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 RKV. LOYAL YOUNO, D.D., 
 
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COPYRKillT 18S7 
 
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 LOYAL YOUNG. 
 All Rights Reserved. 
 
ICCCK nil.lTX^IT IM 
 
 INVOCATION. 
 
 ^NCiKNT OF Days I pronaiiiu'v' me not profatio 
 To sisk thy presence with my humble strain ; 
 l'\)r thou canst elevate, expand, refine, 
 With holier inspiration than "The Nine" 
 Who tuned old Homers harp and Virgil's Ivre, 
 And kindled in their breast the poet's fire. 
 To ancient time my modern vision bring. 
 While deeds of old this burdened soul would sing ; 
 1^'rom the famed hour of old Creation's birth 
 Till waters were the winding sheet of earth. 
 Show why the shnnbering wrath of heaven awoke 
 To smite the earth with one tremendous stroke ; 
 That ol<l transgressors, in this glass, may view 
 The penalty to their oifences due : — 
 That those who will, may speedily embark 
 In safer, higher, holier, happier ark 
 
Tliaii that wliose griK'ot'ul yot inaj»?stic fi)r;U 
 Outrode the billows aixl deiied tlie stornt. 
 
 CANTO I. 
 
 An hunil)le eottaiie on a hillock stood, 
 Where old Hiddektd rolled its ceaseless flood ; 
 For comfort, not, for ostentation, planne*! ; 
 With vines encircling, trained by woman's hand. 
 A girdling hrook around the dwelling [)layed, 
 An<l cypress trees refreshed it Avith their shade. 
 Such was the iiome of Salah,' — the retreat 
 Wheie innocense an<l })eace were wont to meet. 
 A genijil shower the sndiing earth had blest, 
 AVhile yet the sun was lingering in the West. 
 His last, departing rays this cottage cheers, 
 From which a rnddy youth of thirteen years 
 l>ounds forth like hunbkin playful with delight. 
 A sudden glory bursts upon his sight. — 
 A brilliant aivh was pivsent to his view ;— 
 Ikighter and still more gay its radiance grew. 
 It spanned the heaven.^- — ti gorgeous bow of light, 
 (xraceful in form, — collossal in its height. 
 Transported with tiie scene, with hands uj)rais(>d 
 Fnconsciously, young Kber stood and gazed. 
 '•() beauty I splendor I tints of every hue! 
 Such brilliancy what magic pencil drew, 
 An«l dre.-*.sed in sera])h robes the glooniv cloud ?" 
 
He said ; ( iiiu'ouscious that he thouglit aloud.) 
 An ageil form came limping o'er tlie plain, 
 N\'ho Saltih's huml)le tent had hoped to gain 
 I'je hastiiing shower f-hould fall. But vain the hasUj 
 Of faltei'ing feet hv threatening rainfall chased. 
 Six huuiired eighty yeais had luade him how, 
 Hnt stam|)ed majestic grace upon his brow. 
 A nohle relic (d' a former age 
 All loved the patriarch and revered the sage. 
 H<; often gazed on living men with tears, 
 I'or mtne approache<l him by five hundred years. 
 'Twas Noah ! and hi.s steps liad brought him near 
 Jn time the ardent youth's surprise to hear. 
 *\My child," he said, "that is the orenant how;' 
 'rhe sign by which our graciou.s ({od would sho\v^ 
 'i'hat he no xuovv the waters will employ 
 To whelm the earth and erring man destroy." 
 As ftdl these wondrou.s words on Ebers ear. 
 In silent reverence and iiund)le fear 
 Hti l)owed. and prostrjite fell u})on the earth. 
 Then K'd the i>atriarch to his father's hearth. 
 Sulah rejoiced the sage once niore to meet, 
 ,Vnd prostrate fell at his great-grandsire's feet. 
 When she whom Salah j<)ve<l to call his own, 
 An<l all her youthful, eager charge, had shown 
 How joyfully they welcomed such a guest, 
 Tlu'V gathered round tJie board : And Noah l)h>t, 
 
With haiuls upraised to heaven, the fr.ii<:al fare ; 
 
 And God, .their covenant God, was with them there. 
 
 They worship— Kaptu re fills their hearts again. — 
 
 -n^'hey ehant a hymn in Juhal's choicest strain. — 
 
 In humble, earnest prayer the knee they bend ; 
 
 And God reveals himself* the suppliant's friend. 
 
 Prayer ended, Eber rose with artlessness. 
 
 In simple words tlie ])atriarch to address. — 
 
 "Great ancestor I indulge an humble youth, 
 
 Who thirsts for knowledge, and who seeks for truth : 
 
 And tell us, (for you know,) why came the flood ? 
 
 What roused the vengeance of a righteous God 
 
 ( )'ei' earth to spread the waters of the deep. 
 
 And bury man in everlasting sleej) ? 
 
 What is the history of that dreadful day ? 
 
 What means the covenant bow ? great father, say." 
 
 Salah concurred ; and all now gathered near. 
 
 From Noah's lips the narrative to hear. 
 
 A silent tear bedewed the patriarch's cheek : — 
 
 A pause ensued ere he essayed to speak. 
 
 He vainly strove th' emotion to control, 
 
 .\s former scenes came coursing through his soul. 
 
 At length he spake : — " 'Twere cruel to withhold 
 
 The wondrous story, though so of't^n told. — 
 
 1 too was once a boy, and oft would sit 
 
 Beside Methuselah, my grand-sire's feet ; 
 
 While he related to my eager ear 
 
 " fien. 5:4. 
 
Wliat lie ivjoiced to tell, and I to hear. 
 
 He oft would tell me liow the world was made; 
 
 How Adam loved his Maker, and oheA'ed ; 
 
 How sweet the fruits of Paradise ; how fair 
 
 Its llowjrs, ero sin and sorrow entered there. 
 
 From Adam's lips the story he had heard :-^ 
 
 And every tendei- seene, as it oecurred, 
 
 S ) oft' rv-Lited, in his m^^mory 
 
 He treasured up, and then rehearse<l to me. 
 
 Beneath the sha<le, lHsi<le some iriirgling sti'eam, 
 
 (iroups i>:athered I'ound, while he pursued the theme 
 
 Of old Creation, Paradise, the Fall, 
 
 Inereasini!' wi(*ke<lness, tin; giants, all 
 
 The violenee to which the race were given, 
 
 His father's walk with CJo<l, and fiight to heaven. 
 
 Where he began the story I begin ; 
 
 Wlicn eiirth wa-? made, — ^l)8fore the bii-th of sin. 
 
 A voiee is uttered I Heaven and earth arise 
 
 From eliaos. — Countless worlds bedeek the skies. — 
 
 Tiie sluggish earth pi-esents a shapeless hoaj) ; — 
 
 And darkness rests ui)on the !H)undless deep. 
 
 And, now, through countless ages, in God's ])lan. 
 
 The earth is moulding for the coming man, 
 
 l^>y strong convulsions in ten thousand forms — 
 
 By lashing tempests and by beating storms. 
 
 (iod's Spirit moves upon the waters' face, 
 
 Moulding to form, to symmetrv and grace. 
 
"Let tlieiv he li'o-ht I" says (lo.i, and there i< ii.o'ht.— 
 Liuht he pronoiiiice.s "Day," and darkiies?; "Xiuht." 
 Next, vapors rise aloft, and stand on liiuli ; 
 And clouds move hastily alona* the sky. 
 The waters find their level hy degrees ; 
 And when collected, God proclaims tiiem "Seas." 
 The arass, and herbs, and fruitful trees are found, 
 Springiug spontaneous from the moistened ground. 
 The sun, before concealed, shines forth by day : 
 The moon by night ; with softer, milder ray. 
 Stars rise and set, and silently jM'oclaim 
 Their great Creator's high and glorious name, 
 Xow fishes, birds, and beasts ; — all living tilings 
 That swim, or creep, or mount on lofty wings ; 
 Or walk the earth ; burst into life I the word 
 Of their Almighty Maker they have heard ; 
 And at his sovereign, life-impirting voice, 
 They live — they sport — they gaml)ol — they rejoice. 
 One crowning work remains to fill the plan.— 
 The Trinity consult : — "Let nr< make man 
 In our own image : — let him have command 
 O'er all that people sea, and sky, and land." 
 When (xod commands all nature must obey f 
 A human form stands forth, erect, from clay ; 
 With sightless eyeballs, ears unmoved by sound. 
 Hands motionless, and feet fixed to the groun<l. 
 Into his nostrils God now breathes the breath. 
 
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 Tlitit \\m!v \< liis (lormant faculties from death. 
 
 To rule the world, — ( iodV footstool to adorn, — 
 
 A soul, witli eudless dcstiuy, is horn. 
 
 At this new si oh t, ani»'els their harps employ ; 
 
 And all the Sons of (lod sliout forth their joy, 
 
 Tiie work was done ! ('reati(m stood com])lete ! 
 
 iCarth the fnir footstool of Jehovah's feet. 
 
 And Heiveu his dwellinu' phuw in olorv stood ! 
 
 (jlod saw his works, and then ipronouneed them, 'V/w/.' 
 
 (iood was the earth in uay attire arraved ; 
 
 And irood was man, for whom the earth was made. 
 
 TTis Ixxly tall, erect, and comrdy, ti'od 
 
 The iiTonn<l : — his soul the iniaue of its ( Jod, 
 
 Kxulted in his love ; — his eye with pride 
 
 ( razed on that charming- heino- at his side, 
 
 AVhose soul lit eyes, whose voice like aniixds' \uU\ 
 
 Whose playful wit, whose smiles, and whose ])ursuit 
 
 Of every excellence, insjMred his breast 
 
 With uratitude and love to (rod, whose hest 
 
 And crowniniT u'ift she wa?. Hone of his hone, 
 
 Fle^^h of his iiesh, he claime<l her as his own. 
 
 The nuptial hour has come. — In rich army 
 
 All nature stands to crown the festive day. 
 
 Walled by the skies, the lofty temple stands ; 
 
 Where these first lovers wait with joined hands. 
 
 < )ue lam|), sus|)ended in the azure dome, 
 
 Lio-hts uj) with brilliancy their ten)])le-honie. 
 
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 The urassy lawn, soft carju't foi- tlieir iVct, 
 
 Is spread :— the :int>els as atteiuhiiits meet 
 
 And liear tlieir vows : wliile (rod as i)riest is there, 
 
 To join, instruct, and bless the happy pair. 
 
 ]Marrin,iie was thus ordained, and took its place. 
 
 As the iiTeat social l)lessini>' of the race. 
 
 To serve their Maker was the liiahest bl'ss 
 
 Of this first wedded i)air ; and next to this, 
 
 To ••)lease each other. Adam loved his bride ; 
 
 And Eve, in turn, exulted in her u'uide. 
 
