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Page. 234 252 . 253 254 255 274 275 . 276 or^^:?. THE a E C L U 3 E . ▲ CAKZONET. YowDSK lee wears iraile of mons, The quickening sap has fled from its top. Nevertheless, as the glen you cross. Chasten your haste and deign to atop. That path leads closely beside a spring. The moss hung tree above it stares ; There gay birds twitter and blithe birds sing, . To lavish their joys that dread no snares, Under that tree is a leaning stone, On that rough stone a name ^s graven :=— May the body not crumble bone with bone. And the spirit be up in Heaven ? Ask you again : Who sleepeth there Down in the crypt of songless mortals. While the dust laughs flowers that once lisped care. Though Silence all heedless lag at the portals t THE KECLUSB, He lodged in yon battered rock formed cell. Half way the valley's crested steep. The grotto contains a bubbling well, la a nook o'" the wasteless heap. But no frescoed hall of princely pr ■ !e. No pillared arch with lights of glory : Yet meekly and gently an I sile by side. Look the stars through its battlements hoary. Was he an Eremite think you ? No ! And yet perhaps — he was much alone. And then indeed it was scarcely so, For glades of light had around him grown. Charmed with revealings of calm and storm, Genial in frankness, breezy withal, Eich kindness enhancing grew multiform. And each day dropt over a golden wall. For him a few goats climbed yon rocks. His head was gray as ancient story. Blanched like the wild and misty locks Exalting a moonlight glory. But never he tuned a pastoral reed, And a hazel wand was his only crook, And never bowed he by distinctive creed, For simply he held one marvellous Book. 231 THE RECLUSE. Spnrncd he the savants' shivering lore, V unt> that w mid s arch the st-aichlfss out pj-i.le thiit must rt' and i eaven exp'oe, Besmirched with insolence and doubt ? No delvinp sage no thinker sever"'. Cast shrewder plances at t c > or : While the Record of God he held m. st leir. And fervently bowjd him to ac'or-^. Thus he un^o k' d the r'dd!c of life In mystery caged beneath the heaven. Midst paths encompassed by sorrows rife, Through the ways of men uneven. A pleasant study were fosil anl stone, With vestig s of a day remote, A paleontology peacemeal shown. By scattered relics and hints of note. He saw, but it puzzled not his brain. From a basis of moveless rock he scanned, Conserved as a record not yet quit • plain, Under the All-devising Hand. Charmed, he viewed animal plant and tree, Consummate in marvels o f )rmative life. And space with its multitomed mystery. And a world moving under a shadow in strife. 282 THK RECLUSE. " Thus radiance over his soul was shed, In a golden high toned philosophy. And the map of the past was closely redd. In aspects blind pundits never could see. Sometimes the serf approached his grot. For he was skilled in the leeches' lore, And plants and blooms which gladdened that spot Choice virtues of kindly healing bore. He lived until the days grew old. He died — the stale and common story. That life had been a flower leaf stoled From the eye and sun of glory. And on a day with flits of gloom, A fair day— but it seemed not fair, The peasents came and dug his tomb, And weeping hid his body there. How many weep not o'er their friends, How many wail not for the dying ; Kow large the tear Deception blends With the sigh which is not sighing 1 But he M as wept with real tears, And wail that was no hollow wail. They set a stone as an end of years, And a rude cut name completes the tale, 233 THE COBLER OF HAMBURG. PART FIRST. p OES the Day down > What red rich firw ^ Burn on the City's lofty spires, Linger on peak and mountain crest, And kindling gleam on Elbe's breast. Glad stream ! with banks by beauty crowned. Enchanting pictures far renowned. Proud strewn ! -the laden wave has flowed, Midst good and ill by man's abode. And ease and affluence bestowed. Yes, Day's departing splendor fires Hamburg's proud pinacles and spirea. And o'er the hum of crowded streets. Shadow with stealing shadow meets. And noise of trafic and of trades. ' With lessening din the scene pervadei. While like a prince with gems bedigW, Soft eve leads on the restful night. Midst