Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-10-12

and beside the brightest Northern fire
lie thought # brighter still
All the while the warning natures,
Form from the mingled life
That WIS laid at rest ong ages slnee,
We're wi HIN his veins Ut strife
The one impellingn to Wander
Beneath all skies to roam,
The other 10 seek q quiet place
And rsst, in a W. ll-eerned home.
Fuhlled at last Is the yearning
Tue long endured desire
And tonight In quiet darcroft
He VIII sit by 10 household hra.
The Ylkngs force has conquered
The Arab nature at last,
And ''the se@ls OF the future have broken
From gunner tile leaves Of tue past
Greet. you who will, the traveller,
Him who has seen all lands
Whose II ct have trodden the snow wreaths
and over tue desert sands:
My greeting Is to the poet,
The slnger OF many strains
sung In 1.-THE misty ORIENT
Sung son the snowy plalns
W entre soul OF the pine was in hinl
" hen he felt the spell OF the palm
When upon the shore, under Gods free SKY,
The breath OF the morn was palm
But chefest those that ilpened
Within heart at rest ~
When that heart hal recognized the tame
That was worn at home, az best.
see the royal purple
In the SIN ing robe he wears,
And In his realm my heart bows
To the sceptre pen he bears.
And as stand on the rainparts,
And gaze o. that realm s fair
numbering the dOmes Of his cities
Gliding the distant ar
thank the power that has guided,
(Nnereer he yet may rOam,)
That though he mas drunk at 'lrevl.
All roads have led him nome.
Col. Benjamin Nields, of Wilmington then
spoke substantially I'D follows
Every American who is lover of his country
owes much to Baydrd Taylor for the position
4 s1.,
traveller, and scholar, has given to this country
among the nations of the earth. BY military
power, unenlightened as well ar enlightened ma
lions may gain glory and fame. but fame thus
won is not enduring it does not live through
the succeeding ages, but passes from memory
and is lost.
That i'll nation which lives. endures, and is
perpetuated through the ages, is the great truth
which il recognizes, receives and incorporates
into It's life, and gives expression and form TO in
poetry, Music. AIT, and Literature.
Among those of this ago who have
| cuecaVOred 10 place Our country with
the foremost enlightened and refined nations oil
the world, and give it peipetuity through tho fu-
| ture, 10 meme are we more indebted than to ouI
friend. who is with us to-day. tApplause.l His
labors i'll tins have boon. with mind untet
tered, and the results have been full and com
| plcte wherever Il truth has appeared, however
much ii might be III conflict with existing theo
logical, political, or social opinions and preju-
does, he has given expression to it, and man
kind is benefited by it. tApplause.l
| As the mind in manhood lnclines according Ii
the impressions aud Instructions it receives. il
youth may We not also be indebted somewha
TO those who taught orr friend in hs early year
the simple creed of
The prayel for inward Light;
1he search for outward Truth
1 take il, lis life was thereby brought int
harmony with truth and nature, and being thu
in harmony no has given to the world, in poet
~ and song, that which cannot perish Flo
his free thought and independent expression G
truth wherever it appeared and for the postlo
and character which he has given TO our countr
among the nations, give him my grateft
thanks. lApplause.l
The choir rendered 'The Star spangled Bal
ner, and Mrs. Margaret c. Pyle, Of Wilmington
read the following
IN 'gas tomerii,g Pine"
-BayarJ 7oyior.
. O singing Pine you have learned the speech
, or the nature that lay abuut yuu
The hidden secret and life you teach
or the tnlngs which were dumb without y0n.
Npu have given a voice to the stormy blast
over EARN and ocean flying,
You have cch ed In music each sound that passed
, or Joy OF OF anguished slgnlng
Til the silent trees that about you stood
with their vulceless stir and hut err
! owned the spell OF the song which they under4Ot
ana felt, though they could not utter
e | There are other Fines on the distant crest
4 Which tncir bnughs on the sunset blazon,
y With their kindred music might ccho hest
me swell OF your diapas0n:
It But they were not nursed by the sun and breeze
y =, You le't WIN your young pumes daily;
= They are not your kin like those other trees
n lhal grew m your own green valley.
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