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BY AUTHOR OF QUEEN VICTORIAS OLIVE TREE, AND OTHER POEMS. « HE SPAKE, AND IT WAS. »» L A H S T O K: RTTEAL PKESS. 1887 H I ^.d;b-^^^^^^^^^ :ZZ:7:ZSZ U .. done m tue twlnuiu. of a» eye-even then be comprehended I Let any one for the first timc-or the hundredth ^ven-rcad thfeacTeralunt of the Six days of creation an. U^ese^^^^^ I nnd sav Whether that record in that supreme dictation does r;o:vra".-otlntended.oeonveyt,.ea,.^^^^^^^^^ ontnpenaou. ereatlve act. in r.P« -« »- -:; -^^.^ „, dinary acceptation of time :• A wetK ui b^> . , „ Twenty four hours. - And in the creative acts of those six days Z Lali say how much is comprised? The simple declaratiou "^i^^ow nothing yet as we ought to know," is not niei.ly an aphorism, hut a r.vealed truth of widest application.- AN hicU eclence repeatedly iUustrates. i Elm Lodge Riverside, Kingsclear, N. n. Canada* Jann,9 1*8? !??. ;: f--- GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. OOD SAVE THE QUEEN. t Thou hast spoken of Thy servants House for a great while to come. King David. He svhdues the peoples under uSt And the nations under our feet. He chooses our inheritance for ms, The pride of Jacob whom He loves. Psalm xlvii. /4 GOD save our gracious Queen, God bless our noble Queen : Long may she reign I Ruling in sympathy. Goodness and equity. Over her great and free. Nations and men. Scion of JudaVs kings. Witness of wondrous things Brought over seas. Seated on Jacob's Stone, Ruling on David's Throne. Fulfilling, making known. Heaven's decrees. Long be thy people's boast. Let earth's remotest coast Joy 'neath thy sway. Queen of the ancient line. Empress on Throne Divine ! Cloudless thy star will shine. Heralding day. (&^ Iw THEMETHLA Then again, we are met with the siubbom fact, that If the six days of the creation are six periods, the seventh day must likewise be an indefinite period. liien what becomes of our Sabbatli? ^lieCreOioH: Two Lecturse >By Pro/, J. M. Hirchfddcr, TIIEMETIILA. A MORN magnificent ! Muffled in snow Drifted and deep gleam th« retreating vales, Weirdy and bank'd with beauty. All Thy works. How they u'erdrip in crystals of delight, And rustle with the mysteries of Heaven ! Thb sun climbs up along the southward hills ; Turns this way a glad face from a blue sky. Perfectly cloudless, with such golden smiles ! The white snows sparskle into life and warmth. And the dusk wood responds with whispered joy. The clean cut shadows of the trees grotesque. Fall on the perfect snows. Each twig and bud. Each hardy frond limned on the lustrous banks And moveless River surface. Glorious beauty Has visited this earth : and every phase Of every season has its loveliness. How wonderiui are we — and our surroundings ! I have been thinking of the labyrinth. The world of riddles — into which we are dropt. We are but embryos, scarce have seen the sun, - And proteus Theory — strutting in dreams — Is but a pigmy and no 'giant yet. Though playing with creation as a top — • He spins it, grins and chuckles, full of glee, As having overmastered mysteries, And proved the Bible a stupendous myth,] And God no God at all mere principle Working in matter, void of personality ! Oh sage I Nor lacks there even men of worth, Who staod as watchmen on the towers of Truth, ] 8 E\}tmziila, That crouch at these assumptions and turn pale, Making absurd concessions. As if God Dictated his great Book in language vague, And almost absolutely meaningless. Such flimsy zigzag of interpretation Stumbling and timorous intellects apply, To obviate objections of mere men. Can sublunary wisdom find out God ? That God who hides himself amidst his works : Every where present yet invisible ? Scienee — what is it ? Hark — A leaf in autumn, Changing and frail : the fitful breath that beara it, Which sighs among the tree tops and is gone. An edying torrent Curbed by rocky steeps. Gainst which it vainly dashes and is lost, A bursting star that shoots athwart the sky To sink in utter darkness-(It was only One sand of the dust of heaven, which sped along As if 'twere charioted by steeds of lightning : But having fallen upon earth's atmosphere, Grew glorious for a moment.) A will-o-the-wisp, That lures the drenched belated traveller To fens and vallowiiig; quags, perplexed and sad. A wrecker's beacon, on a dangerou*: coast, Which cheats the ship to breakers shoals and death Yonder's the man of science. Lo he dreams Amidst thy deafening roar, Niagara ! He notes thy slow recession through the cliffs, ' ' Mining the soft and underlying strata, Until the surface rock, denied support, Crumbles and falls in the resistless gulf. And from this passing phase, mark ! be unfoldfli Interprets and lays bare the waste of timoi 9 ■I C J f m e 1 5 1 a • Secrets of ages. He puts forth his staff. Pointing across the untraversed misty Lake, Through lagging cycles of a vast