The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-08-14
Poet's Garner.
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'CiSswert, tis sweet to stroll along, /
Where lowed the stream III classic sOng,
D. Hill aud vale, DER tount and mead,
Where sang the muse, Or hreathed the
reed.
TO wander where the poets dream,
Awake,l the Genii Of the stream,
Aud stamped upon the minstrer~ name.
The signet Of eternal fame.
In dimless sheen her brilliant torch,
Burns or the altar and the porch,
And soaring thoughts, in flight sublime,
Defy the waste Of years and time.
There walked the harp it's sweetest tone.
And there were fadeless lanrels won,
Tho age on age shall onward fly.
The classic song can never die.
On Fancy's wing, DER land and sss,
Flew tho bright thoughts Of poesy,
Now. wild ~ tho storm fraught tempest's
cry,
Now, sott ~ tho dying zephyr's sigh.
Centuries, like mists. shall pasS away.
Yet classic verse shall WELD its sway,
It's wierd notes shall immortal ring,
That streaned upon the minstrel string.
Ne'er has the harp OF music rang,
More sweetly than when Marc sang.
Nor could Apollo's strings Of fire,
Roll nObler strains than HOmer's lyre.
Eolus, in his cavern binds.
The tempests aud the fetter'd winds,
While Neptune, with his trident grave,
Gains tho wild sweep Of oceans wave.
Paruassus yet stands towering high,
Nor HelicOn a. yet, is dry.
And Fay and Fairy joyous greet.
| Tho fountains, where the MUSES. meet.
CalypsO's tears the streamlet swell,
And Echo sports, mid rock and dell,
A hayward Nylnph, amid the throng,
The MUSES. ne'er could teach her song.
The Mermsids' midst the pillows play,
Bedeckd with sea gems bright and gay.
And weave upon the sea wave swell,
Sweet strains upon their ocean shell.
From their deep homes midst ocean caves
They seek the crests of rolling waves,
And on their sea- washed bOsOms bare.
Stream tresses Of their sea green hair.
The Syren on her a.girt rock,
That hears unframed the pillows shock
Chants her wierd songs. but to hegnile
The sailor to her rocky isle.
Tantalns sees his daughters form,
Wrapp'l in the mantle VI the storm,
And Iris, in her rainbow shrOud
Rides in her floating car--the cloud.
Aurora, at the morning gates.
Arrayeil in robes Of light awaits,
At the purple doors Of morn widespread
TithOnns from his ocean bed.
In copse and wild woods deep resort,
Wild satyrs hold their Silvaa court,
And every holm Dryad owns,
Each laurel too, y Daphne crowns,
Sweet Cupids Ait from bower to bower,
And Genii laugh 10 every flower,
: Zach dell and grot, a dwelling place,
For Nymph, for Naiad or for Grace.
Erato sweeps her harp to love,
And Fanui skip from grove to grove,
:, And the gleefal hours, on hill aud lawi
J Quaff the pure dew drops of the dawn.
The Sibyl In her deep dark caves,
Prophetic In her frenzy raves,
u And CelHno from her rock fOrebodos,
The fate Of mon, and wrath Of Gods.
J. Bacchus beneath tho clustering vine,
Lsves bic huge tankard crowned vii
:. wine,
While bio mad followers, loud and Ion
Reel iu debauch and shout in song.
No Pal0mon has yet decreed,
Which shepherd pipe hes won the mes
Doubtful 40 whom the song begun,
HOifer and Bowl aro yet unWOn.
Egle, fsirest Of Nsiad train,
Begs drunk Silenus for . strain,
Voiced by her smiles, his harp be struu
And to her listening oar he sung;
How seed and germ Of air and earth,
From Chaos had its primal birth,
How stones, Deucalion aud Pyrrha thre
Started tho human race anew.
4, How matter thrO' it, varied change,
Assumed and took its destined range,
So sweet bis soug, that oil tho choir.
!. Rose up 10 honor Of bis Tyre.
" Harp Of tho past thy starry name,
It. Stsmp'd on the page Of deathless fol
Of Shall live undimn'd and loved 10 long
er: Az charm 10 found in verse or song.
Harp Of tho past! Thy songs shsll live
Till time shall wreck-thoa wilt survi
And bright thy lamp Of glory burn.
Der the m0uldering ashes Of the urn.
Thy wierd notes shall immortal ring,
That echoed from thy burning string,
The doom Of fate with smiles defy,
The Poets fame can neUeT die.
.
Frank and lease James.