The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-08-17

IL made navigabe now
5fiations from the halls
dom meets corruption but to yield
kcompliance to its lavish hand
loved with skilled, ingenious indirecuons'
And clear and sweet the Trinity did run
lis current came, strange thing. from mouth 10
source.
IND nronpht the salt from out the briny guli'
nj made this Dallas head of navigation"
Aud the mort of entry too for all the goods
That Europe or the Father Asia had
And upht.haired Germans, with their rudy
cheeks,
A,d lnstv Drawn from old Green Erins shore'
Thence driven by expressions hand at home'
Fast swelled the population; for the name
or Dallas home of energy and beauty too
was waited OIL fleet wingsto all the world
Her streets were paved aud sidewalks too;
a,and bouleyards for vehicles of various KINGS
That roll on wheels, and every foot that Wl"us
Its way. on business or on pleasure pehI
Smooth uniform and wide and free from DUST
As made the stores, the dwellings and the stans
A. neat and Clearly as some parlor iioor'
these streets were thickly thronsed both night
and day
with youth and beauty and with busy meh'
,,cbt the electric flame, turned night TO day.
A Crn:ns in creation in its atliuent wealth,
Tho, changed the olden order ofall slower things;
And lust six hours made day oil worF'
And ladies shopping went till midnight chimed
yyi,hout an eseort-sad change for some, but
true.
And here and there were streams OF joyou
youth,
Their faces radiant with the glow of truth
And strength that general education brings;
For well the City Fathers, good and WISE
Had planned to make the school-house rise
A fitting monument to their great worth,
The praised abroad, thrice blessed at the hearth
change came Ter the spirit of my dream
The town had grown to vast proportions now;
And here and there, as if resolved to f'ss
The Blue Beyond, tall blocks from east to wes''
From north to south arose. And then the air
VS. black while the great sun was almost ma
BY curling smoke from blazing fires sent
From factories that wove the goodly cloth,
Or moulded iron "pigs" to iron horses,
by swift conversion Of the dirty ore
To en- zines beautiful and bright and strong
Here. too, the peach and pear and every fruit
Was canned for prudent housewives winter use.
And here the grain that men call wheat
Was ground to powder flour fine, for bread.
And all this enterprise and wealth and fame
That made this Dallas Land Of Promise fair,
nd brought to all at last sweet truce OF Care
Was this-that she had come to be attired,
In decent garb, received and was admired.
Nor far into the suburbs of this thriving place
We're parks. made grandly glorious all the year
BY flowers and by shrubs ofevcry hue
Appropriate TO the season. And all through
# az grounds ran streams of good old adams
! Ale'
while birds made musical the trees that bowed
Their honoring branches to those songs OF
praise
To Mayor and Councilmen for all the good
And greatness of this present paradise.
AMI ever and anon forth from a shady grove,
Upon a platform of public Improvements, came
s xeet notes of eulogy ard loud hosannahs,
From mirth- breaihing bands. Behold our
second Eden!
A change came DER the spirit of my dream
The edlct of another God did seem
To bring reversal OF this golden glow,
Ana Quick transferrenee 70 the realm OF woe,
Which from my brow distilled wrathful dew.
A night Mayor, VOL that curtained all mat
view,
And turned despair to melancholy range:
"Annus mirabilisl" Oh, what change!
VIII ere once city in its pride saw.
In noted health and wealth and wel-kept law
Was now waste, wilderness, home
Where timid birds and beasts did freely roam
Where 'panthers' prowled, and fearless did
lie down
A ruined. burnt up, dried up, luckless town.
Malaria came, and Yellow Jack, queer disease
Twin daughters Of cold nights and summer
breeze.
That battle science but bring healthy fees,
That flnd lurking home whereer they meet
pecaying payements with the foul-aired street
And 40 In few short months there rose instead
Another city, the White house City of the Dead.
Thea aeas l4e spared from out the stricken
place.
To tell 10 all the world the dire disgrace.
And as disasters go in pairs, they say,
one windy night the Fire Fiend At play
Broke quickly loose and bad II AL his way
HIS Zoe at Drowder springs had gone to sleep
So here and there his forked tongue did sweep
The town from LEFT to right from right TO left
And laughed at engines Of their aid bcreii'
mass OF ruins from plague and fire now
The ashes Of her life were on her brow.
I writhed in agony, by flame and smoke
suHascd. I seemed 1screamed, aud thus awoko-
To find this all dream. some Films joke;
Bu, yet the semblance Of IN soon May Be,
Unless change Of rule we quickly see.
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