South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-05-27

For winter slit:eriny in his case Of snow
Was Ioath to battle with 90 fair Zoe;
Yet proad and arrogant ~ foemen are
lie leit Aeolus to support the war.
In vain he labore,' to subdue thy MIGHT.
Exhaust thy patience In tho airy f.Lt.
In vain his hostile leaious of LIE air
Around him rallied in their last desnair
Repulsed and 6v,ug in i,ppe.uous rasie
They iert thee sovereign OF lleid OF
waste,
The wandering breezes ever ci~cli,r
AT last submitting, though a; Hrs, they
frowued,
And discnyaging their ethereal MOULD
From wint.v vestises OF p;er,iug cold.
Now sand e.pec;aat u Thy kind coal.
To W.T. thy IA. -aace o'eG the s.nilira
land.
And though unbi.'ien by he verrn, Gro.
The Joyous swiii-"i'5cd ~o''erse' Of
Will heat 10 regions vet confined, g., icc
LIE :.TSteiui Li,,ih:.s o. Tue I'D device
Inas s. ines eGulseut or ny fowe..
wrought SHIELD,
AMI wakes new vigor in the torpid field
They will tell tho oyp.essors o. the q.
ching ground
with songs ort-sushing from thei-
hearts profound,
To heal the wounds OF hear;'ess tyranny
And swift dispensing leave The land.
scapc free
For once again the bright celestial fire
Keiights The pole. and frantic flames
with ire.
When last BIS Chariot course,, lis ve,ucl
pa'h
The like iadi-ni les awoke his WRATH
That wake il now for fields he ie.u IN
bloom,
Now lie in":ned beneath an icy tomb.
LIE sunoea'hs daucihg on tne SNOWY
plain
VIII raise ;hickvapor 20 recruit tae rain;
SHOWS disappear as comes the ve~nal
queen.
Thcie while Donotony is lost Ia green :
They fall, a. iyrarnv must ever fall
When weai crbjecCion shall for mercy
cali,
The high celestial orbiter of LIGHT
Whose aa'uin disc consumes III. shades
ofn'g,:,
Controls the seasons with omnific SWAY
Spring, Summer, Autumn even SHOWS
obey;
And ihougl they war their conflict is in
vain
AS each unrival!ed in his turn must
reign.
The world long trembling Meath the
winIy king.
Would never smile but for thy 500, u
ing wing
Kind brooding bird, the spacious womb
OF earth,
AT thy co'no,and teens myriads at q
birth
Thy genial presence quickens every
grain
That swelling hurst beneath the joyous
plain;
And shooting upward 10 salute its
queen
The world il carpeted in living green
The hills. the Wales, and land scapes far
and wide,
The rolling prairics. and the mountain
side
Pronounce thy praise, 0 thou, Goddess
fair
Their Incense rises in tho baImy mir.
Each Shrub thy altar. and thy priest
each rose
That all the raugo OF fragrant nature
shows;
Each grove Thy temple and thy court
each plain;
NJ earthly sovereign has so wide 70 IGN.
Dew dissolved odors OIL the wings OF
morn
High toNrad the vaulted skies are soft
ly Lorne
From every recess If symbolic love,
From out The arbor, aud from Out the
grove,
From every tori that feeds the vital
stock,
From every Granny in the barren rock
TO thee. y Spring this odorOus fruit is
TO thee whose presence makes the
world a heaven,
winged warblers twlttering DER the
world Of flowers
Enchant With melody the GceLing hours (;
Ffom natures orchestra what notes arise
In sweet vibrations through tho LIQUID
skies,
SnclI is tbc universal FEAST OF Sprino.
Yet all her sweetness sue herself doth
bring.
What tho contcnding elements should
war,
And storms fierce growing shonld be
heard afar;
What though the clouds should quencb
the blazing sun,
And spread black darkness meath his
highest noon;
What though the demons OF The air at
tend
And all their tcrrors 10 these terrors
lend,
Willis! lightnings blazing 10 the murky
cloud
Prosage in wrath the believing thunder
loud
Then thunlers bursting from the forgor
hurled
In peals terrific shake a startled world.
Still thou art welcome 10 the earth most