Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-01
THE GOLDEN AGE.

There was time, though far removed from ours
But this as truth all histories declare
When infants decked the lions name with flow
i And peace and love were regnant everywhere
Beauty no bought or borrowed charms did wear
But hardly her rounding form displayed,
While the rfch glowing cheek and Ripping hair
No more might crave of artificial aid
Than does the wildwood rose, or ferns In fores
glade.
strength gigantic nerved tie limbs Of mon,
labor was pastime, hardshfps moved q smile,
No hollow eougs hdisturbed nights stiffness then.
No thoughts of gloom were bred by morbid bile.
And nd life was heightened out wondrous while;
The strong man stood for centuries in his pride,
Rugged es is the peaked Egyptian pile
TIL by descendants girt on every side,
dls blessings calm he gave, ere painlessly he died.
| This was the Age of Gold ;--but how its end
tale: - -r-s-7'lls
youth, resigned a lonely life to spend,
saw to his door wing footed Mercury SAL,
Leading girl whom lilies OF the vale
Could not In fresh bloom beauty emulate;
NOT did the fair Pandora feign to quail
When Mercury told the rnptured youth that fate
To him this charmer gave, TO be his welded mate.
"A bridal present in her hands she bore
A box, of quaint and exquisite design,
Which when her husband oped-Oh, what q
store
For from II forth flew each disease malien
That ever since on human frames has proved
And, spreading DER the earth. did Man consign
Each vital source, till ali his stalwa.t strength
decayedl
rase llfs, Rs't the weakened frame and shortened
Sad ,legncies-to all his after race descend
Til new existence is but constant strife :,
Against host of ailments without end,
As still each shattered bark we strive to mend
The Iron Age, that with Pandora came
Does yet DER earih its grinding rule extend,
And sickness joins with poverty to tame
Souls that might else place of pride and honor
But when had flown forth all the killing woes
That in Pandora's fatal casket lay,
Lo!-from its depths released, sweep Hope arose,
As breaks through sable clouds a sun.lit ray,
Some balm shall yet for ell these pangs be
found.
Not with vain show do Natures stores ore .f display
Since in them turks the charms 10 make ycur
sick ones sound!'
To find the balm pledged in this promise dear,
Were many hearts through many ages fired,
Until, to search our country's forests here
Young physician came, with soul inspired,
And found at last, midst secret shades retired,
The herbs and roots that had neglected grown,
And nurtured in their veins the boon desired,
While DER them many summers moon had
And many wintry snow those treasures had be.
strown.
Long used to ponder DER the ills of Man,
What rapture now in Pierce's bosom rose!
For he had marked the source from whence be-
gan
The worst and deadliest of our bodys woes.
Anatomy's keen knife did well disclose
What organ, from its duty warped away,
Becomes the spring from which envenomed flows
The principle OF sickness and decay,
Though by a. thousands names its work we may
portray!
The Liver. formed to keep I.ifes ruby tide,
Cleansed of each taint and play guardians
part
BY drawing each corrupting germ aside,-
Was now compelled, by fell Diseases art,
To prove traitor, and upon the heart
And painting lungs, q poisoned stream to pour,
Oping the way for dread Consumption's dart,
And fatal stings of many an ailment more,
Thus bidding countless homes their slaughtered
H. hopes deplore!
Thence comes the wasted form, the sallow cheek
The embittered tongue, and often-aching head
| And hence the liyid face, with hectic streak
Displayed as Natures danger-signal red.
| Hence, over many an else fair visage spread
Unsightly blotches and eruptions vile
| Or hideous Scrofula does horror shed,
| Killing Loves glow, and freezing Friendships
4 smile,
Or the scorched heart consumes with black and
l burning bile!
i At once Pierce in his blest Discovery saw
Il That which the very root of all should fndi
II And, by the workings of unerring law,
Il Drive out the foe that thus life undermined
I And with benignant force, and wisdom kind,