duration. This archaeological evidence suffices To prove to his mind the eternity of matter. He delves to find the landmarks of illapse, "While inconceivable Eons watch around. ■ Such theory is dermal, mere conjecture, Baseless assumption, a prodigious sham. Yes ! speak, thou roaring Cataract, from thy bed. Reply to the interrogating hours : Wert thou amongst the rivers, when God's fiat Had gathered up the waters, and decreed The cloud hid mountains and the toppling crags, Each breezy eminence, eacli suculent vale Winding in dreams of romance. Shimmering rills Tinkling thro' pebbly nooks. The gleaming river Stealing into the smoking cataract ? Is it not more than doubtful ? Possibly , Thy bed-rock then was forming fathoms deep. Where was the witness of thy thunders when Earth young but filled with violence, provoked The lenity of high observant Heaven ? Wert thou then form'd, stern monarch of cascades ? Proof yet demurs to certify the fact : Yoked with the possibility stands doubt. Was thy rock soft or hard (if thou canst boast / Even so gray an age) when, at subsidence Of the Great Deluge, disembouging lakes Emptied their volume through this narrow gorge ? Was much of this w(|rk accomplished in one day ? One month ? one year ? haply oae century ? — 10 t II ^ f) t m s t f) I 3 • This whole six miles that flank the marvcnous bluS" Which overlooks wave-piled Ontario ? "Who knows what agencies were here at work ? What secret preparation had been made In the bed rock, the loose conglomerate ? Shells microscopic, mist-like infusoria, May not have been subsiding countless ages. That Power whose acts are miracle is not straiten' dt In the ornate construction of His works, In all their wonders and intricasies, By hours or ages. The effect of cyclea Is stored in inappreciable time : Even prodigies repose upon the point Of a bare second, dazzling and complete- i Cana held once a marriage feast. And when Replenished were the tables, it so happened, Wine the rubificant, which gladdens the heart,, Shunned the exhausted vessels. In that hour, One bidden to the wedding bade the servants Fill six capacious ,fars of stone with water. Immediately they filled them to the brim. He then the Guest knoMii but how much a stranger!! Bade them replenish thence the lengthen'd tables. Soon as the governor of the feast had tasted, He called the bridegroom and he said : Men first Set forth their wine — the best — and afterwards Bring on the poorer : thou hast kept the good Wine until now. Suppose a vintager, Deep skilled in wines, or vintner whose nice taste Keen, unmistaking in the racy juice, Had then been shown a sample of this wine, Would he not have pronounced inductively, 11 Ef) tm g 1 1 1 a. Pcciilianties of that rich drink ? Could he not lia\e decided on what soil Of sunny hillside fanned by genial airs, Or what fat vale, those luscious grape s were grown In all their fair profusion, mellowing slowly In the autumnal golden dreamy haze ; Gathered by singing hearts who trod with shouts- The winepress purpled with the blood of grapes. Discribe the fermentation, guess the age Mature, and racy zest of tardy decades ; With each minute addition. Clear as savant Can tell the age of strata, shells and bones. And bird tracks left in the sand slabs of the lakes. What tho' the rock which forms this grand plateau Be recent or alluvial, vestige bearing Of living forms and patterns of to-day. And bones of mastodon ? Who yet shall read With certainty these records of its years ? Evoke and bring to light successive changes Ot which this catalogue takes no account ? Changes thci t ic, elemental, vast, Altering the face of things, confusing strata — Deep lake and lofty mountain top exchanged, And levels tossed by the disportive mood Of some earth-shaking spasm. Show us the science Whose optic tube can penetrate the past, And spy the dusk abstruse effect and cause, And trace the scope and management of things ? ' Conclusion quite at fault. The laws of nature * Are simply products of Miraculous Power, Perfectly arbitrary : and denote No absolute necessity which Imks k i vr." f ! (B^S^metna. The potent cause with its observed effect — Nothing insup rable upon the part Of the Creator. Frequently has God Suspended or reversed his natural laws : (Yet some would sweep the glory from the act ! ) Witness that hour when Israel's Leader cried : — Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou Moon In valley of Ajalon ! Earth at once Ceased spinning. Did that quick surcease produce Au-H^jnted gravitation ? Why did not The bevies on the green hills, glens and nooks, The flocks that sport in the etherial sea, The hostile host in rout, the swift pursuers — Falter beneath the earth's attractive force, Fall to the grasping earth — at once o'ercome -^' By the stern dictate of a natural law ? Rusk air itself — why did it not, denuded That quick centrifugal