The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-30
IN STATE.


Whose eye Ia the blue canopy.
Look down upon the warning world and tell us what
the end will he.
"To, through the wniry atmosphere,
on the white bosom OF tho sphere,
cluster Of Eve lakes appear;
And all the land looks like couch, or warriors
shield, or sheetcd bier.
" And on that vast and hollow field,
with both lips closed and both eyes sealed,
mighty figure Is revealed
Stretched at fun length and still and stark In the
hollow OF q shield
!" The winds have tied the drifted snow
Around the face and chin; and 10,
The sceptercd Giants come and go,
And shake their shadowy crowns and say: We
always feared II would he so
" She came OF an heroic race;
A giants strength, maiden's grace,
Like two In one, seem to embrace,
And match and blend, and thoroughbred, IN her
colossal form and face.
Where can her dazzling falchion be9
one hand has fallen In the sea;
The Gulf Stream drifts II far and free,
And in that hour her shining brow CLEANS from the
depths respendsnily.
"And by the other In Its rest,
The starry banner of the West
Is Siaspcd forever to her breast;
And Of her silver helmet, 10, soaring eagle Is the
crest.
"And on her brow a sofiened light,
As OF q star concealed from slight,
by some thin veil Of fcecy white,
Or Of the rising moon behind the raining vapors of
the night.
"The slsterhood that was 80 sweet,
The starry system sphered complete,
Which the mazed Orient used to greet
The four and thirty fallen stars glimmer and glitter
ut her feet,
And over her-and over all,
For panoply and coronet,
The mighty lmmemorial,
And everlasting Canopy and Starry Arch and Shield
OF ALL"
"Three cold, bright moons have marched and
&. wheeled,
And the white cerement that revealed
A Figure stretched upon Shield,
Is turned to verdure; ana the Land ia now one
mighty Battlefield.
Sand 10, the children which she bred,
And more than all else cherished,
TO make them true In heart and head,
Stand face to face mortal foes, with their swords
crossed above the dead.
Each hath mighty stroke and stride;
One true, the more that he Is tried;
The other dark and evll-eyed-
And by the hand of one OF them his own dear
mother surely died!
"a siealtl,y step, CLEAN of hell
1t Is the simple truth to tell
The Son stabbed and the Mother fell;
And so she lies all mute and pale, and pure and ire
proachabe.
Sand then the battle-trumpet blew;
And the true brother sprang and drew
His blade to smite the traitor through
And they clashed above the bier, and the Night
sweated bloody dew.
sand all their children far and wide,
That are so greatly multiplied,
Rise up In frenzy and divide;
And choosing each whom he will serve, unsheathe
the sword and take their side.
'And In the low SUMS bloodshot rays,
POrtentous of the coming days,
The Two great Oceans blush and blaze,
With the emergent continent between them, wrapped
In crimson haze.
"NOw Whatsoever stand or fall,
AS God is great and man is small,
The truth shall triumph over all;
Forever and forevermore, the Truth shall triumph
over ALL
81 see the champion sword strokes fash;
see them fall and hear them clash;
hear the murderous engines crash
zee a brother stoOp to lose q foeman brothers
bloody sash.
81 see the torn and mangled corse,
The dead and dying hcaped in scores,
The headless rider by his horse.
The wounded captive bayonetei through and through
without remorse.
81 hear the dying sufferer cry,
With his crushed face turned to the sky
see him crawl In agony
To the foul pool, and bow his head into the bloody
slime and de-
81 see the assassin crouch and fire,
see the victim fall-expire
see the murderer creeping higher
To strip the dead. He turns the head-the face |!
The son behOlds his sire.
Z" l hear the curses and the thanks;
see the mad charge on the nanks
The rents, the gaps, the broken ranks,
The vanquished squadrons driven headlong down
the rivers bridgeless banks.
:" / see the death grips on the plain,
The graphing monsters on the main,
The tens OF thousands that are slain,
And all the speechless suffering and agony of heart
and brain.
T" / see the dark and bloody spots,
The crowded rooms and crowded cots,
The bleaching bOnes-the battle blots-
And writ In many nameess grave, a legend OF for
get-me nots.
g. see the gorged prison den,
The deadllne and the pent-up pen,
The thousands quartered In the fen,
The living deaths OF skin and bone that were the
gOodly shapes OF men.
"And still the bloody Dew must fall,
And Ills great Darkness with the Pail
OF Ills dread Judgment over all,
TIL the Dead Nation rise Transformed by Truth to
triumph over all.
sand Last-and Last see-the Deed"
1hus salth the Keeper OF the Key
And the Great Seal OF Destiny,
Whose eye Ia The blue canopy,
And leaves the Pail of His great Darkness over all
the Land aud Sea.
FohcEyTnE WILSON.
Paraguayans.
tMacmillan's for Julyl
The best product OF Paraguay, and that without
which all the rest, however varied aud precious,
would be OF little avail, Is, TO- borrow Bakes
strangely significant phrase, the human abstract"
That "the Paraguayans are q lazy lott" that " the
men I'm Paraguaydo nothing ALI the work 10 done
by women" that the said men pass their time In
drinking mate, smoking cigars, eating and sleep
ing;" nay, that there are hardly any men In Para
quay, niue -ienLhs OF the population helng femalen
with the not illogical corollary to which regret 10
see that Mr.. Bates has In hls Central and South
America " lent the sanction OF his high authority,
that everything everywhere sin this unfortunate
country Is In" o state Of complete decentralization"
had heard repeated aoque ad satiefatent by Euro
reans and Americans alike-boih, In most Instances,
absolutely guitloss OF any personal experience OF
Paraguay, or having passed few days In hotel at
Asunclon ut ost-before made my own visit To
that country Hearing, OF COURSE neither believed
nor dsbelleyed, but waited the slrer evidence Of
presence and slght How far these last confirmed or
U0ntradiced the evil report brought up by others on
the land my readers will, " have written to any
purpose suf1clenty apprehend In few words
then, the men and women, both OF them, and either
class within its proper limits OF occupation, through
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