The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-09-14

Translated from the Swedish by the Au-
thor for the TRIBUSK.l
FAREWELL TO THE ROCKY NOUN
TAINS.
BY EDWARD AXIOM.

I -~-H--
BY EDWARD AXIOM.
Stars azure -moOn-mOuntaln afiel
mountain
Grand scene farewell me tempis my dis
tant home.
When in the east appears the dazzling
fountain
OfZoliae's light. on the plains will roam
Han, lamps of nature-lustrous eonsieIla
uOnsl
Sly song. born ever at my hearts vibra.
lions,
Not by the human passions baseIy cap
wake up. my spirit by this sight enrap
tured,
whist round thee slumbsrs Jet thy busy
race
Eierna! matter for the searcher's vision
Thou ever shown in sacred. beluIeous
form.
Descend, oh light, which Humbolt on his
mission
Saw in the rock. the wave, the nash, the
storm!
Howe'er benighted mortals be appealing
10 dreams. thou siand-a monnment not
-. reclining,
And not destroyed by the vorqcIous Age.
/ Reveal, ye lights OF genius, her beauty
Thy torch, oh Tyndall, flourish And a
duty
owe this wnrld-to listen 10 the sage.
I'm dust myself My heart is throbbIng-
1 feelItr
Its purple nuid sueh elements contains
AS This great globe; a force from
whom reveal itD
sends N this structure life through nerves
aud veins.
1 zee, L smell have feeling. taste and hear
1 ing.
springs also hence that force within appear
ing
The soul reflection. plety. fancy, will.
Melt-here 1 stand, link twixt God and
matter,
Not grasping Cody bat, fulIOf awe, the lat
This.pOndernus rock my hand is touching
still.
I've seen them all around me proudly
masslns.
And strange sensations warmed and chilled
my blood.
All higher than the eagle, boldly passing
Through distant clouds, onca ALI alone /
stood,
with tsn:oId life endowed my mind was
soaring.
lite fhonSand. bftlo,rg sf,oa ,b. ,,r,a,,.
been roaring,
The snow-eapped Titaus hay in sunny
bath
AudaeIous-grand. With awe my heart
was dropping.
Again rOamed, with eyes not tired or stop
ping,
Midst wonders crowdIng round my danger
Gus path.
A group of ObslIsks rose up, more stately
Than those semiramis did build OF yore
Who made them thus exact? None did
thus greatly
Display an architectural mind before.
Those blOcks-no giant arms could ever
lift them.
Archimedes himself could never shit
DatA itCto bhcS Htah1t Liloso hAoAhihShAS- vi
whom
NOR man did buiId the bridge abave that
ehasm.
Thy mysteries may through n skeptic
Iooml
a canyon sound sound An abyss be-
fore mel
Two ant vvalla tho mo vim, ,rofars losh
What contest when the mountain hanging
O'er me,
Was met by glaciers What mighty crash!
How grOaned the monster forms, defiant
towering,
When onward moved the ice. all over
pOwering,
Aud made its way, undaunted, 'roHnd the
globe.
Bet when the agony OF birth was over
Arkansas canyon, as 1, charmed. discover,
Ia grandeur rose. with waves in silver
robes.
Thus was the war of nature, ere the crea-
tures
Did play and feed upon this mountains sod
Bat that same law, which changed her
giant features.
! ct breaks inc ties OF Iflenusnlpt race anu
blood
The solemn silence here was sometimes
broken
By ShrIeks, by words in savage bIood-thirst
spoken.
By rushing weapons and tumultOus fight.
Not only when the grizzly bear was wound
ed,
But also when the savage Red astounded
Some kindred tribe with war-whoops in the
night.
A hi,leons night Isaw-chaos resembling
Ajet-blaek sky did hide the mountains then
ON yOnder clin the Wand'rer stood, all
trembling,
When fiereely rOared the lilo n fiom his den
The east in purple Suddenly was glowing;
And now distant din In strength was
growing;
It reached the mountains from the shady
deep.
A battIe-cry like that which Milton speaks
of
And from the vale aseends the smoke it
reel1s Of
''The Sioux the siouxI Wake, warriors.
from your sleepP
No ktlALlt llluSE. lGl nOl Ia SDllttl
By scones of wrong and terrOr-turn away ;
But 10 the city, not by hardships fOiled-
Queen Denver in the desert holds her sway
There where the eastern slope is gently sink
ing,
The iron band the east and west is linking,
And monuments of Morse ask for response.
And glancIng round where prairie wolves
are sneaking,
I'm met with pleasant cabins where they're
speaking
The ringing tongue my mother taught me
once.
And whence the rivers source that's boldly
dashIng-
Two arteries IIke-'way over hill and dell,
sec Mount Lincoln with Its forehead
fashIBg-
Tall -pIain-like him who "a a martyr fell.
And thou, Pixies Peak, that fills with fear
the Wand'rsr,
] As Thy huge form looms up in strength and
grandeur,
All at Thy sight my heart once more may
swell
Gray's Peak. Longs Peak, ye eagles boldly
soaring,
Pines, parks and tWin-lskes, streams
through Euiehes roaring,
Fumes, sloping farms and tImbers-sll
farewell!
Farewell, colossal chain of tn ousand noun
! tsins
Thou backbone OF the continent. good
night!
Thy metal marrow, yielding as thy fOun-
tains,
Strong hands and laundering powder bring
TO light
In gold and silver joyful news are written
From Mexico mp 10 the land OF Britain,
Where Arctic sarges loudly lash the strand.
But through the canyon Is an echo sound
ing;
The iron horse is nelghing, onward bound
ing.
With him leave, still waving with my
! hand.
Friendship Is q vase which when II
is fiaWed 10y heat, or violence, or zeei-
dent, may as well be broken at once
1T never can be trusted after. The
more graceful and ornamental it was,
the more clearly do We Discern the
hopelessness OF restoring IL to its for.