The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-08-10
PoeticaI Contributions.
A. D. H. TO ROB roy

Now eultry August pours his beams
Ger all the woodss and hraes. and streams;
And. shriii, the locust whirrs on high,
AS dusty fOOttf1an passes by.
The cricket, too in genial heat,
Chirps bl,thely from his snug retreat;
And. lastly, the COW bells sound
From oct the nciGh5rinx woods around,
While fierce the king of day looks down
Upon the stub5le- heIds so brown.
For naught can brook his ardent gaze,
But all frequent the shaded ways.
Now oft the mut.er.ng thunders rise
Above the margin of the skies,
As deep increasing rumbinas thrill
The rocks. and fields, and darkening hill;
While bursting, fierce, In flaming darts,
The potent hud tares and parts
III The e. black and bending clouds that pour
Iheir Hoods arafn with drenching roar,
Til, spent the fury of its ire,
The storm, still le.sening, doth retire,
I And leaves the air so pure and clear
That all things with new life appear.
Now, all around 1he scene is peace,
IL men would but their stryings cease!
And not deform this planet, fair,
With scene. OF blood and wild despair.
These on fair nature curses bring
And Ter all life shadow fling.
Did God create land like this
For men to curse. and fight. and hiss,
Like serpents in IA noisOine den,
Or souiless beast in filthy pen?
The sun pours down his genial beams,-
The moon as fair as orient Dreams
The stars I'm quiet peace look down.
All nature through, there is no frown
But on the face of natures chief!
Which. to the sons of 6 od, is grief;
For men should live to harmonze
Win scenes SO fair beneath the skies;
So that the poorest in the hand
Could raise an honest candid hand.
And utter words, with truth we know,
Such as do follow h ere below:
"who saws am poorf See the high blue dome
Which my Father hath reared Ger my earthly
There's the glorious light He has ii, for me.
To cherish my life land all so freei
And the circumambient crystal sea
Which hoats. all viewless, Der rock and tree.
Who ever has made a home so fair?
Come, snow me the palace and Wen compare
with its trees and shrubs, and its flowers and
With its torrents and rivers that run their
hi mere n are living servants that people il all
Ihere are birds to sing, aye and bees to hum,
All living creatures unite and blend
TO HARMONIOUS, perfect end,
Aud the poorest man which man may see
May say. All this was designed for mel
When the great foundations of earth were
When the monsters first through the deep sea
Yea, the Great Creator of earth and heaven
Hath this grand home to the poorest givenI
Then away with the thought that man is poor
"hen ms Father has given him such a dover.
The dust Of their goli but blinds the eyes
To the beauties and joys of paradise,
With its beautiful dome and its clouds and stars,
Us oceans vast and its mountain bars:
With its sun and moon ruling day and night,
All grand and fair tn the raptured sight.
20 snow me the palace and we'h compare
II gold could rear me a home SO fair!'
But now the skeptic appears on the scene
And tells t1s all we very green!
For these things always have existed thus
Then wny about them make so great fuss ?''
Or else he'll tell yor with bombastic swagger-
Which makes the tt;ffnfuned TO reel and stay
That from the pntorlast OF living creature
Has grown all lie. of various form and feature.
But what gave life unto the DOtOplast?
That battles all the wisdom of the past,
II answered not through Holy Writ divine,
From which alone doth light and wisdom shine
Which can on life's first symptom throw a ray,
When death like chaos witnessed first tie day.
Now Darwin tells MS man came from an ape,
AEd apes from beings of another shape,
But much lower down in the chain of life
Yet he says nothing of his npeships wife.
And how che nursrd n nd taught the human babe
When first in speech divine his tongue esaayed.
But would like to see the honest Swain
Within whose mind right reason holds her reie 4,
Who ever saw an ape grow into mani
Although man often does reverse the plan,
A. .. H..
Allegheny Twp, Cambria Co., Pa, Aug. 3, 1877.