 Never was human love so free from stain. — 
 
 Never shall married pair thus love aiiain. 
 
 Though Hymen's temple .shjill be crowned with liLdit, 
 
 And silken cords adoring hearts unite : 
 
 AVhile nuptial joys and wedded bliss endure. 
 
 His altar ne'er shall burn with flame so pure. 
 
 When all was done ; — when earth and skies were blest 
 
 (lod nave to man a day of sacred rest, 
 
 Memorial of his })ower ; and sanctified 
 
 A Sabbath ; that the race might be supplied 
 
 With holy time, to rest from anxious care. 
 
 And worship (iod with cheerful songs, and prayer. 
 
 Hail sacred day, with Heaven's a})j>ointment blest I 
 
 Towering in majesty above the i"est ! 
 
 The light and joy of earth ; — emblem id' Heaven ; — 
 
 Foretaste Of holier rest, to pilgrims givcMi, 
 
 Like grapes of Kshcol which our sons shall know, 
 
liivitiiiu' to tlie laiid in which they arow : — 
 
 A beam of liii'ht, composed of purest lays, 
 
 rnmiiiuled witli the mists of common (hiys ! 
 
 A gohleii censer in earth's temple known, 
 
 Whence prayer's sweet incense rises to tlie tlirone ! 
 
 What priceless blessings hast thou still in store 
 
 For future days, till time shall be no more ! 
 
 E'en Edeu felt thy power, — confessed thy worth, 
 
 As Heaven's most rich and sacred gift to earth. 
 
 One Eden only on the earth was known : — 
 
 Our [)arents uj)right held it as their own. 
 
 How blissful was its state, — how pure, how gay. 
 
 An angel's pencil hardly could portray. 
 
 Search each attractive clime, — the world ex[)lore ;— 
 
 Place so enchanting shall be found no more, 
 
 <.'ome, let us walk through ancient Eden's bowers, 
 
 Survey its beauties, pluck its fairest flowers, 
 
 Kegail ourselves upon its richest fruit 
 
 Accompany our parents in pursuit 
 
 Of high enjoyment, free from every care ; 
 
 For pain and grief ha<l not yet entered there. 
 
 When fanned their brow the incense-laden bi-eeze, 
 
 Or softly murmured through the waving trees 
 
 At early morn, or when tlie orb of day 
 
 Descending shed his tranquil evening ray ; 
 
 They bowed in prayer to Him who good bestows, 
 
 And hymns of praise through all the forest rose, 
 
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 Sweeter tlnui stacte scenting- all the air, — 
 
 Than onyeha ni')re fra^-rait, was their prayer. 
 
 Not (luleinier such melody conveys, 
 
 As (lid those earnest, fervent, songs of praise. 
 
 The strains were new. The angels stooped to hear : 
 
 And God himself bestowed a listening ear. 
 
 What fellowship, what sweet cjminunion t'len, 
 
 When Ciod the Blessed came and dwelt with men ! 
 
 Tiie lambkin frolicked on the grassy lawn : — 
 
 The panther gambolled with the sportive fawn ;— 
 
 The wolf was tame, the spotted leopard bland ; 
 
 And lions came and licked their master's hand. 
 
 Birds sang their merry glees in shady groves ; 
 
 And eagles nestled with the turtle-dove^. 
 
 On shady trees delicious fruits were found ; 
 
 Not thorns nor thistles overspread the ground, 
 
 ^o heat oppressed, — no chill was in the air, — 
 
 ^o dire malaria spread its poison there 
 
 To scatter death ; — no fever fired the brain : 
 
 But health's pure current flawed in every vein. 
 
 Ah, this was Eden I Paradise was this I 
 
 The seat of virtue, and the home of bliss I 
 
 Shall evil ever mar this peaceful home ? 
 
 Ye chei"ubim, descend I From heaven couie, — 
 
 Hover around this Paradise below, 
 
 And guard it safe ; — if e'er there luiks a foe. 
 
 Intent on deeds of death. Your s])ears prepare. 
 
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 i^taiid firm ! — let not a stran.ii'er enter there. 
 
 My graiid-sire here would pause, with grief o'ercome, 
 A? though some sudden terror struck him dumb ; — 
 Then tell how Adam trembled, and grew })ale. 
 When he essayed to give the mournful tale 
 Of his transgression, and the suddeh birth 
 Of all the woes that overspread the earth. 
 The mentien of his fall from ])liss so brief. 
 Awakened all the agony of grief. 
 *'\Vere I the only sufferer," he would cry, 
 ""A thousand deaths I cheerfully could die ; 
 Vs\)e would be blis? ; — the curse a blessing known ; — 
 If in this ruin I could hide alcne. 
 But no ! the race in n)y transgression fell ; 
 And unl>orn millions ])ressing on to hell. 
 On Adam's head will heaj) re])roachful ire, 
 And vent their curses at their erring sire," 
 How bliss was turned to woe, and love to hate ; 
 (Though sad the story,) list, while I relate. 
 <lod deigned with man a covenant to make, 
 Assuring Adam, that he might })artake 
 Of everv tree of Eden, that alone - 
 ICxcepted, as 'the tree of knowledge' known. 
 The threatening ran ; — if he partook of this. 
 Death should take i)lace of life, and woe of bliss. 
 The ])romise was ; — if he should quite abstain, 
 Oonfirmed in holiness he should remaij) 
 
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 F()re\'er. And his .seed liir^ fate should share. 
 
 Either in boundless bliss or deep despair. 
 
 With shield of innocence around his soul, 
 
 And every passion under full control ; 
 
 With motives high as heaven and dee}) as hell ; — 
 
 To solve the niysterv, how AddDi fe'l. 
 
 Sages have searched, and pried, and searched again ; 
 
 And thousands moie will search and prv in vain. 
 
 This much is known : — a subtle tempter came 
 
 On fatal mission : — Satan was his name. 
 
 From Pleaven banished for his treason ; rage 
 
 .Vnd <leadly hate impelled him to engage 
 
 In some dire enterprise. His envious eyes 
 
 Marked man his prey. If treachery and lies 
 
 Can tempt this pure and Godlike ])a:r to sin ; 
 
 With lies and treachery he will begin 
 
 The fatal onset. Blandishments and smiles, 
 
 And honied phrases, (such are Satan's wiles,) 
 
 Shall first assail the weaker vessel Eve ; 
 
 Inducing her the falsehood to believe, 
 
 Tiiat in this tree forbidden is possessed 
 
 A virtue that will make her doubly blest. 
 
 The mournful history of that fatal iiour, 
 
 Too well attests this subtle tempters j)ower. 
 
 In serpent hid he used an angel's tongue. 
 
 And round the tree a fascination Hung, 
 
 Which pleased, then dazzled, then absorbed her soul 
 
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 Witli visioii?^ beautiful, which o'er her .^tolc 
 
 IJke Seraph forms arrayed in garments white, 
 
 That seemed with smiles to hecdvon and invite 
 
 To higher bliss. Desire pronounced it true, 
 
 And Eve resolved to be a seraph too. 
 
 8he yielded I Forth she reached her trembling hand. 
 
 And pluckt the clustering fruit : — the high command 
 
 Rj:;eived from God, wms broken ; while she ate 
 
 The tempting food, wdiich fixed and sealed her fate. 
 
 Participating in the tempter's skill, 
 (F(jr she had leai'ned to know both good and ill ;) 
 With smile bewitching, and with suasion bland, 
 »She placed the ^^'atal fruit in Adam's hand. 
 
 Xo.v love and <luty struggle in his breast. 
 ( )ne hand receives the fruit ; — the other j)ressed 
 With gentle force by hei', his joy, his j)raise ;• 
 While eyes enchanting meet his anxious gaze. 
 Time's chariot seems to pause I — hushed is the breeze, 
 Birds cease to warble in the spreading trees I — 
 Angels come near ; and hovering over, bend 
 In anxious scrutiny, to learn the end 
 Of moment fraught with interest intense ; 
 While nature waits in tremulous suspense ! 
 ( 'old perspiration sits on Adam's brow ; 
 For life and death must be decided now ! 
 What means that muttering in the lurid sky ? 
 'Tis nature's groan I AdtDii hux ivlUed to die ! 
 
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 Tlie breeze, so lately hushed, becomes a <rale ! 
 A tempest gathers: — voices, like the wail 
 < )f sj)irits lost, are heard :— then songs and glee : 
 As though the fiends of hell keep jubilee. 
 What human heart such terrors can abide ? 
 The two transgressors seek a place to hide. 
 Alarming c<mscience, — multiplying fears, — 
 A voice, like thunder-peal salutes their ears : 
 "Where art thou, Adam?'' Tis the voice of Hina 
 Who dwells on high amid the cherubim ; 
 But comes to earth, his erring child to meet, 
 And call him trembling, forth from his retreat 
 To render an account. "What hast thou done ? 
 Thy Father's face why seekei^t thou to shun ? 
 Whither thy footsteps? Why thy haste to flee? 
 Didst thou partake of the forbidden tree ?" 
 Abashed the coward stood ! while guilt and shame. 
 To screen himself, prompted to cast the blame 
 On Iter whose love till now his heart inflamed : 
 While Eve, for all this ill the serpent blamed. 
 Thus threatened death usurped the place of life ; 
 And hearts once loving, filled with hate and strife^ 
 Accused each other. God, in turn, j)r()ceeds 
 To pass hi-< sentence on their evil deeds. 
 
 On hissing xerpeiif God pronounced this curse : 
 "Thou slimy, crawling snake ; now hated worse 
 Than foulest reptile ; thou slialt ever be 
 
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 Hunted and sluinned as vilest enemy. 
 J^nigging along thy loathsome foi'm, thou must 
 iSeek stinted nourishment in sordid dust. 
 Thy hated head is ever doomed to feel 
 The l)ruise inflicted by the human heel ; 
 Ty})e of the wound hereafter to be given 
 By One of woman born, but Lord of iieaven, 
 To satan the old serpent, who In' thee, 
 Has brought on man this boundless misery." 
 
 To ])ale and anxious woina)i, next, this word 
 He spake :— (8he wept and trembled as she heard :) 
 ^'Besides the ])unishment which will await 
 Transgressors of my law, in future sttite ; 
 You and your daughters shall lament, in vain, 
 Your doom — to bear your progeny in pain. 
 And new-born life stern death shall oft arrest, 
 And tear your tender nurselings from your breast." 
 
 And next, to cowering nt'oi, Jehovah sj)ake : 
 "Since thou my holy law hast dared to l)reak. 
 Thou and thy sons, with labor, sweat, and toil, 
 8hall cultivate a rough curse-stricken soil ; 
 Which, hence, no more its strength shall fully yield, 
 While noxious weeds shall overspread the held. 
 
