The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-26
THE PRESS TIE PIONEER.
BY II. I. STANTON.

Toward the East toward the West,
On either side, Il sea:
IL gleaneth like an Arab ten.
Upon a desert plain
A whited Island, a continent
upiifted from the main
Here, link by link, the mountains run,
And wide hats intervene;
Here Autum's yellow work is done,
And spring endurelh green.
There, sharp-deincd, she white caps
stand
Outlining all the West;
There, eastward, surf abraGes the lana.
And neither sea ut rest
On either seaqo bouyant ships,
That In grey distance fade
Go downward, as the water dips,
TO lesser isles oullaid
Strong ships, that seek the breaking
dawn;
Strong ships, that seek the night;
And some will take the shadow OH,
AID some reflect the light.
And isle and ocean make the sphere;
And keep the Masters plan;
And seas aiar, ana seas a-ncar,
ARC SOcldtc 10 lltil.
The world no longer secme.h wide,
With ships at either hand
With continents and seas allied
BY liganents Of sand.
In quest of truth by steady way,
Obscrvant men have sped;
They bring thick darkness up to-day,
They animate the deal.
They challenge stubborn Earth to
yield,
And lay its treasures bare;
They wrest its secret FROM the field
That brings the harvest fair.
Nor rock, nor tree, nor shooting blade,
Nor any things that be,
Beyond the touch OF man is laid;
In continent or sea.
He delves the niue, he probes the deep.
And in his crystal cup,
From where the UNDERGRADUATES sleep,
He bringeth glories Up.
Beneath the ipassy waters drear,
THROUGH lucent, silent miles,
He goetir where the silent pclyps rear
There iridescenfpiles.
w 4 nv ltilti- ~ aatAAal iNo Nblb.l
But yieldeth full its share
The merest atom Of the earth,
The monad OF the air.
AS, age by age, the polyp plies
His cunning, mason-hand,
Till mighty, weights of seas uprise
To gcrminate the land
So man, the greatest ZoCphytc,
Is bringing from the sea
His obelisk of Truth to light
For all eternity.
Untiring man! There is DO dearth
OF good that he may learn;
He bringeth ali thing of the earth
70 aehes in his urn:
He gOeth OH, no stop to spare
The epicndors of the day,
Though fallen blood aud blossom fair
BE trampled in his way.
Yet Science keepeth in its dawn,
And all its world appears
With scarce Il mark where men have
gOhe
Across the grass of years.
With uncrushed bloom that lies a. bed,
By blades that bend with dew,
It's morning field breake fresh ahead
For feet to hurtle through.
Tie novel way that none have sought
Is fitted for the shoon,
OF such as see the SURVIVOR wrought
Beyond the afternoon.
The palmer path, ii such there be,
A coming mass may find
1t trends where Science viii not sec
Where Genius WauderS blind.
And days and years go on and on,
And all the ages pass,
And still moves Science in its dawn
Across the pastUrc-ggass;
And plodding millions take the tail
OF scattered bloom ana spray,
Till constant dropping feet avail
10 make the beaten way.
And what were Science if it went
The newer way to find,
Without this coming legion tent
Upon its trace behind?
Go sean some long-Suryiying oak,
And 1t may chance TO be
1t bears De Soto's blazing stroke
Or primal tennessee.
Twill serve to illustrate with force,
And make the truth appear,
That millions follow in his course
Who act the pioneer;
Thai forests fall, and cities rise
Aud sparkle in the day,
Behind the man whose steady eyes
Are Oh the newer way.
He leaves his mark who moves beyond
However light his tread
A bruised loaf, Il broken fronl,
a calyX early shed!
The faintest trace the foot can make
Is that apparent track,
That all the world, anon, will take,
To gather at his back.
10 careful eyes all nature brings
Great truth Ia perfect zone,
As on the severed oak in rings
The saps Of years are shown.
And suns may rise and suns may set,
And Truth will still appear
To him whose steady course is set
TO act the pioneer.
Let us, who represent the Press,
As yct within its youth,
Leave signtlat we are nOne the less
Brave seekers after Truth.
Let coming millions know our might,
And nh who come agree.
That, like the buried soophite,
We lifted up the sea!
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