Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-13

"A passionate ardOr what low Thought would
tameE)
But MOST from this fair CHg. achere apars
Beat the frst Hfe-p pulse OF orr GeOrgia's hedrt:-
But most from this fair City, Tapped in shades
OF leaf-embOwering, mild. Arcadan gloom
Beneath whose centuried -oak-tree's youthfW
bloom,
Perchance our CAiettan mid the murmurng
glades,
Most from this scene of beauty-this wide
range
OF pickering umbrage. and half-Tropic lights
Loned by the moss grown woodlands gray ar
cades,
Soft as the glamour of Arabian nights.
City ofpopulous square and tranquil ''clOse"-
OF vivid action. and supreme repOse;
City OF soft refinement, and all ties
OF winning and ennOblng cOurtesies:-
City of jOcund Children in gay bands
10 fadeless coverts, and green hooks enticed,
Fitting beneath the giant Tree and Vine,
Ger whom the sun-kissed Shadows wave and
pass.
While delicate feet DER trip the morning
grass
And dewy branches like benignant hands
Seem stretched, as once, the gracious hands
of CHRIST.
Above those fair young heads in PALESTINE
City of gallant men, and maids rare,
That like those matchless daughters of Ro-
Who dwelf beside the weird Thessalian
stream
Maidens of trance, and daughters of a Dream
They have stolen sun shaft for each radiant
And woven the star-shine in their midnight
hair!
Oh. Master!-( StiH thine Image seems to be
A clear life breathing Actuality!)-
oh, Master! see,
What strength, what grandeur, what pros
Have blessed thy foster Child. the lonely
STATE,
Once in her clouded morn,
SO suffering, frail, forlorn,
But HOIC, an Empress bOuntiful and great,
Whose mission fOreOrdained, all spites of Hate,
But brightly mellowed, while they strOve to
mar
Guarded by loyal millions, and adored,-
Whether the LILY deck her front serene,
In hours of quiet and deep hearted bliss
Or SHE, 4 WarriOr-Queen,
4 new ZenObia. or Semiramis.-
Outflash thrO' clouds of wrath,
On foes that bar her path,
The deadly lightnings of her trenchant sword!
OF Amazonian proves, yet so sweet
In gentler moods of native tenderness,
All household Graces smile around her feet,
All Hopes that tighten, and all joys that bless
The happy hearthstOne, and the sacred Lar!
Oh! Master see,
No bUshful Maid, in her soft shrinking teens,
On lowlier knee than Hers lour cherished
Could bend to thine imperial Majesty
! Her face unveiled, her fair palms clasped in
As if SHE mutely plead,
'Oh Father! place thy hand upon my head.
And bless thy child the Daughter of thy
THY watchful love, thy selhess, sleepless
= cannot glance about me, nor above,
But all things nursed of Earth, and nursed
of Air,
''Seem instinct with Thy fatherhood of Peace!'
Her words thro' lingering cadences decease =
Then silence falls, and awe; but born of these,
THE mystic awe, the stiffness deathly-
dumb
Yea! born of both, solemn, unearthly come
Voices as 'twere. of thunder blent with fire.
And the long roll of deep memorial seas;
Voices Of History, down Times hOary slope
Pealed from the distant and mysterious choir
OF fast-departing Ages! bark they
/ Stern truths of mounful warning in fare
WE'LL
/ Yet not unsweetened by lark-like HOPE
That trills beyond the bOdeful thunder-swell!-
Voices Of wide. unquelled, majestic scope,
Which say-Gf these dull ears mistake them
But one eternal, and infallible PIaa
Built on tie rock Foundations Of all Riqht,
Should rule the haughtest Nations life and
I No less than that which unperturbed sways.
Perhaps thro' watches Of the sorrowful night,
And weary struggles of tempestuOus days,
The GOd-adoring, indicidndL man.
/ still let your strong foundations linking Right
With granite breadths of Might,
/ Yield but so far, that Mercy magic wand
/ Cleayng its outward sternness, there hath left
{ The unsealed lips of a w-whispering cleft,
/ Whereby, when high the noon. and hot the
sand.
/ The thirsty wanderer, of all strength bereft,-
/ Stops. while the Silyery waves OF pity rlll,
And feels the gush of ripping sweetness fill
/ The Outstretched hollow of his tremulous hand
I,
/ Through steps Of indebted progression, climb
/ Toward those SUBMITS of the pure sublime,
From which the l0athsome, and death-f raught
/ domain
OF Historys common plain
! Seems but foul ACELDAMA of crime
I Thus only States can force truce on Time
/ And if OBLIVION owns no mortal lures
/ And DER the loftiest monumental urn
That e'er her cold malignity would spurn.
/ Strews her dark peoples stepped IN deWs OIL
If-CMan or Nation). nought on earth endures
The faintest out watt of the Eternal Breath;-
Dream not that VIRTUES light can wane, OF
die!-
Her transient frai, flesh wrought environ
Whether It's dropped from Man, who stands
alone,
Or, congregated Nations--when outstrown,
/ The garb is tattered, and the life-oil SPENT
/ Still, leaves HER regnant radiance undIs-
mayed!
Even as the soul of some clear Star in heaven
Z W NOSE SndlltItQ lluulCs sun III Ne'0'NN 49,
Melted mfiieniums since thro' depths I'M
stin.NIfor It's luminous Mission famed 50
high),-
Breathes round us here its strange, celestial
shine,
Age after age, untainted and unriven,-
An influence spotless, glorious and divne!-
The vision passes the GREAT SHADE
has fiOwn!-
But /. your Poet, fain would linger yet,
To touch ONE final chord whose strands have
grown
( Amid the harp strings have swept so long,
Fraught with yearning tenderness OF song
( GEORGIA!AIY SECOND MOTHER! vast
the debt
0f deem unsullied reverence that is thine;-
Hast thou not given me bread and balm and
The bread and balm of Comfort, and that wine
Strong wine from mellOwed grapes of ESeho
Grown on the sunniest hillside slopes o.
THOUGHT?
When my own Mother Land, frst, last 6etoCed
Writing in shame and helpless anguish lay
Burdened by Hate, and CHASTITY with dismay,-
/ struck down by hands of aliens, iron gi0Yed,-
And arm0red in the brazen mail of GREED
Robbed by the hireling Hound, and Traitor
knave,
scourged by the Boor and throttled by the
SlaYe;-
hers of "TRe Edinburgh ReDiet0" upon the
y;r,aous contemporaries Of DR.. Sampek johnson
/ States that OgIeth0Fps visited personally th'
scenes of Leopold, of Austria's persecution
The Iutherans. and even once penetrated to ;
fastuess Of the Rhctian Alps. where a SINAI
..rs ~. sl,s4asrigprsS had taken refuge.