 While whelmed in hopeless gloom the future seemed, 
 ( )ne ray of light amid the darkness gleamed. 
 T^ike song of lullaby on infant ear ; — 
 Like hand maternal, brushing off the tear ; — 
 
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 Like bow of promise when the storm (leparts ; — • 
 It sweetly falls u})oii their stricken hearts. 
 It whispers hope ! '''TJte iroinrni\-< pro))tise'l xe":! 
 SJi'iII l)rin.-<ethe xerpenfs lie al T What valiant deed 
 Of rescue, in this gladsome promise lies I 
 There looms in vision to their wondering- eyes 
 A future day of light ; when in iiis car, 
 A niighty conqueror shall come from far, 
 Crowned like a King, with vesture dipped in blood, — 
 The S(m of Man, the Everlasting God I 
 What object meets tiieir gaze? What see they now ? 
 A crown of thorns surrounds the Conqueror's brow : — 
 Nails pierce his hands and feet : — his foes deride ; 
 And blood flows freely from his wounded side ! 
 For sin no human oifering can atone ; — 
 HU blood is needed, and hh blood nloiw. 
 Man's guilt demands it. Meekly lie complies : — 
 He dies to con(pier, and in conquering dies I 
 But ere tiie vision vanislies, again 
 He lives ! he rises ! wliile a heavenly train 
 Escort him homeward to his native seat ; 
 And waiting myriads his arrival greet. 
 "He comes ! he comes ! no more to bleed and die :" 
 "Our King returns !" the attending hosts reply : — 
 "Lift up your heads, ye gates ! for death and sin 
 Are slain ; the Conqueror now enters in !" 
 The hearts so latelv overwhelmed with arief, 
 
In visi<):i so iiispirino- find relief. 
 Believiiiii" {ukI t'orgiveu, they bend tlie knee, 
 And worsliip Him the Man of Calvarv ; 
 Whose human nature suffering in their stead, 
 Sliall, in its suffering, crush tlie serpent's head, 
 
 CANTO. II. 
 
 In midst of Eder, dressed in vernal green, 
 
 Laden with fruit, the ''tree of life" was seen, 
 
 Ijike some tall cedar ))ointing to the sky ; 
 
 Emblem and pledge of imnu)rtality I 
 
 Ha<l man abstained from ''tree of knowledge," this 
 
 Had been a seal of everlasting bliss ; 
 
 But covenant broken, he must henceforth feel, 
 
 'Tis sacrilege to ap})ropriate the seal. — 
 
 His hand, i)resum})tuous made, by former l)reach 
 
 Of (rod's authority, must never reach 
 
 And pluck the tree of life ; lest wrath, instead 
 
 Of benefits, should fall upon his head. 
 
 To God, our parents must again restore 
 
 This Paradise, and enter it no more. 
 
 Its sacred groves with fountains gurgling there,— 
 
 Its mossy hedges where they knelt in prayer, — 
 
 Its clustering vines, with roses blooming near, — 
 
 Its warbling songsters singing sweet aud clear, — 
 
 The bower, where once they gave the man-iage vow, 
 
 All, all of these, must be relinquished now I 
 
 Clod called his swiftest messengers, who stand 
 Prepared to execute his high command. — 
 Quick as the light, in Eden they appeared, 
 To banish man from home so much endeared. 
 
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 TIk'V came as soldiers of tlieir ulorious KiiiL'', 
 And stood ill double rank with wini^- to wiiiLi', 
 Til! signal sliouM be aiveii. — Tiieii at the word, 
 Thev raised aloft, in air, the Haininu' swonl. 
 At .sight 80 full of dread ; with hurried i)aee, 
 Our ])arents, sad and trembling, left the })laee : — 
 l)Ut leaving east one long and anxious look. — 
 "Farewell !" seemed uttered by the gurgling brook :- 
 "A long adieu !" from waving forests fell ; 
 While birds sang pensive strains, "farewell, farewell T 
 
 Along Hiddekel's banks, thev weeping strayed, 
 Till night enfolded them in dismal sluide. 
 Clouds gather in the lunivens ; — their s])irits (|uail. 
 While thunder-peals re-echo through the vale. 
 They find a grotto, formed by nature's hand ; 
 Xot tastefully adorned, nor nicely planned 
 For comfort : — But it jjroved a safe retreat, 
 From storm by night, — by day from burning heat, 
 ft was not E<len ! but it proved a home. 
 Where they might rest for many years to come. 
 Here Adam reared his flocks, and tilled the s;)il 
 With sweat of face, with weariness and toil. 
 Here Eve brought forth her first-born son in |)ain ; 
 And seizing at the promise, called him Cain. 
 Alas, too soon from such delusion freed, 
 That this loved infant is the promised "Seed." 
 Doat not, fond mother, on thine infant fair ; — 
 The seeds of future crime are lurking there. 
 
 Seasons and years with ra]nd footsteps run. 
 And p]ve, our mother, bears her second son. 
 Her Abel.— Childhood's season swiftly flies : 
 And soon the sti-ipling boys to manhood rise. 
 
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 Abel rejoices in his ileeks ; — while Ciiin 
 
 .I)eli*ilits to ^athei" in the ripened grain. 
 
 In early Ijoyhood they had learned to l)rinL^ 
 
 On holy (hiys tneir Idoody ottering ; 
 
 While Eve instructed them to lift their eyes, 
 
 In faith and hoj)e, to Heaven's great Sacrifice. 
 
 l>ut Cain, in bleeding lanihs no fitness sees; 
 
 And unbelief suggests ; — ''Instead of these 
 
 ril bring my first-rij)e corn, — my fruit I'll briuL 
 
 A iin'rifori'iitx ott'ering to the King." 
 
 The comely pile he on the altar lifts ; 
 
 Xo sign is given that God accepts his gifts. 
 
 Close by ; in coi-j)se of myrtle nesirly hid ; 
 Believing Abel otters uj) a kid. 
 As ty[)e of Him on whom his faith relies. — 
 D.'scending fire consunu^s the sacrifice. 
 Cain sees the wreaths of smoke ascend on high, 
 And fire of anger flaslies in his eye. 
 Imivv, and jealousy, and rage, tuid hate, 
 Cond)ine to seal his guiltless brother's fate. 
 
 Some days pass by : — a bloody corse is found, 
 ]Mangk(l and cold, and })rostrate on the ground. 
 R.M-eft, our parents wail o'er Abal dea 1 ; 
 A\'hile Cain, the guilty murderer, is fled. 
 "The fruit of our transgression this !" they cry . 
 "We learn how dread a thing it is to die !" 
 Cain roams the forest, often looking back. 
 To see some dread avenger on his track. 
 He starts ! — he trend)les ! — for bethinks he sees 
 Tlie ghost of murdered Abel through the trees. 
 l">ach bi-eeze alarms,- stillness awakens fear ! 
 Then >olemnlv, a voice salutes his ear ; — 
 
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 "Where is thy ln-otlier ?" Guilt and sliaiiic to hide, 
 "Am / ni;/ hr:)thfr>^ keeper /" Cain replied. 
 "His blood cries to me from the gory sod, 
 Demanding vengeance ;" says the voice of (lod. 
 "Of death, the penalty is death ; but grace 
 Commutes thy punishment ; and on thy face 
 I brand the crimson hue of burning sbame, 
 The mark by which mankind shall read thy name ; 
 And though deserving death, shall let thee live, 
 Driv'en out, a vagabond and fugitive." 
 
 Eastward from Eden, in the land of Nod, 
 Away from haunts of man and face of God, 
 With one of kindred soul claimed as his wife, 
 Cain spent the remnant of his wretched life. 
 J)escendants multiplied, — a baneful race 
 Of mighty hunters ; joying in the chase. 
 The strong, with ruthless thrust, the weaker slay ; 
 Nor demons are more fierce and mad than they. 
 They reasoned thus : — If God s})ared guilty Cain, 
 AVho in his ire had his own brother slain ; 
 Sure, wrath shall never fall upon the head. 
 That luckless i^trarKjerx blood may chance to shed. 
 'H'h us argued Lamach, while he nerved his arm 
 To wound his enemy with fatal harm. 
 And this became the universal plea ; 
 •'Since Cain was spared the murderer must go free." 
 As consequence, atrocities were planned, 
 And deeds of violence stained all the land. 
 Sometimes in single combat, man with man, 
 Sometimes united in a savage clan ; 
 (To deeds of robbery and murder trained,) 
 Thev fought, while anarchy and terror reigned. 
 
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 To linj)))ier visions let us turn oiu" evr^ 
 N\'est\v*ar(l, wIutc Adam's younirer race su'ise. 
 In eonipensation for ii'oofl Abel's death, 
 Another son is iiivcn, th.e virtuous ►'-'eth. 
 Like Ahel, lau^iht to love and worship (iod, 
 I^xultiuirly in Abel's steps l.e trod. 
 His children learned God's favor to desire. 
 And imitate the virtues of their sire. 
 A race of wise and holy men arose 
 Whose lives contrasted ha])pily with those 
 Known as the "sons of men," in land of Xod ; 
 And hence were justly called "the sons of (lod." 
 They live in })eace,— flocks graze upon their hills 
 With corn the fertile land their garners fills ; 
 Their daily songs from grateful hearts arise ; 
 And })i'ayers ascend with smoke of sacrifice. 
 Their Father's ear is open while they call, 
 And heaven a portion of its bliss lets fall. 
 As numna which our future sons shall taste, 
 While travelling weary through the desert waste. 
 
 But bliss on earth is destined soon to fade : — 
 A hostile band ai)proaches, to invade 
 Their quiet homes, their altars to demand, 
 And take ])ossession of their fertile land. 
 The "sons of men" compose this murderous train ; 
 Their spears the handy work of Tubalcain, 
 For quick defense the "sons of God" prepare ; — 
 Their sliield is innocence, — their sword is prayer. 
 Like avalanche, down from the mountain height 
 "The sons of men" rush forward to the figlit. 
 "The sons of God" in Heaven their trust repose ; 
 And wait unawed the onset of their foes. 
 
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 What ailr* the invaders? why that sudden fear?' 
 
 Why turn tliey l)a('k\vard ? 'Tis ( Jod's angel near; 
 
 Who stands to guard the innocent, *to slay 
 
 The hostile ercw, (H- drive them swift away. 
 
 Awestruck they turn, and in disorder fly ; 
 
 While some, n)ore hohl, in mad encounter <lie. 
 
 Precursor of more fierce enc^ounter, tliis 
 
 First effort made to interrui)t the hliss 
 
 Of "sons of (lod" repelled, aroused their ire. 
 
 To desolate the land with sword and fire. 
 
