The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18


Unto irrevocRble warB,
And onset OF titanic cars
In Nrmagcddons or the deepl w
Remote they burn whose dread array
CLOVIS from tho dark a dust or IRE,
Unhcard the storm OF Rigcls ire.
grain OF light Arcturu9 day. 80
What sound ehal paos tho CULTS where sroan
Their suion axlos on tho niSht2
What thunC er from the strands or liEht -
Whence Vega Sares on worlds unknown
o deep whose very silence stuns'
Where light Is powerless to Hume
Lost IN immensitios Of gloom
That dwarf TO notes tho nnrlnG suna
o Tides that foam on strands untrod.
From in everlasting prime
To light where life looks forth thine
And pain, unanswered, questions Cod 90
Profounds whose siIences proclaim
What realms OF myatery and ewol
Colossal wraths extoiling law
From unsubYerted thrones OF lame
suns OF tho lyre whose thunders rise
From chorde tho eternal bon6s have Fmit!
Stars OF the sword moment 1T
Ero life re-nome her altered skies! go
without beginning. aim or end:
Supreme, incessant, unbcGot.
Tho systems change. but goal is not,
Where the InnniJies attend. go
Eternity! thlno awful hondu.
Shall blot the lion from our skies.
And build thy dark for future eyes
Where now illumed Orion stands. go
To death the sons OF life arc thrust:
From night to night the nations poce;
Empire by empire, race by race.
The generations pass 10 dust
Astronomers tell us that planetary sys-
tens In which the dynimic forces have
died out through long aeons drift at last
adown the terrible profounds Of space
until finally In tremendous collision With
other system. they burst again to cosmic
flame; whence worlds are born and life
rebulids anew, The poet pictures thus
our own earths possible tragedy with
sublime pathoS
When her appointed course be run:
TIN on the darkness faint her breath,
Flown TO tho silent void, and death
SIT crowned upon the ashen sun. ''''
And stnrward drifts the stricken world.
Lone in unalterlblc gloom,
Dead, with universe for tomb.
Dark and to vastcr darkness whirled. ''''
Till sun md sun be met at last
In warfare than annuls tho night
When sea and mountain start 10 light
Pyres or the saorinciul past 80
Dim wells OF fire. o world! that were
The stubborn eastions OF thy frame
Wherein 5hy spectral oceans stir.
1t is picture of terrible patbos. to
think Of our denr old earth drifting at
last adown the awful dark, with all of
humanlty's millions dead upon her breast.
Or and on they drift for aeons In gufs
of shadow lit now and then by the light
Of allen suns At last comes the urld
glare and the engulfns thunders OF col
lision with other worlds. 1t is the great
creative process of God Out Of the whirl
ing nebulae "A new sun illumes another
sky; new planets and a new world take
up their attendant orbit.
And LIFE awnkos 10 know again
The Hight OF stars. caress OF Tnin'
Ana winds OF the forgotten morn
All 1t Is in this that the poet has shown
the master hand How sweet to us NOR
tails is the light of stars, and who has
not heard and loved the caress of rain on
some shcltering roof In the nighttime?
VIII all this be again when we have been
dead for aeons and our dust remounts to
life on other worlds After the vast uni
versal storm when reillumined sun
shines on other lands and seas. Will our
spirits be In consciousness with the loved
ones have lost on earth?-father,
mother. sister, brother. or the dear one
who was our life companion. VIII we
be lost from them and they from us for
ever-when our dust is scattered among
the stars. Will our souls gain and keep
the conscience Immortality for which they
crave?
WIN life. the bourne eternal crossed.
Attain the secret of her hours?
VIII SORROW md ntoning pow rs
And love fare heovenward To her lost7
This question the poet asks. but even
all those have gone before. he cannot
demonstrate an Affirmative answer, II Is
n boon that he himself Graves.
The boon TO know that life abIdes
one with the Immortality,
One with the changing mystery,
And foam OF tne ctcruhI tuts
lhy secret o profound ot stars!
We born OF darkness. dare 10 seek,
Adjuring Rigcl that he speaks
His tldings OF the eternal wars
CapclIu past thy lonely light
What Guardians rule the changeless vold7
with nnal Eden undestroycd
Where secthe the caldrons OF the night? ''"
Arcturus. from tho abysscs vast
That hush the voices of thy strife
Hast heard whisper unto lfe
| Assuring THAI she rest at last2 90
To what emergency concealed,
| Abides the realm seek 10 share
Which all antecedcnt prny'r
Eternity hath not rcSealcd2 go
Dost deem the eternity to come,
The secret VIII disclose AZ last
Whercunto eternal past
Held lips 10 revelation dumb2 "''
| lift cntreatlng eyes TO SEQ
| Gulf beyond gulf Till sight relent
sun beyond sun TIL time repent
| IT'S question OF innnity. 's
And lost within the glooms that All
| Tho nights primordial realm unknown.
| See mystery on vastcr throne
| And truths far face rccediDg still. 80
| How dreadful your lnanityi
| Shrined by your tcrmless trinity.
| How strange. how terrible, Is life, ''-
How oft. life worlds forgot
| Host thou. in thine unnumbered forms
| Gone forth TO times transmitting storms
| And fought til storm and stress were not
| How Oft hast strivcn. hoped and died
| And. dying. fored to gracous rest
| The Nights inevitable guest.
| An nllen reals unvcrihed,
| Thus contemplating the vast wonders
| and questioning the mysteries OF creation,
| and knowing mans craving for immor-
| tality. tho poet does not give US the final
| word of hope for which we hunger. and
| II is in this II anything, that the great
| poem falls. One lays tho book down with
n sense of bereavement, for though it's
! music has sweep upon the heart-strines
| and Its majesty has borne the mind amid
the SYSTEMS OF unnumbered suns, IL ceases
| at last In sob. Not in the tenderness,
the sad beauty of Ingersolls tribute. the
| listening Love that can hear the rustic
Of an angels wing. but Ike Burton S