frowning roofs and towering walli. ^ The sky in .prinkled patches falli. Attempered in the holy hight. By waiting seraphs of deUgM. THE COBLEB OF HAMBURG. Hew dec'zens, confined all day. Peep forth amid the twilight gray,, To gulp the purer air, though yet By lines of brick and granite met. Hark to the cheerful notes that rise. Sweet song — 'tis dropping from the skies. Rich confidence exults and love In faith ir merged, and mounts above, On wings of starry splendor borne Where night is lost in floods of morn. Qkd song, impearled by opulent love. Bathed by the airs that charm and move. How brimmed with life's exuberant flfcst. To shams the despot of the dust. Amidst the olden city's din, Its throbs of discontent and sin, Its surging tides which pass him by, Careless to question or reply, Hans sits beneath a simple shade, Plying wltn zeal his humble trade. fitrange Cobler ! what can make him sing More cheerily than bird in spring ? Was ever bird so blythe as he. With untaught bubbling melody ? No whispering trees above him npread. No brook beside with babblings led, No slow meanderings cool and sweet, Ddight the sylvan safe retreat. 23G :m(^:£m^-:mkS^,am(^ THE COBLEB OF HAUBUBO. But the proud city's smoke and din, Its pent desires, its smouldering «in. Which onward urge, a restless tide Heaved from an ocean waste and wide. With eyes intent, with cheerful eyes, Bent on his toil as on a prize, Hans renovates on shapely last, A shoe whose pristine gloss is past. And deftly laboring to restore The comfort which it won before. Ekes out its usefulness to men. And makes it almost new agen. A wise an honorable toil. Better than victor's proudest spoil. Such trophies rise to cheer his heart. As days in lengthening file depart. Beside him, mii .hful though confined. Encaged, but to its lot resigned, — Nay, jocund in captivity. As if the freest of the free,— Ginging of fields all green and bright, A starling ming'es its delight. Beautiful workmanslip of God, How graceful how agile and gay. Though its fledged pinions ne'er abroai, Roamed unconfined in heaven's blue way. Hans sings an olden German song, Of flowing harps and glowing tkrong : Of a fair clime in distance bowed, Ne'er eaddened yet by pain or shrouft: 237 THE COBLEB OV HAMBURQ. A City gloriously old, Whose gates are pearl, whose streets are gold. Whose myriads, released from sin, White robed and rudiant walk therein. Each guarded by the arm of rest. Sequestered with supreme delight, Beyond imagination blest, Out of the world's defective sight. Each dowered with more than thought can think* Each crowned with more than heart can crave. Rich City on a river's brink, lich sweet melodious waters lave, Hans sings, and proudly as he sings. Rise visions of immortal things. The time the circumstance appear On purple pinions from above. On vans of beauty drawing near. Glad minstrels with a wreath of love. To decorate his temples here, The dazzling diadem of grace. The earnest of celestiai joys. He hears — distintly hears a voice. Accents that flood his soul with bliss, There is no earth nor emptiness Midst the full glory of their rift. In ine blest visions that uplift. What is time's phantasy to him ? A star in blackness dipt and dim. Its crowns so coveted ? They seem But idle bubbles on the stream. 238 THE COBLER OF HAMDURQ. The sceptTL'S of its boasted rule ? Straws fioatinf^ on a stagnant pool. Its mirth ? its wealth ? its hope r its good ? Dead leaves upon a seething flood. Absorl)ed in vast transporting joys. He scans no crowd, he hears no noise. That which he looks upon is high Above the night, beyond the sky. With Hans had it been always thus, Brjlluint, serene, imperilus ? Proved he that potency in earth, Which in our being has its birth ? Saw he that cloud uplit with dyes, Which hidis ♦he future from our eyei Strange witching lights that gaily floi And quite obscure the great liemote Yes but that Borcery dispelled. The heart is freed that once was held; When earthward it has looked in vain. And borne the tutelege of pain. Doubtless. And thus trivmph'nt, he Reviewed a dazzling destiny. 