The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-01

sss NJ n. r. TAYLOR.
Ay, build her long. and narrow, and deep;
she shall cut the sea with scimetArs sweep
Whatever betides and whoever may weep! : :
Bring ont the rcd wine! Lift the glass to the lipi
With the roar of great guns, and Hip! hip.
Han,h!" for ~ craft We win christen the shipi
D.sh drasght ON the bow. All, the sparof white
Drip. INTO iAsses I'M /. co,ors the aood
With the very own double and symbol of blood!
Now out with the name Of the monarch gigantic
That shall queen Il 20 grandy when sarges arc fran
Child Of fire and Of iron, God save the ATLANTIC.
All freishted with power below and above.
The heart Of 1eltd. and the wing Of dove
rumble In the brave cargo Of life and Of love!
Good for thousand souls. Hustle them in!
Your mother and mine shall the census begin;
Then tell off the children too little to sin!
With furnace Of fire and forest Of mast.
She can conquer the calm and rally the blast;
But fuel is costly! Coal-hcavers avast!
All. those ebony heaps that cumber the hold
Can never be rcckOned In silver and gold
Ten lives to the ton, and an anguish untold!
Alas for the lack of handful of Goals:
Alas for the ship that is haunted with souls;
Alas for the bell that eternally tolls!
All aboard; my fine fellows! Up anchor:'' the
All. never again shall that order he heard.
For two worlds will be mourning yc gone to a
third!
To the trumpet Of March wild gallops the sea;
Old white crested troopers are under the lee
Old World and New World and SoalWorld arc
three!
Great garments Of rain wrap the olateDhight;
Sweet Heaven disastered is lost to the sight!
'.ATLANrIC.'' crash on in the pride of thy might.
With the look-outs dim cry, Zone O'Clock and all
right
lIo, down with the matches! The Seas come
aboard
Al together they come. like a passionate word
Like pirates that put every soul to the sword!
Their black flag all abroad makes murky the air: :
But the shp.parts the night as the maiden her
Through and through the thick gloom, from land
here to land there. ---..
Like the shuttle that wcavcs for a mourner to
wear! -Gn's-
Good night proud 'ArLASrrc!' Ono tick Of the
And a staggering craunch and shivering shock
It's the flint and the steel! lis the ship and the
rock!
Dcathless sparks struck ont from the bcsoms of
girls
From the stout hearts Of manhood in scintillant
whirs.
Like the stars of the flag when the banner unfurls
What hundreds went up unto God in their sleep!
What hundreds in agony baflled the deep
Nobody TO pray and nobody to weep!
Alas for the flag Of the single white STAR
With light pale and cold rs the wOman's hands
Who froze in the shrouds. flashed her jewels afar,
Lost her hold on the world, and then clutchcd at
spar!
God Of mercy and grace! How the bubbles come
With souls from the rcvcl. who stayed not to sup;
Death drank the last toast, and then shattered the
cup.
Iho crushed those poor hearts that wild tcrrors en-
viron:-
Atlantic of water: Atlantic of iron:
The den where they bearded the granite old lion?
The God of the sparrows: breath from Mount
Zion:
Bring the World into court! Did the verdict be
To this true word we render. resistlcssly driven,
And SO say we all-NoT GUILTY, fore Heavcn!''
Poor handful of carbon! Call humanity's roll
For the fellow who thought, "Ah. how costly is
Coal,"
lie loses who bids any price for his soul!
And Christ died for this man-this ptiful creature
saint John the BELOVED and the Wilderness
Preacher!
Too surdid for soul and too subtle for sod
Let us lock out of heart the poor animate clod.
And leave the new Cain and his brother with God I!
In the clash of the leaves Of the frantic woods,
And the turbulent whirl Of the angry floods
And the rumble and rear Of the cloudy broOds,
In the height Of the storm you have sometimes
heard
The melodious voice Of an unseen bird.
And 50 clear and 80 brave that your heart was
stirred.
II seemed to he Faith set anew to song.
That the weakest of things need never fear wron.
If they only believe in the true and the strong.
In that bttercr storm when the plunge Of the
wreck
Tossed the white forms at will that were strcwng
the deck.
A. the foam flakes are tossed on a warehouses;
neck,
And men growing grim in their hunger for life.
And husband in frenzy abandoning wife
To struggle alone in the desperate strife,
Then voice, brayc and young rose sweet through
the din:
Lend a hand I'm alone with lifetime to VIM
Twas the song Of an angel rcbuking the sin.
Then the brute that's in men skunk back to its
Strong fingers wound i'm the boys curly hair
Pass the lad right along! My chance he shall
sharc!''
Wen done, little John! For you smotc that left
flank
And summoned them back to the heroes front
rank:
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