New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-07

See, out Of line single corn stem stands
Advanced beyond the foremost of his bands.
And waves his blades upon the very edge
And hottest thcket OF the battling hedge
Thon nstrors stalk that csnst nor walk nor tall
Still d0st thou type the poet soul sublime
That leads the vsnwsrd of his timid time
And sing; mp towards with commanding rhyme
By double increment. above below
sole lonely, - thou art. vet rich in grace lik
thee.
Teaching the yeomen selfish chivalry.
That moves in gentle curves Of courtesy;
Soul hled ike thy long veins with sw0etnes
BY every godlike sense
Transmitted from the four wild elementa
Toward the empyrean
Thou reachest higher up than mortal man.
And keepest hold
Upon the reverend and steadfas. earth
W.. :. That gave thee birth.
Eerene and brave,
With unremitting breath
lnbsjing life from death,
Thine epitsph writ fair in fruitsge eloquent.
Thy n.y., LYING .Sgn ss,f thy monument.
Thou hast built up thy hardhood
With wOndrOus varying food,
Drawn in select proportion fair
Prom terrors of the dreadful night,
And joyful light;
To thee has finer life and longer fame;
From wounds and balms;
From etOrms and Gains,
From potsherds and dry bones,
So to thy vigorous substance thou hast wrought
Yea, into cool solacing green hast spun
White radiance het Tom out the sun.
SO thou dOst nut ually leaven
strength Of earth with grace of heaven;
SO thou dSst marry new and old
Into one Of higher mould
so thou dost reconcile the hot and cold,
The dark and bright
AND many heart.perplexing opposite;
Akin by blood to high and low,
Fifty thou plavest out thy poets part
kelly expanding thy much bruised heart
In equal care to nourish lord in hall
Or beast in STALL
Thou took'st from all that thou night'st give
Ostesdisst dweller on the self same spot
there thou vast born, that still repinest not
Type Of the home fond heart, the happy lott
Deeply thy mild content rebukes the land
Of trade, forever rise and fall
With alienation whimsical,
Enduring scarce day,
BY swift engalfments of incalcuab!e tides
Wherein capricious Commerce rides.
Look, thou substantial spirit of content,
Across TINS little vale thy continent.
10 where. beyond the Wondering mill
Y0n old deserted Georgian hill
Ana seamy breast.
BY restlet s.hearted children left to lie
Vniended there beneath the needless sky
Az bsrbarous folk exposed their old to die.
oPVn HaS generous sweilng side,
NOW scsrifed
S Sy zen neglect and all unfurrowed save
ny gulnes req as lash marks on . slave
pWeit one knew OF old, who PLAYED at toll,
ana dreamed himself q tiller Of the SOIL
nMcornlng me SLOW reward Of patient grain
Ts .Owea ms soul with hopes Of swifter gain,
N men ~ MIN nOwn ana waited for the rain
he sailed IN borrowed ships of usury-
a ioonsh Jason on treacherOus sea
Seekng tne Floece ana fnding misery.
nuHeo " smOotn-nDpling loans, in idle trance
ne ,ay, cGutent that unihrift circumstance
- onoutu plow fOs him the stony field Of chance,
1es gainerlng crops whose worth no man might |
Toll,
ne stake1 ms NE on game OF buy and sell,
ana turned each heid into gamblers hell.
ave, as each year began,
- NY farmer to the neghbOring city ran.
iassed with mournfui, anxious face.
ihto ne bankers inner place; |
faaleyed excused, pleaded for longer grace
Aahed at the Drought, the worm. the rust the |
grass, |
rrotested ne again twould come to pass
p Suc1 troops OF ills his labors should harass;
foIteiy swallowed searching questions rude,
anu kissed the dust to melt his uives mood.
a. !ast, small loans by pledges great renewed,
"a iu sM: ., from the iatal door