 What deeds of cruelty all unprovoked ; 
 How |)ityinir Heaven, as often as invi>ked. 
 Sent help: — would so proti-act my mournfvd tale. 
 That time, and strenirth, and j>owersof speech would fail. 
 Suffice to say, perpetual wai* ensued, 
 l^ut still the "sons of ( Jod were unsulxlued ; 
 -'^Till woman's beauty, charms resistless threw 
 O'er eyes spell-hound ; and from their firmness drew 
 These lioly men. Cain's daughter captive led 
 Their hearts : — they saw, admired, contracted, wed ! 
 What war and bloodshed to accomplish failed. 
 When hostile arniies j)eaceful men assailed. 
 Like beating tempests in the midnight storm : 
 I^eanty and love, like sunshine, could peHorm. 
 Instead of standing forth to sive and guide 
 '^rheir fail* conjjKinions, who had tui'ned aside 
 I'V()nj (Jo<l ; these simple men of peaci". dcsiix-d, 
 leather to pfr(f.<r wlunn the\' so much admired. 
 I nchecke*! by good, — by bad exam])Ie taught, 
 Their ofl's|)ring ])leasure more than virtue sought. 
 
 The power and influence of woman kind 
 In giving imj)ress to the youthful mimf. 
 
When ill its tender, plastic, niouldini;- state, 
 Xo mother's ptirtial heart ean estimate, 
 ^faternal h)ve ! no soul of man is steel 
 Against its ])()\ver ;— tlie younu" its intluenee feel ; 
 And age calls hack the pleasinn', tender hour, 
 Wiien heart was <ila<idene<l by its magic power. 
 The mother's voice was mnsic to the ear ; — 
 The mother's hand l)rnshed off the starting tear ;- 
 The mother's look of approbation told 
 Of hapj)iness beyond the price of gold. 
 Her kiss was jieace — her soft caress was joy, — 
 And every smile was snnshine to her boy. 
 lint sad the fate of those whose mother's smile, 
 And mother's inflnence, temling to l)egnile 
 The heart, sowed seedsof dissipation there, 
 To bloom in crime — to rijien in desj»air I 
 Such were the mothers of this hapless race : 
 Enthroned in beauty — destitute of grace, — 
 The grace which cheers and purifies the soul. 
 And brings the passions under due control. 
 Renown in wickedness their oifsj)ring gained ; 
 Unused to good — ^from evil unrestraii»ed. 
 (liants tbey grew in stature and in crime. 
 Like wandering meteors on the sky of tin«e. 
 Like clouds which witli the sweeping tempest came 
 liike waves of ocan foanii:ig out their shame, — 
 Like dire Sirocco's pestilential breath 
 Their march was c:irnag^', descdation, death ! 
 The fields were wasted, — homes and altars laid 
 Til ruins, wives and children captives made. — 
 The blood of innocence in madness spilled. 
 While all the earth with violence wasfilleil! 
 
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 From one dire shuiLditer leurn how tho'isaiids ftil 
 From one eucnaifer learn the liate of all. 
 
 At foot of Ararat, mid C 'vre.^s wood, 
 In garb of war a miirhtv chieftain stood ; 
 Stately, erect and proud ; Ocran l)v name, 
 By deeds of nnghty darinu" known to fame. 
 In brawny strength he stood — six cubits high : — 
 Sc(tr}( curled his lips ; — rage sparkled in his eye. 
 A helmet crowned his head with waying crest,^ — 
 A gleaming plate of brass adorned his l)reast ; 
 His left hand held an oval shield, and in 
 His right he grasped his trusty javelin. 
 Accoutred thus for war his horn he took, 
 And blew a blast that all the forest shook. 
 His scattered legions heard the ^yell known sound : 
 A thousand eager warriors gathered round 
 Their chief, ])repared to march at his command, 
 To meet their foes, or desolate the land. 
 "My soldiers, brave in battle," Ocran said, 
 "This day reminds us how our comrades bled 
 One year ago, when cursed Zerah slew 
 Your noble brothers, and dishonored you. 
 This day invokes the injured brave to go 
 And wreak their vengeance on a boasting foe.'' 
 
 Inspired with hate, ''to arms /" the caj)tains cry :- 
 "We come-! we come !" the sohliers all rejdv. 
 
 But ere they march, ahmg the distant plain 
 Approaching them is seen a numerous train ; 
 Like some dark cloud portending Avind and hail ; 
 With hostile banners hastning to assail. 
 Towering on high, and waving o'er the rest 
 Ocran espies proud Zerah's scarlet crest. 
 
Aiidhcars his voice reverberutin<r loud, 
 I r^ing along his fierce and savage crowd. 
 
 As tiuinder-cloiids when balanced in mid air 
 First move in sullen n)ajesty, and glare 
 3n streams of liglit, while peal responds to peal, 
 And earth and heaven the threatened vengeance feel ;- 
 Then nungling pour the desolating hail, 
 While forests fail before the sweeping gale : 
 So Ocran's troo])s and Zerah's, face to face, 
 First move with solemn, slow and measured pace ; — 
 Then (lashiKj forward at the cornet's S()und — 
 Slaughter and carnage overspread the ground I 
 Where'er tlie crested Zerah raised his lance 
 ///.s' troo])s fanatic hastened to advance ; — 
 AVhere'er the ])lume of Ocran waved on high 
 Hlx soldiers rushed to conquer or to <lie ! 
 At length the chieftain giants frowning stand, 
 And strive witii iron muscles, hand to hand, 
 To pierce each other's heart with jiointed steel — 
 vSoon gushing, crimson, streams of blood, reveal 
 How xtenrhj was the aim — how sfrotuj the thrust, 
 Which laid each other weltering in the dust. 
 Nor rage forsook them in the pangs of death ; — 
 They cursed each other with their dying breath. 
 Their soldiers frantic lengthen out the fray. 
 And anarchy and turmoil rule the day. 
 Some shout for victory — some rave — some groan ; 
 While slaughtered heaps along the "ground are strown. 
 Such were the scenes of violence and blood 
 Which brought, in wrath, the desolating flood ! 
 But where the righteous men, the men of worth, 
 Whose prayers and counsels may redeem the earth 
 
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 From threatened desolation ? Wliere are tl»ev 
 Whose earnest prayers may turn the wrath away '^ 
 T() death by violence they have b-?en hurled. 
 And few ren>ain to save a guilty world. 
 
 Among that few Ix^hold a noble youth, 
 Whose love of God and anlor for his truth 
 Ma<le him a target, and hrs guileless breast 
 A mark for sconi, and ribaldry, and jest. 
 "Among the faith less" faith fully lie stood, 
 Uebuking sin and walking with his (rod. 
 He j)ointe<l to the time when God would come* 
 With thousjunls of his saints, to gather home 
 The good, and east his eneniies away ; 
 And warned them to be rejidy for that day. 
 
 Some heard his earnest warnings, and abstained 
 From violence and blo(»d while he remalne<] 
 To urge their eonsi'Ience with his solemn ])leas, 
 But others, more intent on crime than these. 
 Kept back their hands from no enonninis vice, 
 Huts(dd themselves to siti for any price. 
 While these the path of wrong and violence trod 
 Enoch, the tincorrupted, iratkrif with (io<L 
 He grew in virtue as he grew in age ,* 
 And righteous men oft gatered 'round the sage, 
 And listened to his hymns of grateful praise. 
 And ]>rophecies of distant, future days. 
 Widle looking up to heaven with strong desire 
 f lis eye would kitidle with unearthly tire — 
 The world would lie forgotten at his feet 
 As he communed at God's own mercy seat. 
 
 As often as the day which God has blest 
 Returned, to cheer the wearv with its rest 
 
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 To some sequestered grove th« ri^lvteou?* sped, 
 
 And holy KiH)ch their devotions led. 
 
 One Sabbath came — a <lav to be renowned — 
 
 AVhen liglit of morn the mountain tops had crowned, 
 
 A.S vront, the righteous gather ta the place 
 
 AVhere God had oft disi>ensed his boundless grace. 
 
 On I'^noclvs countenance, devout^ serene. 
 
 Unwonted light and majesty are seen. 
 
 He speaks — an angel's eloquence is given ^ — 
 
 He prays— liis juayer seems fellowship with heaven 
 
 He sprearlshis Imnds to bless— a dazzling light 
 
 Surrounds his brow, too full for m<»rtal sight. 
 
 His very robes with heavenly radiance glow. 
 
 Purer than light, and whiter than the snow. 
 
 l^right clouds, like jiainted chariots, have come 
 
 To take him to his long expected home. 
 
 The wings of seraphs hover oVr the place. 
 
 And arms of love receive to their embrace 
 
 The man already ripened for the skiea 
 
 Clasped in those arn^? — behold I behold him rise! 
 
 The angel hands conduct him <m his wtiy 
 
 Homeward, to realms of everlasting day. 
 
 Too holy for the earth, in prime T>f years 
 
 Enoch has gone imd left the good in teiii's. 
 
 When Enoch was translated, the restraint 
 Thrown over lawless hearts by such a saint 
 Seemed all to vanish. Wickedness increased ;— = 
 Men gathered into groups to mock, and feast, 
 And ]dan in what mad works, what deeds of dark 
 And mcmstrous cruelty, they might embark. 
 They laughed nnd sported at the warning word. 
 Which from the lij)S of Enoch thcT had beards 
 
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 Aii'es passed by : — As on a mount I stood^ 
 One luindred years and twenty ere the flood 
 Ivolled its huge billows o'er the buried world, 
 The Fieavens their brightest radiance unfurled, 
 A sudden glory overwhelmed my sight, 
 And one stood forth arrayed iu robes of light. 
 Too bright for mortal vision to behold ; — 
 His loins were girded with the burnished gold : — 
 With feet of line and jjolished brass he came : — 
 His eyes were radiant lamps of burning flame : — 
 Like voire of many waters was his word, 
 I prostrate fell and treml)Ied, when I heard. 
 
 He spake : "Because of crimes which mortals phut 
 ^[y S})irit shall not always strive with man. 
 With guilty men the earth I will condemn, 
 For it is flUed with violence through them. 
 80 dee]) their crimes, my power 1 will employ, 
 And all the race with one fell stroke destroy. 
 Meanwhile a little longer I forl)ear. 
 That thou a spacious vessel may 'st prepare. 
 Of gopher wood, to float upon the wave. 
 Thyself and all thy family to save. 
 Who else, believing, freely may embark. 
 And share the blessed s.ifety of thine ark. 
 All others, wlio in unbelief delay, 
 By coming flood shall soon be swei)t away. 
 
 Obedient to my Maker's high command 
 I gathered round me an industrious band ; 
 Whose hearts were willing, and whose hands were skilled 
 The strong and stately edifice to build. 
 Though willing, oft they wondered at the ta>k 
 Imposed, and in their uid)elief would atk 
 
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 If Ndiih, tlieii' ein})l()yer, was insane, 
 
 To.-^pend l)is wealth and enero'ies! in vain. 
 