dispersing force. In denser volume press the shrinking earth. Deprived the uplifting balance of its speed. To work its mischief with a might unseen ? Motionless at the fiat from on Bigh, ' Quelled in the depths of its abstrusest caves, Slept gravitation — nor put forth a paw Lion-like from its den. That Power whose word Created all these glories^ and locked up Forces immense in matter, holds them all Subject to the least motion of his will, And moves them as a feather in the haze, Clipt from the artic petral's wing, when squalls Of flyiug Einows dance whitely through the vales. On the hoar earth lie graven characters. Deep unspelled hieroglyphs and antecedents j ' 13 €fitiu£ t JU. Footprints as of a multitude of years. In the hard rock laid up. Slight vestiges Of a strange animation gone. Some change Twice journey'd o'er the glowing hemispheres, Tho" seemingly unchang'd. Yes, neath that sun. Flooding profuse with golden affluence. The dwelling place of men. And since yon moon In heaven's blue aolitude, fair croniclcr ! Bathed with her silvery silent dreamy spray Nights like the forest's leafy retinue. These come no more to obliterate. But now Sweet interchanges — grateful, kind returns Of life youth beauty. Man — does he return ? He- the enigma of this marvellous world, He-the rich crown and throne of the apparent ? Earth steals about him. The dim haunted past Wraps him within its blanket. He surceases, And where is he ? Culture in vain appeals. With essay with experiment. Estops, Baffled and unrequited and dismayed. The mystery remains inscrutable. Lying without the boundaries of sense. And entering the infinitudes bi yon I. One only revelation, from the brink Of the unknown and long forgotten years, Aaaerts man's origin and destiny. Yet many slight and not a few despise it 1 Yes, any myth will serve an aim perverse. Which would far rather fondle lies absurd. Than trust the infallible record of the Roll Of Him who built the clustering universes. — Others would make it easier for God ^ To work his wonders ! Taking quite away 14 2r Jj e m c t J) I a . The sunilasli. But who dare set up a target, And say He can not do it ! Did they rise — Thoso rollinfT orbs and mysteries interstellar, 81owly or instantaneously ? Combine From mistlikc wisps, ulterior lo dates, With an Rwnkenirig motion and selection, Tfero' cycles piled on cycles. — till respondent In each requirement of the accomplished train ? — Lo ! in the simple fiat of those lips Lodges the infinite bevy, the supply And splendor of creation. Quick as came The marvellous viands all prepared, that fed The needy thousands in that day unique. When the Great Prince those pinched and fru- gal stores Augmented with miraculous supply. ii Behold what tropical embellished trees ^"^ Lie bedded in tne shivering artic soil, Midst the fierce rigors of the frozen North. These fiourished ere the pristine earth was curst. Or ever boreal blast enerisped the seas. ] Over the hundred ponderous brazen gates. As if a phantom merely — baseless — void. Or startling echo lo, their pride is fled. Seek now the brick lined moat whose bending lake- Enclosed the vaunting city with a belt Of glory and defense. That too is gone. Gone like a feverish vision of the night. 'Utterly broken," like those wondrous wall*. Now patient archaeologists dispute Their very site finding no vestige left Of double wall or trench. The masonry Has vanish'd like the builders — as foretold "While the proud City menac'd earth and Heaven: Fully a thousand years before its full. What stone is this that startles with its hugeness } Where are the workmen who some moments sincet Broke off their labors ? Will they come agaia After short interval, to their great task ? Yes, doubtless we shall watch their vigorous toiI> And wait to witness the herculean foat Por this great block, the greatest that was ever Cut from the quarry — is almost detached. Awaiting transportation to its niche Of seventy feet, in yon titanic platform Of the unfiniahed Temple of the Sun. Hush"do we hear them coming ? No ! the Master^ Chief of the builders, who devised the plan. Of this Cyclopean structure, has been absent,. With all his workmen forty centuries ! Yes, an impossible four thousand years ir - 17 i \ nr !) e m c t b I a . Have actnully flittr'd o'er thi^ scene, An'l loft on this f;rerit stone not even a wing-brush. Anl those vast years have built and trampled glories And boastft of the enrth, altho' it seems a moment ♦Since hammers and chisels, plied by busy hands Of noisy artisans, left this great task. Unknown surcease. They never will come again To the quarry of this Syrian city, Baalbec. ^>omc sudden unforseen emergency—— Some Providential interruption, Baffled their towering plans, and incomplete Doomed the idolatrous Temple. There it stands Impressive, marvellous, unfinished, waste: — Fragmf^nt of almost immemorial days. And witness to the grandeur of that Past Which hasted not nor tarried— and is gone. - On a great wondrous Monolith, is graven With point of diamond in the rock forever : — The g ) Is that have not made the earth and heavens. Shall parish from them: and the earth be filled With knowledge of the LORD as waters cover The uiiplumbjd basins of the surging deep. — — . Already springs the dawn of this broad day. Aets-like the sands of heaven impell'd thro' space, Form stars in the blue atmosphere of time.