The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-10
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THE MESSIAH.

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THE MESSIAH.
Ye nymph, Of Solyma, begin the song
To heavenly themes suhlimer strains belong
The mossy fountains and tho sylvan shades,
Tho dreams Of Pindus and the Aonian maids,
Delight NO more. oThou my voice inspire,
Who touchd Isalah's halow'd lips with fro
Rapt into future times, the Bard begun:
virgin shall conceive, virgin bear son!
From Jesses root. behold branch arise,
Whose sacred flower with fragrance flls the skies
The ethereal Spirit DER Its leaves shall move,
And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Ye heavens! from high the devy nectar pour,
And in soft ailenee shed the kindly shower!
The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid,
From storms q ohelter and from heat shade
All crimes shall cease and ancient fraud shall fail
Returning Justice lit aloft her scale;
Peace DER the world her olive-wand extend,
Aud white-robed Innocence from heaven descend
Swift. fly the years and rise the expected morn!
Oh spring to light; suspicious Babe, be bornl
See, Nature hastes her earliest vreaths to bring,
With all the incense CT the breathing spring:
Sec lofty Lebanon his head advance,
See spicy clouds from lovly Sharon rise,
And Carmels dowery top perfume tho skies!
Hark q glad voice the lonely desert cheers:
Prepare tho vay Coda God appearew
"A God-a God 70 the vocal hills reply,
The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity.
Lo, earth receives him from the bending skies!
Sink down, ye mountains! ! and, re valleys, rise!
With heads declined, 70 cedars, homage pay;
Be smooth, ye rocks ye rapid foods, give way
The Saviour comes BY ancient bards foretold:
Hear him, ye deaf! and, all 70 blind, beholdl
He from thick films shall purge the visual rny,
And on tho sightless eye-ball pour the day:
rTis He the obstructed paths Of sound shall clear
And bid new music charm the unfolding ear:
The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego,
And leap e1ulting, like tho bounding roe.
No sigh, no murmur, the wide world shall hear;
From every face He wipes off every tear:
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound,
And hell's grim tyrant feel the eternal wound.
As the good shepherd tends his feecy care,
Seeks freshest pasture and the purest air,
Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs,
By day o'ersees them and by night protects;
The tender lamb he raises In his arms,
Feeds from his hand and in his bosom warns;
Thus shall mankind Ills guardian caro- engage,
The promised Father Of the future age.
Ne more shall nation against nation rise,
Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes:
Nor fields with cleaning steel be covered DER,
The brazen trumpsts kindle rage no more;
But useless lances into scythes shall bend.
And the broad falchion in a plowshare end.
Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son
Shall finish what his short-lired sire begun;
Their vines q shadow to ther race shall yield,
And the samo hand that sow'd, shall reap the fold
Tho swain In barren deserts with surprise
See lilies spring and sudden verdure rise;
And start, amidst the thirsty wilds, TO hear
New falls of water murmuring in his ear
On rifted rocks, the dragons late abodes,
The green reed trembles and the bulrush mods.
Waste sandy valleys, once perplexd with thorn,
The spiry Ar and stately box adorn;
To leaasss shrubs the towering palms succeed,
And odorous myrtle TO the noisome weed.
The lambs with wolves shall Craze the verdant
mead.
And boys in fowery bands the tiger lead.
The steer and lion at one crib shall meet,
And harmless serpents lick the pilgrims feet.
The smiling infant In bis hand shall take
The crested basilisk and speekled snake;
Pleased, the green lustre Of their scales survey,
And with their forky tongues shall innocently
play.
Rise, crownd with light, Imperial Salem, rlsei
Exalt thy towery head. and lit thine eyesl'
See long race thy spacious courts ndorn;
See future sons, and daughters yet unborn,
In crowding ranks on every side arise,
Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
See barbarous nations at thy gates attend,
Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend;
See thy bright affairs throng'd with prostrate
kings,
And heap'd with products Of sabaan springs!
For thee Idume's spicy forests blow,
And seeds Of gold in Ophirs -nountains glow.
See heaven Its sparkling portals wide display.
And break upon thee in food ofday.
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn,
Nor evening Cynthia Gil her silver horn;
But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays,
One tide of glory, one uhclouded blaze,
Oerflow thy courts: the Light Himself shall shine
Roveal'd, and God, eternal day be thinel
The seas shall waste, the skies In smoke decay.
Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away;
But Ax'd His word, His saving power remains-
Thy realm forever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !