The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-20

While we have slpped not deeply yet,
Of the Pierian tabled spring,
The world has spun around its course
Unmindful of US and our schemes
To circumnavigate the realms
Of science, mathematics, facts,
Of history, literature, and CLEAN
All useful knowledge that we could.
Flom here and there
And everywhere
And learning everything we should.
While thus our quiet way we trod
10, enterprise has traversed DER
This mundane sphere and all transformed
Honored traditions vanished quite;
Science to education wed
While capital and labor join
Together on their constant round
Not yet in unison complete
Still prove their interests truly one.
And so they 60
Now quick now slow
From dawn to setting of the sun.
The course of nature onward tends
Though natures self with knotted brow
Sits bordering, and with rapid pen,
Recording as they come to view
The changes she observes. One sea
10 to the waters of another speeds,
Through trackless deserts swift it runs,
While hurrying navies DER it bear
Their burdens to all foreign lands.
Commerce keeps pace with progress here,
And talking wires" nearer bring
The worlds antipodes, and reach
On every hand
Ger sea and land
To Join all nations each TO each.
Old Father Time, in wonder stands
Awe struck by all the marvels strange
Which his dim eye but partly views,
And all his latest pictures show
That even with his antique ways
Of wearing clothes and hair and beard
He now comedies to modern taste
Somewhat, by keeping time no more
With his old hour-glass, but discards
1t for watch of modern make.
And in this last decade we see
Such glorious dawning, and arise
Progressive splendOr on our sight,
Outbursting daily-decklng Ger
With brilliant and untading hue
The 18Th century which now
Is quickly passing, soon is done.
With pride we say
We live to-day
In eighteen hundred ninety one.
A wondrous web of many threads
Has modern progress come to be,
Striking its fealures-differing
In its completely from times
Preceding it. lis wool enwove
With many forms in colors rare.
While long before this age of ours
Great state to state succeeded with
Such slow and regular routine
That in their march along the course
Of history, they seem to be
A solemn-paced procession grand
OF dignifed colossi Each
Resigning unto each in turn
The kingly sceptre DER the world.
AssYria, Media, Babylon,
Persia and Greece, by Rome oerthrown.
While Rome the last, the greatest too,
Broke into fragments, midnight gloom,
Confusion, tumut reigned supreme.
Not thus move in procession now,
State following state. king after king.
But in the modern structure, raised
By science and education, power
Is exercised in part by all.
This checking that, that refining this
With gentle bride Thus prevail
Far truer, safer nobler laws
Between the nations which to-day
Exist beside each other Thus
Do Switzerland and freedom dwell
Nigh TO despotic Austria's door;
With Spain does England now agree;
While Italy and France concede
Their rights and cO.cxist content
TRANQUILITY give
And calmly live
In peace ever following its bent,
But one unique Of nations, stands
Our own United States, whose strong
And upright constitution gives
Equality to each and all;X
Whose name means puritE and truth;
Whose motto is "Iu God We trust,
Whose lane is its whole peoples boast.
The sun CT heaven shines upon
No nober scene, no grander lakes
But no. the physical alone
Is ulcGst important in its charms,
For savages may roam at will
Kong natures widest, grandest scenes,
In beauty unsurpassed, and mid
Magnificence surperb may dwell
In caverns of the mountains dark
Whose granite bases, and whose peaks
High towering skyward may afford
Variety in scenes sublime.
Wnate or Cney view
IT'S sadly true
They still are savage to all time.
They pitch their tent within the sounc
Of laundering Niagara,
Or by the lovely placid lakes
OF Florida may dwell serene,
Unchanged, interchangeable and blind,
Their minds untutored, DER their heads
No starry banner glorious floats,
Their annals barren save of worse
Than lowest superstitious vile.
But these and more than these, char
not
Their groveling natures nor awake
The least emotions in their hearts.
Grander our forest when of old
They in primeval beauty waved
Ger halt. clad savages, than now
When falling by the touch profane
-. OF woodman's axe. Our beautiful
Our grand ST. Johns swept towards
sea
In beauty when its sluggish tide