 Thus ages passed in treachery and crime, 
 
 While vengeance slumbered till tho appoined time. 
 
 Tiie world'.s great lights all faded, one by one, 
 As fade the the stars at ri,sing of the sun : 
 Unlike the stars, which yield to greater light, 
 These left the w<jrld in darker, gloomier night. 
 
 With all the ardor of my youthful breast 
 I loved my grand-sire: — He in turn caressed 
 His darling boy — and bade me often come. 
 And sit l^eside him in his shady home. 
 To hear the story that I now shall tell, 
 And other won nderful events as well. 
 Thus years of social joy passed on : when lo 1 
 An hour of darkness came — an hour of woe — 
 An hour of desolation and dismay ! 
 Whose memory shall never fade away. 
 
 How she who taught my infant lips to pray, 
 Who watched her boy by night, taught him by day 
 With other martyred saints was tortured, slain ; 
 Ask not these faltering lips to tell again. 
 For goodness crushed, my grand-sire's tender heart 
 Seemed bursting ; while he sought to ease the smart 
 Of rankling wounds, by pouring oil and wine 
 In father Lamech's stricken heart and mine. 
 
 But home was home no more. Its joy and crown 
 Had by one cruel stroke been smitten down. 
 I gave Methuselah my parting hand, 
 And kissed my father, leaving Gihon's land, 
 Westward, neath other skies, henceforth to roam, 
 And seek for me and mine a safer home. 
 
Hut now, advancing niirht invites to sleep. 
 To (iod, wlio.-e wakeful eyes will ever kee}> 
 All trusting- heart?, let us eoinniit our lives. 
 And when the halniy air of morn revives 
 Our spirits, I the story will renew, 
 And many wondrous ^^eenes relate tf) you. 
 Connected with that overwhelming" flood 
 Which spake the power and justice of our Ciod-'' 
 
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 The sun athwart the earth his early beai-ns 
 H^^^ cast, when Noah wakes from placid dretnns. 
 He kneels heside his couch in silent praver, 
 xA^nd thank*' his kind Preserver for the care 
 Bestowed through hours of undisturbed repose ; 
 And tastes the bliss which Heaven in love bestow>- 
 ( )n men devout — on righteous men arid true. 
 Who live at peace with God — with heaven in view. 
 
 The earth bad Ix'en refreshed with evening shower 
 And nature, smiling, owned its quickening power. 
 The air was balmy, and the playful breeze 
 Gambolled along, and kissed the budding trees. 
 When worship and the morning meal were o'er. 
 All gathered round the patriarch as before ; 
 lOager to listen to the promised tale. 
 And see what he was ready to unveil. 
 
 ^Tojib resumed : — "As on a mount I stood. 
 One hundred years and twenty ere the flood 
 Rolled its huge billows o'er the bui'ied world. 
 The heavens their brightest radiance unfui-led. 
 A sudden frlorv overwhelmed mv siu'ht. 
 
-XmX ( )iie stood forth arrayed in robes of liglit 
 
 Too hriiiht for ni(»rtal vision tt> behold ! 
 
 His loins were girded witli the burnished gold : 
 
 With feet of ftne and polished brass he canic^ : — 
 
 His eyes were radiant lamps (»f burning flame : — 
 
 Like voice of many waters was his word. — 
 
 [ })rostrate fell, and trembled, when I heaixl. 
 
 He spake : — "Because of crimes which mortals ])lan. 
 My spirit shall not always strive with man. 
 With guilty men the earth I will c<m<lenni, 
 For it is filled with violence through them. 
 80 deep their crime.-* my power i will employ. 
 And all the race with one fell sti-oke de-stroy. 
 ]Meanwhilea little longer I forbear 
 That thou a spacious ve.ssel may'st prepare, 
 Of Gopher wood, to float upon the wave ; 
 Thyself and all thy family to save-. 
 AVho else, believing, freely may embark, 
 And share the safety of this blessed ark. 
 All others, who in unbelief delay, 
 By hasting Hood shall soon be swept away " 
 
 Obedient to my Maker's liigh conmiaiid, 
 I gathered round me an industrious band. 
 Whose hearts were willing, and whose hands were ^^killed. 
 The strong and stately edifice to build. 
 
 Vpon a plain the city Accad stood : 
 And near it waved, a dark majestic wood 
 Of gopher trees and olive :— Higher still 
 Arose to View a gently slo])ing hill. 
 Its summit was a level plain and bare ; 
 In ci»mpass. near a thousand cubits square- * 
 A down its side a o-ushinii' streamlet ran> 
 
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 T\\k hill- top, well adapted to the i)laii 
 
 Of rearing the inajestic ark, I chose ; 
 
 And soon the outlines of the vessel rose 
 
 To view. Men stopped upon their way and gazed, 
 
 Laughing to scorn the builder,, while they praised 
 
 The comely edifiice, so wide and long, 
 
 With joints compact, and every timber strong ; 
 
 So beautiful in symmetry and form, 
 
 Prepared to ride the waves and meet the storm. 
 
 Some laughed in ridicule, and gome were sad, 
 
 That Noah, sapient once, had now gone mad. 
 
 The news of my insanity was spiead 
 
 Abroad ; and timid children, in their dread 
 
 Of meeting me, would take another path, 
 
 And run, as though I followed them in wrath. 
 
 And even men and women stood and stared, 
 
 As though at hideous monster they were scared. 
 
 But when they saw me calm and undisturbed. 
 
 Their fears were quelled — their terrors all were curbed. 
 
 And some had dreadful apprehensions, lest 
 
 The threatened flood should not all prove a jest. 
 
 The work made progress, and its spreading fame 
 Went far abroad ; and men of science came 
 To view the structure, who its plan admired ; 
 And why I built it eagerly encpiired. 
 I told them, in reply, what I had learned, 
 That since the laws of God our race had spurned. 
 And filled the earth with violence and blood ; 
 There treasured was, till destined hour, a flood,' 
 AVhose billows o'er the mountain tops shoud leap. 
 And in riieir angry, desolating sweep, 
 Submerge the world ; and hurry quick to death 
 
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 All moving things, in which was found the breath 
 
 Of life. I toM them that I now prepared 
 
 This vessel, that the righteous might be spared, 
 
 By floating safely on the swelling deep, 
 
 When wicked men beneath its waves should .^^leep. 
 
 To save themselves from coming wrath, I warned 
 
 And counselled them : but they the message scoi'ued. 
 
 What months and years of agony I spent, 
 
 Beseeching bold tram^gressors to repent ! 
 
 1 preached, I warned, I wrestled much in ])rayer, 
 
 ^'^For spirits yio?/' in prison of despair. 
 
 Crowds flocked to see the ark, and many a time 
 Youth from the city cheerily would climb 
 The hill where it was reared, at even tide. 
 And in their glee make merry and deride. 
 To these, and all, I lifted up my voice, 
 Beseeching them to make a happy choice. 
 ]My earnest efforts were of no avail : — 
 My warnings seemed to them an idle tale ; 
 To end in emptiness, as it began ; 
 Tbe moon-struck reveries of crazed old man. 
 They swore 'twas folly to construct a boat 
 Upon a hill, and think 'twould ever float 
 From such an eminence, upon the breast 
 Of gulf or sea. They treated as a jest 
 The ark, the flood, and God's most solemn threat ; 
 Saying in scorn, "the flood has not come yet ; — 
 All things continue as they were before ; — 
 The earth is safe, and will be evermore." 
 
 One evening, as I mused beneath the shade, 
 And for a scofling world in sorrow prayed ; 
 
 / Pet. 3: HI. 
 
Two patriiircli.'^ approaclied, Menry aiu( uurn ;' 
 
 \Vith weak and trembling footsteps slo\\ly hoi-iu-,. 
 
 Bending beneath the weight of nnmeroiis years. 
 
 Like homeless pilgrims in a vale of tears. 
 
 Their beads were hoary, and their cheeks were wan . 
 
 xVnd niauhood'^ vigor from their limbs li-ad sjDne. 
 
 Of men so venerable I ne'er had dreamed : 
 
 And each the image of the other eeemed. 
 
 A plain and unpretending garb they wore, 
 
 They bent their footsteps to my open door. 
 
 I rose and bowed, inquiring whence they came — 
 
 AVhat boon they sought, what ill they shunned, their name 
 
 "As strangers frfmi a distant land we come,'" 
 
 They said ; — "South East from Edeu is our hojue. 
 
 Eebellions, wars, and tumults so abound. 
 
 That neither peace nor safety have we foun({ 
 
 In that our native lancL And &traoge report 
 
 Has reached our ears, that from higli Iieayen''s court- 
 
 Tiie mandate had gone forth that all l>e drcvwi^ed. 
 
 Unless in Noah's ark they safety found. 
 
 We come, within that ark to share a place. 
 
 And test the truth of (lod's abounding grace.^' 
 
 '"Did ye e'er know one Lamech ?" I inquired, 
 "Who once, South East of Edeu, lived retired. 
 Near Gihon's fio^ving stream, in olive grove, 
 Where stately trees their branches int;nvove ?" 
 
 The younger answered : "Yea, I knew him welL 
 Eor where he dwelt it was my lot to dwell ; — 
 'Tis he that now appears before thine eyes I" 
 "My father !" I exclaim, in quick surprise, 
 And to his open arms with transport run : 
 While he exclaims in turn, "My -"" ' 
 
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 IMetluisehih my ^irrand-sire, I in turn 
 
 Knihrace, with Jtll the lovi* that oi-ed to hiivn 
 
 \n yomv-^eY breast. Together we rejoice, 
 
 -And })raise protertin^a- Heiiven with thankful voire. 
 
 Some centuries had passed since I iiad trode 
 
 The lawn surrounding Lmmech's sweet abode. 
 
 Aly childhood's sacred home. But I had heard 
 
 'Reports of war, which all njy spirit stirred. 
 
 And oft I tiiouobt to visit yet again 
 
 My ancient borne ; not that I might remain 
 
 In land so full of carnage ; but convey 
 
 Methuselah and Lamerh both away 
 
 To safer 'hame. But yet I never gained 
 
 Mv purpose ; for some hi^lden hand detained 
 
 My steps. Most joyFnl then I deemed my lot, 
 
 To greet ^uch welcome friends in m'/ oir^ cot. 
 
 But ere the n\orning dawned ray jov had fled ; 
 My father, ripe for blessedness, was (hud ! 
 His wav had been too long for weary feet; — 
 His pulse gTew faint, — his bcart refused to beat, 
 I'lose by the ark a little tomb we nrade. 
 And buried him beneath ri cypress shade. 
 