330 ^i.im>:;i^aif'X^ THE COBLER OF HAMBURG. PART SECOND. "^HO from the moving edying tide Turns unexpectedly aside ? Inquisitive — but some surprise Quaint though quiescent in his eyes. What has the Cobler, poor and old. To tempt tue Student wrapt and cold. Whose days long learned tomes consume. And legends grappled from i* 3 tomb : Things great and mighty, earth's proud boast. In darkness delved and gained with cost ? Is it those rnpt those cheerful looks. More potent now than dusty books ? That voice like chants of blossomed spring ? That heart which cannot choose but sing ? Yes these, like magnet hid and lone. Attract and make their presence known. He paused that Stranger with a bow : " Right merry — what abandon now ! Good friend, but midst so much that seemf Opposed to fond ssthetic dre&uis. THE COBLEB OF H/^MBURQ. Gray romance glad with ptanks emplaced la flowering vales of aroma. Was ne'er with winsome prestige graced. To rule the tedium quite away. No plume of joy such bliss outvies. Constrained, I pause in sheer surprise." The Cobler answered : " Should I not Be well contented with my lot. When gladness wakes my heart to bring Refulgent morn, perennial spring ? Really what is there man can need. Quite or in parf not mine in iced } " •* Not all are happy : few can bo, Even in the camp of luxury. Vainly imagination sighs O'er viands served by memories, Anticipation dreams of joy. While jocund hours departing cloy. Even I, whom hopes and prospect.s place Amongst the foremost of my race. Feel not that rich exuberant glow, Which you, my friend appear to know. Though forced to labor, poor an 1 old. With much of toil but less of gol'." Then Hans replied : •• Canst thou be sure. Though merged in toil, th^t I am poor * 241 -^-■^ THE COBLER OF HAMBUKU. Canst judg« my state or guess my rank. Or tell my balance at the bank ? Hope paints the darkest venture bright, With cheering smiles makes labors light ; The blossoming futurity. May breathe like shady summer dell. Seem merry as a marriage bell. Be as a golden sjjeaf to thee — Rather, a tower of fretted gold. On a proud rock and stern stronghold, Far flashing like a-jeweled hilt, In the rich scabbard of a king. There is an armory fo built That hearts in farthest prospect sing. " " Conjecture fanciful must err. Friend, yet this nimble messenger. May aid in demonstrating fact, Or gaily skim some rugged tract. Culling bright flowers and fragrance thence. If nought for furtherance or defence." Quite unconvinced the Student stooi. Thus stoled in musing attitude. As noiing something new or strange. Some curious ontologic change. Some puzzling theory, some vague Recital, or adumbrate theme ; Some atom, nucleus or e^^ ; Each ultimatum yet in dream. 342 ^ TQU COBLSa OF HA&IBURa. Kindled afresh the Cobler's eyes, The casket of his mysteries He hesitates not to unlock : The pause is closed, the silence broke. *• Justly thou deem'st me poor and old. With much of toil but less of gold : On this weak awl and waxen end, Loved ones apparently depend. But look ye, Friend ! I have in store For future use both gold and lore. Never has fruitful thought conceived. Never has credulous heart believed. One half the glory wealth and state. Which on my dazzling future wait. Indeed 'ds true, I have but yet A tithe of that I am to get. But even this little may suffice. When the great prospect near me liea. Coffers beyond what Croesus e'er Conceived in his most vild career. 1^ Hoards most extravigant, delights High beyond all that else invites.'* ••Good Friend, you introduce this mood, To variagate your solitude. Extravigances, for a while. May thus our transient life beguile. Some fond some fanciful desplay May while the tedicus hours away* 243 THE COBLER OF HAMBURG. Althougb succeasless fleem the art, 80 short the space 'all time depart. So insignificant our stay : Like leaf the winds will toss away. Like echoed played by naked rocks. Like brook made low by aparkling shocks. No cloudless sun select in grace, Can e'er refrain to hide its face. No gorgeous bow but fades apace. Activity with all its aims Retires amidst its prospering claims, Flits ofif and vanishes from view, As if unreal or untrue. Hiatus dread and interlude. Beheld, but scarcely v .derstood. As though absorbed by visions high, 'Tis thine to sing while others sigh. Laying hyperbole aside. Canst thou be gay whate'ur betide f ••Why not, said Hans, in sober truth Be gay as with perpetual youth >^ What ! me refrain to boast and sing f Hark ye— my father is a King ! On some ucerene delightful day, A sumptuous escort will be sent, And I shall rise and leave my tent, ^ And move in regal state away. " A look of pity mixt with scorn Was o'er the atudent'a visage borne. 