The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-15

| Were men OF Antipas) who staid Him there
Bent for CapernAum ON Nazareth
| Praying swift succor for dying child.
! And urging fervsnty While we made halt
| To witness, tepderly the Master turned
| With look Unstable, and gazed; and spnke:
! Col thy Son lvethr
Which never have forgot nor will forget
Till Heavens day shews me Him again-was
y One
OF a commanding Standardization
Bearing such countenance as whose gazed
Must love, or fear. Wine-color shone his hair
Glittering and wavei, An aureole folded down,
Its long rays lighted locks,-whch fell, and
flowed,
Fair parted from the middle of His head,
After the manner OF the Nazarites.
Even and clear His forehead; and the face
or dignity surprising pure and pale
As the Greeks marble, but flushed frequently
With the bright blood of manhood. Nose and
mouth
Faultless for grace and full and soft the beard
Forked, Of tho hazeled color Of His hair;
The great eyes blue and RADIANT mild as sky
OF spring time after rain, yet terrible
As lightning leaping sudden from that sky,
When he re0uRed. In admonition calm;
In tender hours each word like music's soul
Heard past the sound! Not Outlines seen to
smile,
More oft TO weep; yet of a lofty cheer
Commcnly-nay Of playful rallery,
And swift wit, softened with sweet gravity.
Straightstanding like palm tree; hands and
limbs
So nodded that the noblest COPY them:
Among the sons of Men saireSt and first"
Among the miracles described are the
raising OF the daughter OF Jairus. the rails
ing from the dead of the widows son at
Main, and the raising of Lazarus. The
following lines are from the description of
the last named miracle:
so, to the Tomb we came. The grey slab
made
Its monstrous door, where tread of guest falls
not,
Nor knock is answered, but the Dead within
Keep speeches. com any, and, In the dark
With none TO visit them save rat and worm;
Nothing Detailing but bone which drops;
Mclder together, all adjust and dry,
Saving no word-disconsolate undone.
$ airing with empty eyes at olive roofs
Whose fruit they used TO pluok-for others now
Saying no word Husband and Wife and Child,
Brother and Slster-who were won't to mix
Lips, hands and hearts in Earth's warm fellow
ship,
Silent and separate, on noisome beds.
o. till He lived did we not dread our Dead
So still so altered, SO unloveiy, so--t
Nayl when He spake: Roll me this stone away
My sister sobbed: 1t may not be! Dear lord
lis four days gone by this time stinkesh Eel
- Roll me this stone away He said again
SPACE not unto thee that thou should st see
Toe glory of Gad' Then, eight young men OF
thsws,
With x.yokes and the olive poles, pushed back
The leaning rock; and the black adft CAPPED
As twere the mouth OF Tophet, horriblel
10th TO re-enter, lighting two first steps
Oftne dark So sinway, and tine hollowei roof
Where bat chung and cried, and spiders hung
In broken empty webs. and foul flies crept.
Next, Jesus, no mora weeping but His eyes
With pity and love and power irradiate
Drew close, and set His holy fearless foot
On that grim threshold, and did pray this
Father l thank thee Thou hast heard me
here;
know Thou nearest always' but because
"a la Atna. atrrt kali
That thou hast sent me, did ask, and thou
Hast answered. Then from lowest notes, His
voice
Rose clear, commanding; 'El'anarl Come
FORTH
Cried He impsrlous, Oh, and in that gloom
Ensued q stir,--a noise of rusted cloths
Afoot-fau on the stairway Erasar-
The dead man, ---cometh forth Like unto one
VINO slumbers tn mis- sum mer-room, aud hears
Intermist with deep happy dreams, a tone
he knows and loves call aim to play: and leaps
Upon his feet, and girds his coat, and hastens
With light steps, laughing lids not yet
wide;
So Ela1ar! So, half asleep to see.
Dazed, unexpectant; but alert. aware,
My hrotherl stumbling somewhat for bis bonds,
And one free hand fumbling the face-cloth back
10 spy the Master,-stepped forth Justify
Glowing with glad new life, wholesome and fair
The crimson OF his lips and Of his cheeks
Full ,coored; eyes aight, foot firm, voice strong,
Loud and assured. But we,-all dumb, for fear
And joy and thanks and wonder,-held our
breaths,
Not moving, till we heard the Master say:
Loose him, and let him gor"
The story Of the Crucifixion and burial is
told, and then follows the temperance of
Christ to Mary;
"Then, while the first day of the week was
dark.
Alone wendell to His sepuchre.
Bearing fair water, and the frangincense
And linen, that my Lords sweet body sleep
Well In the rock. And, while my woeful feet
Passed through the gate, and up tue paved
Along the Second Wall. over the Hill.
Into that Garden, hard by Golgotha,-
The Morning frightened over Moab's peaks
Touched the great Temples dome with crimson
Lit Opel and Moriah rosy-red,
Made olivet all gold. and in the pools
In Hinnon laid q sudden lance Of fame
| And, from the thorn.trees, brake the waking
OF little birds; and every palm trees top
Was full of doves that cooed, as knowing not
How Love was dead, and Lies dear glory
And the Worlds hope lay in the tomb with
Him;
Which now spIed. that hollow In the rock
Under the campfire leaves. Yet, no guards
| To help me roll the stonel nay, and no stonei
| 1t lay apart, aving the door a-gape,
/ And through the door, as might dinly see
Tne scattered wra2pings OF tue BuriaLnight,
Pale CLEANS amidst the gloom. Not waiting.
| Lhen,-
| DEFINING our treasure taken wickedly-
| sped; and came to Peter, and to John;
And cried: Our Lord is stolen from dis grave
| And none to tell where he is borne awayr
| Thereat, they ran together, came, aad saw:
/ And entered in; aud found the linen-cloths
! Scattered; the rock bed empty; aai, a nazed
| Back to their house they went. But drew nigh
| A second time, alone; heart-brokan now
| The bright day seeming blacklist night to me,
The small birds snockerS, and the city's noise
Waking within the walls-hateful and vain
| Why shoult Earth wake, the Son Of Man
aslsepY
| Or that great guilty City rise and live,
| With this dear Lord, dead, in her stony skirts
| Fled, too, my last fond hope, 10 lay Him fair
And kiss HIS wounded feet, and wash the blood
| From the pierced palms, and comb His tangled
| hair
To coneliness, and leave Him-like King
| 10 his forgetful Angels. Weeping hard
With these thoughts, like to snake-fangs.
singing me
Ny left hand on the stone laid, and shut
The eager sunshine of with my right hand
kneelinS, and lookin in the Sepulcher.
| II was not dark wfthinl / deemed at first
A lamp burned there. such radiance mild saw
Lighting the hewn walls, and the linen bands;
And, in one corner, folded by itse I.
Toe facs cloth, Coming closer, espisd
Two men who safe there,-very watchfuy-
One at the head, the other at the foot
OF t1at stone table where my Lord had lain,
Oh! say 'men'-I should have known nc men