Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-07


Still must that dauntless hardihood,
Drawn TO her veins from out the iron hills.
lNerving the brain that tolls, the soul that wills)
Shake OF the lotus languishment of grief
see her rise, and clasp her old belief
In God and goodness, with imperial glance
Face the dark front OF frowning circumstance
While trusting only to her strong right arm
To wrench from deadly harm
All civic blessings and fair fruits Of peace
High souled to gain despite her ravished
years.,
And dragon forms Of monstrous doubts and
The matchless splendor of tolls golden
heecer
see her rise, and strive with strenuous hands
Firmly to lay
The fresh foundation Of nobler sway
War-wasted lands,
Laden with ashes, gray and desolate;
Touched by the charm Of some regenerate
Flush into golden harvests prodigal;
Set by the steam gods fiery passion free,
hear the rise and fall
OF pond 'rous. iron-clamped machinery
Shake, as with earthquake thrill, the factory
halls
While round the massive walls
Slow vapor like sinuous serpent steals;
Through which reVOlve in circles great or
small
The deat'ning thunders of the tireless wheels
Far down each busy mart
CThat throbs and heaves as with a human
heart,
Quick merchants pass. some debonair and gay,
With undimmed youthful locks
Some wrinkled sombre gray;
But all with one accord
Dreaming Of him-their lord,
The mighty Monarch of the realm of stocks.
And year by year her face more frankly bright,
CLOVIS with the ardor of the bloodless fight,
For bounteous empire, DER her cherished
South.
More sweet the smile upon her maiden mouth,
Just rounding into curves of womanhood,
Because all unwithstOod
The magic Of her power and stately pride
Hath called from many a cline
Or tropfc sunshine and OF winter riHe.
The worlds skilled art and science to her side;
Hence from her transient tomb
Three lustra since, hideous spot TO see,
Grows the majestic tree
or heightenipg and green-leaved prosperity;
Hence. her broad gardens bloom
With rose and lily, and all flowers of balm;
And hence, above the lines
or her vast railways droop the laden vines,
A luscious largess thro' the summer calm;
Feeling her veins. so full of lustv blood
That pulsed within them like rhythmic flood
And eager for sweet siSterhOOd, the bond
Blssful and fond,
That yet may hold all nations in its thralI,
Atlanta, from a night of splendid dreams,
Reused by soft kisses of the morning BEARS
Decreed a glorious festival
OF art and commerce in her brave do
main.
Che sent her summons on the courier breeze.
Or thro' the ightntng-winged wire
Flashed forth her souls desire.
Swiftly it passed
Ger native hills, and streams, and praries
And DER waste barriers of dividing seas,
Till from all quarters, like quick tongues Of
fame,
That warm, but burn not. cordial answers
And waftage by benignant messages.
Thus, thus il is mighty concourse meets
O'erfiowing squares and streets
Borne at flood tide toward the guarded ground
Where treasures of two hemispheres are
found
To tax the inquiring mind, the curious eyel
Grain of the upland and damp river bed
In yellow stalks, or sfted meal for bread:
UnSumbered births of Ceres, clustered high;
BehOlding which-as touched by tropic heat
(The oldworld picture never can grow old,
Nor the deep love that thrills it dumb and
Clean fancy looks on Boaz in the wheat;
And in her simple truth
The tender eyes OF Ruth
Holding the garnered fragments at his feet!
But piled DER ALL thro' many an unbound hale
PeeTing to show its snow-white softness pale
Snow white yet warm, and destined to be
furled
Ia some suspicious day,
For which we yearn and pray
RoGnd the half naked misery of the world;
Ali well, we know no monarch's ieweled
crown,
o. No marvellous Koh-i-noor,
Won first perchRnce from CULTS of human gore,
Or life toll Of swart millions gauut and poor,
Hath cen outshone its peerless sovereignty
The wings of song unfold
Towards thy OGntide-gold-
The eyes of song are clear,
Turned on thy broadening sphere),
To mark, OH city OF the midland weald
And follow thy fair fortunes far afeld
The years unborn,
Doubtless must bring to thee
Trials to test thy spirits constancy,
while unthritt aliens wear the mask Of scorn).
Financial shocks without thee, and within,
Wrought by shrewd mOneyed Shylocks hot to
Their braEen game Of usury;
Ravage of bandit rings" whose boundless
NAV
Can swallow all things glibly, save-the law!
And many a subtler III,
Sudden and subtle as the ambush laid,
By black ''stranglers" mid an orient
glade;
But thou, with keenest will,
Shalt cut the bonds Of stealthy fraud apart,
And il force fronts thee with murderous
blade,
Oh. Queenl thy brilliant horoscope
Was cast by HeIios in the halls Of hope:
And hope becomes fulflllDent as thy tread
Firm placed between the living and the dead.
wins lHC ulSu SIAuC AASA ONlo q nCdN Oh dTu
slope;
For force and fraud undone,
And stormleSs SUBMITS won,
In thee view heavens purpose perfected
Thou shalt be Empress OF all peaceful
ties,
All potent industries,
All d-embracing magnanimities;
A warrior Queen, no more, but mailed in love,
Thy spear fulgent shaft OF sun-steeped
grain,
Thy shield buckIer the flsld-faries wove
OF strong green grasses, in the silvery noon
OF some full harvest moon
Thy stainless crown, red roses blent with white.
Now throned above the half-forgotten pair
or dreadful war, and wars remorseIess blight,
Thy heart throbs glad and great.
Sending thro' all thy Titan statured State
Fresh life, and gathering tides of grander
power,
From glorious hour to hour.
Thousands thy deeds shall bless
With strenuous pride, toned down to tender
ness,
Shall bless thy deeds, exalt thy name,
Till every breeze that sweeps from hill to lea,
And every wind that burrows the deep sea-
Shall watt the fragrance of thy soul abroad
The sweetness and the splendor of thy fame
For thou, midmost large and opulent store
OF all things wrought to meet nations need
Thou. nobly pure
OF any darkening faint of selfish greed,
Vert pre-Ordained to be
Purveyor of divinest charity
The Iovecommissioned Almoner of God!