244 r L T THE COBLEB OF HAMBUUO. That brow that nose-each as a mark, Those keen black eyes, complect.on dark. Each liniament-nay, all the face, Vrononnccd him of Judaic llace. ..So mote it prove! "he paused and eald. A Bmile sarcastically led ^ Whole troops of fancies vague and fleet . Tmust have heard al-g the street- Oa must have heard-^lthough us str- Thy name repeated on the -^^'^^K"; DouhtlL those ships catch many a bree.e. Laden with wealth of argosies.^ Trading afar o'er creeted seas. He muttered as he turned away : .. Throw off those rags, assume thy state . A t)rince in fancy rich and great. Poor mChow crazed I Ah, vain assay. ^ That which to reason seems demed. Floats on the mind's illusive tide When sober fact the rule concedes. And wild imagination leads. And the recording day at last . Entered the gateway of the past. 345 ' THE COBLER OF HAMBURG? PART THIRD. T.IKE autumn leavea deep dyed that quirer, ^ Eves drifted down the brook of time, The silverj tinkling brook of time. That little brook which grows a river Of flashing waves and stately chime. And swelling to a sea forever, A solemn c^oud encompassed sea. Outspread immense and silently. Again the city grand ant^ old. In Evening's purple robe is stoled. Again the Student passed that way. With pace that hinted at delay. The Cobler sits beside his door, Joyously singing as before. His jrladness like the oil of old, f The Widow's wondrous lavish store. Flowing unstayed and manifold. A proud cold phiz the Student wore •• Good evening, Prince ! " he deigned to Sij. THE cobleu or hambuho. But tlu-n the Colilcr drcv him near: ** (Stranger, a whisper in thine ear ; Doubt not. I marked the other eve, 'J he t«udden thought that bade thee leaf*. Ami brought our interview to close. 1 am not mad, as you suppose. Nor am I romancing the while. ^Vealth I possess in proud expanse Beyond the figments of romance. Nor am 1 hopeless to convince Even you that I am borne a prince. But first — I can forgive the smile — Be seated for a little while. 8INO!t. When crowns and sceptres have perished, Utterly, hopelessly : When treasures must loved and cherished. As fantsies flee ; A crown thick jewelled of sterling gold, A regal garment both new and old, With life unending and glory untold, Miue — O the grace ! shall be. 8IK08. My weakness, my burden, my sorrow. My pleasure, my life and its end, My hope for to-day and to-morrow, This reed that forbears not to bend, I earnestly cast upon Thee, My Hansom, Thine ever to be. 247 TBB COBLEB OF IIAMDI-BO. A rest am\ a rcfuRC most glorious, Freely Thou gi vest, O God, The vamiui«he:l recover victorious The lame leap for joy on the road^^ mere the morn ot Thy Presenco aiumt Lifcs vUta immortally blooms. Uason,thenanbeirofThenigbe.t1 O dazzling adoption supreme. How dwindle the things that arc mghest, Aad lapse in the midst of a dream. Son and Loir of the Maker Dmne. Unspeakable splendors are thine. ..Hebrew! thine own most ancient Roll. Though «Uh a weak attemptmg tongu.. pSctic Tome of heavenly mood., II.U of sublime infin-tudes. Hold in the mesh of every Ime, _ "mt marvels rich, what grace divine, What dazzling truth, what heavenly We. On wings uplifting us f"";;''*- Fountain of history, well of light. Streaming upon a world of mght. ..See;themoinfade8^onpa..di« TBE COBLEROr HAMBV RO. Man* Koodly frame in ruin liPB. Ah could they not ol,e.UouUthnd Keeping God'- simple boc comn^and. Comxnand how eany kind .ud xmull. Juet to forbear one tree of all Fruit loaded tree, countless around • Itt all God'8 glorious garden found. One tree of those fair fruited trees, Brought death and all life's agonies. Mark, Hebrew '.did you never read Amidst the cune. Eve F— ,^;^^^ j Which was to bruise the serpen s head. That serpent sly, as then f-^^'^]^ Though coiied in many a deadly fol' . Crushing earth's once exalted Rac^e. Plotting and envsous to debase. . Doubtless