The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-21
Woman's Temperance Column
The Dark Council.TabIe.

Aud Edens garden was q ruin wild,
Ana flaming angels guarded well the gate
Against return OF Natures wnyWald child
When God in sorrow, more than anger. stool
AloOi from the tiansgressor of his Law,
The grave stood gaping, in rcycuptnl inona
10 wallow man IN it4 insaiaie NAV;
Twas then tliat Death, In hidden depth. of hsil.
Took council Of DISTINCTIONS friends lelow.
Where each fell passion of the human will
Pleaded It's potent power for human woe.
Each passion dark that rCiU- in mortal heart
Appeared before the pale white monster
And there, ia lielr dait council, strongly pre-
ecH
That death n nishue numbers was it own.
f'ir.t came Addition with IT, bloody train
Di cnnQucing heroes marching in it, wakc
WIN its icn thousand times ten thousand slain,
N1H l9nfs Of blood -hed ccr he heart wuuld
Long wa. tlc train, and dark the ,le.ds OF woe.
INC lAhc oihlopd and mOuntal-hcaps Of slain:
iitl Hope sweet Hope 20 often crushed below,
Could sedrrO her native place ia heaven REGAIN.
Were indr-haied oul as evidence ofpoWer;
unlil all he'll seemed but one bursting moan,
Nnu l.at- of ages crowded iu one hour
Nmle Freedom. inirt. daughter oi the skies
"n'-r hrn' Na ltaten companions angel
Crushed bs AmhiiioI-poNorle. NOW 10 ri.
~ chains q captive SADLY weeping thore.
iWn1 ineie Ainbiiion' 'auniing, took her stand.
AMI salrl viii pride upon the bloody train
NJ she ",uid muster noni the far-on land,
And bring as trophies ls the victor slain.
Ih'n rHne Disease, with -low and sieathy tread
ANh hoAring much ofpower for humani III;
-is walked the millions oi the -lmherinp ,c.ti
NrH Drought them forth 10 show her power a4lA
rhc man Win strength Of intellect and power
To can the heavens, and read The system. ih.i-
Who .lw God IN every leaf and lower
And ought that God in humble, grateful PRAYER.
Now pale a. death, and weak inlant Chill
Cut down by this destroyer Of his race:
lpon hi- brow no longer played a smile
rs Vl i,oniglpna beauty ligilnG up the face
Inc lovely mani. cast in fair Beauty's mouii.
noble. % - MI fu.I
Was led captive in that hain. Behold
How i.ll ID sca.e has wrecked that Heaven born
mini
The father, mother sister, brother. child.
The high, the low, the rich, the poor wer. ther.
10 well the irnNhie, Of ID .caae--wh0 smilpi
,. 10 see her Yctims- millions as there wei-
Tie king and subject meet on equal plain
:, me proude,i hnew n9 rank above the slave
Each virtue honc, while vice atill left It's stain
For merit stand alone beyond the grave
She swept the earth. the ocean, mountain, piqne
And gathered there the pfctre hosts qini..t.
All those who in each dissent lani were 4lain
Then claimed that ihc tie victor musi be Crown
ed.
Then black, n,l o-heaiiel snpcr.nnon cau.e.
And in her train die bii ht,.t -0ns oreaiti
no at the stake had gained mari,f', flnr-
iial lived for man, had dicl for moral worth.
Proud innocence wa stamped ou every brow.
Nhu conscious virtue lighted c4-is lnce:
b.lure this cnunc here. Tie. ID lilicd 10 i.,,.
ih'y Represent tie nohle-t ui tirir race,
From every cline where steal, the blusi-i1ns
From out the night on rull the MONDAY -uA,
Or midcr eve with sadnine twilight gray
Camc counties thousand, superstition won.
Then Avarice came with smooth unwrinliei
But in kis train, . Codl what victim. there
Their souls all crushed, with weight they So, met
Low down to earth, with deepest. darl. de.pai,
Cold wn'ry Wmd- had chilled their hearts warn.
And caused ihcm cen TO mumur 'gainst tbeir
Who -enl to other health ana friends, and foot
W me th,y eeinei Wiilrins meath hi, cha-tcu-
Then last ofaiL lntcmpcrance Teeling came
Before the e'nncil -vagge.ing drunk viii
with brazon iacc long dead 10 1irtuous shame.
And hearts thHt bowed 10 Hacclis loath.un.
shrine.
on who could qalc upon ihst reeling mas
Of human being, brought a. captycs there
And OF them Natures nOhlcsf, brightest ca,-
Their soul how crn -hr'l and mad with dark ,e.
spar.
The father there. who once when lie was vouu.
Had clust. red round him an the sweet, ofholnt.
tender WIFE wh9 iondly to him clung
All tins he cli and ia thai dreadful hour,
niempennce leading down tn aluring roat
Rushing madly now, by irresi,lless power
Forgot that Wife, hi family, and his Cod
Tie son wa there thc high-burn, noble youth.
The moths-'- joy, the tthel'- brightest hope.
Whose heart once bowed before the shrine oi
Whose tow''us mind could mightiest subjects
cope.
Made many friends; enjoyed the social bowl
Nas sought and cculted by the great and wise
Who loved lin for hi, intellectual soul
Th4l towering heafemwad, dwclt among the
But, . my Codl to . ie that wreck olsoul-
SO image leit OF that once towering mind
Gov black with passion, knowing no conrol
what caused thai wreck:-the bowl, the ruby
The v, Nile wa tlere-lhc broken;hearted wile-
Who long in sorrow mourned her hapic.s lot
since lie who joined his fate with hers for life