Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-05-27

upturned all the stars applauding,
and said, snake him like me-"
But God said, "NO." Now fair
| Selene, the gentle moon, queen of
| the night, her robe of hoary light
frfnged with aureate and trailing in
the oceans brine, escorted by the
consultations and coming in royal
professions along the sky, turned
her cold, chaste face, radient with
beauty, and l0oked with her fine
eyes of conscious purity and un-
feigned reverence at God her maker,
and said, snake him like me-"
But God blessed her and then said,
mo"
Next Eos, the Latin-named Au-
rora, the superb goddess of dawn,
rObed in saffron attire, embroidered
with crimson opened the gates of
the Orient with her rosy fingers,
and mounted her chariot, which
came rolling along the amber paved
highway of the Levant, her beauti-
full veil floating in the breath Of
Eurus, and pinned upon her brow
with the star of the. morning, and
pearly dew trickling down her
cheeks, and sitting through the air
upon pastures floral green, and
said, "Make him like me-" But
again God said, "No." Next golden
slfppered Iris, the charming daugh-
ter of Thasmus and Electra
Wonder and Notwithstanding
upon the arch of the rainbow, fling
ing kisses at the rumbling thunder,
and penciling bushes upon the ug-
ly face of the tempest, the pattering
rain dancing 10 the music of her
laugh, said, "Make him like me-"
But again God said, mo"
Next, Helos, the grand God of
the sun, and king of the firmament,
the material type of the immateriai
God, arrayed in his imperial robes
woven with polychromatic WoOf,
into a warp of splendid fire, whose
sceptre was solid carbunkle, tip
ped with flame, and whose imperial
crown threatened to kindle the
universe into one wide inextin-
guishable confiagration, mounted
upon his burning chariot-throne
rolling upon wheels of torrid amber
and drawn by steeds shod with
lightning, whose quivering names
dropped golden frost, and whose
lustrous trappings were ablaze with
Jewels and gold, and magnificently
attended, ascended the east. AT his
coming the evening star turned pale
with reverence, lifted her diadem,
and retired to her boudOir; fair Sc
lene, abashed, retired to her palace;
Aurora fed west Wardly; and Iris
stood away on distant cloud-in
aftertimes the sailors warning as
we'll as the seal Of the Noachain's
promise-respectfully keeping her
proper distance; while all the stars,
affrIghted, ran out OF his path and
hid themselves. But this monarch
of the planets, unconscious of the
reverence paid him and ambitious
of greater honor, with steady rein
drove along the ecliptic, and hal
tering upon the summit of its tow
ering arch. whose keystone is now
worn smooth by the feet of decend-
ing and ascending angels resting
midway between earth and heaven,
turned his dazzling face and fiery
cry to God in council, and said with
confidence, snake him like me-"
Though splendid he was, yet he
met not Gods ideal of a man and
God said, "No."
Next an archangel shining with
the pure ethereal light of the spirit
ual and heavenly, unfolded It's
broad wings of dazzling splend0r,
and faster than ever comet flashed
through the consolidated field of inn
measurable space, shaving by turns
in its rapid flight heavens horizon
tai floors and ornamental domes,
flew to Deity and pausing let down
his wings and stood sublime in
beauty and effulgent with glory,
and said, "Make him like me-"
But still Heavens ideal of man
was unrealized, and again God said
"No." The Trinity in council re-
solved to make man, but they had I
a higher archetype than all these
"Let us make man." How?
Hear it, ye swimming tribes,
which sport i'm scaiy silver and
gold in pelucid floods;
hear it, We winged denizens of the
air, which soar in polished quills
and glittering plumage; hear it, ye
tenants of the forest,
whose naughty tramp crushes your
sod and whose lOrdly roar
ing shakes the hill; hear it, ye dash
ing comets, in whose ethereal track
your outWent glories trail, and
gIimmer and scintillate and die;
hear it, We stars which shine away
upon your lofty towers of azure
beauty; hear it, We effulgent suns
which fling your spintered pencils
Of resplendent light throughout uni
versaI nature; hear it, ye angels OF
God, who vie in glory around
Heavens high throne; hear all OF
you in what will constitute mans
real worth and truest grandeur, and
which will make him fit diadem
20 crown nature with: "Let Us
make man''-HotC?-''IN OUR M
AGE AFTER OUR Likeness" AND
God took man, His own image, His
own likeness. man the microthe-
)sm, man the little God, and placed
him at the head of creation.