Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-14
THE NEW ITHTRIEI


THE NEW ITHURIEL.
DIR. r. /. c. White. editor of the Lebanon Her
AID read the following poem before the Tennes-
see Press Association, at Brownsville, last Fri
day:
Erst, unparalleled in Eden's bosl,y depths of
powered shade,
Hand in hand our primal parents through its
gardsn-reaches straytd,
SIerdurous mead before them stretching, iOwery
fragrance IN the ar
Guileless of all thought of evil-innOcent and
happy pair!
adOwn the Oceident.-
Now, with stars like glra ming gems the arching
azure is besPrent,-
Now, the silveTn moon, full-orbed, slowly climbs
the silent skies.
PaIlid, placid, peaceful. looking down on night
IN Paradise
Touching. as with lucent pencil, ieafy holt and
heath and bower,
Shimmering silyery splerdOr softly over tree
and vine and flower,
Glinting DER the gliding beck, which, purling
through the Silly arr.
Gently, with its rhythmic cadence lullabies the
sleeping pair.
Bend the tendrilIed vines above them, stirred
by Eden's Vesper br-eze,
Sway the tender leaves and slender branches of
the virid trees:
Underneath fragrant blwer, cool, sequeStered,
Swallowed dense.
Rest they, benisOned with pea-ce and garmented
with innocence
Mayhap, while celestial sOngsters choir their
epithalapy,
Comes a vision. bright, elysian, of felicity to
be-
OF future fair and sinless, aureoled with hap
or Pnother being which their heaven Joined
lives ard loves shall bless
OF the dim, far-reaching ages, yet within the
OF people heaven-appOinted to a destiny sub
lime
OF a teeming world, whose thrOnging millions,
nany-tOngued, shall trace
Lineage from them, the primogenial parents of
the race.
LO! the willy Tempter, foul and fell of purpose,
Seeking if he happy may entice their innocence
Now behold him, all his devilish arts essayingto
deceive,
Nas'sed in guise Of humbling seeming, "squat,
close at the ear Of Eve"
Quickly, from the courts celestial where, in
seTTied ranks array,
Phalanxed youth OF heaven the glory OF So
pernal power display,
At the bidding of his cheftain, to oppose the
Prince Of Hell.
Comes the s'strong and subtle spirit" armor-
clad Ithuriel-
Comes, as comes the flashing meteor. when it
cleaves the COpe Of hesven,-
Comes, comes the winged lightning. when
the central blue is Tiyen.-
COmes-and Satan, recognizing, thrills with
fendiSh rage and fear.
For within his hand Ithuriel holds his talismanic
spear
Spear endued with latent virtues of celestial
temper such
That no falsehood undiscovered NAV abide lis
magic teuch
But revealed uncouth, repulsiye, stripped OF ITS
COunteTieiting truth no longer, from its potent
presence flies.
Such the myth Miltonic. Friends, I rede So.
heed We well its teaching,
Tor its silver holds golden lesson, wondered.
Unto you, as with the sigh of some God-c,,n-
missiOned angel,
Bringing, in this latter time, a new and glCIiyu-
eyanEel.
Unto you, my comrades, cOmeth the celestial
revelation.
Truth j. yourS-tO you committed is its care and
conservation:
Take the trust with revcrent ioyance-look you
that YOU guard it we'll
Each a hsSven-appOiutcd CHAMPIONSHIP q
new lJhuTiel!
This the age "a fraud and fctOn-Tight con-
temned and truth decTied,
Error followed, MISUNDERSTANDING falsehooG
worshipped, deified;
This the age when sham and shOddy, wrong
Venalitv and vice
Flourish and wax fat. and law Is quoted at a
market price!
This is the age when peculation, cursed fruit Of
greed of gain.
Carniyals in high positions, tainting thousands
with its stain;
This the age in which is witnessed the OmnipO-
tencr OF gold.
This the age when men and Office openly are
bought and SOldi
Yet, was never day 80 durksOme but it bright
encd ere twas done;
Never vet was cloud 50 sable but behind it shone
the sun;
Never vet, in all the ages, since the Prince Of
Hath there been a faIsehOod but encountered its
lthuriel.
SO, the age of antique fable finds its parallel in
this;
So, he ialsehood Of the present finds presen
So, Of Truth a valorous champion comes our
modern sge Ia bless
TireIcss fearless, fervent, faithful, free-behold
Aye, the Press-ordained of heaven in this later
day 10 he
Phar- q, dOWn-trCdden peoples. ayatar OF Lib
For the fell phalar.x OF FalschOod knowing len
ity nor ruth,
Waging. chvalrOuS and valiant, warfare for the
cause of Truth.
Truth Is Potent-nay, omnipotent-and may not
know decay;
Goods eternal wears are hers" and Gods own
hand confirms her sway;
Truth Il changelesS and immortal, vivid with
perennial youth
Hail! unconquerabie g99dess-hail! divine, al
mighty Truth.
Comrades mine, behold your goddess, born in
'heaycn and heavCn-appoiuted.
a nj a. oh
amounted.
Crowned and sceptred. royal, bTight-supcrnal
hays her brow cutwining.
And the halOed light of heaven along her rad-
ant pathway shining!
Never bcautifuIler mistress smiled ON plumed
paladin.
Lealer subjects knelt ObeiSant never 10 a love
lleT QueeI-
She to YOU a sovereignregnaut, laurelled. loved,
of HegeS chicfcst:
You 10 her defenders, champions. OF her chill
dren aldcTlicfest!
Thus, to you. my comrades, c0meth the celestial
revelations:
Truth Is Nours-tO YOU committed Is its care and
conservation;
This the charge TO you eutrusted-guardi it faith
fully and we'll
Each OF Truth the chosen champion-each
new IthUFicll
MEN seldom give pleasure when they are
not pleased themselves: il is necessary,
= therefore, to cultivate an labitual alacrity
ard cheeIfulnesS, that, in whatever state We
NAV be placed by natUTe-whetEerwe are ap-
pointed To confer or receive benefits, 10 inn
plore or afford prUtection-we may secure
the love of those with whom We have deal
ines. For, though il is generally imagined