Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-06-02
THE pIrCH ON THE HETGHTs.
Read a, Arlington, NAV 10. ,s,o.I

Read at Arlington, May %, rs79l
Now prudish May, flushed with the kiss Of spring
And warm embraces Of the ardent winds,
Has draped with robes Of flowers her shrinking form
Rudely disman,led with unchaste hand
or churlish winter, and her crimsoned face
Is hiding on the leafy breast Of June
Again with measured step to martial strain,
To which the loyal heart keeps noiseless time
We come to lay on vaors dreamless urn
The sweets Of spring and garlands Of our love.
As in the dawn when banished chaos fed,
The plastic earth. by fiery tempest torn,
Rose into hills and Fashioned mountain peaks,
Which, nov as everlasting monuments.
~ fury vitnfed and induraie,
Around Us marked creations dreadful throes,
50 DER the homes where peace and blessing slept
The tempest Of rebellion and the flood
OF red eyed carnage rolled from sea TO sea;
As by the calm that fell on Galiee,
The crimson crested waves, transhxed and mute,
Beloved a war.rent continent with graves
The pulse Of time throbs with the centuries,
And erclins worlds in awful majesty
Sweep round and lace with ligh, the Of space
To theses Of the ages. SO events
or peaceful triumph or Of martial note,
Which mark the ways Of empire and the years.
In purpose kindred and renewed in act,
Like beacons light the crumbng monuments
OF nations. Now from out the misty past,
In tones voiceless as the steps Of thought,
Which thunder through the chambers Of the soul
And die in silence on the listening ear,
Come words Of warning from the tombs Of states
In arms ou,numbered or by treason wrecked;
And scatter DER this sacred dust
| The blooms Of spring and incense of our hearts,
| 'rwere well to read an olden epitaph,
| Half hidden meath the tangled growths Of years,
And heed the moral Of the tale Il tells.
Before the far-haired Harald, great in arms,
Won beautys smile and Norway with his sword;
| Before brave Rurik bore his standards East
| And gave the rugged Russ line OF kings;
| Before the sails Of dauntless Vladimir,
Swung from the masts Of sturdy northern pines
| OF calm Propontis caught the balmy breeze,
Across the Skagcr Rack the Abrams came
To Jutland, where they reared their humble homes
And builded temples to their fathers gods.
Their chief was Iskra, bold and strong of limb,
With strain from odn through the lons Of kings
| Around the inlets of the Cattegat
And up the Gudens broad and fertile wales
They lived until their scanty hundreds grew
| To thousands. Fearful of no hostile hand,
They reaped their corn and spread their nets in
Down with the sceptre Of the Azran kings
| Had come sacred banner, gift Of Tyr.
Which in the battles front, all unconsumed
Ba,ed forth an angry sheet of living fire.
The pathway lighting to victory.
| But in the hands of Azras valiant kings
| Alone it lit the stormy battle verge
| And only then to turn invasion back,
| And not for conquest or for FOREIGN snoiI
| And so the IsLran line from son to son.
| The hammer guarding rs A pr;eeless trust
| Came in succession down the centuries
| Until stout Jmr;k lived and DIVING. I-6
| In riphtful heritage the A,ran crow,
| To Herman with IN. crafty IlIyu;r
| Tn. next in lin. os friend and couns.,or
| Soon dseord cam. and u,,rman.s pr,,d.,, yo;c.
No longer ruled among the restless ;,rs
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Thus runs the tale. What lessons does il teach
The heart once fai,hless NAV be,ray again
Innoble wrong. and we condemn the right.
The disenycnomed serpent can but wound,
| We, time mag min, anew ,s fanys with death