The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-05-23
THE SONG OF CREATION.
~ II. A,Lln pAvls.


Read before the Mississippi Press Con.
vention, AZ iazoo City, May 18th, hy
Miss Celia Davis
LET there be light" aud forth from out
chaotic space
d wu tuaped across the eastern sky.
with rosy, radiant face;
unbalred the gates of morning moist with
crystal dew,
Aud 10. the outer darkness He'd, and light
came streaming through.
Pale Luna rose above the sea, the royal
queen Of night,
Shedding hot mystic glrry o'cf every
peak aud height;
While starry hosts with martial tread
began their course 10 run,
Aud sung the song OF life and love, on
earth aud sea begun.
Night followed morning, aud morning
night;
Each tree aud shrub, zach bud and bloom,
uniolled to tho light;
Aud 10, the Spirit moved. the world be.
fore him stood;
Aud he reviewed his wondi Gus work, and
said, "ris very good
Beast, fish and fowl, the water and She
land
Sprung into bel ig at his word, the mo
tiOn of his hand.
And God, though, saying II was good,
was yet unsatished;
As gazing 0u each tinted flower, the
oceans wild and wide.
The grassy fields, the boundless sky, ita
ilmy clouds 80 fair,
The stars like flashing jewels set IN the
azure there,
Aud so he said, "Let Ms make man in OuI
own image now,
| And stamp life eternal upon his human
brow"
And man becimc u living soul with hear
and head divine,
The red blood coursing through his vein
like rare old Rhenish wine;
! His hands, his limbs were fashioned IL
Gods own perfect mold,
His mind kingdom richer than all GOl
conda's gold.
But still the great Creator looked up an'
r0nnh and down;
He saw his work unfinished, his kinl
without crown,
For Adam wandered lonely with Thought
FIJI mien aud deep,
And fell at last meath dropping boug h
into death-like sleep.
Then like some radiant blossom, Ey
sprun. from out his side,
And she, the ilst hest gift Of God he
cam. omr Adams bride.
Anrora's blushes kissed her cheeks, th
stars sh1ne ia her eyes
So bright, 80 blue their light methink
was stolen from the skies
The story SAYS God N ide the man froI
dust Of mother earth;
Woman claius higher, "a holier mode I
birth;
Bone Of his bone aud flesh Of flesh N
proudly stands to day
High on the pinnacle OF fame, his eqn;
every way.
r And through the lapss Of heeting year
ere since that Olden time
Each Adam cen niust have an Eve q
=. whom To lay his crime,
To stand beside him through the days
his short troubled life,
r The heipmset God has given his own tru
4 loving wife,
9 ''ris true her dis0bchience brought M.
d. his death and shame,
Drove him from Rden's shelter. heap,
insult on his name;
But where's the man ON earth to d.
would roll away the stone
From that fair gate of paradise anl ent
e there alonei
: Woman. the err ing creatuse so weak al
l. yet SO strong,
= As changrful as the April skies, as brig
AS May-lAy song;
= 'In hours Of Incidence aud ease, uuc,
- tain. coy aud hard 70 please
Yet true as stars that cluster iu yon
e Pleadiese.
Back through the vale of sorrow, do,
J. through the gates Of death,
/. She leadeth Ou nnfaltering cen 10 |
latest breath,
Calming the hearts vile passions, wi
J. ing the tear-dim eyes,
.e Leading the wanderer back again
heavens paradise.
!, Aud on the wings Of trustfll love
prayers go mp ~ God,
U Like ineense from rich censors swu
like dew from emerald sod;
And when the trump shall wake the do
and call them from their grave,
ia Woman's lore aud womau's faith, pt
!. erring man shall save.
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