Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-05

Behold the azure Of the sky,
The wondrous view arrayed on high:
The pale, round Moon, in silvery light,
Shedding her beams the ~livelong night,
Until the morn doth bring in sight
The opening of another day,
Creations wonders to display.
Sparkling around the vast expanse,
Myriad Of stars, at every glance,
Visions of glory the soul entrance
While wandering through ~cerulean space.
The heavenly planets there abound,
Revolving e'er their forms around
Majestic Sun-the God of Day
With gladness following in his way;
Cheering the Earth with a softened air;
The dew dispelling from the fair
Works Of Nature that doth here ?
To our astonished gaze appear.
Amazing beauties we behold,
All decked in silvery light and gold:
The field, the meadow, and the plain;
The mountains, where the frost hath lain,
And. melting, flled the flowing streams
Their courses marked by shimmering CLEANS.
Behold all living, breathing creatures,
And note their wondrous forms and featuresi
Beasts of the field, birds of the air
From the proud lion, in his lair,
To cunning little, tiny mouse,
Its mischief making round the house;
From eagle, soaring far on high,
To sparrow, twittering near by;
Reptiles and insects that abound,
Posts of the land where'er they're found;
And then. what pleasure to the sight
To view, in all their colors bright,
The gorgeous flowers, so full of grace
Emblems of love in every place:
The lovely Rose, with blossoms fair,
That once cnwreathed fair Venus hair
A monument of love, l ween,
To please the heart of Beauty's queen
Is smiling here, a perfect gem,
Itself a beautcous diadem;
Hawthorn and Primrose, twin sisters sn-
twined-
Hope, modcsty and worth are in them COM
bined;
Tho Myrtle, which tells of the love that is
For those whom we cherish, for those whom We
mourn;
The beautiful Jasmine, whose silvery flowers
Shed their sweetest fragrance in nights still
hours;
The Lily, so puraand majestic in lock,
As it smiles in its beauty by the ripping
brook;
The sweet Mistletoe. that all dangers sur
mount,
And the Amaranth. that tells of Immortality's
fount;
Then, lovely among the many more,
Peering from Earth's green carpet floor,
Which to the heart SO gently speaks,
And whispering ever, as it seeks
Its voice to raise in silent grot,
Is the darling blue Forget-Me-Not;
Pure Snowdrop, too, in snowy vale,
In regions where the heart would quail,
Frosty and cold though its bed nay seem,
Its tiny cups are arrayed in green;
Majestic Oak, noblest of trees,
With branches e'er waving with the breeze,
Symbol of glory from earliest birth,
Sacred to man, coeval with Earth;
And myriad Of others too numerous to name,
Broadcast are strewn Ger Earth's domain
Loves messengers to all mankind,
Uplifting the heart, enhancing the mind.
All things are lovely to the sight,
Pulsate the heart with true delight,
Enrich the mind with their priceless store
OF countless wealth and hidden lore.
How beautiful to look around
Upon the glories that abound,
And lesson learn from the least thing
That reathcs from Lies deep, secret spring.
The beauties of the upper air,
With gildcd glories shining there;
Majestic mountains, flowing streams
Fit subjects for the poets dreams;
Fields waving in their verdure green;
The ocean in the distance seen;
Beasts that roam at will and pleasure,
Content to eat and sleep at leisure;
And birds and flowers, in glowing dress,
That lothe the Earth in loveliness;-
All these, combined, fill not the measure
OF this terrestrial store of treasurer;
The bailded structure incomplete;
There's wanting still another sheet
In the great book-another page
To chronicle tho living age:
The noblest work of Natures hand,
The chiefest in this mundane land,
Is Gods proud image, which we scan
In the nodded form Of breathing MAN.
When the veil of darkness hung over the
land,
Naught but clouds filled the space on every
hand;
God reasoned and said: "Let there be light"
Then light He called Day. and darkness was
night.
In his own image created He man,
Fen since the world was first began;
Over all the land man was given control,
With power supreme over the whole;
"0ver all that liveth dominion is given"
Was the decree that descended from Heaven
Proud man! to whom is given control
Der the great concourse of the whole,
Whose mind o'erreaches all that breathes,
Surprising all on earth that lives
Man, of whom it hath been said
Is but a little lower made
Than the glorious angels bright,
Encircled round in heavenly light
Dost realize thy true position?
And hosf tbau raachaI To fha ~fruitiop