The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-06-18
THE NEW ITHURIEL..
Read Before the Tennessee Press As
ISOLATION, at Brownsville, June l2th,
1874
Br DR.. R. l.. c. WHITE, EDITOR OF rHE LEBANON
RERAID.

By DR.. X. L. e. WHIT. EDITOR OF 1HE LEbANON
RERALD.
Erst. iuparadIsed in Eden's bosky depths O
powered shade.
Hand IN hand our primal parents through IT.
garden-reaches strayed,
Nerdur0us mead before them stretching, HOH
cry fragrance in the air.
Guiieless of all thought of evil-innOcent ano
happy pair!
Now, the sun. serene and spiendrous, drop:
adown the occident,-
Now, with stars like cleaning gems the arch
ing azure is besprent,-
Now, the silYcrn moon, futl-Oroed, SloWN
climbs the silent skies,
Pallid. placid, peaceful, looking down on NIGH
IN Paradise -
Touching, as with lucent pencil Ieafy holt and
heath and bower
Shimmering silvory splendor softly over tree
and vine and flower,
Glintlng o er the gliding beck, which. purllne
through the Silly air,
Gently. with its rhythmic cadence luliabIes the
sleeping pair.
Bend the tendrilled vines above them. stirred
by Eden vesper breeze.
Sway the tender leaves and slender branches OF
the yirid trees;
Underneath fragrant bower cool, sequcstered,
Swallowed dense,
Rest they, benisoned with peace and garment
cd with innocence.
Mayfair, while celestial songsters choir their
epithalamy,
Comes vision. bright, elysian, of felicity to
OF future fair and sinless. aureOled with hap
OF another being, which their heaven Joined
lives and loves shall bless;-
Of the dim, far-reaching ages, yet within the
womb of time
Of people heaven-appointed to q destiny sub
Of a teeming world. whose thronging millions,
many tongued, shall trace
Lineage from them, the primogenial parents Of
the race.
Lo! the willy Tempter, foul and fell Of purpose,
enters in,
Seeking if he haply may entice their innocence
to sin;
Now behold him, all his devilish art esssying
to deceive,
Masked in guise of humble seeming, squat,
close at the ear of Eve"
Quickly, from the courts celestial, where, in
serried ranks array,
Phalanxed youth Of heaven" the glory Of su-
pernal power display,
At the bidding of his chiettain. to oppose the
Prince of He'll,
Comes the strong and subtle spirit, armor-
Comes, as comes the flashing meteor, when it
cleayes the cope of heaven
Comes, as comes the winged lightning, when
the central blue is riven,-
Comes and Satan, recognizing, thrills with
fendish rage and fear,
For within his hand Ithuriel holds his tails
manic spear
Spear endued with latent virtues of celestial
temper such
That no falsehood undiscovered may abide its
magic touch,
But revealed uncouth, repulsive, stripped of
its seductive guise,
Counterfeiting truth no longer, from its potent
presence flies.
Such the myth Miltonic. Friends, rede ye,
heed ye well its teaching,
For its silver holds golden lesson, wonderful,
far-reaching;
Unto you, as with the sigil of some GOd-com-
miSSiOned angel,
Bringing, in this later time, new AID glorI-
Gus evangcl.
Unto you, my comrades, cometh the celestial
revelation:
Truth is yOurs-to you committed Is Its care ana
conservation;
Take the trust with Teverent joyance-look you
that you guard it we'll
Each Il heaven-appOinted ..champion-cach a
This the age Of fraud and fiction-rirhi con-
temned and truth decried,
Error followed, reverenced - Haunting false
hood worshipped, dcItied;
This the age when sham and ShOddy, wrOEg,
yenaity and vice
Flourish and wax fat, and law is quoted at 4
market price
This the age when pecuation, cursed fruit Of
greed of gain,
Carnivals in high positions, tainting thousands
=, with its stain
This the age in which is witnessed the Omnlpo-
tence of gold,
This the age when men and Office openly are
bought and sold
Yet, was never day so darksome but it bright
ened ere I was done;
Never yet was cloud so sable but behind it shone
the sun;
Never yet, in all the ages, since the Prince
Hath there been a falsehood but encountered
its Ithuriel.
So, the age of antique fable finds its parallel in
this;
So, the falsehood Of the present finds present
Nemesis;
So, of Truth valorous champion comes our
modern age to bless
TireIcss, fearless. fervent, faithful, free-be-
hold it in the Press
Aye, the Press-Ordalned OF heaven IN TINS lat
ter day to be
Pharos of down -trodden peoples, avatar Of Lib
erty-
For the fell phalanx of FalsehoOd knowing
lenity nor ruth.
Waging, chivalrOus and valiant, warfare Tor
the cause of Truth.
Truth is potent-nay, OmnipoteBt-and may
not know decay;
God 5 eternal years are hers, and God : own
hand confirms her sway;
Truth is cbangelcss and immortal, vivid with
perennial youth
Hail! uncomfortable goddess hail. divine,
almighty Truth
Comrades mine, behold your goddess, born in
heaven and heaven appointed,
ApOtheOsiZed of God, with his celestial chrlsm
anointed
Crowned and sceptred, royal, bright super
nal bays her brow entwniDg,
And the halOed light of heaven along her radi-
ant pathway shining
Never beautifuller mistress smiled on plumcd
Lealer subjects knelt obeisant never to lovelier
queen
She to you a sovereign regnant, lauIelled,
loved. of lieges chiefest:
You to her defenders, champions, of her child
rem alderliefest.
Thus to you, my comrades comcth the celestial
revelation:
Truth is yOurs-tO you committed Is It's care
and conservation;
This the charge to you entrusted guard II
faithfully and we'll
Each of Truth the chosen chsmpion-each Il
new Ithuriel
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