thou hast. But there is more. Fonder the prssageoer and oer. Note closely what those words aeveal. That Nacash is to bruise the heel Of the MESSIAH. Thence foretold By kings and holy aeers of old. n^. Hebrew 1 there are wonders hidden, ^ Fret'". medullary twofold application ; yet the fact should not be overlooked,— tliat while Abraham Is the common father, without reference to Bace, of all wlio possess similar faith; distinctions ot every sort being annulled in Christ Jesus — Yet to the Lineal de- scendants of Abraham, aud to them only, great and unpar.Ulelle<] National gifts and glories iuulienably belong. Yet how strange, that in t li fac of these truths, while told that it Is the glory of God to conceal a thing, and that his ways are past finding out; wliat multitudes seem perplext a..d incredu- lous when cited to this fact : That the descendants of the Tribes of the Assyrian captivity are now posing as our own immense and ever-expanding English speaking an 1 Saxon people. They are distinguished aud identified by every prophetic mark> i VOTES. Addpd to procf*. onvlndng mnny, th*re Is now a r. pjflj Rrow- .' ^ hnrres«ion amongst tl>e A...t.'lo-^axon people that hey then.- iefve^a^^^Uy and fn.Iy the dcsccnaents of the ost Ten Tnbo, Tf Israel. For disobclicnco a>ul ulolatry those Trbes were tat' Q S^Jt™ an'i^f.^ ^^^^J Bhephcrd olls.ac.1. ] . . . 1 wUl be their God and tary ^l'- - V"*- "/ ^Jle." Tiiese are plaia promises. Must tUey not LefuUilltu? Kot only have the lost Ten Tribes been found where least e*. cecTed; buttbatSifai and Witness unto the Lord of n()sts,in tl>e SS and at the same time in the l.order. of the land of Lgypt ( seeisaiait xix. 10, 2u. ) has at last Ijecn recognized m the Or at ^^amid. This the oldest of existing struc.ares. The mos e^b oSe and prodigeous ma.s ever erected. Consummate in its deep andliTcLrable design. Perfect amazingly in Its details. Lvin- dnVsuperlmnmn wisdom in its Ard-itect, and matchless sklU m iL exeLtion. Those secrets of science, and prophetic indicat.on. SLnitted to itskeeping upwards of four ^^-^^^ iZllf',": BOW, mthedaysfor which they were prepared, being delivered "P to the patient research and investij »tlon of minds created and u- ^B ip^or^hese researches. in fuluanent o^Uev^^eof^ Se .Vjur laheritaace iu the Great ryramW." By fuuai SibWi, J 51 KEROVO THE CHOSES .• BOOK. FtH8T. 4. p'«A'«Tme. O FATHRRl tonderly-aa ^nto Thee seems moet- Wlsdom to meditate Thy Word, so wondrous so replete, nose tnaolilng^ lofty beyond thought, those mysteries sobUme, Inscribed npon the golden Roll-cpltome of Umc. The fbrtunco of Tliy clwscn Tribes, arc there portrayed In UgM; As lustrous Indicating signs, as mentora midat the night. r«r>M tho deep c-.»nyon^ that betray the fierce and hnngry past, The gleams of a convulsive hope, rUf flickering and o'ercast. Th.. noon Is overshot with cloul. Impelk'd by blasts evere : Willie good is .igonized, and llte-t« woe pays many a tear. Wiiat moves the m-iltlto.ie.. . T^ey bow to what ? To wo«X and stone I . ■ ». Those wizard priests, with cunning sleights, laxurlouB s«att have won. Joy-'.ife-have ye no refuse left ? Precarious as the air ; Enchained, iminaaicled, engulfe I, in Uackness and desp^Ur. And is it on this fair green earth, with lavish bounty blest ; And underneath the Ufted heavens, and their unshaken rest; And is it midst luxuriant vales, and hills with blessings stored. That these vile gods have thrust aside The Uigh and Only Lord I Behold 1 how fallen nature flaunts, with senseless, foul grimace. O foUy , prodigal of Ues. O gods of deep disgrace, AM KEJtOrO: THE CHCSEiT, And this Is all that wisdom proiip, and cripplod art portray, Spurned 1l the vigor of its iiii}?lit, anU smitten with decay ? Alas for lib'^rty per>erse, the glories that have been : The stard. the deutiuies august, swept by divergent sin. Bay I must It last? Shall Ireniled lust assume the stole of trv.th; Whelm the gay world In wiclicdness, in.