The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-06-03
JAMES RUSSELL LOwELL's ODE.
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Tho eoneth over the Hills
Her garments with morning sweet,
The dance o. a thousand riIls
Making music before her feet
Her presence freshens the air,
sunshine steals light from her face,
The leaien fooistep oi Care
I.aps 10 the tune Of her pace,
Fairness of all that is fair,
Grace at the heart Of all grace
Sweetener Of hut and Of hall.
Bringer Of life out OF nzught,
Freedom, oh, fairest Of all
The daughters OF Time and Thought
She cometh comeih to-day;
Hark hear We not her tread,
Sending thrill through your clay
Under the sd there We dead,
Her cham ions and chosen ones
DO We not hear, as she comes,
The bay Of the deep-mOuthed guns
The gathering buzz II the drums :
The bells that call We 10 prayer,
How wildly they clamor on her,
CRYING, 'she cometh prepare
Her 10 praise and her 10 honor,
That hundred years ago
Scattered her in blood and tears
Potent seeds wherefrOm should grow
Gladness for hundred years.
III
Tell me- young men, have We seen
Creatures of diviner mien,
For true hearts to long and cry for,
Many hearts TO live and die for?
What hath she that Others want
Brows that all endearments haunt,
Ewes that make il sweet TO dare,
Smiles that glad Uniimely death,
Looks that fortify despair;
Tones more brave than trumpet's breath:
Tell me, maidens, have We known
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Where Nature meditates and broOds
The seeds Of uneNampled things,
Which Time TO contamination brings
Through life and death and mans unstable mo"si:
They met her here, not recognized,
sylvan huntress clothed in furs,
To whose chaste wants her how sutiicei,
Nor dreamed what destinies were here;
She taught them betlike to create
Their simpler forms Of Church and State
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The Past with other functions than il knew,
And turn in channels strange the uncertain sire:
Of Fate;
Better than all, she fenced them in their need
With iron-handei Duty's sternest creed.
Gainst Sells lean wolf that ravens word and deed
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Dear 10 both Englands; hear him he
Who wore the ring Of Canace;
But most her heart TO rapture leaps
Where stood that era-rarting bridge,
Der which, with football still as dew,
The Old Time passed into the New;
Where as YOUR stealthy river creeps
He whispers 10 his listening weeds
Tales of subnest homespun deeds;
Here English law and English thought
Against the might Of England fought,
And here were men (co-equal with their fate)
Who did great things unconscious they were great
They dreamed not what die was cast
With that first answering shot: what then?
There was their duty: they were men
Long schooled the inward gospel to obey
Though leading to the lions den
They felt the hahit-hallowed world give way
Beneath their lives and ON went they,
Unhappy who was last