 Till coming iiood five years alone remained, 
 When wrath might be esea])ed, and mercy gained. 
 Tlie passing years roll ra])idly away, 
 And hasten on the 'iong expected day. 
 There stands, in solemn majesty, the ark ; 
 With t)pen do(M', inviting to embark ; 
 Finished and ready for the Pilot's word. 
 Whenever to sail the mandate shall be heard ; 
 With food which Asia's richest fields afPord, 
 F(.)r a long voyage, j^lentcously stored. 
 
At niycoiiiniand, but mure by instinct laiigfif, 
 in pairti, the birdti and l>eastj> and reptiles sought 
 This ample ark, as thougli they heard the storm. 
 And hiy^enedto a shelter &afe and warm. 
 First walk the brawny lion&, s^ide by side. 
 As king in s^tateliness, and queen in pride. 
 With lofty antlers, next, the ninibledeer 
 Tread softly in their fciotsteps, void of fear- 
 Next come the noble horse, and patient ox. 
 The crouching tiger,, and the skulking fox. — 
 Beasts ()f all sizes come ; — of every name ; 
 The noxious, useful, timorous and tame, — 
 The eagle leaves his aerie, wont to soar ; 
 And with tlie ostrich, enters through the door 
 Still opened wide. — The birds of every note, 
 Whose glee-songs on the morning breezes float ; 
 The graceful swan, the hooting owl, the lark, 
 All seek a shelter in the open ark. 
 By pairs assembled in this safe retreat, 
 (^ne brotherhood they dwell, one household meet. 
 
 That morn I tocfk my stand upon the hill 
 And blew my cornet, sounding loud and shrill. 
 The final Avaniingto abandoned men. 
 And signal that all things were ready then. 
 The sound, through wood, and vale, and city, went 
 And echo seemed to say, "repent ! repent ! !" 
 But none that warning heeded, for the day 
 Was calm and cloudless, and the fields looked gay. 
 The farmer sowed his seed and tilled his soil ; 
 Mechanics hastened to their daily toil ; 
 The merchant opened uj) his tempting store ; 
 The miser counted all hisirold once more. 
 
Feasting and sport, l)y many were })ref erred '; 
 
 Aiul noise of dance and revelry wa8 heard. 
 
 Tliey drank, they fought, tliey plundered and they swore., 
 
 For G()d'.s goo<i Spirit .strove with thejn no more, 
 
 .Mercy's la.stday now Imt^teiis to ii close, 
 
 And nothing more to dinners will jm)])ose, 
 
 J seek niy family, a little hand, 
 
 And take my feeble grand-.sire by the han<]. 
 
 To lead him gently to the welcome ark ; 
 
 AVhen lo ! his cheek gro\vs pale — his eyes grow '<lai-k, 
 
 A joyful messenger from God has come, 
 
 To lead hijn upward to i\ safer home, 
 
 AVhere Adam, Abel, Seth and En<K3h <hvell, 
 
 In bliss -which mortals dare not, coidd they telL 
 
 We place his body in my father's tomb, 
 
 Where fall-Howers spring from dust, and bud, and blooju : 
 
 Sweet endjlems of the resurrection <lay, 
 
 AVhen these shall burst the tomb and soar away. 
 
 Their hollies mingle with their sister earth ; — 
 
 Than she they scarcely seem of later birth. 
 
 They sweetly sleep together, side by side : 
 
 They loved in life, and death does not divide. 
 
 The last kind office to my grand-sire done, 
 The ark we enter at the setting sun. 
 On bended knee God's guidance we implore, 
 And his own hand bolts up the massive door. 
 To find my family from danger freed, 
 And all within the ark, is joy indeed ! 
 The night glides quickly by, — the dawn a])])ears, — 
 Strange sights are seen ! strange sounds fall on the ears ! 
 The light looks sickly, — and the rising breeze 
 Sloans pensively among the forest trees. 
 
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 Meanwhile the heiiveiis p;)rteiit()iissig'as displuv,, 
 As though the car of wrath Avas on itsi way. 
 The fires gleam dismally along the ^ky^ 
 And peals l)urst forth! — that car ii< paf-'^huj hij I 
 Tremble thou earth ! ye heavens put s£>ccloth on I 
 The day of doom has come ; of joy has gone !. 
 All faces gatlier blackness and dismay ; ' 
 And wailingsfall from lips that dare not pray. 
 The winds and thunder seem the voice of God, 
 Ringing in guilty ears. The Flood ! The Flood / 
 The windows of the skies are opened wide ; 
 Their gates, with force resistless pressed, divide ; 
 And down on mountain top, and rale, and plain'. 
 Descends, in ceaseless catanicts, the rain. 
 The waters of Hiddekel rise, and roll. 
 And like a courser ardent for the goal, 
 Euphrates foams, and swells, and speeds his flight ; 
 Becomes a flood, before whose (mward might 
 Trees, dwellings, monuments are swept away. 
 Ah ! who can paint the terrors of that day ! 
 Trembling has seized the earth : it groans and reels,. 
 And all the terror of God's vengeance feels. 
 The reservoirs in her vast caverns pent 
 For numerous ages, struggle to find vent. 
 Then rending open their capacious cuj), 
 The fountains of the deep are broken up. 
 Like caldron boils the sea ; — its billows roar. 
 And swelling high they overleap the shore. 
 Overall the earth ten thousand fountains rise, 
 And spout their jets of water to the skies. 
 As boiling springs in future ages known 
 At Geyser, and at Laugervarm, and thrown 
 
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 In oTacet'ul colunm.s sixty cubits higlis 
 
 To leap these jets to kiss the bending sky. 
 
 As satumteil sponge, pi^ssed by the hand, 
 
 Pours out it8 little Mood ; — so all the lan<l 
 
 'Now filled^ and drenched, and J^ressed by hand of (rod, 
 
 Belclies its inwarxi oce'ans all abroad. 
 
 But where are they ^vhose hearts and wo ixls were bray e—^ 
 
 ^VllO scoffed at threatened ^xxh], and scorne<l the wave'; 
 
 AVholivefl in wickedness, who walked in pride, 
 
 And Gt^Fs authority and wmth defied? 
 
 Where are tlve men of learning and of wit, 
 
 Around whose feet the multitude would sit, 
 
 And hear them proye by ai-guments pix)fonnd, 
 
 That waters never could the earth surround ? 
 
 Where are the thongbtless, negligent, and gay, 
 
 NVho sought no shelter from this wrathful day ? 
 
 Ah, where are now the multitude that heaiYl, 
 
 But disregarde<l Gcd's lieseeching word ? 
 
 Trembling and j)ale tlie guilty Wretches cower, 
 
 And seek a respite frem that dreadful hour, 
 
 Alas, \yhat cries, what shrieks, what greans, what tearSi 
 
 AV^hat dark forebodings, what o'erNvhehning fears ; 
 
 Now terrify the ears, the hearts of tht)se 
 
 On \yhon) thus falls this ayalanche of woes! 
 
 In consternation, each attempts to ilee 
 
 To nearest eminence, his life to free 
 
 Prom billows rising \vith each coming hour-, 
 
 And sweeping by with desolating prnwer. 
 
 Behold, son.e driven by the rising waVe, 
 liush to the ark, and for admission crave ; 
 M^ith cries of anguish pleading evermore, 
 "For mercy^s sake unbolt the fastened door.'^ 
 
fJiit AvIuMi they ascertain tlieir certain fate;. 
 
 That tliey have £k>ught for nierey when too hite^ 
 
 They rai.-^ i^a loud and fritiful a ery^ 
 
 Methink?* frT*)ni R)emory 'twill Hever die. 
 
 From that j?ad hom% thnniidi alt the foMowinL^ years. 
 
 That d(»leful wailins^r ring.< wkhiu my ears. 
 
 By night; hy day, conTei-!<ing or alone. 
 
 I seem to hear that melancholy ?noan. 
 
 Up to my window climhing, I could view 
 S^ome feaiful struggles : — other's tt>v> I knew 
 By insj)iration ; — for ])rophetic ken 
 Brought j)Te:^Mit to my view the haunts of men. 
 I witnessed all the fears of hushand^ — wife ; — 
 While they would rescue, each the other's life ; 
 Or save their children from the rising waves. 
 Where many faint and faltering lind their graves. 
 
 A mother clasps her habe, and to the height 
 ( )f distant mountain prosecutes her flight. 
 Nerved for all dangers, onward o'er the plain 
 8he speeds her way^ — nor looks she back again. 
 The floods oppose her; — plunging through the wave. 
 No fear appals that heart resolved to save. 
 Through swelling torrents, to the niountain bent, 
 Her (piickened steps assay the steep ascent, 
 And cFunb the height. Secure from i)resent death, 
 8he i)auses, looks, and in her yearnings saith ; 
 "Cursed l)e that mother's heart that deigns to rest, 
 AVhen but our lamb of all her fold is blest. 
 I'll go in search ! — methinks I hear their cry I 
 They shall be rescued though their mother die." 
 Adown the cliff she hastens to retrace 
 Her steps, to search and ascertain the jdace 
 
4B 
 
 NYliere lui>l)an(i — children — congregate. But lo 1 
 
 -Dct-per the tlood ; — swifter the water.'^ flow. 
 
 She calls their iiasuerN — ^;he shoul.s— she calls again, 
 
 \"ain ho])e ! The rusliing flood, the falling rain, 
 
 The sweeping wind.-^, tlie tlumder peals, alone 
 
 Are heard : — they claim the day as all their own ,' 
 
 But still, inaternsd love re.'^olirx to ^^ave. — 
 
 3Iaternal love ! stronger than death I The wave 
 
 She ventures for a rich and noble prize. 
 
 Sad venture ! d :)wn she sinks, ho more to rise I 
 
 Lovers are seen, contending with the tide, 
 Siidving together rather than divide. 
 Husbands and wives are drifted from their place. 
 And perish in one longhand last embrace. 
 Parent and child each other try to save, 
 But, in their efforts, And a watery grave. 
 
 But most are vastly selfish, and controlled 
 By love of grtin — by eager thirst for g(dd ; 
 No pity for their fellow sufferers feel ; 
 But their own deep depravity reveal. 
 Struggling for place, they push the weak aside ; 
 Who sink unwept, beneath the rising tide. 
 Huddled in gronps. beneath the stormy sky. 
 Fatigued, and cold, and hungry, myriads die, 
 Long ere the billows, rising day by day. 
 From rugged hill-tops others sweep away. 
 
 Some brave all dangers and all woes endure, 
 To save their gold, their treasures to secure. 
 How well their chosen god rewards theii" zeal 
 Their agonizing hearts are taught to feel, 
 (xold is 110 savior now ; — their certain fate 
 It hurries on with more tlian mill-stone weiaht. 
 
