The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-04-15
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DEAR RrGisrFR: Tho words They
shall bear thee up in their hands," still
recur to me, and seem warm from the
lips Of a living angeism. They are an.
cicnt words nearly thirty centuries old,
and yet they keep their freshness and
bloom, and are good fer as many centur-
les to come. 1t only they provided II
theme for song, or a subject for art, and
were inaccessible like Mount Blame or
the azure sky still they have a soothing
power and descend upon us sacred and
peaceful like holy starlight. Some
heavenly cnchantment linscrs around and
within these words, as if they had soul
IN them which held for us some great
promise, and gave US hope Of some blessed
possibility not yet dscoverod-of good
novering over US, and sometimes drawing
near, but not coming within reach. Must
1t thus forever lie above, or walk our hor.
lions (; coming only in zephyr-breath, now
and then to cool the ievered head and
hush the warning passion; sending inter-
mittcnt waves of harmony from the far
off and perfect peace into our discordant
lives, breaking at our feet in ripping
rythm, and whispering to weary pilgrims
Of that beautiful land with its serene,
hoalthlu air, where its inhabitants never
say, III am sick" and where the lfc-trces
are ladoncd with richest foliage and fruit.
Come my neighbors. sit with me on
this green bank and in this shade, and let
us study this celestial phenomenon that
hangs bctwixt earth and sky, that has
somehow slipped into our language, and
seems to await our Interpretation Come
yc men Of money, Of learning, yc great
and mighty men; and come We of "the
highways and hedges" come ye mothers
with your unfathomable love ever ready
for work, patience, raptures or crucifx-
ions. Come, yo that climb the golden
hills Of morning, to gaze far away over
youths landscape come, yc that weep in
secret places !. come, ye "pubicans and
harots' something on your breasts and
not daring to look up; come and let us
together gaze into this sky, upon this
heavenly sign, and as we look, let us pray
possible kingdom of heaven" within, that
our bright friends from their actual hcav-
en- lust above this constellation Of words,
may descend into our midst, flying swift
ly with "hcaing in their wings" coming
suddenly into our dishonored temples with
whip and scourge for all PROCLAMATION
and Christening purity and love !or all
teachablencss, and then quickly chanting
song Of victory and peace, deep as the
roll OF thunder 1evcrScrating through
LIES vast dome, and pulsing along the
other shores Of the distant, obsorvant eld
, en- lcorldS.
Come, We little ones just from school
teach us and help us in this syntax. |
faith, social logic, philosophy avail little
, then help with your intuition and you
unframed imprcssibiIity for sun picture
on which they. "who always beloved thu
face Ul your Father may sot their owl
sweet t.~ lacHist mon Moment, and parse thes,
pronouns and this verb Tell me of tn,
anteccdents Of "thcy', and of their whit,
wings, and the antecedent of "thce" bav
ing more OF avoirdupois than oil wings
but both Of the same genus, and ther
guess the distance between heaven ant
earth, or say il they touch. And whar
my precious little friends, say ye of the
: verb ? Is il not active, transtivc, having
force in contact, II strong power; ant
does it not govern an objective case ant
e is it not man--are not even YOU tina
case? And when it is really so governed
for long and rpening time, does not The
government become grand republic o
; all natural and spiritual faculties, di.
. vine monarchy.yea, an autocracy, granC
self, helped from small beginnings ant
much weakness into a regal splcndor b,
angelic hands, uil IN turn, other hand
shall be stretched down to give like ai(
and serve in like ministration. G.