Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-09-25
A PROPHECY.
Hood is waking up,

Hood is waking up.
The rocky
Brow of Tulcans sleeping son is coming
through the SHOWS OF death.
His paiid lips of
Gray hasalt grow warm and move, to free a
Curse confArd within their mighty gripa
Million years ago; when he, with others.
flushed the deep artillery of awful
Cyclopean war. and yielded to the
Chill OF time.
To him joy sublime it
Was to chorus with the groaning of the
Spheres, in line with all the brotherhood Of
Tnunderous Titans.
Up from Fuegos brawlins
Sisterhood and from the dark Antarctic,
Up past Chimhorazo, on, through qraking
Cordlleras, on, through Californias
Fiery chaos, on, through Oregon, the
Battle ground of Gods, on, OH along the
Ices 3f Alaska, roared these mountain
bcities, and lighted up the Arctic
Night with fires so fierce that Boreal suns
In very vanquishment went out.
Still onward
Through the rocking continent and into
Deep Patifics waves the line marched out to
Threaten Asia's distant coast until they
Stood with cold brine to their very nostrils.
/. One by one they spent their fury. One by
One they yielded to the stealing GOODNESS
OF the sphere. Among the last to sleep was
Hood.
At first his rocky nostril futtered
FitfuIly; and, in a half delirious slumber,
He tossed out the sea that ,aved his
Flinty ribs.
And then he seemed to sleep.
The young fir sprouted in his shadow. Sweetes
Grasses lured the antelope. The mountain
Sheep, the chamois of the west, looked into
The abyssmal throat whence hct the vapors
OF the giants burning heart assembled.
Emigrants, with beating hopes of future homes,
Stole through the passes to the farther west.
The years swept on. Nc fear shook any heart;
Although, anon, student of the rocks
Would view the lava beds and write or
Speak his dark misgivings.
Bent on riches,
Men still plowed and sowed and reap'd the harvest
Built and entered in. They sometimes spent
Day about the glaciers Of the mountain;
And some wise ones said it was but yesterday
That this cold summit was o beacon
For a thousand miles around. A hardy
One or two declared the rocks were yet too
Hot for human feet. Some keen eye il the
Far off city saw smoke go up from
Hood
And thus the world went round;
And yet no fear fell on mems hearts,
At last touris
From the foot of some wide field of ice whence
Flows river came to town. He had
Sketch or two of golden morn and purple
Eve, in all of which the awful head of
Great dead vulcan, rising from his grizzled
Beard of trees, detained the consultations!
| "When," said he, 81 quenched my torch at nigh
And went to sleop, no rock about the mountain
Top was bare; but in the morning, looked
| Up to see a thousand roods Of bare and
| Blackened rock, where, but the night before, tn
Shroud OF snow lay dep.
Not he alone, but
Many snug and happy burgher in the
Deep aud quiet valley spent night of
| Strange unrest.
The kettles in the poor mans
| Pantry danced wild and rattlil, jig. The
Bottles Oh the sumptuons sidc5oards of the
Rich grew drunk and reeed like Bacchus;
And the chandeliers within the sacred chapel
Svayed like censers. Dizzy seeplessness lay
like a spell above the pillows Of tine
People.
Yet ag.in the dread wore off.
Length, one summer day, Jehovah spurned his
Footstool from beneath.
> A far off sigh of
Some impending woe, mutter, half in
Whisper, of some fell calamity, stole
Into ears till now unused to terror.
Nature caught breath and held It listening,
! Then one binding, stunning jar compressed tn
Very air, till eycballs ached and hearts grew
Sick. An instant later fell the earth
Dozen fathonls down, as drops felon
Through the trap door of galioWs.
Eagles
On the crags were left midair. Their perches
Quick escaped their clutches. Jerk ON jerk, il
S,iteful luickncss followed. Rivers paused al
Turned, then disap .oeared, or rose in foaming
Breakers. All the doleful creatures haunting
Hoods deep mantle, dazed by fear, forgot thei
Nature. Panthers, toothcd and nailed like kite
Fawned. The timiI deer fed down the slopes
And nice or greedy, wild or gentle, terror
! Made alike.
These tbrocs held on till winter.
Once aoain the winter storm let softly
DOWN his shroud of snow. Again the sweepin
Avalanche would cool the great Volcanoes
Throbbing temple; and the winds conspired tc
Stay the kindling fever on his forehead.
: Vainly were the scanned and hardened feature
Wet with winter rain; for all the merc;es
Tina. descend from heaven cannot cool the
Heart when set on fire OF hell
Look up! The
= Lurid bllze Of Tophet pours deluse,
Higher than Mount Ararat, OF crimson
Light. The faces of the multitude are
Ruddy with the warmest hue OF happy
l Health; but demonstrated eyebals, speeches
Lips ana movements uecIaTc Z uelpIeS
/ Blank hiatus Of despair.
The earthquake
in Dies arace but Hood revives.
The stream of
Il Smoke bears OF across the continent I
Huge, unerring, tortuous lasso, cruel,
, Back as Death; and, with its thick mercural
Fumes, it tightcas round the vitals OF a
Million. Boa, or Python, that, from neither
Tartarus ascending. See his wrthing,
Hungry thousand miles Of length, His mott
Front sways back and forth above nation,
Down the valleys iun red streams Of fluid
oss Iron. Showers OF burning sulphur blast an
in Blacken all the land. The swayins, ti.ting
Earth subsidies; until the ocean sweeps wher
But week ago the plow!nan stood.
r Fiv,
Months of he'll pour out their quenchless ha
the And then the slow relapse OF peace comes on