The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-06-26
TIE NEW ITHURIEL.

Eeau the following poem DeIOre the 4enhessee IEess
Association:
Erst unparalleled in Edens bosky depths Of bow
cred shade,
Hand in hand our primal parents through It's gar
Verduous mead before them stretching, fowery
fragrance in the air,
GuiIeless of all thought of evil-innocent and
happy pair!
Now, the sun, serene and slendrous, drops adown
Now, with stars like cleaning gems the arching
aznre is besprent,-
Now, the silver moon full-orbed, slowly climbs the
PalIid. placid, peaceful, looking down on night in
Paradise;-
Touching, as with lucent pencil, leafy holt and
heath and bower,
shimmering silvery splendor softly over tree and
Glinting DER the gliding beck, which, purling
through the Silly air,
Gently, with its rhythmic cadence lullabies the
sleeping pair.
Bend the tendriled vines above them, stirred by
Eden's vesper breeze,
Sway the tender leaves and slender branches of the
virid trees;
Underneath fragrant bower, cool, sequestered,
Rest they, benisoned with peace and garmented
with innocence.
Mayhap, while celestial songsters choir their
epithalamy,
Comes vision, bright, elysian Of felicity to be-
OF future fair and sinless, aureoled with hap
OF an6ther being which their heaven-joined lives
and loves shall bless =
Of the dim, far-reaching ages yet within the womb
OF a people heaven-appointed to a destiny sub
OF teening world, whose thronging millions,
many-tongu9d, shall trace
Lineage from them, the promogenial parents of the
race.
Lo! the willy Tempter, foul and fell of purpose,
Seeking If he hsply may entice their innocence to
Now behold him, all his devilish arts essaying to
Masked in guise of humbling seeming, "squat,
close at the ear of Eve"
Quickly from the courts celestial where, in serried
PbaIanxed youth of heaven the glory of supernal
At the bidding Of his chieftan to oppose the Prince
of Hell,
Comes the Strong and subtle spirit armOr-clad
Ithuriel.
Comes as comes the flashing meteor, when it cleaves
the cope of heaven
Comes, as comes tue winged lightning, when the
central blue IS riven,-
Comes-and satan, recognizing, thrills with iend-
For within his hand Ithuriel holds his talismanic
spear
Spear endued with latent virtues Of celestial tenn
That no falsehood undiscovered may abide its magic
But revealed uDcouth repulsive stripped of its Sc
ductve guise,
Counterfeiting truth no longer, from Its potent
presence flies.
Such the myth AIntonic. Friends, reds ye, heed
We well its teaching,
For it's silver holds golden lesson, wonderful, far
Unto you, as With the sigil of some God-commis
stoned angel,
Bringing, in this latter time, new and glorious
evangel.
Unto you. my comrades, cometh the celestial rev
eatiOn:
Truth is yOurs-tO you committed IS It's care -ano
Take the trust with reverent joyance-look you tina
you guard It well
Ithuriel!
This the age of fraud and fction-right condemned
Error followed, misunderstanding falsehoot
worshiped deiied?
This the age when sham aud shoddy, wrong, vena.
Flourish and wax fat, and law is quoted at a mar
ket price!
This s the age when pecuIaton, cursed fruit Of
CarniTas in high positions, tanting thousands Will
This the age in which is witnessed the omnipotenc,
Of gold,
bought and sold
Yet was never day so durksome but its frightened
Never vet was cloud so sable but behind it shon,
Never yet in all the ages since the Prince of Dark
Hath there been ,faIsehood but encountered it
Ithurie.
So the age of antique fable finds it's parallel in this
So the falsehood of the present finds presen
So. of truth a valorous CHAMPION comes our mod
ern age to bless
Tireless, fearless fervent faithful, free-behod i
in the Press
Aye the Press ordained of heaven in this Later
Pbsros Of ioTn.ro5t1en peoples, avatar of Liberty
For the fell phalan1 of Falsehood knowing LENT!
nor ruth.
Waging. chlvalTOus and valiant, warfare for th'
cause of Truth.
Truth is potent-nay, omnipotent-and may no
.. Gods eternal years are hers" and Gods owl
band confirms her sway;
Truth is changeless and immortal, vivid with per
Hail! unconquerable goddess-hail! divine, al
mighty Truth.
Comrades mine. behold YOUR goddess, born il
heaven and beaven-appointed,
Apotheosized of God, with his celestial chrisn
amounted,
Crowned aud sceptred, royal, bright -supernal bay
her brow eutwinlng,
And the halOed light of heaven along her radlan
pathway shining
Never beautifuller mistress smiled on plumed pal
adm,
Lealer subjects knelt obeisant never to lovlie
queen
She to you sovereign rognant laureled, loved, o
licgvs chiefest:
You to her defenders, champions, of her cbildrel
alderliefest
Thus, to you, my comrades, cometh the celestia
revelation:
Truth is yOurs-tO you committed is Its care AM
conservation
This the charge to you acknowledgement it faith
fully and we'll
Each Of Truth the chosen ChampiOn-eaCh a ney
Ithurieli