The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-05-04

occasion by w. a. COuuC OF WaSnlng'
ton, was then read as follows:
THE PROPHECY
Sadly Columbus watched the waning moon
Drown in the gloomy oceans western deep.
Strange birds that day had iiuttered in the sails
And strange flowers tlOated round the wander
ing keel,
And yet no land!
And now when through the dark
The Santa Ma Ia leaped before the gale,
And ang-y pillows tossed the cardvels
A. to destruction, GOmezerascOn came
Wi h cautan PinsOn through the frenZied seas
And TO the admiral brought a parchment scroll,
Saying Good master read this writing here,
\ n earnest prayer 1t is from all on hoard,
The crew would fam III n back in utter fear.
No longer to the pole the compass points;
Iuto the Zenith crops the northern star;
You saw but ycSter eve an AlbatroSS
Drop dead on deck beneath the flying scud.
The devils wind blows madly from the east,
Into the land of nowhere, and the sea keeps
sucking us
Adown the mae storms haw Francisco says
The edge of earth is near,
And off to Erebus we slide unhelmed.
Last Sunday night Diego saw a witch
bragg ng the Nina by her fOr5chains west,
And wildly dancing on Il dolphin back,
And as she danced the brightest star in heaven
Slip ed ON its leash and sprang into the sea
Like Lucifer, ont left II trail of blood,
pray Thee, o Master, tuIn again to Spain,
Obedicnt to the omens or perehance
The terror.stri"ken crew to esHHpe their doom,
May mutiny and - GOme2e asCon peace!"
Exclaimed the admiral. Thou hast said
enough.
Now, faithless leave me. be alone"
Then eagerly Columbus sought sign
In sea and sky and in his lonely heart
Finding instead of presaScs of hope,
The bleak, black and CminOus portents of
despair
As thus he unused he paced the after deck
And gazed upon the luminous waves astern.
Strange life was in the phoSphOrescent foam,
And threugh the goblin glow there came and
went
Live elhn shadows on an opal sea,
Prophetic pictures of the land he sought
He saw the end Of his victorious quest
He saw ublage % lSabella'S breast
A strins f Antiean jewels rest
The islands of the West
He saw Invading plenty dis OsseSs
Old Poverty; the land with bounty bleSt.
Aud thu ugh the caverns of distress
Walk s'arGyed ApiueS
He saw the Bourbon and Briganza, prone
For ancient error tardily to atone,
wing the plnndered people back their own,
And flying from the throi c.
Hc saw an empire radiant as the day har.
messed TO law,
But under freedoms sway,
Proudly arise rcSulendent in array
TO show the wO Id the way.
He cav celestial peace in mortal guise,
And filed with hope anu thrilled with high
cmprisr,
Lifting its Tranquil forehead to the skies;
A vast republic rise.
He saw beyond the hills of golden corn,
Beyond the curves of AnthumS opuent horn
Ceres aud Flora aughingly adorn
The bosom OF the nom.
lie SRwa cloth OF gold across The gloom,
4 ArGtesquc from evolutions loom,
And from the barred prairies driven Spum9
Imperial ties bloom.
He saw an iron dragon dashing forth
Along an iron thor oughtare, south, north, ca t,
we t. unitin in beneti ;ial giTth
pANN Afstut Rt.hg e ri
He aw lightning run dolphin race ,
Where trade love, grief and pleasure inter lace.
And absent ones aunihilate time and space
COmnuntng face to face.
lie saw relief through deadly dungeons grope
Foes turned to brothers, black depair to hope,
And cannon rust upon the grass grown slope,
And not the galOws rope.
He saw the babes on labor $ cottage floors,
The hr gnt walls hung with luxury more and
more, and comforts,
Radiant with ab undlng store
Wave welcome at the door.
He saw the myriad spindleS utter round,
The myraid mill wheels shake the solid ground,
The myriad homes where jocund jsy is found,
And love is throned ana crow co..
He saw exalted ignorance under pank though
unnop led in force,
SiuCe time. gan and science consecrated, lead
the van
The providence of man, he picture came and
paled and passed away.
And then he said 10 PinSon, i'll the gloom:
Now Martin, to thy waiting helm again.
Haste the Pin westward keep her PROV,
For have had vision full of light
Keep her prov westward in the sunsets wake.
From this hour hence and let 10 man look back.
AS soon as the ceremonies attendant
upon the formal opening of the expo
sition were over, President Cleveland,
Governor Altgeld, Mayor Harrison,
Duke Veragua and other notables
were conducted to the dining hall on
the third floor OF administration
building where they were entertained
at dinner by the Worlds Fair Off
Gals.
When dinner was over the party
with President Cleveland and direc-
tor general Davis in the lead, was con
Quoted from A administration building
and driven around the grounds. AT
manufacturers building, which was
the first place reached, the presiden-
tial party alighted at the main en-
trance aud walked from one end OF
the mOuslrOus editice to the other,
From here they drove TO the north
end OF the grounds, among the state
buildings aud to the south end of the
the grounds Afrer having thorough
ly inspected the White City, President
Cleveland and party were driven to
the 9 and crossing, where they took
their train for Washington.
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THE RUINED VILLAGE.