The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-19

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Blest isles in the far away sea;
With JOY and profoundest emotions
| gaze on the wonders in thee.
What secrets are md in thy valleys,
Thy mountains, what mysteries there
God planted the tropical verdure
Which grows on thy bosom so fair.
His hand built the terrible fires
Far down meath the broad surging deep
That reused in omnipotent power
Broad acres from ages of sleep.
And melted the rocks in their fury,
Then reared the great mass in the air
To tower above the vast pillows
All rugged, gigantic and bare.
The coral sought them for pillow,
Lay down in eternal repose,
And left memento enduring
And white as the cold driven SHOWS.
The sun and the rain followed after
With influence gentle and mild;
Through ages on ages they labored
I'LL thy surface, once barren and wild,
Gave place to warm soil so inviting,
TO forests and beautiful flowers
Making many a second fair Eden
Where thy lovers can spend happy hours.
Then, disputing the right of the verdure
To possess all the islands so fair
The MOUNTAINS, in stern, rugged gran
deur,
With SUBMITS for miles in the air
Sent forth fiery streams of destruction
AS If some great giant concealed
Far down in the earth had determined
That not for moment he'd yield.
His scepter to beautiful Ceres
But with streams and great torrents of
fire
Sent forth from the Hottest SUBMITS
Would accomplish his fiendish desire
"Thus far shalt thou go and no farther
Said He who created the earth,
Called the universe all into being,
Gave to everything living its birth.
And the streams which were bent on
destruction
Were staid in their fiery path
And the giant, as if foled in his efforts,
subsidized in impotent wrath,
Stopped again and again in his purpose,
Nainly trying as years hasten by
10 show his dread power unrivaled
And the mandates OF God to DEFY
Fair islands, soon learned to love thee,
| walk as it were in dream
Mid thy beauties so great and abundant
And often it verify seems
As if had found the fair garden
From which our first parents were driven
For yielding to subtle temptation
Forgetting the Father in heaven.
stand on the beach as it gistens
And think of the ocean of life,
Its storms often raging so fiercely,
Its restless, tumultuous strife.
Will my bark safely conquer the tempest?
Often storms drive it far from the shore,
At the end, in the harbor of heaven,
Will 1t anchor to leave nevermore?
gaze on thy mountains with reverence,
In their presence my Maker seems near,
can almost perceive Him approaching
And looking aloft toward the clear,
Blue heavens | kneel in devotion
And wait till He degns to appear
And | hear, as if coming from glory,
1T is |, my dear child, have good
Cheer
Every day too | bless the kind Father
For those who have welcomed me here:
May His own choicest blessings attend
them
And their paths never pass through the
drear
Byways OF adversely gloomy
But lead to the mansions of light
Attended by those they hold dearest,
Whose presence is CHEEKY and bright.
How oft in the future I'll ponder
On the days | have spent in these isles;
Recall all their beauty and grandeur
And in the dear long afterwhiles
shall hope in the mansions eternal
To meet in the glorifed throng
The friends who have made me so happy
And join in the heavenly song.
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