Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-10
SUNRISE.
Blackwood's Magazine.

Blackwood's Magazine.
Sunrise Sunrise See.
Into the field of dawn,
Where the mountains clear sharp line is drawn,
The light mounts steadily
While below IN many a chasm deep,
The mi7ts of night still lingering creep,
And the lower slopes are half asleep
And dimly dreaming
And at last, look look how startingly
Into the world of the open sky,
Where the light before was SO pale and tender
And the earth and air were still and aware
With silent expectation,
sails the sudden Sun
With its banners of clouds above it streaming,
Golden and purple and rose and gray and dun
Flooding the world with its splendor,
And gladdening all creation,
And Day-Day-Day, has begun.
There's rustic through leagues offorest-the ocean
Quivering with joy and light
The last star!swoons and dies-only the frs,
And the sombre cedars, and cypress tall,
Solemn, dark, and funereal,
Remember the vanished night.
Day and life returns-and the earth rejoices
The air is alive with murmur of busy voices;
There's the low of Il myriad herds,
Feeding on endless meadows
There S the joy myriad birds,
Darting through leafy shadows
There S the culver of endless leaves,
That gleam at the days returning
And the breath of a world of flowers goes up
Like incense unto the morning,
As spreading their petals, they shake from
The dews that its light imprison
And the life of n myriad insect wings
In the wet grass buzz and dizzen.
The spider from twig to twig has swung
His glimmering wheel of silken thread
And the gossamer over the grasses hung
His awning diamonded
The wild geese drop from the thin clear height,
Where all night long they have held their flight,
And settle on lake and mere;
Up springs the lark, and lost in the light,
Carols his rapture-out of sight
Thrilling the atmosphere.
A thousand sails on the heavlng sea,
BY sudden hue of rose are struck
IN thousand cities shafts and spire,
Are quivering pointed with golden fire
From thousand homes into the sky,
The thin gray column of rising smoke,
Is stealing silently.
The jar of the world of men begins
The reaper and sower atield are going,
The busy factory clackS and dlns,
The mill-wheel over its sluices whrls,
Shattered in spray of diamond and pearls,
The torrents overfiowing.
There's a ring of wagons on valley and hill
From thousand farms with clarion shrill,
The strutting cock is growing
There's neghing and barking, bleating and lowing,
Chirp and chatter, and stir and clatter.
And an infinite hummng and whirring-
For the throbbing world Is alive again,
And its pulse is beating i'll every vein
With the strength of a mighty stirring;
Night with its shadows of death is done.
The great new wondrous day has begun,
And mountains and valleys and seas and strands,
Forests and rivers and torrents free,
Startled, arouse and clap their hands,
The glad new miracle to see,
And shout The sun! The Sum-"
All the world is alive and waking
70 hail the great new day that is breaking,
Sharp through the Western forest s tangled covers
The hunters rifle cracks,
Where the black bear prowls, and the posing eagle
And the beaver his mud dam packs.
There rings the pioneer axe, and the forest giant
That has caught the day first flash
On the topmost crest for full long century, qulv-
Shudders-and falls with crash.
Far in the South, through thick Brazilian tangles
The painted parrot screams,
And the boa cooled Oh its branches droops and
bangles,
Andthe Paradise bird like living fash of splendor
Through the burning summer streams
Over the Western prairies herds the buffaloes
Crowded and laundering rush.
The lion and tiger OH sandy African deserts
That all nigh long have ranged for their prey,
Satiate now at the coming OF day,
Are stealing to cave and bush
The ostrich is whirring, half running, half hylng
On sultry Australian plains
The hppopotomus lumbers along to the river
Crashing among the canes
The soft eyed spotted giraffe his tall neck stretches
The low wet branches to browse
The ponderous elephants lit their trunks and
trumpet
And shake the earth as they rouse.
From seething Sumatra and tropic Madagascar,
From Bomeos groves OF spice,
10 the glacial fields where the Whlte pear pasXs
And bunders along the ice
From the sultry Indian Sea to the colo Atlahtlc,
As on thy glory comes
From the Orient chambers of thy early rising,
Ger Europes plains and homes
From the Himalayas on to the Alps-and onward
To the Rocky Mountains that rise
Der the fair Pacific, peak to peak out-calEng'
Flushed as the glad news flies, ,
Hail thee O glorious sun all the earth halls thee,
And the stir and the strife and the strain
OF living begins-and the world that was sleeping
and dreaming
Rouses and quivers again.
Let trumpet and pipe and voice and song,
Echo unto the skies!
Let chorus and hymn thy praise prolong,
OglOrious Sun. that comest again
With thy eYer-new surprise.
splender of earth and life that give
JOY and beauty to all that live
And daily the world renews-
Oiountain of light and color that nings
Ger the darkest and dullest of earthly things
Thy glad transfgurng hues,-
q glory of earth and sea and sky,
Life of myriad worlds on high,
Soul Of the universe, light of its eye
Who shall his voice refuse
To swell the chorus that evermore
Is shouted from flashing peaks that dare
10 cold thin depths of the breathlesS air
- Thy earliest glance to see :.
10 the crawling foam that frnges the shore
Murmuring impatiently? -
From the tremulous forest that uplifts
Its listening tops, while the morning oreeze
With its news from afar with a whisper Sits
And thy glorious coming promises,
10 the humbest of weeds and grasses low,
Where the clear cool stream with q murmurous
flow,
Is talking and running to catch sight
OF thy first sweet geam of morning hghl,
10 tell unto all below.
AL all are Joining with one glad tone
AL all are chanting their song as one,
From the bass of the thundering a'aahe
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