— Search the dense dust! Even Ilium old, disturbed Breaks the long trance of a romantic sleep Neath buried cities. Bare those rock-hewn tombs Of noted heroes. Sift those golden wares, Wrought dexterously in ancient art profuse. Scrape the fall'n rubbish from her basements rude And find beneath them even an earlier Troy.— • 18 5r fj e m e t fj I a . 1/ 11 i Bedecked in tropliiea rescued from the past, She lights the trutli of old Homeric song. Quclap's gigantic wall of well dressed stone, Midst those mysterious pre-Incal works Scattered throughout Peru, invites a thought. Full fifty feet in height, immense of base ; In stern solidity, supporting yet Another of equal licight. And both surmounted By niches for the d^ad — in silence seated. Lean chin on knees reclined, and arms entwining Dried shrivelled legs, confined in their stone grots Naked — or dm pod in hued embroidered cotton. Oh ghastly mimicry ! how surely swept By slow attrident ages into dust. And sepulchres like ovens pierce the towers. On whose slabb'd floors strange puzzling mum- mies rest: Still unawakened from the trance of ages. Which yet will burst its chain-0 woirdrous tho't ! Behold the marks of life o'er many a plain. See cities merged in forests. Nodding gloom Sighs over empty courts. From stately walls Huge built of chiseled porphyry and granite, Stare the forsaken idols, while deep rooted, Perch monstrous forest shafts in leafy grandeur Over the puzzling masonry. No fancy. But mulish Fact — the wizard ! stoops to hear, As from a weird and chattering phonograph. The songs and wails of a despoiling past.' What patient racking toil, what vast endurance Environed mountains, teracing the hills. 19 C Ij c m e t f) I a . Huiv^ods of lor^i-s of w:!lls tliro* ro't Itiagncs on loarjues jilonj^ forbidding ways, O'er obstacles most insurnionntable. These tcraeed hills fed a dm^n population, ]MI^:hty in project and in execution. ITiose busy denizens have f^onc the way Of all the earth. Removed as by the swoop Of a dread besom into nhados obscure. Lived th'jy beforo thj awml catacly^jm : O suculcnt valley of the mjstic Nile, Hiver of old bewildering? Mizraim, Where are the strt Jy palaces, which erst, High garlanded with envious renown, Dazzled and awed Ilelcnic travellers ? See! prono in dust the Shadow of the past Scarce whispers from the stones of emptiness. Here disappointing quest and vain endeavor. After a seeming, high and realistic. Shame the sad hours, darken like sunset clouds Reft of a subtle glory not thsfr own. The elaborate decorations of those years. The goodly toils of light-delivering art, Were dragg'd amidst the abominable trail Of bestial gods hatched in th.e lowest hell. And the decree of the Kternal One Smote the false light and tlie voluptuous gourd. The idols have departed out of Noph — Nay ! perish'd, as the ancient Roil declared. 20 ^t\>\ broken columns strew mft'i^nifi'vjnce, AiuJ mysttry o'er many a vaunted ai'e; Whore thf pri(-8t-blin(led iriyriads of n 'H G-o in*' '. ni-ath a noatit tin of lis-istro is cree Is, Of ariar'iii domoniacal, and framed For tiie .subver-iion of the entire mun. Who reared von wondrous Pik? Vast monnm;mt Prince of the Pyriimidsl and lime in splendor. Tiie taft» of iny.-stery unmovin^ wrapt Thy strange interior tiirough checkered days Ot the huge kden past. Kternity Seems croaching- at thy feet. And o'er thy head Roll ciiange and shadow and dismantling times, Yea, ail tlie wrath of the abolishing Past. Scarred, yet thou Imgerest. From thy silent halls Bursts i'oith B glory, leaps a lambent tiame ; And science teaching scientists, and tossing Tna boasted laurels from the savant's brow. Long lines of kings here flourish'd, but who placed On everlasting ledges of the earth, Tnese sentient blocks ? Incised and polish'd them, And joined with consnmite skill ? Nay, w-io implanted T iG on ancing kaowbd^e in t'lis Pile occalt ? Strange epizeuxis and epitome ! A Roll shall answer it : Behold the Pillar, The Sign and Witness to the Lord of Hosts. Go forth, ye Savans, search ! for there is much To be accomplished through this ancient Pile. It shall giv* up those treasures held in trust. To quest that wearies— falters not, is patient, 21 M'n of MiinuHscli [ aiul refresh your toil With things reserved for the approaching cycle. With glories hidden fi o n earth's infancy. Prepared by israelH KING for his Great People, The sons