The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-24

And generation after generation lie
Long as vermont's green hills shall bear tb
As long as Killington shall proudly Lift
Its LOFTY peak above the storm clouds riff.
Or Mansfield hail the blue, o'erarchinQ skies.
Or fair Mount Anthony in grandeur RISE
SO long shall live the deeds that We have done
so deathless be the glory ye have won
Not with exultant Joy
And pride without alloy,
Did the twin Centuries rejoice when all was DER
What though the Nation rose
Triumphant o'er its foes?
What though the States had gained
The need of faith unstained?
Their mighty hearts remembered the dead tha
came no more
Remembered all the losses,
The weary, weary crosses,
Remembered earth was poorer for the blood tina
And knew that 1t was sadder for the story it hat
readi
so clasping hands with somswbat saddenet
mien.
And eyes upllfed to the Great Unseen.
That rules alike DER Centuries and men,
Onward they walked serenely toward-the
End
One reached it last year. Ye remember well
The wondrous tale there is no need to tell
How the whose world bowed down beside Its
How all the Nations came, from far or near
Heaping their treasures on its mighty pail
Never had kinglisst king such funerall
Old Asia rose, and girding her in haste,
swept In her jewelled robes across the waste
And called to Egypt lying prone and hid
Where waits the Sphinx beside the pyrmid;
Fair Europe came with overfowing hands,
Bearing the riches of her many lands;
Dark Affic, laden with her virgin gold,
fet laden deeper with her woes untold;
Japan and China in grotesque array,
And all the enchanted islands of Cathay
To-day the other dies.
1t walked in humber guise.
Nor stood where all mems ewes
Were fixed upon it.
Earth may not pause to lay
wreath upon its bier,
Nor the world heed today
Our dead that lieth here
Yet we'll they loved each other
II and its greater brother.
To loftest stature grown,
Each earned its own renown;
Each sought of Time crown,
And each has won Ill
But what to us are Centurie. dead,
And rolling Years forever fed,
Compared with thee, o grand and fair
Vermont-our Goddess mother?
strong VII with !, the strength Of thy verdan hills,
PURE as the breath Of the fragrant pine,
s Clad with the gladness Of youth divine,
oerenely tnou sittest tnrvned to-day
Where the free winds that round tiieo play
Rejoice in thy waves of sun bright hair.
thou. our glorious motheri
Rejoice in our beautiful strength and say
Earth holds not such another
Thou art not old with thy hundred years,
Nor worn with toll, or care, or tears;
But all the glow of the summer time
Is thine to-day in thy glorious prime
Thy brow Is fair as the winter SHOWS,
With a stately calm in its still repose;
While the breath Of the rose the wild bee sips
Half mad with joy, cannot eclipse
The marvellous sweetness of thy lips;
And the deepest blue Of the laughing skies
Hides in the depths Of thy fearless eyes,
Gazing afar over land and sea
Wherever my wandering children be,
Fold on fold,
Over hy form of grandest mould,
Flow eth thy robe Of forest green,
Now light, now dark, in its emerald sheen.
With feathery fern.fronds light as air
Fringing its borders. In thy hair
Sprays Of the pink arbutus twine,
And the curling ring of the wild grape vine.
Thy girdlc is woven of silver streams;
Its clasp with the opaline lustre CLEANS
And, half concealing
And half revealing,
Floats over all veil of mist
Pale tinted with rose and amethyst
Rise up, o noble mother of great sons,
Worthy to rank among earth's mightiest ones,
And daughters fair and beautiful and good,
Yet wise and strong In loftiest womanhood.-
Rise ffom thy throne, and standing far and high
Outlined against the blue, adoring sky.
Lin up thy voice, and stretch thy loving hands
In benediction DER the waiting lands
Take thou our fealty! at thy feet we bow,
Glad TO renew each OIL. repeated vow
No costly gifts we bring to thee to-day;
No votive wreaths upon thy shrine we lay;
Take thou our hearts, then,-hearts that fain
would be
From this day forth, o goddess, worthier thee