The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-08
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or wherever you may; whether he sings
the groves, Gods first temples" their un-
hewed columns, their verdant roofs, their
messy floors, their music signing through
their aisles; or whether he chaunts the do
ings of the vapory deniSens of the air;
now encompassng the horizon with
their grotesque and startling images now
rushing, with tumultuous joy, on to the
overhanging arena, running, racing, dane
ing, crowding the whole space with maze
of cotilons, now dissolving and reappear-
ing in flying squadrous, that advance, re-
treat, confront and flank each other, in all
the bravery of mock wal fare and are now
| spreading their grateful canopies against
the sun, broodlpg and weeping over the
smoking plains and now knitting their
brows into one awful trown, and reproach-
| ing the shuddering earth in the language of
| thunder and lightning and anon, are off,
| frescoing the western walls in the unearth-
ly hues Of their sunset drapery and, ere
long, are gay ly stringlng the sky with their
fieecy baldries caught in the moonlit dome;
or whether he sings the mysterious winds,
that are now gently flaming every sentient
thing into the ecstasy of lie, and are now
Selling forests, towns and cities and strew-
the earth with their ruins, and laying bare
the floors of the deepest cayerns of the sea
or whether he sings the billowy beauty of
our Atlantic prairies or the majestic pro
cesslon of the seasons, the espousals of
earth and spring, the qualification of sum.
mer, the teeming fruits, the glories and
ju5ilees of autumn, the snowy vestments
and the silver traoery of winter; whatever
in earth, air, sea or sky. he may sing, YOU
shall always find his harp vibrating, not
with the tones of despair but the old Gel
eslial ring of glad tdings good will, TO
man.
Born in such a place, baptized at such q
fountain, he could but be an ardent lover
of liberty, and he delights in telling its
story. He finds it blessing the race in the
primeval and pastoral times, and traces its
Maynard life adown the ages, now escap-
ing to the mountains, now fleeing alright
ed clean off from the planet, nov saunter-
ing among the states ard isles of Greece,
now trying to abide in might. Rome, now
tripping along the banks of the Arno, now
rallying her hosts 10 reformed Europe, and
now finding abundant rest TO her feet in
the state of modern times. Against all
tyrannes. all absolutisms civil, military or
ecclesiastical against all slave systems, he
Piled his Miltonic fires ard would devote
them all to one common bonfire. Recog.
MIXING the natural tendency of man to be-
come an oppressor, he does not give liberty
the form OF a fair young girl, 10, nor a
bird, with Haunting plumage. but stern
warrior
"a bearded man armed to the teeth,
One nailed hand grasps the broad Shield and
one the sword"
While he deemed the contest between
freedom and slavery perpetual he is q lit
tie more hopeful of the warfare between
truth and error, aud though
"a Wild and many-weaponed throng
Hung on his rfont, and Hank, and rear"
as he fails the shams of the world, his faith
in the final triumph of the true over the
false does not falter.
"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again
Tho etern i years OF Gcd are hers
But error, wounded writhes Ia pain
And dies amid her worshipers."
"To wrap the drapery of his couch
About Aim, and lie down TO pleasant Dreams"
Before sit down | will ask, who can
enough appreciate the band he has had in
clothing tEs fneaments of our young and
sdaiwart country with those robes of litera-
land Using Tie same al sNl ahhgsGGfag9 CHI, Qwp
balms the mind of England 1t was for a
long time claimed that the monuments of
genius that we wrought and raised were
really quarried from the rock of England's
literature and the world applauds him as
one of those few great Americans who have
succeeded in recaslIng portion of the lit
arature of our mother tongue, IN the char
acteristic American mold. 1t is by these,
and more titles than | can mention, to our
gratitude, that he comes before us with
one of his last errands to his fel1w-men.
Oh would not hesitate. | would rather
run and anticipate his wishes. He is al
ready running toward his native hills, al
most ready to take his place beside those he
loved so dearly, and VINO have gone before
i would carefully, silently. reverently,
help him
And would strew rue, rosemary and
flowers around.