The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-05
Oceans story.

The nucleus of that whereon you creep.
In ny emerald depths an insect band,
Atom by atom, at Gods command,
Reared mansion woRdroas fair.
Carven columns and arehways rare,
Secret chambers and lonely halls.
Length ming vistas Of coral walls,
Upward rising mite by mite;
But only the eyes Of the Infinite
Watched the toiIers for centuries rear
Through gothic arches where sea-laee trailes
The ehambered nautilus gaily sailed;
And the hermit crab IN his stolen shell,
In the coral chambers loved 10 dwell;
And sea anemones formed shade
Where moon and starfsh often played;
But never human eye could view
These wonders beneath my waters blue.
Coeval with Asia s natal day.
4 snowy, sparkling, feathery spray
OF coral rose over the erests Of my waves;
Each little cell held countless graves,
Where the mystic Ife-forrns lay concealed
In their self-built sepulehers here revealed.
Stars that glowed with celestial light,
With Time : icenoclastic fight
Grew pale and darkled into space;
But. eel hy cell, these forms Of grace,
At the glowing mandate Of Power Divine,
Heightened the alabastrian line
That ghstened above my waters blue
Yet only the sea-bird as he few,
Tempest-wearied, paused TO rest
On that lonely reef on ny sHrging breast
Year BY year BY Divine decree
Flotsa1n and jetsam Of the sea,
Shells of irideseut hues,
Fairer than those . 'er which you mnse,
Broken seaweea, branch Of palm,
Areonaut from an isle of balns
skeleton leaves that nv waves had made,
scarcely fashioned. you a think, for shade,
And fruits and flowers from q troplc land,
Nv surges east on the coral strand
All guided here By the Unseen Hand;
And. wear by rear. the tireless band
OF tollers beneath my morning waves.
Fashioned their wondrous, myriad graves,
And age BIZ age the island grew,
TIL the stars above no longer knew
The reef where the sea-bird paused 70 res
In the newborn isle en- NY pulsing breast
Century after century rolled,
TIL the year Of life Times dial told
For the lonely isle that God had set
like a gem In the ocean 3 eoronet-
And dormant germs that for cons lay
In chilly erypts of insentient clay
into the sunlight forced their way
The prev of the winds ard sport OF the 81
f~ru5ast children Of natures womb,
Precursors Of the wealth OF bloom,
That you see today IN perfection here
Part Of the Purpose that sways the sphere
Each little plant. It's mission o'er.
fzrumhled 70 dust that a hundred more,
Hig4fsr staI IN Life's grand scale,
Might bloom and die On hill and vale.
.,5 +ba fairest flowers thar ever the bees
Riaed OF sweets. meath the grandesf trees
That ever the woodman's axe hath kno"I
BeieweIed the islands scented zone
Perperua1 summer held regal sway
a.er this lovely realm, and the glowing da
A II dimuled westward. saw star-e!ed nlgi
With the tropie moons refulgent light
Ger the dreaming island gently steal,
And each new sun set its glowing seal
of beauty on wood and hill and dale
Til the sweetest birdsongs filed eaen Fa4f
And butterflies Of varied hue
Fitted the scented wildwood through
And the trees bore fruits that would giadt
Of the serapbin Of Paradise
And the day had dawnea for GOO ; graaa
To rrvztaIlize IN the form OF man
Protoplasnic vapors euried
Round the peaks OF the lItfie lsiano "'-4
f-b.o+ie forznless wells OF mist
THAT wanton sunbeams boldly kissed,
TIN the atoms of spirit nebulae
Fran the bondage Of ages hoafed free.
a mt Of the stellar spaces came
: lightning fash Of living flame,
r.a+ touched the atoms with pregnant nre'
"a n, like souls from funeral pyre.
N .z1av with life newborn
From the procreant light OF the tropie Hl0i
7, This lonely. lovely insular earth
Txo beings sprang 10 radiant biFfhi
Re-, n the human heritage
o4 5ov and woe. Of youth and age;
p, an that the seed Of man has Known
10 S~S~ II SQw1.