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 Thus men of wealth, of learning*, and renown"- 
 Beneath the waste of swelling;' seas s-ink down 
 To depths unknown ; their pillow there to make 
 Till resurrection trump their dust shall wake.- 
 
 Another scene of horror meets their eye. 
 Upon a mountain summit, bleak and high, 
 In groups are gathered reptiles, beasts and men. 
 The lion leaves his water-fh)oded den^ 
 And man his stately palace, to retreat 
 To safer dwelling place, — this higher seat ; 
 Where beasts of eveiy name, the tame, the wild :: 
 Where man^ and woman, youth and little childv. 
 All meet together in a narrow bound : 
 The chafing ocean pressing close around. 
 Now by the rising waves more elosely pent 
 The fierce unsc^cial tiger growls dissent, 
 And licks his jaws, but falls not on the prey. 
 The helpless sheep in contact forced to stay, 
 Bleats forth her grief. The wilff and timid deer 
 Trembles to find the hungry lion near. 
 Beside the wolf the trembling maiden stands : — 
 The child on spotted leopard lays its hands. 
 The snake glides stealthily amcmg their feet. 
 From whose apjji'oach all seek a quick retreat, 
 But seek in vain ; the contact they inusf bear. 
 For in distress they all are brothers there. 
 
 But man more fierce and cruel than the rest, 
 Smites down the gentle fawn against him pressed^. 
 And drinks its blood his hunger to allay. 
 This was the signal for the beasts of prey. 
 For at the scent of blood, the wolf, the bear, 
 The tiger, leopard, all must have a share. 
 
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 The iimnestv was bn^keii ; and a feiicl 
 
 ^I():r;t boifctennis, ]i)(i?«t horrible, ensued ; 
 
 As t!i(Ui<rh a baud ;>f fiends had tried their power, 
 
 And centred all their hate in that fell hour. 
 
 <)u everv side m.ost doleful .sounds 5irise ; 
 
 in growls, and o-r^^an^s, and screanas. and yells, and ^-ries 
 
 A concert ,-'uch as densons mad njiirht make, 
 
 Uausing the earth, and sea, and sky to cjiiake, 
 
 The Ar(df devours the lainb ; — the hunjrry bea.f 
 
 Disputes the title, while his eyeballs glare 
 
 With ragK3 : — the lion roars upon his prey ;— 
 
 And carnage is the Girder of the day. 
 
 In such a contest human beings cower, 
 
 And ru.«hin^2 froni their savage conquerors' jx)wen 
 
 Into the bosoni of the ocean iea]>, 
 
 ..\nd choose the tender mercies of the deejK 
 
 iNIean while the ark is peacefully afloat.-^ 
 <Tod IS the PHot of this stately boat, 
 Which on the crested billows safely rides^, 
 'The waves in fury dashing round its sides. 
 Wliere bird.'^ of loftiest wing were wont to soar 
 It rides on high, ^n sfea without n shoVe ^ 
 For shoreless is the o^ean now ; and dee]) 
 Beneath its waves whole kingdoms buried sleep. 
 
 Tiiere still remained one height, which like n towei\ 
 Raised its tall crest above the billoAvs^ power ; 
 JaouikI whi<ih the deep in maddening fury whirled i 
 The last retreat on a dissolving world. 
 On this high cliff, so bleak, so wild, so rude-, 
 IS'ow stood alone, in drearv solitude-. 
 
4() 
 
 Tlie fast survivor (>f a j^cMffinsr raee,, 
 With care aixl woe depietetl on \\w face.. 
 With folded anus upon that mount he sttxx?. 
 And g5\zed avoimd vipmi the i<horele?& flood. 
 No tear l^ed^wed lii?^ cheek r^ — a vacant r^tare- 
 Revealed a heart civn^Hining with despair. 
 In conten?plation. hx^t^he heeds no nwre 
 Therisinii" waves^ nor angry tempests^ roar. 
 To liin> no fear tlie thunders no-w impart ; 
 The lightnings strike n-o terror to his heart. 
 Increasing dinniess steals upon his eyes. — 
 A hillow sweejjs : — -the J<(>^t fran(/re.<.-<oi' (//r.s I 
 
 Now shorelesj* is the deep : — its waters rolE 
 With unimpeded How, from jxde to }>oJe ; 
 Obstructed by no reef or rocky shore, — 
 No mountain side or summit, as before. 
 Piling its billows high, and higher yet, 
 No bars or doors by Heaven's decree are set. 
 Except the fiat that was erst obeyed ; — 
 ■'''"Thui* far arise, proud waves, and here be stayed.'^ 
 
 A calm succeeds : — the storms* and tempests cease :— 
 The sea, like weary child, is lulled to peace ; — 
 A molten mirror, polished, clear and bright ; — 
 The sun dy day, the moon and stars by night. 
 Look down u}x>n her face, luade doubly fair 
 By image of themselves reflected there. 
 Upon that sea, in dark and stormy night. 
 There might be seen one faint and flickering light : — 
 It glimmered from the window of the ark ; 
 And angels watched that dim and distant sj)ark : 
 For Jill }H'in eyes no more were called to kec]) 
 Their niglitly vigils, sealed in death's long sleep. 
 
 *./o// as : 1(1, li. 
 
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 A.<k ye liow were tlie tedious hours eniijloyed, 
 'Wliat griefs we bore, what pleasures we enjoyed, 
 AVhile toss't like feather on the rolling tide, 
 Yet kept and guarded by our heavenly (hiide? 
 At morn and ex-e, tlie voice of praise and prayer, 
 liose from our stately mansion, on the air ; 
 But not an ear was open to that sound, 
 For ail were buried in the depth profound. 
 Yes! (iHiiel.^ hovered o''er, to heiir the lays 
 That rose melodious in our songs of praise : 
 And as we breathed our hearts in warm desire, 
 We heard their roicr>i niingling with the ehoir. 
 So sweet a ehaiit the heavenly notes convey, 
 We ])au.<e, — anfl breathless, — listen to tiie lay, 
 
 Downard, ahjng the spirit-travelled road, 
 These heavenly visitants, to our abode 
 <)ft come, and with our company embark, 
 .Vnd hold communion with us in the ark. 
 For kno\\", that spirits need no oj)en door 
 By which to enter ; — matter can no more 
 Obstruct their way, than air the rays of light. 
 Which softly fall upon the et)^er sight. 
 Our prison is not lonely, when thus blest 
 With many a kind and heaven-commissioned guest. 
 To cheer us on our voyage, and our way 
 ]>eguile, Avith words which only angels say. 
 
 How gi'cat the contrast ! lately we were pressed 
 \\' ith those who hated (xod, and made a jest 
 Of sacred things ; and whose discourse ]>r()fane, 
 Curdled the coursing blood in every vein, 
 l^ut now, no words of hate our ears salute ; 
 No muttered curses, and no fierce dispute : — 
 
4^ 
 
 Hut words so full of love, ^\.e seemed fo staiul 
 Upon the threshold of the heavenly land. 
 
 Our course is onward ; for the swelling- breeze 
 C'on veys us where our heavenly Guide may please 
 To mark our path : — now to the l)hishing West 
 Where weary luminaries go to rest r — 
 Now to the East : — now toward the Northern pole :, 
 And now the Southern : — under the c(mtrol 
 Of him who holds the wind, directs the gale. 
 And shows the stately vessel where to sail. 
 O'er vales, and lofty mountains, on we sweep, 
 AVhere cities lie, and buried kingdoms sleep. 
 O'er realms, and continents, and desert waste, 
 Like soaring eaglet, through the sky we haste. 
 Five gliding months had passed — five moons had waned 
 When Heaven's windows closed, when God restrained 
 The torrents ; and his winds drank up the seas. 
 Which wasted from the earth by slow degrees. 
 The {jrk which long had floated on the face 
 Of drifting waters, sought a resting place : 
 And like a wear\" bird, now lighting, sat 
 Upon the loi'ty top of Ararat. 
 
 Back to their empty caverns, more and more 
 Retired the floods, Avhere they had slept before.. 
 The thirsty earth, like huge behemoth, drank 
 Whole seas at once ; and in her bowels sank 
 With whirlpool sweep, in swift and eddying' chase 
 The plants and trees that drifted o'er her face. 
 
 Our pleasant voyage ended, we would fain 
 Upon the emerging earth descend again. 
 But still we tarried for Jehovah^s word, 
 Waiting in faith till his behest was heard. 
 
4t) 
 
 He ;^pake : — "Go forth, tlie verdant earth possess ; 
 it waits your blessing, and your toil to bless." 
 
 Upon its hinges turned the ark's huge door, 
 And on our gladdened vision, burst, once more, 
 Tiie earth ; as friend returned, in garments new. 
 While lovely landscape.* crowned on our view. 
 wSo lofty was our home, so high our seal, 
 That towerin,«: mountains sank l)eneath our feet. 
 But earth seemecl desolate : — we heard no voice 
 Which erst made vale and nwuntain top rejoice ; 
 No chattering birds, no city's busy hum ; 
 But all the world was desolate and dumb, 
 •Only the rill still gurgle<:l ; and the breeze 
 Whispered a sw-eet ^'good morning" to the trees, 
 
 ^V^e bade the ark farewell, and all our crowd 
 Of beast* and birds their liberty aloud 
 Saluted : — Ararat was crowned with praise ; 
 iSucli as our merry birds in artless lays, 
 And beasts in sounds discordant, could employ ; 
 While human voices mingled in the joy. 
 
 But lo ! a vision of some distant day 
 Leads all our thoughts and all our hopes away, 
 -Far to the W est, to Syria's holy land ; 
 Where, in Jerusalem, a Prince shall stand. 
 Divine, majestic, yet in human form ; 
 To pluck the lightning from the gathering storm 
 To turn the vengeance from the sinner's head, 
 And stay the bolt prepared to strike him dead : 
 To briiig him to the ark that hath its path 
 Above the billows of eternal wrath ; 
 Where we again embarked may safely find, 
 And leave, once move, the smitten earth behind. 
 
The niiii'lity Prince I hh coiuiteuaiice ^uivaw; 
 Mid tiunti^, and jeer^^, and mockery i& seen.— 
 Appalled we gaze to see the sufferer bleetl ; 
 And recognize "the woman's promised Seed," 
 Whose vision dissipated AdamV grief, 
 And in liix hour of horror brought relief. 
 It is the same ! — we see — we see it now ! — 
 The crown of thorns upon the sufferer's hroAv ! 
 The cross, the nails^ the tlowing blood, the tliirst^ 
 The mournful wail of agony that burst 
 From dying lips, upon the accursed tree, 
 "]\Iy (rod, my God, hast thou forsaken me ?" 
 The conflict ends I He gently bows his head ; 
 AVhile nature's groans proclaim her Sovereign dead 
 So like reality the vision grew, 
 It brought a great atonemenf to our view : 
 And faith suggested that our wounded King- 
 Be worshipped with a bloody ottering. 
 Clean birds, as sacrifice, we off'er there. 
 And bow together in believing prayer ; 
 Which like the precious incense rises sweet, 
 To him who sits upon the mercy-seat. 
 Downward our Father turns his pitying eyes 
 And smiles acceptance of the sacrifice. 
 Then in his heart the mighty Sovereign si)ake ; 
 "Xo more shall earth he smitten for man's sake. 
 Upon the cloud my richest tints I throw, 
 And give this token in the arching Ixfir, 
 That earth no more shall feel my vengeful powei-, 
 Till fire consume it at the final hour.'' 
 
