Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-29

What pity. alas. that each succeeding
Could leave no tale of how this world
| began,
We know some things from undisputed
What pity indeed. it couldn't have told
| We read Creations rise and Adams fall.
And when we've read Of Eve we've read
He reigned at first in Paradise supreme.
| Each day and night was one encnanted
She reigned at last and Paradise was lost.
| What pity, indeed. that both should pay
When God and man in sweet communion
All nature. charmed, that sweet commu-
Each naughty beast in proud submission
| came
Before his Lord. and each received his
And if the wise Creator had stopped
| there,
Angelic beings, Gods. Such sweetness rare
| AS this poor Earth ne'er dreamed OF
| II ali the wealth of Eden's laden bowers
Could be brought together, heaped and
And Ewes dear sweetness added to the
| rest,
And dew distilled of finest essence made.
| One angel foot would put them in the
Pardon this indulgence. but will cease
AND simply say. they came, and so did
They came first. Eve last. She came to
| stay.
The angels tapped their wings and flew
| away.
Since that event all natures lived in
| strife;
God, man and beast have given life for
life.
Gods work was good: He rested satisfied.
Why all this strife because the serpent
| lied?
An helpmeet came to Earths acknowl-
| edged prince
And neither God nor man has rested since
An age had passed. Same Eden's desert
No trace remained of all her vanished
charms;
But far and near along Euphrates' bed
The prehistoric sons of Adam spread.
Here sons of Abel flocked the fertile plain;
There: terror driven. roved the branded
Kind Nature smiles when men obey her
To every i'll effect suggests it's cause.
Discord prevailed till sin-distracted man
Ceased savage strife and social life began
One lived for all, each sought the COM
Clan linked with clan in noble brother
hood.
Once more would earth enjoy a reign OF
peace
Man linked with God her reign should
But hold! From far throughout Eu.
| pirates realm
Approached the distance tribes the an
cient elm.
Her withered arms in mournful cadence
sighed.
And at her feet the voice of Nature cried
Those selfsame limbs wherein Creation
The Lord of Earth assumed majestic
| sway
Now lowly, dropped. and on the parchec
The sons of Earth in mournful groups
around,
Saw where their sire once sat enthronee
! with pride.
Where now he'd paid the penalty ano
died.
And there they asked, with hopeless iool
forlorn,
Whence came our noble parent? Whittier
gone?
And time rolled on. The generations ther
Replenished the earth. and wandering
Passed DER the land from Arctic's disma
SHOWS
To where the Nile through happy Egyp
From where the morn appears with san
dals gray
And ages passed and knowledge grew
apace,
From stage to stage evolved the human
race;
I
TO win her grace now burns propitiou:
fire.
ish ends
He sees the force which Nature freel!
lends.
And bowling winds which blow from
Rear him majestic DER the toppling wave
He proudly sits the furious steed astride
Measures with hasty glance the rolling
In Beautys world, usurpng Naturei
He proudly strives to initiate her art
ON every side colossal statues grand,
And architecture beautify the land
The Stagarite with course unerring. true
Took heaveEward flight and pierced TIN
ethereal blue.
He breaks the lock of Mystery's secre
And DER his world proud Sciences banne
filings:
He's traced the course of subterraneal
And found It's source in mountains darl
ravine.
Each wandering orb which sails ceestia
| fields
To Sciences lore increasing knowledg,
Each wandering orb has felt his search
ing gaze
And ali their kin which dot the distan
And as each beast in proud submission
came,
, Each planet in his turn received a name
He proudly dreams that in some future
!, year
He'll guide the earth thro' heavens re
vOlving sphere.
He's lit the dark recesses of the soul
And proudly dreams that he has seer
the whole.
What more. The learned Thalis exulting
ly cried,
Can man conceive in all his world beside
What more. Says ancient Homer's visag,
bold
All things escape not man. The Gods
But hold!
While year on year and age on age re
solved,
The ancient question yet remains un
| solved.
The heavenly team appears in bright ar
Il ray,
Anon the heavenly beams have passed
| away;
All Life succumbs to Death and, taking
flight,
It's beauty vanishes in the dismal Night
Still wall around the bier the groups for
lorn,
"Whence. came our father?' whittier
| has he gomez
My mind has oft perceived a glimmerins
| Speck
| Wbar. far awov tho fropc,,fI Iroppahao