-iolate with youth; Error and misticittm jwrverse, through every phase be wormed, Perpetuate this morbid state, in ruin vast conllrmed: The race abandoned to a fate tcrltic and extreme, Where misery, bloau d and perverse, o'erstrides a world of dream ? No aid— uo guide— iu all the earth, with all Its pomp and boast: A glimmer daaoing on a cliff, wliero the black gulfs arc to»t ? Beyond the flood— yon mighty stream, that rolls Its sluggish tide, A I'rince shall rise. Behold the Man I upraised for blessings wide, f .lerc, wliil"^ his Slies are worshiping false gods, close masked, that, swarm, A Vcice arre>t» him and the g-rio«i of a Tranccndent Form. Kot like the chisselled deities, beasts, creeping things more base, Ad He that shines, as lie that hails one of Shemetic race. The Heavenly Vision bids him rise. Crost is thefVelghted stream. Tlie City of his childhood fades, the hiite of many a dream. Mesopotamia charms no more. And lonely, forth he fares: I'ilgrim— yea strange adventurer, to distant scenes repairs. Armed with iuvulnerable trust, high helmed above dismay, From glade to tented glade he moves, with brief and restless stay. Ko spot his own. But unto him, midst cliiidless weary years, The crowning promise of his hope, in laughing grace appears. Yes, Isaac leads the multitudes. Procession vast and long I Tbey come, tbey ccme I in peerless crowds, lUustrioua AUd stroog 256 AM KEHCV'O: THE CilOSES, Bow lavish, how munlflwnt, wltti ddz;illn>r vlctorJei : Enwroathcd with Rlory. an.l augu.*!. euhanoinir .-arth ani »«eRii. Fiiibin-lln'.' n I crown Mipreme, thi- parthN full ghoaf of times ; Th? th?«'»n » yeara, wh*n iiostlle arms no more amerce the climes. But not at once, nor yet In peace, the gold.n tide must flow : But in'dst tf period of «torms, and rock bound straits of woe. Lot neath the gods of M.-rap'ii^ Lowed, h..h.>1d in e^'il plight, Tlie kingly sons of Isaac's lUce- Icgraded, shorn of migh'. Joaeph wan jwne. Aloft the Nile a hauf.hty Ramses fh)vned : Sovereign of unooniputed wealth, supreme of hordes renowned. From the hard scJe lite amidst the rose-red quarries vast, Sphinxes and shftft. and gods coine forth thro mli?hty year, to lAst. They emauate-arottse-iiplre-ln clouds of workmen closed : Flaaishei, luxurioasly equipped, of oe and life composed. Now the bercttlcan ta«k r r«mo.e the stubborn monsters thence. On cumbrous vehicle Impose; atta- '. with cords Intense.- Perched on the monolith superb, a driver claps his hands, To time the slnu'taneous throb of the attaching bands. Now the taskmasters armed with whips urge concentrated force* Tf 3 sweltering sqaadft-unpltled slaves, to efforts stem coerce. Armed soldiers decorate the van-strategic rule Implied ;- Thus crowds of Hebrew bondmen toll in concert side by side. And the great monument creeps forth, immense o'er hill and dala And sands no obstacles oppose, nor streams as checks avaU. A Hebrew onoe this land preserved thro' seven d lsmu;.ing years : Tis all f'l'Potl and now his Race stands chained mid stripes and tears. Traineu lu tae quarries to achieve the mlricles of art; Forced, unto blocks of granite huge, proud glories to impart. ea*-k I 'tis the roar of furnaces : there smelted iron tides la flery pools midst beUowing winds urged thro' the shivering side. 257 i ^ M KEltO rO: THE vHosny. And .tin the :,i3.1n;r Htream, .re fed with fu.-I wlu I a„ , o™. VV .ile tr,H,p. Of toller, skille J-yet Muve.. d .lie ,...i rl ,ge explro. M lay rt..partcd to the ml»e. uaild.t «lD*tio bill-. Tr;»n.portln« from thoio .tores urcune the du^ltv^,onethat:.clU bo n.. d..|v.. la nearer Held., uad .om.. the ligulte bla .k „r .p;»re : ' Tfiough the fierce «uh right over head broil the ..u.tuinlug air Ar, I the.e are Hebrew, : arcUai.. wed .Wile 1. .upre^n.-ly nerved ToUlDg uoreoompeu^ed, oppre«ed, while lordly almi are served • W.le are the brtok field., toll i, rife, aad brlak the potters' wheel. i.dn rulers cruel a, the whip that .n.tes but never hel And lo, rich ornamented 8haa« aad walls of brick arise Thoi.. workmen toll on towers that climb to emulate the akiei. £ u >ell.hed .pires and golden roof, that ca.t off rift, of flame M.dst admiration of the crowd, the m.re exalt, their .hame Endowed with wisdom to devise, with skiU to execute Bat oo,-.pt and orampt and fetter'd base where tho't lUeir"ls muta. wth? f'^~'^t''»»n«'i severe, to rise supreme at last. With heavenly '.mper as a stole around his shoulders caaL He slnks^'t.: Out to emulate the eagle In his flight He oowers-behold