Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-11-10
WORLDS FAIR.

changihg tint, to Onr rapt vision
held i'll place by the circlet of the
horizon, with voiceless eloquemce,
lias won place within its warmest
recesses, steamers, gondolas, the
craft,that with ever graceful sweep
keep time and tune to the solemn
rythm of the graceful waves-and
all; a memory to bring delight
through all the coming years. For
i'll the presence of the blue gray,
laughing, restful, restless waters,
with their moving, thrilling vast
ness, the heart gives it home for
aye, saying, as it says of all kind
natures royal gifts, "Thou art mine
own." A wealth exceeding that of
Midas with his gold or Croesus'
countless stores.
Fair vision, ever changing, ever
the same, with thy royal coquctry
so gently loving, thou art an Ell.
nobling, a magnetic study. One
to recall when wooing restful ease.
To court and to caress in every
Hloou.
Next turn we to the "Cour5 of
Honor" so richly endowed by art
and nature, too. The generous
lake, giving the larger half, yet
adding largely to her own majcs.
tic wealth This is a lighter theme,
with laugh and jest and mando.
Inns soft tinkle interspcrscd. AT
night the tender light of ruby anne
thyst, emerald, sapphire, pearl,
with golden glintings regally grand
made fairyland witllbliying foun.
tain's varied hue aHd islaS,,and hu
man life, i'll its iI0ilensifSS struck
dumb perhaps tho iQuh hta'iiiH dill
record sOmo teItttrr Mi ssifs
words, fit Accomplishment ID
their tuneful song; tic af6iit; ana
sound of babyhood, alone, bro1ghtI
earth again from perfect paradise.
Go SEQ the "Court Of Honor" and
grave upon your willing memory
the true ideal of an artists skill.
We own that the many sections,
the Worldwide array Of all the
worlds needs, made for us a maze
not easily threaded. The Quecnly
girl, with flaXen hair and royal
dress of wheat and barley; the
loom with Gobelin tapestry in pro
gress; tue woods-natural AMI pet
rlfed; Wards museum of countless
ever enduring stones; Of beasts
and birds, some long unknown,
with furs and plumage richer than
a sultan's robes; the antique tapes.
tries; the pictures, manuscripts;
the ocean craft and splendid ruins
oil an age long gone; the marbles,
porphyry, agate and plates of onyx
ready craven with landscape most
sublime; these are our treasures.
Ours.
The sight of things so innumcra-
ole, beautiful, unattainable, from
every part Of the world, so. daZed
us, that we might, only half an
hour after, have been unable to de-
eide whether they belonged to the
"Llberai Arts" building or to
krupp's, save that in the latter
building, mid dread array of guns,
OF shot and shell, and countless
murucrous missiles, n beautiful
ana peaceful waterfall, soft purl-
ing over a moss grown cliff, mid
ferns and shrubs fell ripping from
well simulated height into the
mimic lake below, sorcly tempt
ing us to step, boots, hose and all,
INTO It's cooling depths, and thus
INSPIRE and soothe our understand
ing, then,in activity not far from re.
70. we made our landmarks Of the
things we loved, and this was one.
me PORTRAIT Of a friend, through
Ills DOCKS or melodies, would mark
group to be recalled at leisure.
me memory clings to such; a
most, Within q host of things for
gotten.
me mlrtl, the splendor OF the
WAS most faSriu n fin, m