The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-06

That light immensity!
Lo ! from the blue fair Cuba's strand
Is traced in emerald lines;
And boundaries of Haytien soil
Her verdant wall defines.
Vene2uela's grasses fringe
The Andes sheltering range;
Ideal landscapes evergreen
Reflect the seasons change.
Atlantics mighty surges break
Along Brszil's broad shores;
Her wealth with ocean vastness vies,
From mines her gold outpours;
While Liberty, the breath of God,
Sweeps from her lofty heights,
To dissipate the clinRing mists
That shadow human rights.
From Uruguay and Paraguay
Remotest waters wed;
And canopes of stately palms
The fruitful lands oerspread.
The Argentine Republic mounts
Like Venus from the sea;
form of everchangng grace
A brilliant mystery
The King of Day is fastening on
To lands he loveth best;
His latest ardent glauces Rild
The Chilian cedar's crest.
Meath Natures arching capitals,
Green as the sun shines on,
BOlivia's streamlets rush to meet
The sweeping Amazon.
From Orient gems, historic scenes
or Perus state unfold;
The palaces of Quito shine
And CuZco's shrines Of gold;
The glorious temples of the Sun
His worshipers invite,
Where sacred priests of Incas lines
Perform each mystic rite.
Pacific's breeze fans Ecuador
Its waters lave her feet;
On CotopaXi's furrowed face
Dark shadows find retreat.
Thro' closter gates unfolding wide
In far Col hioNo aic
Her products flow, teeming tide,
While she, enchantress, smiles.
And Costa Rica, radiant one,
by either sea caressed,
| Is glowing with the newborn joys
That thrill her virgin breast.
On Nicaragua's bosom lies
A gem beyond compare;
And untraced consultations mark
Their glories mirrOred there;
Her verdant mountain walls enclose
| The San Juan's silver flow;
| And wild in primal forest depths
The flowers of Eden blow.
Honduras and San Salvador
-, Rear high their rugged sleeps;
| While, far beneath, each sylvan glade
In dreamful beauty sleeps.
Aurora lifts her magic veil
From Guatemala's chain,
Whose giant forms with thund'rous tread
Bestrlde the quaking plain.
And Mexico is robed in tints
OF opalescent hue,
Caught from the glory streaming down
The soft, cerulean blue;
| The splendor of her Aztec court
A nations heart enthralls,
AS glittering trains monarch leads
Thro' Aontezumas Halls
One priceless jewel still remains
Wherein the royal gaze
| Beholds the Northern Polar star
! Shine with resplendent rays;
Its halo falls upon a throne
| In radiant silver sheen,
A throne. where reigns by right divine,
Columbia, Freedoms Queen.
Columbia, the Wonderland.
| Where sounding cataracts fall,
And untrod mountain plateaus sleep
Beneath snowy pail;
Where praires wear their mantling bloom
Sweet smiles on Natures face
| And fountains leap from canyons dim,
| In wild, fantastic grace;
Where rushing winds to waters deep
Creations themes rehearse,
And glory filings her banners out
10 greet Universe!
The scene dissolyes; prophetic sounds
BY other ears unheard,
| The woman's heart of Isabel
To high resolve had stirred;
| For with the changing jewels light
Strange, echoing undertones
Roll out from western hemispheres
And voice the varied zones;
The grating of the vent'reus keel
On unfamiliar sands;
| Inc breaking OF tne waves tnat uaSn
On distant. foreign Strands
The fury of the wintry blast
That rocks the Northern pines;
The steady blow of cleaving drill
In undeveoped mines;
The call of Three Americas
| To peoples OF the earth;
The hallelujahs that arise
AS sister States have birth;
The peans sung in golden lands
Where freedom loves to dwell,
That link for aye Columbus name
With that of Isabel!
By Faith was Wisdom's wondrous lore
Unto a woman taught;
And continents their wealth displayed
Reflected in her thought.
The Congress of Americas,
An heir of royal line,
Wears Freedoms blazing coronet,
Whose gems SURPRISING shine;
Its hand of Peace extends aloft
Humanitys bright scroll
A chart of Right-where sovereign States
Their nObleSt names enroll.
A Commonwealth OF worlds we greet
Parliament-to plan
The highest good. and recognize
The Brotherhood of Man!
WAsHINGToN, d. c., March 27, 1890.
Mrs. H. N. Ralston, author of the abo
poem, is native of New York, and was ed
Gated in institutions of learning in that Sta
and in Boston. She sailed for California
her wedding day, by way of the Isthmus
Nicaragua, and her impressions of Cent?
American scenery may be traced In some OF I
descriptions given in "The Queens Jewels
| Various poems written by her have appear