Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-29

- happy eddy whiried me life a lest
IL a stone doorway high above the
Where like a leaf against q rail !
And saw the elements Dissolve in
foam,
a tide rolled mp the way-a human
And swept against that multitude
and rolled
Ut 80 as II had been a parchment
scroll-
a tide resistleSs an the midland Sea
When after Aesn2's wrath IL sweeps
the shore.
To spend itself against the moun-
iain's feet.
Yet in it's heart-the heart Of that
Wild SEA
There came the cause Of all that
mighty strife:
A single. simple. calm-eyed,l fair
young man
Riding upon a colt-an ASS foai-
His face as placid as a
pool
Asleep in peace on some soft summer
eve.
Summed By a smile Of clear serenity,
That seemed TO mirror the unrufied
heaven.
The people tore their garments of
and strewed
Them in the way before the ass
tore down
The branches Of the trees and strew-
ed them there,
Shouting their wild hosannas TO the
sky,
AccIaiming him their great King,
Dayid's Son;
Yet rode he on unmoyed, calm as a
star,
That beams upon the storm-lashed
G below,
Attended by some half-score fisher
folk,
Who moved behind him like a body
guard.
The vast a%ssemblage bore him TO the
gate.
And up the Temple steps, at top of
which
He turned and gazed upon a pulsing
sea
OF faces lighted with adoring hope.
I've seen "A Roman veteran stand on
guard
Amid the angry vulgar's seething
main
Unmoyed as though he were a rock
mid-sea
'Gainst which the savage waves
surged helplessly;
Yet never saw / al so wholly lost
To all about him. Mid that surging
throng,
He might have been a calm God from
the sky,
Treading the starry heights of per-
feet Peace.
He turned and swept them with be-
nignant eyes,
Smiled softly on them with the kind
ly smile
A father sheds upon his eager lads;
Looked on the sky with tender, long
ing gaze
And with a gentle smile and gesture
as
or abnegation, turned and entered in,
AS in a sort Of sunny mist which
seemed
r. enfold him like a fine and snowy
The Temple gate wrapt in unbroken
peace.
BY Hercules! 1t was a God-like
choice:
To fling away a nations leadership
And choose the lofty, contemplative
life"
An Epic by Thomas Nelson Page.
A notable contribution to epic lit
erature appears in the April Woman's
Home Companion. II Is a two-page
poem by Thomas Nelson Page, en-
titled AT Pilates Judgment Seat
Mr.. Page concludes the poem with
the following postscript:
This postscript, written briefly for
n fact
That hath transpired since | my let
ter closed,
Informs thee that a m flies
abroad
That the Philosopher whom Pontius
slew
Is risen from the dead. This much is
sure:
His body, in despite of seal and
watch,
Hath vanished from the tomb. The
High Priests swear
Twas stol'n away while that the SEN
tries slept.
A likely tale that Roman soldiers
slept
Upon their post. sentence for which
Is death!
Ills said he hath been seen of many
men,
| ponder ont. We know what So.
crates,
What Plato taught, and the philoso'
piers,
About the essence indestructible,
And how a good man through ii rises
up
Till he partakes of the Divinity itself
Thinkst thou this Jesus could have
risen up
w Socrates declared He looked tc
rise?
/ own | find my heart is lighter now,
But on the bare Chance that He still
may live,
But on the barer chance he may In.
form
My cropping heart with some faint
glimmering
o. the inner light | saw irradiate
His form that day upon the Temple
porch
When he put by a throne to bear a
cross,
| would might have but a moments
space