Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-06-12

lier life work stereotyped, and sat her
down
To muse. Her task was done and fur
ther change
Was not no retrogression. no advance,
But all one crastless round of absolute,
tnyielding. semprr idem tiXity.
MIND.
Behold
The end Of Gods great programme, no W.
Alert,
And cognizant of some approaching fete,
Some grand finale of creative might,
Expectant Eden hasteth TO complete
Her toilet new, and put in order all
Her house. Clean swept the hearth and
garnished are
The walls; the guest rooms, deity
planned, look forth
Upon the East whence glows the grea
red orb
OF day. Some angel yocslists, detailed
From waiting choirs above, had gath
cred all
The sweet-voiced garden birds, and yes
ter-eve
Rehearsed new songs to them.
Drenched in a flood
OF morning light parterre and hillside,
vale
And lawn, gleam in resplendent lowell
ness.
A thousand shards on ev'ry rood with
sheer
Infinitude Of dewy globules flash
In gay, prismatic ravishment.
Nor are
The flowers overlooked but, fostered with
Most wary care, they wax in brilliancy
And grace; their petals notched in new
designs,
Kctouched with softer hues, and glorificd
With primal influx of perfume, the soul,
The well-nigh sentient essence that per-
vades
"he floral world.
Since now the feast is set
And all things ready, come, draw near
and see
The glory OF Omnipotcnce.
Behold
On yonder cminence that crowns the
plain
\ shapeless mass of dust, all d:nl and
cold,
But, touched by warm divinity, and 10,
The rigid clay is flesh! Nay, quick as
thought
Or twinkling of an eye it gcnd reth heat
And dons the scmblancc of cast more
grand
And peerless than all else on earth, in
Sea
Or air. And now i: moves. AS if amid
The throes Of travail, how it heaves and
throbs-
. God, it breathes! 'Tis man! 'Tis very
Who thinks and reasons, speaks and
smiles!
'Tis he
Alone from all the tribes OF quickened
dust
Who stands erect and from the sordi,l
earth
Looks up to heaven and to God!
lie walks
About in all his full-grown majesty,
A wonder to himself, amazed, entranced
Then in the fervor of his newborn souls
First love, falls down and wOrships Him
in whose
Own image fair, all-glorious and pure.
He finds himself created.
Though SO grand
Thus far this crowning miracle appears,
1t stoppeth not as yet; for Adam had
No helpmeet, nor was any plan in force
Whereby to forge and weld the golden
links
OF life's expanding chain.
Behold once more
The glory of our God. A dreamless sleep
Invests the man and chief among the
bow'rs
OF Eden is his dormitory. Thus,
Oblivious he slumbers on, and then
Awakes in duplicate; himself and yet
Another self; a new, ingeminate
Duality; or rather, as two dies
Correlative, the one but futile did
The other not exist; his counterpart
The cxcellency Of true womanhood,
And fashioned in such beautcous lines as
mock
The eloquence OF tongue or grace of pen
To typify, and quite transcending all
The lofty bearing of her lord, as strength
OF him transcends her clinging weak
ness.
Nay,
AS now in reflex splendor of her God
She smiles, the lowly grass rejoices
meath
Her tread; tho breezes list with bated
breath;
Pale roses bow their heads and from q
sense
OF pure shamefacedness they coyly blush
At sight Of her who now hath come to
reign
Their garden Queen; for never until now
Have roses bloomed of crimson hue, tit
type
Of love, OF all things else most deathless.
Lo,
O sainted woman! thou the masterpiece
OF Gods creative skill, tits thine to mold
In his own lineaments the throbbing
flesh,
And issue as beseems his sovereign will
Renewed editions Of thy glorious self,
And thus protract the earth-life of our