The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-12
THE PRESS.

In mythic hIstory's annals Old,
A tabled story we are told
An argonautic ship set sail,
Mid biiloWy sea and canning gale.
From ne iair shores Of classic Greece.
To md The tabled "Golden Fleece"
The smoking Ullars on the Share,
Gave incense 10 the hollow roar,
or painting Neptune, foaming white
Mlthrage, that nrgosies 50 bright
should proudly Haunt their swelling sails,
Defiant of his storms and gales.
The anricnts watched along the shore,
m ripe red moons TO waning wore,
And twiuRling MS Il sail-wluged- STAR,
Theargonaut was seen afar!
sal's iu'i of the favoring breeze,
IL lightly cut the fubled seas.
And To the shores of elias he Greece
In triumph brought the Golden Fleece"
Our mythlc history's annals tell,
Ihal Greece her treasure guarded we'll,
tor would her might unf power decrease.
If Ger was los;-hor Golden Fleece.
In modern times, bright argosies
Set sail upon Inventions seas,
Ambitious JasOus sailed and tossed
ON roughened waves their ships were
But nearby hundred years ago,
Ont rom the shores of Mentz, we know,
Another argunautic ship
Set sail upon its hopeful trim.
RUS expedition met success,
me Golden Fltecc-tho Printing Press!
Mas brought aboard the Argonaut.
Inc patient ship of work aud thought.
The world was moving slowly ON.
The splrit of advancement gone,
Ana plunged IN medieval gloom,
Religion WCpl beside the tomb
On conscience aud brave Progress
chained
Az learning, art and science wanod;
Black Ignorance with deSpDt rule,
Condemned each sage molly fool.
Grim war upheld a sceptrC red,
And millions at his orgies bled.
But with the advent of the press,
Strong de'pot rule grew less and less;
W hen naughty monHrchS learned torend.
Their, vossaed thoughts were speedy
freed. ''
The Il me of science kindled bright,
And art attained noble height;
sweet Peace rose up To bravcly bar
Inc march OF uNdra-headed war;
Diplomacy good lessons taught,
And kings In words their battles'ought,
Y we contrast our present light,
Win the grandeSt of craS bright,
In ancient times where empires great,
Arose IN grandeur, and In state,
In brilliant pOmp, and splendor rare,
spread ruin and conquest everywhere,
Aud then like tabled dreams of light,
Fell crumbing in u single night
II we contrast, we soon viii tiud
What giant strides the human mind,
Has made from medieval night,
To learning and to progress bright,
Great Caesar In his conquerors tent,
Where iOamng COurlerS came and went
Impatient waited for the news,
Of battles that his troops might lose,
No pNper with dispatches late,
brought the account of victol les great,
Won by The Roman leglons brave,
On battle field or surfy wave
The 0ncicnls with their boosted might,
With all their learning and their light,
With all their power and grandeur blest,
Had not the glorious printing pressl
The learned men in Greece of old
Phi osonhcrs whose words were gold,
Had only Sty lographs TO WRITE
ON waXen tablets cold and white.
When PlatO's genius grand, sublime,
Made Grecian hearts 10 beat I'm rhyme;
When all n multitude vast, hung
Upon his wOr ;, as bees upon
The erin sou roses, swooning red
With nectar, that their hearts have hled-
No stenogrnph reporter there,
To take his egtures down with care,
No morning dolly paper bright,
To give his brilliant thesis light,
In our own country, well we know,
Two hundred years or SO ago
When news was scarce aud papers few,
How little our ancestors knew.
How preludlces old and strong,
Maintained tn ir casi-irOn sway so long
And very loath were they to lose
Their narrow minded, biased views.
In ourown state, the press and thought,
a mighty power of good has wrought.
The press has turned the surglng tide
uf emigration TO TIE wide
Uncultured tracts OF fertile land
Spreld DER the state In areas grand,
lnstead of Texan prairles Wide,
There're thriving Towns on every side
And thro' the forests, flying sparks
From whirling locomotives marks,