The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-05-28
The Song OF Creation.

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Read before the Mississippi Pres, Convention
at Yazoo City My 1871, by Misa Cell
Davis.
''let there be- lightf aud forth from 90
/ chuatic epnee
Dawn trpped acrtea the eastern ky, Will
rosy, radiant face;
1 Unbarred tlIe Nitcs u morning moist Will
crystal dew,
And To- the outer darkness fled, and High
came -treuming through.
Pale Luna rose above the sea, the royal queer
~ night,
Shedding her mystic glory DER every peak
While starry hosts with martial tread began
their eourse 10 run,
Aud sung the song II life and love, on earth
and sea begun.
Night followed morning, and morning night.
Each tree and shrub, each bud and bloom,
unfoded 70 tho light;
Aud ~, the spirit moved, the world before
him stood
And be reviewed his wondrous work, and
said. Ills very good"
Beast fish, and fowl, the water and the land
Sprung into being at his word, the motion Of
his hand.
And God though, saying II was good was yet
As gazing on each tinted flower the oceans
wild and wide
The grassy fields, the boundlcss, sky, its iilmy
clouds ~ fair
The stars like flashing jewels set IN the azure
there
And ~ be said, let rs make man IN our
own imogc now
And stamp a life eternal upon his human
brow
And man became q living soul with heart,
and head divine
The red blood courHing through his veins like
rare old kheni4l wine;
His hands, bis limbs were fashioned In Gods
own perfect mold,
His mind kingdom richer than all Golcon-
da's gold
But still the great Creator looked up and
round and down,
he saw his work unfinished, his king without
q crown,
For Adam wandered lonely with thoughtful !
nicn and deep,
And fell At last meath dropping bougls into |
dcath-like sleep
Then like somc radiant blossom Eve sprung |
from ont his side,
And she, the last best gift Of God, became our
Adams bride
iuroru's bushes kissed her cheeks the stars
shonc in her eyes
y bright, 80 blue their light methinks was
stolen from the skies
rhe story says God made the man from dust
Of mother earth
Woman clamsa higher holier mode Of
birth
Bone Of his bone and flesh Of flesh, she proud
~ stands to-day
Iigh on the pinnacle Of fame, his equal
every way.
And through he lapse Of Aactng years,
ere since that olden time
Zach Adam cen must have an Eve on whom
to lay his crime,
% stand beside him through the days Of his
short troubled life,
The helpmcet God has given his own true,
towing wife
is true her disubedcnce brought man his
death and shame,
lroye him from Edcn's shelter hcaped in-
suit on his name
hat where's the man on earth to day would
roll away the stone
rom that luir gate OF paradise and enter
there a0ne2
ioman, the erring creature 50 weak and yet
50 strong,
$ chngcfql as the April skies, as bright as
May-day song
In hours Of Incidence and case uncertain.
coy and hard 70 please
ct true as stars that cluster in yon far
Ploiades
lck through the vale Of sorrow, down
through the gates Of death.
&c leadeth ON unmlterlng cen TO her latest
breath,
lining the hcartsyile passions, wiping the
tear-dim eyes,
,ading the wmlderer back again to heavens
paradise.
nd ON the wings Of tillstful love her prayers
go mp TO God,
Ike incense from rich censors swung. like
dew from emerald sod;
nd when the trump shall wake the dead and
call them from their grave,
'omnn's love and womans faith. poor erring
man shall save,
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