The Osceola times., 1886-05-22
ARKANSAS sTire News.
Arkansas


Ring loud peals of glorious sweetness
Til the cloud 4 apped vaults OF nesfness
Reverherafe their thundersL
Weave .,ft chapleis defs With fancy.
For each lovely. biae eyed Nancy
of our state and other places,
I'll NE take our rightfui station,
mid the proud OF every nation,
Beet OF kindreds. tongnes or raceA
Ganymede hurled the apple.
Witch the gods made haste to grapple
in the elaat- land eelds Of JOY.
Had he had oif prsncelt Pifpit,
Dor Old Joye to set his lip in.
Boston mount had been a Troy.
Then hat Hector no tch.iles: -,
And Each maid had been Phyllis
Worth of Helen, twice . score.
shannon apples richest nectar
Makes each Ozark boy Hector
Charged with LIE forever more
Peaches vie with brilliant Iris
for the laureis Of Epirus-
Winning almost every time
And what goose egg can take prizes
when persifnmons got their Sizes
Most too large Tor sense or rhyme
And the berries MP AT Beebe
bring 10 youth the powers OF llebel
And the dueats Of 81. f,otiis.
while ono pumpkin like bastion
Pills a car in old Sebastian
And the halt OF old Missouri
Grapes and marbles, corn and grasses,
QuartIes, crystals clear as glasses;
whetstones, marble. thermal waters.
soapstones, cotton. corn and plenty
For a billion more and twenty.
OF esrth's fairest sons and daughters
These are ours and ours forever.
Naught bat sloth can ns dissever
Prom the issues they imply.
Honor fame and deathless story.
songs and anthems, tales OF glory
And a life that can not die.
Native help. are means Of power
Adding luster hour ny hour
To the soul Who knows thelr worth.
Happy he who loves the teaching
And Who hears the silent preaching
0f the land tnat gave hiui BIRTH
Proud We may be OF all classes,
But he's lifted best for masses :.
"who loves his own land best"
Who turns Its roughness Into beauty,
Fosters Law and does his duty
In mind and matter doubly blest.
Then strike the Tyre and raise the chorus.
Draw the heavenly agls DER us
And start the jubilee.
Chains our mental powers are binding;
Burdens on the soul are grinding
And we must set them free.
We are not that which We inherit.
Things done" have always formed the merit
of met in Every elimc.
There is no marsh but can be draifedi
No gnarly knot but can be pianed
BY actions power sublime.
The mind Is measured by the roads
Ger which the body takes Its loads
To either want or plenty.
And more than bounds are marked by fenceA
For here an underground commences
That spoils the work OF twenty.
All true growth n a mental act.
fmringng on an outward fact
To make IL fair and b etter
hSs. Sass 'nss mo- SS s'aHk saias or chart
To break each Calling fetier
Thought weaves the granite into build ings
Equal 10 the tempted gildings
of old Ionic fame.
Il raises spires OF newer orders.
spires that stand as stern recorders
OF ncver-dying name.
Thought gave the world Etruscan vases;
Thought turned the AIpland Into laces
And built the Aztec fanes.
Thought hurled the Avon into letters
And broke the savage feudal letters
Tnst cursed the civic veins
And ye are beacons lighting mountains;
And We are springs that start the fountains
And ye are builders OF thought.
To deepen earnest inspirationj
To raise the lofty aspiration;
To teach as Should be wrought
Each little weekly In u county
Goes laden VT joyful bounty
To minds that crave Its aid
Each tiny drop that Nils the river
Carries some sand within Its quiver
With which new worlds are made.
A million drops the granite kisses.
million grains the granite misses;
Zach drop has filched a grain
But far away in Sexic basins
The drops become most faultless masons
And rear an island main.
GO, tiny drops, go build your Islands.
Lay massive plains and raise the highlands 9
For other life TO use.
GO, tinv sheets and cheer the cottage,
60 add n sweet to scanty pOttage
And warmer life infuse.
Reach for the hearts where care is inserted
Touch the warm cheek which health has de.
serted
And kiss the pallid brow
Go. on light wings to hearts aweary,
search for the hearts with path marks
dreary,
And breathe a CHEEKY vow
Go to the banks where money Is lying.
Break the dread locks and set II TO buying
The idle goods on hand
A thousand curses on the fellow
That boards the dollars round and yellow.
TIL commerce leaves the land.
This never ending sin OF boarding,
Il but the pirate act OF boarding
The honest crafts at sea
And when Gods lightning strikes the PHI.
lage,
whether in city. town or village
There'l swell jubilee.
In n thousand ways we rob each other;
In a tn 0usand WAYS We daily smother
The golden love OF man.
In thousand ways we voice the CANNON
Which springs from the thousand mouths Of
mAnmon
As an honest business plan.
We rob ourselves OF home and pleasure
BY stopping the course Of legal treasure
Iu stocking or Ia vault
II all the salt were locked In cellars
BY twice n hundred greedy fellows,
The world would steal its salt.
give higher hopes and grander yrarning.
Give lofty dreams and broader learning
Give these to every soul:
Give chances Tor the brains OF millions
To multiply our wealth by billions
And grasp = self control.
Make schools of all the kinds and classes,
Make those best that tonch the masses,
And make the n grandly free.
These are the hopes God has implanted,
These are the promises God has granted,
These are Gods minstrelsy.
Then sing of the Junes and grasses.
Let us hear of our nymphs and lssses,
OF the good. the pure. and true,
sing Arkansas twined with posies,
Growing ar n OF southern roses
with buds forevermore.
Miscellaneous Items.
Thepeniten,i ary lessees recently set
tied with Sa.e for the past year, pay.
ing into the treasury S25,4l2.97.
Hon. w. l.. Terry, of Little Rock, is q
candidate for Congress in the Fourth Dis
trict.
This is the truck farmers harvest.
The Arkansas Press Association, at its
recent meeting, elected the following Of