The Opelousas courier., 1883-03-10
Ear. Bryant's last Poem


Mr.. Bryant's literary life extended
aver n period ofH years. 10 1908. at
the age of ten, he printed his first poem
in d Massachusetts country paper and
IN February ed, 1889, he wrote his
last poem as a contribution To the
W~ashington's Birthday number Of the
Sunday School Times Of Philadelphia.
The memory of Washington has never
received 30 worthy o tribute from an
American poet as the six noble staDEas
given below
THE TWENTY SECOND or FEBRUARY.
PALS 10 the February sky,
And brief tho midday's sunny hours
The w~ind.swept forest seems to sigh
For the sweet time of leaves and flowers.
Yet has no month b prouder day,
Net even when the Summer broods
Oar meadows In their fresh array,
Or Autum tints the glowing woods
For this chill season now again
Brings, In ito annual round, the morn
When, greatest of the sons Of men.
Oar glorious WASHINGTON was born.
10, where, bsneah an icy shield,
Calmly the mighty Hudson flows
ny snow clad fell and frozen field
Broadening the lordiy river goes.
The widest atorna that sweeps through space,
And rends the oak with sudden force,
Tan raiss no ripple on bis face,
Or alacheu his msjestic course
Thus mid the wreck OF thrones shall live
unuafred, u%ndimuiec, cur hero's fame.
ApI years succeeding years shall give
Inerease af hoposs to his name.
William H. Vanderbilt's wealth,
measured in solid gold, would, it is
said, weigh ninety three tons. His
income, according To the same estimate,
is i've dollars d second, OF @s0,40O per
dag. Jay Gould's wealth must be quite
as much. aud there afe, perhaps, fifty
persons 10 the country whose posses
sions would amount t O $780, 00, 900.
In France there is a great deal of wealth,
but It ID better distributed than 10 the
United States, far outside of the Roths-
child family, there are no such fortunes
ID France rs there arc iii this country
Our furefathers thought they had pro-
vided against large Accommodations vixen
they decl4ed Tint landed property
should Ie divided equally between the
children Of Che aliginnl % nets but the
vast increase Of personal property
threugh the operations of modern eom
sasfce has concentrated capital IN very
few hands. This will be 4 cause Of
trouble some time. as alr population
grove lasgef md Jealousy ii created on
account ~ THE dispropartion between
The possfts Of thr many and Tie vast
fortaiss 81 the AN, Tile onls way To-
pIss4nf i collision il fuf ihs rich 10 REG
ihs iact that titrs must make 4
ssssa fSs III th.ir we.sitll, regarding 1T
II \ altttt iot NIB t~Iritetii III ttss4ir fellow
al.as.
tssta aa tar convicted i'll he
l5ls ssipii hstta 1T e~tnesi,
af asl \ ltas ff,rkrtf i sta4 ago
sf MS Y ysAi .ipe and the
sisa Imposed may fsaeis iir erueIo
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sssFs sass; natlss iaii. i dp toi catch up
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'sssas n sas ls9aisl Nliu NC 81 void ofi
mercy tsNAsa tsle lais,riDg brute aa !
sassas's Npstad be. md tLes should be
sat''s't ~ according ID law for the bar
e s'a''s asssasnaentt hey iafict upon stock
Jadgs Brigham make i severe Is.
aasl'1H sf tele ealprit convicted Wsdnes.
MD 4 may hare b restraining IN
lla,ases apon other hsartless arivsrs.-
shousa Clarion.