The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23

conqueror has become dim, and the laufe
wreath withered on the brow of the poet and
statesman; the warriors arm lies poWerless II
the tomb; yesterday his name was mighty on The
earth, he shook the world with the thunder OF
his footsteps; to day it's what? The meteor OF
the night of distant years. whilst oblivion
laughs and says, The prey is mine." Yes, be-
hold all that remains tons of their august birth
of their grandeur and glory, all that the world
can give to honor its yotarIes: titles, lnscr1p.
tions, frail images which Time carries away
with the rest.
Passing from the record of individuals to that
and stnpendons Qualifications, we are inclined
to believe that they at least would prove lmmor-
tai; turn the pages of history and look where
are those cities now, We're they invincible to
thought so once. and yet the naughty mistress
of nations lives but in ruins; she resembles now
an eagle stripped OF it's plumage; the spider
4 his watch song in her towers, the hind plods
his unconscious way among the halls and corrl-
doris; whilst the laurel the ivy and the lex
| grow amid the deserted c0yerts and shattered
l portlcOes of Ilberius and Caligula.
Hasten thy footsteps, oh Time! Let the splen-
dorsof purer era appear that we may admire
the wisdom and goodness OF God, signalized IN
the tyrant, who first lighted their green vistas
| with human bonfires, now become the rem
devious of the good and holy; the sarcophagus of
| flaming sword of St. Michael: the statue of
Trojan displaced by that of Peter, Prince Of the
| Apostles; the Coliseum SO often vocal with the
brutal Cry, Christiuali ad IeOnes, now echo the
Christians hymn Of prayer and praise; whilst
the throne of the Caesars is occupied by the
successors of the fisherman, to whom Christ
| said, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will
| build my church"
But lot us wing our flight to other Chimes
Troy once thought herself imperishable, yet the
hand Of Priasn lives but in song, Thebes re-
yelled In this idea, yet her hundred gates have
crumbled, nay, even her very tombs are as the
! dust they were vainly intended to COM
memorate.
| So thought the countries of Leondias and De-
mosthenes; yet Sparta, nurse of arms, is tram
| pied by the timld slave; whilst Athens, land of
scholars, is the abode of the ignorant and SER
vile Ottoman.
| So thought Egypt, fair country of the Nile,
with It's temples, its towers, its pyramids and
obellsks; so long renowned as the seat of learn
| ing; Babylon, mistress of the plains, and Jeru.
SALEM Queen OF the East; where are they! List!
they have passed away, and naught now remains
but ruins to guide the faltering steps of the
historian through the indistinct paths of an
tiquity. Time scornfully laughed in derision at
in his hurried march he but looked at their
fancled Immortality. and all their yanities,
from the palace to the tomb, have with their
ruins erased the very impression OF his foot
steps; he cast not one glance backward, for
Dark, stern all pitiless, he pauses not
Amidst the mighty wrecks that strew his path;
To sit and muse like other conquerors
Upon the fearful ruins he hath wrought;
H oA S'AAA oA'j Az "a SSose oa ioiSNSi.
Slowly our thoughts, as though drawn by
some strong, invisible hand, stray from noting
the footprints left by Time in his passage to
dwell on the future of our own glorious repub-
nc, -Four hundred years ago, America was
unknoWn-was sleeping IN obscurity and bar
barlsm; where its great cities now rise, rival
Ing IN splendor those of the Old World, were
the limiting grounds of the red man; its broad
and mighty streams now the pathways Of COM
merce. were then traversed by the rude canoe of
the Indian. The savage alone reigned lord of
the broad continent; but where is he now! van
we too pass away? Will our cities lie in ruins,
our name appear the pages of history as q
nation that has risen, fourished and disap-
peared? All! this is q secret known to God
alone.
The fat of nature is inexorable; there is no
appeal for relief from the great law which
dooms US to dust. We flourish and fade as the
W1ther IN a day have no Trailer hold upon life
than the mightlest monarch that ever shook the
world with his powerful tread. Generations of
men 5. Shall appear and disappear as the grass,
ana the multitude that throng the world to-day,
Will vanish as the footprints on the sands of the
wild sea beach. Nay. cen our childhood is but
a fieeting dream, and this realize to-day, for
the bright harp of my youth, strung with child
hoods golden chords. lies broken and silent;
lightly indeed has the foot of Time fallen upon
the hoWery path Of school life, but now his
swiftly hasten the moments when hand clasp,
heart throb, a low, faint adieu, will sever aye,
forever, the sweet bond of love that binds us so
closely to st. Vincent's.
We feel to-day. as Caesar felt, when he paused
beside the Rublcon-uuablet to retrace our steps,
yet fearful to go forward-for in the unknown
future there may be glory, or there may be
shame; happiness or misery; rich reward or an
1gnobie failure.
But list! Angel voices whispering adown tho
DUN and silent vistas of the past, through the
nay la5fyrlnths OF the coming years, echo and
Teecho the low, plalntive note which will soon
burst from our unwilling lips. Yet, cherished
classmates, though we are destined to part, our
hearts Will as captlves remain bound by the
strong, sweet cham of friendship; whilst the
scenes OF this, our last day together. will be i'm
pressed on our memory enwreathed with loves
snowy blossoms. Ills true It's
Only a day, but yet never
Its moments forgotten shall be,
Till bubbles of Times stream forever
Are whemed in eternitys sea.
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