he rises up. a lion In his might. And Keml's go«!s hare searched his soul and rifled it of gold • And light but flickers from his shrine, and hope is stark and colj O.SIavelshallthyescutcheonrise with lightand strength equipt» Aad thoB a titan in his cups with chains of slumber hiped ? Yes-bot astern deep destiny Involves thee in Its coils: Aad emlaenw must be attalned-bat tbroug-, despoaieat toUfc 259 ^'W- AM KERO vo THE CH08E5, BOCK SECOND. Rich Jewelled reed and gclden quiver, great Book of Bookf Divine I How bright thy keen and dazzling truths In rusUesg lustre shine f Long the geologist may squirm, and sweat in thritXless toil ; God'g muniment, unchipt, unscarrud, diridcs t-ach foul accoil. Those six high days of marvellous work, each day with restlal night, Saw heaven and earth from nothing formed, and tilled with life and might, GOD SPOKE-TWAS DONE!-Light, rapture-formed, mag- nificent in birth, Streamd o'er the Abyss I all Hyle I all Life I evoked la heaven and earth. Space lacoucelvable I How vast. How shoreless. How replete, V/Ith works of exquisite design, great orbs that lightly £eet. No periods of immense delay, no Mngering acts vere mose: But glory upon glory rushed. Each instantly uprote. Sea, earth and air, ee-'.s with its tribes regaled in joy and might And the fraU fly plied wings with speed that almost rival light. How silly all the \>v lit's dreams, how baseless fond and weak I See ! puffed and strutting in his pride o'er frenzy's latest freak I Eternal Power I how high beyond pride's role of feebleness, The sage's reach the student's range and fluctuating guess. Soared the true measure of Tliy might, the lustre of Thy ways. When sons of God with song and sLout impealed Thy holy praise. And days have fallen like summer blooais impurpling eve and morn, Since the first pair in frantic hope dared taste the fruit forlom. AiTKEBOrO: TBECBOSEN. But not the godless savant's ye^rs, his myriads absurd Since the first two supreme in Ufe, dread death aud dole tuearr^ Complete in faculty and power, endowments multiform. Kow stood they sad In lustre dimmed, th.uceforth to breast the storm. > ulckly the arts arose to aid, while taste and skill devised; ^-hus l.^r fohnd its true adjuncts, by glad acceptance prued. And mind its miracles achieved, superb inventions ^m a. But rampant pleasure burst the bond, and power its dupes AU gtoryleftme path of good, and sought dark ways perverse. And wonders of those ages, lost, achieved became a curse. Over the globe dire gulfs outpourd prophetic floods of wrath : The sphere in woeful waters lapped, rolled lifeless on its path. There toppled from the cuffs of pride gigantic wickedness, The specialist, inventors famed, with power to curse or bless. Attainments, scientific aids, perhaps without a peer. Were poured from off that fairer earth, cut short in full career. Surcharged with violence and fraught with lawlessness condign, Those flashing glories were refused, and dashed from haU and "~~ ehriae, lonely the wondrous ark above a waste of waters rode; With precious vestiges in trust, their last and sole abode. And when the floods were borne away, lo, a celesUal form, God'8 marveUous bow. created then and planted on the storm. jeweUed pledge I rich bow of grace I Such pity and love supreme I ^ j v «. How glowed those ancient honored men, charmed by iU kingly 4ream I 260 I AM KKROVO: THK CnOSEN. When Abn»ii» Wft his fathers' vale^^, thoir false gods cast asMe: Cor.-t tUr great rivei', pitciii-J his tent on Hurau's furthe-r side. Hij;h was the kind inspiring Voice that led liiiu thitherward; The marvellous .Man the Heavenly Guest who unto him appeared* There in an unfamiliar land he moved from place to place. No spo his own— 'jut God bestowed that country on his Race. A.id when :ill h i uiau hope dissolved lilce pliasma from the sands, Isaac uprose in hiuijiiter clad fo lead the waiting bands, inlicritor of birthright boon— with sorrows intermixt: Cycles of grandeur, yeu-s of life, with woes like hills betwixt. D.irk passages, dismaying scenes, wiiicli thrift can ne'er erase; But good resultant, wide spread good, and freedom hope and grace' Kingly and simply grand enwrapt in light's prophetic fold, Euuobling generous w;is tlie man—