of Aorahum, God speed ye forth. Called — destinated by the Heavenly Voice, To be the source of a posterity. Prime as the stars, and multitudinous As all the outpoured sands of every coast: God's heritage on earth. Departed thence, L:;aving ais father's gods beyond the river. This Sire of many nations. Taking witii him Sarai ttie beautiful, the designated Princess and mother of nations. And of kings, The predecessor of the Royal Line Of Abraham's seed. The New the Crescive Stone. Beyond the Kiver he left his father's gods, In Ur of the Chaldeans. And went forth, To be a Wanderer. Camping here and there. On this man's Race the future is bestowed. And tiie broad earth. All nations are to serve them. High on the nightly arch the sacred role Of Isaac's sons of Abraham's Seed is graven. The jewelled paragraphs flash forth in stars : As a broad galaxy of radiant truth, Which many read though few interpret it. A day 'predicted long, is drawing near, When Jacob will go up ad view his wastes, And shed upon the desolations old And the choice Land a new magnificence. To usher in the laughing time of earth. 22 How matGM333 is ths hi^jli uiifoUm:; trutli Gem clustering in the holy Oracles ! To the unnided mi ad and natural heart The' crude and paradoxical it seems, While far transcending the imaginings Of loftiest gjnius. Top[)ling and profound, Sards, stones inaffable of exquisite beauty, Dazzling '»^ith splendor and magnificence, Sparkling ani rich are rainad upon its pages. Ta3r3, treasure! in deep CDffjrs, lies the wealth That mist enrich eternity, and fill The soul with satisfaction and dolinrht. For the Theni^tMa the foundation sure. Is in the LIFE of the UNCHANGING ONE, Whose knowledge, wisdom, justice, equity; Whose rooted povver, whose captivating grace. Transfuse the transcript in the glowing scroll On which the Prophets calligraphed the TiiUXK, And left it as the sunlight of the ages. ; ! THE PETKirlED FOREST. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. What constitutes a token— something phenomenal, or not? Did the Rainbow exist prior to the deluge ? Physicists say, Yes it is the result of natural laws and always appeared. Exegetical writers meekly bow to their authority. — Light is now known to consist, not of three colors nor seven only, but of countless hues and tints. A wonderful and glorious infinity in itself. Why, of all this variety of colors, are only those magnificent seven persis' tently prismatic? Why not other hues and tints frequently o, at least sometimes displayed as well ? Will »ny one pretend to say I But what constitutes an oth (a token or sign) ? Must it not at least be something remarkable? Had Noah previously been familiar with the Bow, it could represent nothing to him.— But how unworthy— how dishonoring— the mere thought, that the Almighty Creator on this signal occasion, and in this explicit and emphatic manner, did then consecrate something neither an archetype nor phenomenal— but an oft seen painting— as the sign and the seal of that new and wondrous covenant. 13 m ^ ' THE PETRIFIED FOREST. SITUATED IN A WILD AND MOUNTAINOUS REGION NEAR CALISTOGA SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, J S Nature crazed ? Such gambols are here ! Or wakes from a trance of tossing fear, Planting her phantoms full in sight ? Answer, Enchantress ! versed and dight : For, lo ! a marvellous forest lies Under our feet and before our eyes. We know that mosses have overgrown Toils of ages all wrought in stone : That under earth's flower-work'd mantle of green Gifts and graces retire unseen : Treasures on which no light has streamed : Marvels wild romance never dreamed : — That vestiges of a kingly Past, Shut in her kindly bosom last : — Tho' the tho'ts, the themes and the skill of old. Midst trance and figment are faintly told. But here a wonderful forest lies, Under our steps and before our eyes. Great trunks-we climb them, tall pines they stoodj Prostrate and tumbled — a massive wood, ^28 ' n Suddenly snapt and hurled to the ground In Bomc burst that troubled the mountains round. Yet mark — how exempted from decay — Fresh as if fallen but yesterday ! Fragments — yes chips — bestrew the ground : This forest once echoed the wood cutter's sound. Was it by haggling weapon of stone : By scarf of fire and scrape of bone ? Never ! But here plied bronze or steel, Keen and flashing at eaeh appeal. Cleaving great trunks and laying them low, In the lost dim vista of long ago. But is this wood we are gazing on ? Once it was wood — but is changed to stone. Stone of a grayish white it lies, — A forest of stone to illude our eyes. Oak, madrona and pine unite. And manganita, to challenge the sight With the wonders we fail to comprehend. Of which we see neither beginning nor end. Stems, stumps and slivers and sticks around, lleturn to the stroke a metalic sound : A bell note fallen from sunlit