Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-05
sHAKESPEARE.
Ans WERED.

Rad on the Anniversary Of the Poets
IN. 1.-THE New Orleans Exposition.
sLoRFNoE ASDERs N CLARK, hon
# HAN, TEX.
81 centuries ago, on Mother England's
II was nurssd of more than royal birth.
4 ~ The shadow of an humble roof,
4rrow househo u ways, q mind was
Iralned,
& den world. wa ked from the Ages sleep,
4I,id lad with PROMISE OF a brighter day,
5toldief, sailor. poet, Ill had flown
zIpeciation's wild and buoy ant wing
<et The new world, risen from the waste
e stern leas, beneath the tropic sun,
.5ew Atlantis with the sands OF pearl
n fruits Of fabltd gold, when Shakes
eares soul
4 shesthed its radiance IN a mortal form.
IN fills quickened life he lived and grew
2bltst stature OF all Eng 'and's sons.
y as the world, and radiant as the dew
d uombles on the Leaf, and throbJ and
tlOws
indsscent light, as though It's crystal
Sphere
he'd soul offame o soul so sweet
10 unselilsh as TO leave OF self
interest trace, while TO Its flowing springs
NEST sympathy the world still turns.
= ln bis glory, woman in her grace,
MEAT, the grave, the beautiful, the poor,
flte, The fool, all, all find welcome there.
& u are'mirored in the crystal depths
ia mans mind, rs In the magic lens
tths own palace. TLon our poet sung
5tondrous music 10 su, h golden words
n they are braided in our household
#speeeh
<handed down from honored sire to son,
Hecous Jewels and of priceless worth.
mother sings them TO her sleeping babe;
3foet weaveB them in his dointiest rhyme,
Hoyer breathes them to his listening
innate.
II olden world and new are knit more
|coSe
4mmon herlt- &c In Shak espeare's fame,
Iany pulses OF our being thrill
&alh this master hand, We needs must
|Ishare
! hoDored England in oar poets love.
1w,born world, with newborn hopes and
aims
Holly aspirations, new. grand race
4 sooily root, transplant ed to new soil
ttsen since his day. Yet who may
know
4 Ear ala vision reache 1 / to the mists
Pa then enwrapped the west?
Fho In fancy could bid fairies put
4dle round the earth In minutes time,
have had presclence OF the wonders
\ wrought
Is most wondrous age, where steam still
racles-still spaus new wlldernesses
n inakee Wide deserts bloom with happy
4 homes.
2cogld'st thou stand benea tn these Druld
tse long, gray bsards trail Ger us as we
. mHe
fiogrowth dates back into the unknown
4 age,
fe The rtquieum of DeSot1 blenL
4llonfnlul cadence with these waters
Edsi th1u but watch these laden steam
. rs pass,
g pilots drop adown The twilight gloom
priceless cargoes, freight OF humsr
gems,
~ Mississippi rolls her tawny floods
Pstlos seas could'st feel the throo
sly pulses where the engines beat
siant music, to which labor moves
w measure that renews the earth;
Laleh tho electric planets. one by one,
[hislne twilight OF the summer night,
[nnglysonl, prOpheiIc as a seer's,
see ana near iulfillment OF dream.
neIe, 0 Poet! 10 this southern cline.
KY ioses MI the air with odorous signs.
~ orange flowers distil their subtle
Lux white maguollas star this gloon
"a . ieaves, we meet to honor thee.
e World and the new, the North, thu
met TO twine fresh laurels for thy byop
Amy memory grsen-to drink fresl
,nd my PERENNIAL springs to teach thu
oSaeo s daisy'like. at moi h er's feet,
rvaof one, who, noblest map himself,
T'A'u no Tie that binds TO human kind