, 1874-03-22
thee better lesson, and l. without beaEng tts teu-
It's, shau observe its just aud honorable law3!l

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ALP Ans1Av.
In purple robetl, with jewels croWned,
Alone amid his foes.
Tie stern Ronlnuus g{Rnced around
While warr;o. welcomes rose:
With hate rerrt ssed be NIT the CHIEF
As the caged ttgec-mnni
Cold was coart 81 and br1ef,-
Hail to thee, Alp A1HIan!
Not thus to meet the conq'ror wills
Free Us the summer wind
sweeping the broad plains and the hills
His fathers left behind.
His generous words-to soothe and cAeef
The vanqushcd Eoyere{gns pride;
The naughty captive detgned to hear,
Then coldly turned aside.
The banquet wa.ts-from those fair lands
The rapid Indus lave8
To the dark EuxiDe-fIoM the sapda
Washed by S15ean waves
To fair ChorasmiuB valleys DIN
In wild profusion there
Esch climates luxury for him
The hauds of foes pEspare.
Vain honor to tho unwilling guest,
Most thaukless from bis foes,
For deep within his Augushed breath
Lat fears Of future Wots,-
Defeat and shame the traitors snare,
S,read where his rule should be,
With none to coursel-none to shar6
His long capti71ty.
:: Vain banquet! fling the wine to earth, =.
Lot music's voice Io more
Mock with triumphant sounds Of mlrth
What Fate Ut Glory AA0EeI
HIS thoughts are by the azs1rc seas
Where, brightly ilirrored, shine
The golden domea-the PALACES
And towers Of Constantine.
But In the glow Of that free hour
Tho gallant victor spoke -
"Hau fortune bent lie to thy power
How light lad been the yeke?"
"Ou theo Barbarian 70 aercs tue words
= OF that proud captive ran,
"Tp many strife, before thy hordos,
1doomed thee, Alp Arslan'"
Deep flushed the noble rictor's check
4 moment br1ef, and then,
Smiling GU the inapa11A Greakn ::
"Thy ci,ri.siau fresd, ~ hasa thought,
s39es ss:sS ELL 2|ttSE EeEs ss*s :sas6t
Ksiese that opa 70 bravo
Should cherish in gallant heart.
TLat base, unworthy glow
Tho coword naxm-tyrunt ART
To crush PROSTATE Zoe:
Thy pronhot's rule 1ny counseR guide
Tho Law Of MN to MIL
Go free hereafter let thy pride
Keep faith with Alp Arsl1n!"
Music "heayenly maid," was no longer
Foung when !. S1r. Smith wrote the foregoing
ooo1n. but the Chicago muse OF that period "as
infantile and, unfortunately, our
1at gituetion aud general unromnnuc anpoar'
ance has kept our local Genius Of Poetry in hel
over since. In q flat country po
etry ia very nat. Holland ia q very unpoetlca
country. and Chicago has not hill much o7e'
so feet high within IN area OF twenty sqnar'
miles. In considering the poem OF Alp Arssan
b must bo remembered that Chicago was yer.
MANY feet lower then than DOW, and due allow
ance must be- made for that. After the city Il
graded up another couplo Of hundred foet ne
crop Of poets may 1pcrease,-as sno STANDS 70
lay. pork-packers and warehousemen arc III
finitely ahead OF followers Of Father Homer.
IT'S DEATH.
The Tribune OF the days when chicago va
ssiu the lonlands low" suspended publication
on Anc. a. 1871, when it YVES announced that
E" With the current number. the publication Q
this paper ceases-for the present"
The latter part OF the sentence may oe K
earded as semi-propletic- At all events, u
Prediction has been realized to an extent tha
Afr. E, e. Ryau could not then have dreamed o.
The editor wrote very faelipg valedlotory,
which lie bade his friends an afrectlonate fafe
we'll. and reminded his foes-defanls.ng sur
scrlbers. to wit that newspapers could nos =
run without money! fact that many pcoplo
this CITY, since the epoch alluded 70, nave o''
covered TO their cost. Had Ar. +. u: hSnn
subscriters uaanfullv paid their just debts. tb'
talented gentleman might not Just no" 90 sa
fer;np thn sIo7y torture of life in the village I
Milwaukee.
aud now, seeing that Mr.. r. G. Ryan said ca
to Chicago journalism thlrty-three years az
The CHICAGO TR1BUnE las pleasure ~ "i1ti1
vd{e to the Ryan OF to-day, and ln6crlpil
Rc7uiescat IN pace on the tomb OF the Genel
ton OF 1840-l.