towers, When this young wood waved in archaic hours. While some converted to stone-coal black, Bear the laded heat of far summers back. Evolve with its lustre the fiery spark That fetters the chill and illumines the dark. And the axe of the chopper, steeled and keen. Ere these trunks were stone, in this wood was seen 29 CTfje J^ettifieti JForefit. And here in the midst stand living trees, And green boughs sighing in summer Ireeze. And the twitter of birds and the plumage of life, Float jocund around in a world of stril'e : O'er a scene from which that strife has past, Spreading in peace. But it will not last : For the jibe and the moil will be here agen» And the tumult and clash of restless men. Problems at every step we meet. Enigmas blossom about our feet. We have just awaked to behold the sun : And the course of nature seems only begun. Less than the merest nothing we know Of the heavens above and the earth below. Self observation, and that of those Who are now reclining in deep repose — Som3 that have traversed like wondrous stars. Bursting on heaven all unawares : Bright with a presage that came and past. Leaving regretted glory at last. These scanty items of thought, combined. Are all we can reap — or leave behind. Thus much we call science in theories wro't. But fancies o'errun the fields of tho't : And the sheaves yield not the heavy grain. And the precious wheat, to reward our pain. — Oh, mighty archaic Continent ! With varied and mythical shadows blent — Around it spreads and afar it sweeps To either pole and the icy deeps, 30 If CTjiJ JPctrificti jFoifSt. Ml i Is it the lost Atlantis, brought From the lethe of long abandoned thought ? Where are those builders of countless mounds ? Their rise and their fall a cloud surrounds. Heive they down the mountain of ages slid ? What hints survive ! but their archive* are hid. Over vast regions wild and lone. Many and mighty their works are strown. Hillocks of sacrifice, mounts of pride, Circumvallations that cast aside The figment of fear, and shielded with stone The light and the jewels of men unknown. And now, in the trance of centuries laid. On a blossoming marge in a ward of shade ; Over the toilers a tent is spread, And a legend of joy o'er the peace of the dead. But a signal that cannot be rendered, plays- In a bowl unshattered from those far days : Yet sealed like the silent mute giraffe, And the cup is so deep no lips may quaff. Yet unrequited we seldom ask : Conjecture is master of many a task. Mounting the ages as they roll — Proclaiming the grandeur of the soul. Talking with men in the forest of stone ; Walking the dubious an«d unknown ; Guessing the riddles, and what beside In a scheme of dominion is implied. Delighting to question — so nimble the spring Impelling a radiant Fancy's wing. €\)t |3ftrifirti jForcgt. Now as a humminp; hml — Tnidst the flowers, Here and away, thro' the odorous hours. Now as an eagle — bound on high. Soaring and watching aloft the sky. Now as a dove — let it loose — set it free, Quickly midst scenes of its joy will it bs. Were those of the mounds the men who felled This forest in changeless durance held ? If so indeed, were the mountains yet Midst the zone of original glory set ? But who shall credit what specialists teach — That iron was out of a young world's reach ? That men then lug' d — as a cur with a bone, And blundered and toiled thro' an age of stone ; Guessing and learning, by slow degrees. In fire-hollow'd logs to skim the seas, And with hatchets of stone to gnaw the trees ? Alack for the skulls fill'd with bubbles like these ! D I prefer to accept that Volume old. Whose letters are light, and whose pages are gold. Whose themes are facts, whose witness is truth, — ■ That iron was worked in the world's fresh youth: That the Maker left not His creatures alone, Under life's needs to tug and to groan, Thro' fire, and fagot, and gouges of bone, And hatchets all chipt out of nothing but stone. These were reserved for an after time. When raving and rampant grew war and crime, * 32 When the race from ravaged regions flod Of isle and continent overspread : Consigned to ignorance, blood and tears, — The savages of succeeding years. But this was earth's piebald phase alone, For arts and science on portions shone. Was it ere that globe-subm^rging Flood, This forest was liivel'd where it stood ? Did waters thut o'er the whoL eartli prevail'd, AVliil ; tlic Ark midst their swellings iafely sail'd, Rjfuse to Ho It these stone-changed trees ? Or did their stript branches sigh in the brecta. That day, while on far off Arrarat, Tiac remnant of all eirths millions sat ? t* As the smoke of their sacrifice ascends — Lo ! the awful Makjr graciously bends O'er the wreak of a wicked world destroyed. O'er sky and iield made empty and void ; He smells a grateful offering sweet. From the earth that lies vacant at His feet; And gives unto Noah a marvellous Sign — New wonder on earth — His Bow divine. Stood these, when God's creative word The folded light and the rain-cloud heard ? When, from countless tints of Kght's won- drous braid All wreathen splendors, each exquisite shade^ A matchless seven — those chosen dyes, Lay arched on the leaden and pouring skies. Seven-rib' d with radiance ? Each flowing gem. The stone of a peaceful diadem. 