The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-05-25

Studied deeply DER and DER;
Where the ancient fsith Of Mammon
Is the creed that they confess,
Ev'ry Croeslls bends in homage
10 the Advertising Press.
And the creative hand
That still, Pr0metheus-like steals fire to light
The furnaces OF ev'ry craft, whose might
Is felt in ev'ry land
Where can II find friend
So helpful as the Press, that paves the way
For ev'ry progress, and the perfect day
Inventions all portendf
Arehinsedss still plans
To move the world. And from The electric
Americas own son has lit the lights
That hope. of nations, fans
Aud in sweet homes, that groves and fields en-
/ circle.
The ideal life, the best,
Where good seed germinate. the Press Is well
coined
A loved, familiar guest.
Towards the heaving breast Of mosher-nature
All human instincts lean.
Even Falstan, dying, unclean, and degraded
"Bahbled OF pastures green"
Earth lends the Cities Just her fairest, noblest.
To do their dnty there,
They turn at last away from crowded closures
To breathe in country air
To hear thelminstrelsy OF birds free swinging
From branch 10 branch again,
TO smell the fresh soil Of the curying furrows,
Across the shafeless plain.
To feel the blest horizon round them stretching,
Within whose magic rim
or blue and green softly together blending
Life's scup fills to the brim."
The poet to The Press confdes
The raptnre that he feels
In touching jnst the verdant grass,
Through which his loving footsteps pass,
On which he humbiy kneels.
To leaves unfolding nearest Heaven,
He lifts his eyes in spring,
And listens 10 each vocal tone
Making a choir for him alone
And teaching him 10 sing.
Each vibratc bloom, aud pinion swift,
Sunshine and shadows dim,
The sprinkling cloud, the breeze on high
Flies with across the sapphire sky,
Articnlate 10 him.
To translate In our duIIer words
The language he has learned,
To lift us, all he claims for bliss
To q more radiant sphere than this,
The need that he has earned.
And when patriots feel their heart beat for their
brother,
And, like leaven, for the masses strive 10 rise.
AID when tyrannous observance tries to smother
Their clear voices, and the eloQuenoe OF siQhs /
n Ia fhQ praou hat ole an @Er - -.
cries
'ris the Press that enters ev'ry lowly dwelling
Where the hardened hand Of toll lifts the /
latch,
And the mother stills her baby in the telling
There are fires burning brightly on the watch.
For the giant Of oppression there's match |
There are statesmen leal, intrepid. plumed for
Demonstrating ''msn we're never made for
And the people hold their breath to see The
righting,
For that Claw was made for freemen" is their
cause
And the asgis Of the Press about them drawsl
Statutes that have long Outlived their use and
ISSUE
Blocking only now the pathway OF reform,
Like putrid burden lodged within some hs-
sure
That the heAlthful, living currents rush to
storm.
Oh, repeal them, a. they only now do harm !
And that fair half OF human kind, for centuries
constrained,
With talents hidden, powers untried, and fac
ulties unframed,
What gratitude they owe the Press for setting
on hill
Their light to Lelp illume the dark that girds
the present still.
first on the page OF literature woman inscribed
her name
md learned the thrill Of ecstAcy, Of liberty, and
fame.
And for her sister dwarfed In soul, in body, ,
aud Ia mind,
She felt As feels the ocuhst in study OF the
blind, 4
Ihe recognized 1t mainly her own fault because
abe loved
ian aud her children better than herself aud |
50 was moved I
To subordinate al efforts TO the ones to please
and bear,
Wasting all other gifts Of which abe held an q
equal share. II
ian Was The only animal that loved a fettered
mate,
wen eagles soar together 10 empvvsan estate. r
Woman spun for herself web that held her
back from flight
To attitudes her spirit pants TO rise TO In its G
might. !
'o-day, thanks 10 the Press, with equal steps
she walks beside
Ter help-meet hand In hand, and brother, sis- /
ter side By side. =
The providence OF sen not made curse for
either one, @
No sex now recognized In crime. or worth. or I
duty done.
lex footsteps with the foremost pressed upon !
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