Inherent In the star-dusts primal hare;
From ths nr-t germs progressing through all forms
Til stood rrth head Of Hf-'s present grade,
Of seifprosressive animals the arst
Th-oash Intellectual and moral laws;
And ye remained unchanged while life 20 death,
Aud death 10 life in restless change moved
The future, Who may knovvi when We have passed
Our stage q being and are known more,
slall higher, nobler forms succeed o u,
Who In strange wonderment. in future years.
On earth'- o anfhropolfs,
In puzzlng theories searching the lost IinkI
Eternal land marks Yet again shall rise,
The long Lost Oceaniea and the deep
Shall yield her dead-the secrets Of the past;
And ye shall tower ill lost 10 ether blue,
Your Pee iorchs. light eternal SHOWS,
And glaciers cold shall ceave river beds;
And beings high, far removed from
A. he Is from The apes shall chain your power,
And use "a a. a common motive force
When electricity obeys their will,
And they through the air with speed Of thought
And they will wondering gaze upon the skull,
The skeleton of the hand that pens these lines,
And ask II they have sprung frcm such these
As man now Ponders DER lost simian forms,
Or ape-Iike Uranium Of Neanderthal.
OR bird-like skulls Of the mound-buiLding men,
Or those which moulder with the masodon,
In the deep drift Of the CordiIlerAs.
Earth hath domes % beauty such Is thine
Sweeping up grandIy from the and plain,
While clouds the god-neeeed hoeks Of heaven, sleep
In tranquil beauty the wooded slopes,
And gorgeous changing hues, give varied form.
To all your desolate aspertes,
And robe ye with a gentle loveliness.
But ye have wilder, sterner moods when storm
arthunieriug bursts against yorr rockrbbed Sides
When Hghtuings fash from eliT TO cliff, AM pour
Wild rushing torrents down your rocky ehasms,
And leap from crag 10 crag and crushing bear
Great trees and bouIders WhirIing in their course,
And the headong deuge rides
To Of rushing waters
But more grand,
The hereer mood Of Loa, when the voice
OF the electric Titan thunders forth,
The earthquakes dreadful coming, and the earth
convulAive hesvss IN agony, a. though
The hat Of a God had spoke her doom,
And from her Iife's last terrific throes-
And then the fountains of the fiery food,
Burst forth In awful grandeur; beeIling cliffs
Melt down Ike drifts in the seerhing hell,
The forest cracking flashes and is gone,
Basaltic boGlders hoai a burning drft,
A. the red sheet Of fame a river formsi
Sweeping resistIess down the mountain side,
II bridges ehasms, bears down seated hills,
And DER tall cliffs in fiery cascades leaps
Night robes the earth and EraHder looms the are,
As the red tortuous current surging, sweeps
From mountain top to a fiery Nile,
And the electric dsrBous' Iambent tongues.
Pork fash ard sme along the fiery
Voices horrihc break and rend the air;
The Iarrng earth, the dense smothered roar,
Of seorehing waves and fiery eataraets,
CGmmlngIng sound ike earth's last dying wall.
Glacier OF IRE! Il leaves its red moEanss,
Or shelves the cooling mass along its course
NoV-o'er black cliffs Il sweeps into the sea,
In hery fall, the mad seething waves,
Leap mountain high In jets of vapory spray;
The and paIed a suphury glare,
Baefui and awful gIinmsr- in the sky
And hangs above like natures funeral pail.
Triad Of Cycles Frowning still a time
II ye had stood os yore in Khamis land,
Where Barcan sards o'erOok the sacred Nile,
Earth's earliest priests would ye have deiGed,
And Horus, Isis ami Osirus named
Ere fetterel millions toi.ed raise the piles,
Wheh fully bult superstton's dreams -
OR the fabIed vaif from bulrush raft
Taught in the higher walks Of prestIy lore,
Had borne their secret creed 70 other lands
The saered hidden mysteries Of him,
Whose name his vOtari-s forebore TO speak
Ia PAE