33 111 11 '■ ^])t Jpctrifitlj JForcet. A crown of mercy. A span of love, Archinj^ the heavens while tempests strove. — There lightnings leaped Irom the tortured cloj.I, There aw.ul thunders pealed rattling and loud,- But God was looking: And always thereon Looks He this day, as thro' ages gone. Approving the pledge of perpetual grace. Bestowed on a sad and swerving race. O beautiful light, thrice sacred light ! ^\'ith the Maker's ineffable glpry bright. Coming like flocks of celestial birds,'' Waking the earth as Mith sougiul words. Spreading all wonderful hues apace. The life of the globe, and its joy and grace. Worthy The High One, wuo spake and said- Let there be light: and t.iis light was made. Kcsplendet Bow ! which the finger of God Marked where the vengeful tempest rode. O gift august of mysterious tone ; Armorial splendors with pity strown. Rich Covenant Sign— created then. Securing all seasons and times to men ; Not only to men. but the beasts that rove Through open fields and the shady grove ; And also the birds that sail above O strange and unspeakable grace and love ! Conjecture, like Ship from an arctic coast. Must encounter the iceberg and suffer the frost, 34 tH^ t ^PetrfffetJ ifarcse. While briuj^iiif^ but stinted treasure back : Freighted the most with its loss and lack. A deep dark current unceasing flows, From a stranf^e wide sea whicli no Farcr knows. There are wondrous castles that blaze in gold, 13 ut no warder waits at the portals cold : Huge mountains that move 'gainst wind and tide, And jewelled nooks on the seas that ride. There arc drift and fragments that come to land. There are masts half buried in ice or sand ; But the book of it ail — is only read By the angel Watchers and the dead. t I i< Si ■f- MISCELLANEOUS LYRICS. PREI.rMUTAET. 'II WHERE IS IT? — THE HIDING PLACE OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? ■m That pnpsapfcs depicting the history of Ood's Hidden Ones of Abniiiam's postcritj', in their nppoiii1ecl place, — the Isles; that allusions uniquely descriptive, varied, distinct, plain anJ scattered prolusely over the sacred pages; — should notwith- standing be systematically ignored, or dreamily expounded, by many patient, accomplished and devout students of the sa- cred oracles, eeems at a glance incredible — impossible. How then docs it happ(?n ? But may it be said to happen ? For ia It not written : Who is blind, but my servant ? or deaf, as my messenger that I send ? To such as can divest themselves of precoaceived opinions, and compare tht; propheeies with the rise, the expansion, the ecope and attitude of the British and their colonial oflFshootSf, surely little else can be needed to implant the conviction that they indeed are the missing House of Israel. Highly favored, then, are those whose eyes like the yonug man's at the prayer of tho pi-opliet, hare been opened to disco* ver the opulence andtlie statelineas of the promises now in process of fullilment. And who have been indulged with a glimpse of the floods of light and glory eminatiug from the rich, the exhaaiitlcss pitgis oi^ the uufaiUng wofd* ! 1 I f P I , 1 ■ M18CEL ' ANEOUS. 'Tlcre Is Hope For The World, rjlHEiRE is hope for a world, restless, hampered— and torn ; — An ascension of life, a revival of morn ; When idolatrous images— wood, and of stone. Of silver— of gold, are completely o'erthrown. "^Vhen the offspring of Jacob the witness of God, Make glad every sea and each continent broad, When the Sceptre of David, establish'd of old. Shall rule every nation from Zion's Stronghold.— l'hen--no longe the ambient air will be rent By forces terxific with vengeful intent. Then the sword shall return from its bath of warm gore. And the thioat of a cannon will thunder no more. Lo, ironclads gunless ! they plough the deep seas. A lul the murmur of traffic enriches each breeze. And kindness and blessing sail nobly abroad, For all hearts sit enthroned ia the knowledge of God. The aiory Tu Be Reccaled. \a V \ \ I THERE comes a day forctolJ, on Age of -lory When sects and schisn^s shall obtain no more ' When stubborn error, plastic sleights-tho' hoar^, When broods of theses, when tradition's lo^c 1 fehall melt shall vanish Avith influx of light : And all as one unite. They shall see eye to eye I Such is the readin-^ In the Great lioU which is the truth of God " And mouldering tomes with glosses oft misleading Must merge m one sure basis strong and broad, licneath the power and prestige of the Cross : Refined from earth and dross. And this set time of high and holy union Shows that a term of variance would p'recede : A^ith the Great Teacher, and his saints indeed. Ihe paths prolix of veined and various thought. Having been overwrought. '"I Though many boast, We only are the people » Complete and perfect, only we remain • Heaven's shivering fire may shake the loftiest steeple, And dust and darkness claim their mates again. l>Sregious Error mistifies at will — It falls— but struggles still, 42 Nor is it that the present is not heedful Of the exposed opinioii:^ ol the past Ihei^ cannot be accord, however needful, Midst thoughts rouo-h Mo« n . i TT.^ • ? / ° " ^'^'^"§^ "^^ ocean vast. The many-sided truth has lines severe, But oft not bri^,:.t nor clclr. Our Saviour said, Ye cannot no-.v receive it, Alluding to some maxim v.liich He fiiight And so of many a truth. Constrained ^^e leave it ^ Because too burdensome for laboring' thought/ 1 would recompose the marshalings o' ]fe; And press the heart with striie. But when the times relinquish from their prison The missing Ark, with v.onder and suri)rise, P;;!\«t--whose orb of light not yet has risen, With Urim and with Thummim will arise. . The living Oracles will be restored : And men will hear the Lord. Then— when the future Temple, wrapt in lustre. Becomes the earthly Throne of Christ Most High Then will depart the myriad strifes that elustre Then will the Tribes of God see eye to eye. The Lord hin^self will guide tlie glowing laiul». With kind and healing hands. Yes ! the set time for eye to eye beholding, Nathless the worrying ages grudge to Avait, Will in due season have its full unfolding; When Salem's towers, no longer ruinate, 48 '11 In CTi^c Ei'ng's SactrtJ ISioU. Exult with singing ; and each spacious street Echoes with bounding fect^ Then Syria's waiting cities, waste — but guarded Thro' the long night by The Unsleeping Kye^ To Gcd's returning Hosts will be awarded : And glow beneath the compensated sky. Which blushed above the regal might, that built, But lost those holds through guilt. I A -t I In The King's Sacred Boll.. I. JN The King' 8 sacred Roll, in cartoons choicely set, Iridescent and flooded with morning. As Brothers, lo ! Judah and Joseph have mct„ To the clime of the olive returning. As once in a richly .chased vessel — most pure^ * A gift to Jehovah was tendered : So His long scattered Judah, in season mature,. And the day of ripe hopes, will be rendered.. Then hasten, and strew with fresh garlands the way- Roll the rocks off with gladness and singin'i-. No, hesitate never ! with fruitless delay ; Unto God this memorial bringing. n. But Joseph is hidden ! and Judah disclaims All knowledge and quest of his hiding. 44 m JJ" rf)c Uins's SacreU EoU. And Joseph is blinded and boasts other names : In tents deemed Japhetic abiding. But shall he concealed and in blindness remain. And hiy lineage never discover ? Ko ! the light he must see, and his path shall be plain : For the night of his hiding is over. Then hasten — and strew with green branches the way ; Cast out the obstructions, with singing. Jerusalem weeps — she bemoans the delay ; And the cry of the moslem is ringing. III. But Juduh will never acknowledge his claim, No, never can own him as Brother ! Ah — smartino- with obloquy ruin and shame, Can he find — will he flee to — another ? ' True pity is lodged with the Saxon alone : Else friendless and bare midst the nations. This heln in his need he must honor and own, And seek amidst ruthless privations. Then strew with bright garlands and branches the way : The time and the season discerning, Jerusalem sits in the dust to this day, And weeps for her Children's returning. 45 I! P' r 1 I ') .1 Olory Of Israel. (I L o R Y of Israel, God of all ^race, Wonderful, bountiful. King ever blest • Shed on Thy Chosen the light of Thy face : Uive Jacob rest. Long has he wandered. Blinded and sundered : "" Themes have been pondered. Wise men have wondered. Israel plants— and his cup overflows. Judah yet stiays amidst pillage and woes. God of all glory, King of all grace, Shine on thy I'eople— thine own chosen Race,, O let Thy love and Thy kindness, awaken Zeal for his Lund and its cities forsaken. Healer of Israel, author of grace, King only bountiful, God ever blest; Shed on Thine exiled the smiles of thy face.' Grant Judah rest. Long has he wandered. Straitened and sundered : Monarchs have pondered Exulted and plundered. Merged in the shadows and ruins of years Plunged in the furnace and torment of fears • God of all pity. King of all grace. Pardon thy Judah—restore and replace. O let Thy wondrous compassion, awaken Zeal for his Land and its cities forsaken. Father of Israel, Monarch and crown • Wonderful, pitiful. God ever blest 46 Joseph has foiiixht ;ml achieved great renown ; Lead him to rest. He has been freeinar The 1 raised ones and lowly; Toilin