 My tale is told. Eber, my listening boy. 
 Look at tiie "coronoif J><>n'" witli pious joy ; 
 
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 And wlieii yon see its glory ^miliiiu- tlierc 
 
 Adore your covenant God in grateful })rayer, 
 
 Ijook forward to that great eventful day, 
 
 Wheu earth and heaven shall, troubled, flee away ; — 
 
 When our Anointed Prince of Peace shall conie 
 
 Enthroned, to ijather all his ransomed home. 
 
 New heavxM).< shall stretch before our wondering view, 
 
 And earth, re-made, appear in gh)ry new. 
 
 The living shall be changed, and waked the dead ; — 
 
 An lOiERALi) BOW surrounds our Prince's head, 
 
 On which the white-robed thwng shall ever gaze, 
 
 While Heaven's high dome reverbeitite.s their praise; 
 
 ''(xlory and blesr^ing to our Savior King, — 
 
 Blessing and glory^ to thy name we bring, — 
 
 All pi'aise and honor, Savior of lot^t men, — 
 
 II(jnor ajid ])raise, hencefortl), ))e thine. Aui^'ii r 
 
 'HE THAT BELIEVETH SHALL NOT MAKE HASTE, 
 
 Flurry and worry, fret and sweat. 
 
 Are for those in a hurry 
 
 And in haste to get. 
 But (juiet and rest are the rich l)ehest 
 
 Of those who trust. 
 
 As the ])atient mv\A. 
 
 A gentle course 
 
 Will give us force, 
 While unbelief will bring to grief. 
 To borrow trouble will make it dou])le. 
 
 We may sorrow .<})are 
 
 By dismissing care. 
 
o:^ 
 
 P(>eiii^ 1 )\' Re\ . W^oit^oii J. ^^< >t 1 1 1 
 
 rx\'c)c.\Tiox, 
 
 Oh Thou, t(i whom the hiii'h Aivluiii,i>'els l)o\\% 
 And saints do reverence around thy throne ; 
 iMaker of all in Heaven, on earth below. 
 Or in the dee}) r Who !*preadest forth each zone : 
 Kternjd Kino' of ({loiy, who alone 
 Canst'niake, destroy or save, Tliy j/ower I own- 
 To thee in adoration bowed, and lunnble i)rayer ', 
 I plead the merits of Thy Holy Son, 
 AVho died for man's shorteominos to at(nie r 
 Look down in pity and tenderest eare. 
 Strengthen my hands — my feeble step- upi-aise — 
 Assi;<t my tongKe, that T may ^a\v^ \\\y pi-uise. 
 
 POEM READ AT BEN70NIA: MICH. JULY 4TH: 1876- 
 
 Now ulory to the Kinu' (^f kinu-.-, r,\\x Sovereiiiii and our 
 
 Lord ; 
 Who (niilt the Heaven, an«l Katth :in(i seas, l>v- his ere- 
 
 atiUL*" Word. 
 Whose thoiiiibt embrace^ farthest tinie in His eternal 
 
 ^soW ; 
 M'lio I'nles our hnuf as erst He did a liitndred vears aiio. 
 
A hundred Years I liow short the s])an : how few the 
 
 luonients 1k' 
 To Time's duration, or tlie years of (TO<rs Eternity I 
 '^'et h(tw nuMisentous was the liitur — What scenes of joy 
 
 and woe 
 Have been (»r Earth since that old tinte. a hundred years 
 
 au-o. 
 
 A hundred years, a hnmlred years, alonu^ the track of 
 
 lime 
 Ghmce down the vista, where is seen a inontent more 
 
 sublime 
 Than that which burst upon the world, on that an- 
 
 spici<»us DKU'n. 
 
 When sword in liamh like Pallas armed, Odumhia was 
 born '.i 
 
 A hundred Years— A single l)ell. from Luh^nendence 
 
 hall, " 
 liunii' <»ut its messa,u-e o'er the land (^f LD^erty to all. 
 But now, from out ten tliousand r^pires. fr<»n} thousand 
 
 ships at sea, 
 The miuhty chime in joy breaks forth to hail <uir Jubilee< 
 
 A hundred years Cx)lund)ia her 1)anner has irnfnrled. 
 And l>ade its irlories be displayed t(* all a wondering 
 wiYidd. 
 .'Slie })laced the stars of Heaven there— and sa})}diire sea 
 
 —below '. 
 Sho banded it with alowinu' stripes of ruby and of snow, 
 
 "Flao- of the free, amid tlie march thou'rt ever in the van : 
 Where e^'e the battle nniy be fouu'ht tliat freedom uives 
 to jnan. 
 
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 And tlioii wilt bear it from the North to Svhere the trop- 
 ics gh)\v, 
 As full, i\^ pure a>* once thou didst, a hundred years a.2(). 
 
 Flao- of the brave, where tempests dai^h across the riven 
 
 nuiin — - 
 Where armTesf meet in dread array upon the tented 
 
 plain — 
 Throuirh Afric's fevered continent, (tr mid the ])olar 
 
 seas ;— 
 Wherever brave men walk the p]arth, thou'rt borne upon 
 
 the lu-eeze. 
 
 Flag of the true, true hearts shall make thy silken fold?; 
 
 their care— - 
 Ko traitor's hand, no foreign foe, that banner bright 
 
 shall tear.— 
 No scheme of fraud, no sceptred wrong, thy smile shall 
 
 countenance : 
 Justice, and hel)) for the opi)ressed, is ever in tliv glance, 
 
 Flag of the ])ure, we consecrate before the great white 
 
 throne 
 Of Him who is all purity, who bears thee u}) alone, 
 We consecrate ourselves to thee, to kee]) thee free from 
 
 stain, 
 We bind our hearts, our lives to thee, with honor's golden 
 
 chain. 
 
 Thv stars kee]) watch for liberty with ceaseless vig- 
 ilance — 
 
 Thy ay.ure glows with conscious truth before the keenest 
 glance — 
 
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 Tliy crlinson shows the courage high tliat bends not in 
 
 th.e gale — 
 Tliy ])earl (lei)otes thy puritj whatever .st(.>rm8 assiiil. 
 
 A lumdrefl years <nir ship ^)f >*tate hii< sailed ii])()ii the 
 
 main — 
 Her captain ruletli overall — Jehnvah is His name. 
 On Plymouth roek her keel was kiid, amid December's 
 
 snow, 
 And God oontroDed the wondrous launrh a hundred 
 
 years ago. 
 
 Her compass is the Book of books, and Truth her guid- 
 ing star ; 
 And "Holiness to God" is writ on every mast and S])ar, 
 Hope is her anchor, sure and strong, that holds within 
 
 ■ the veil, 
 And Progress, Liberty and Peace, still wliiten ever^^saiL 
 
 But yonder comes a hostile tieet — will not her banner 
 
 (juail '? 
 Will she not turn and tly her coui'se run freer with the 
 
 gale ? 
 Ah no, she bends not from her way, undaunted by a 
 
 foe — 
 Her ))ath right onward, ns it was a ])nndred years ago. 
 
 But look, how glooms the sky beneath tlie coming thun- 
 der blast ] 
 
 How white the surges break amain as they rush swiftly 
 past ! 
 
 And now wherever brave men w;ilk the deck, with anx- 
 ious fears, 
 
Wmg!< tlirougli the Aup the nuuhleiied cry (;f traitoron^ 
 nuitineerj^ : 
 
 And oh^ worhl iiavie.- gather round, hut not for freedoniV^ 
 
 riglit : — 
 They come to aid that rehel crew- to elieer tlieiu iu th.e^ 
 
 fight. 
 They come to bar the patriot's rigTht— the traitors to en- 
 
 hirge. 
 As when the Ahdiania sunk before tlie brave Kear- 
 
 sarge. 
 
 But look, onc3 m>re tlie storm is o'er ; before the gentle- 
 gales 
 
 She rides upon the swelling sea with peace upon her sails. 
 
 And hark, the watclnnan calls aloud "alFs well !" above^ 
 below' — 
 
 She's staunch as when she h'rst set sail a hundrerl years 
 ago. 
 
 And better, purer, stronger ; for God has washed away 
 In blood of freemen, freely given, the stain of Slavery. 
 Free is our land from Kast to West, as thought — as 
 
 air — 'tis free ; 
 And with clean hands we gather strength for ages yet 
 
 to be. 
 
 And now with olives iu our grasp we bid the nations 
 
 hail : 
 We send the summons o'er the sea with every favoring 
 
 gale. 
 We bid them to our feast to-day, we take them by the 
 
 hand ; 
 
We point theiii t(-> the Kino- of kijigs the Ruler of <mr 
 land 
 
 IviniTol" treniendous Majesty 1 strctcli out tliy mighty 
 
 h«iid 
 'To guard, to guide, to p-ave, to bless, to purify our laud 
 Keep us a>; for the century jmst for thousiuid years t(^ 
 
 I'onie ; 
 Till shines on Earth th<? blissful lit>'ht of thy ndlleJiiunk 
 
 TO MARGARET, MY MOTHER: 
 
 (the (;reek for peafl.;) 
 Our circle is a casket fair, 
 AVell filled '^vtth priceless :gems, and rare. 
 One is a Diamond, hard and bright : 
 "One bears the Ruby's ruddy light ; 
 An Emerald one of liyeiy hue, 
 And one a Sapphire ])ure and true. 
 Each one would grace a coronet, 
 But the fairest pearl is Margaret. 
 
 Our circle is a yase o^l flo\yers — 
 
 Might well haye come from Eden's liowe/f 
 
 One has a Lily's form and grace ; 
 
 ^)ne is a Tulip fair of face; 
 
 A rich Carnation one is seen ; 
 
 A Pansy erne, of gentler mien : 
 
 One is a s\yeet breathed Mignonette, 
 
 But the Rose the queen is Margaret 
 
oK 
 
 ONLY A navvy: 
 
 (Tlifs incident occun-ed in Phiglaiid, :i few vetirs sfiu' 
 
 •''Clear the track, for the train indue ; — 
 
 And the iiawies went to work with a will. 
 
 ( Jiiiyt at the foot of the timnelled hill,) 
 
 To throw out the stoiies and lay the last rail — 
 
 To gather the tools, and drive the la^t nail — 
 
 For the flame crowned "Flyin"; Dutchman" was tlue. 
 
 Obedient to the call, the rank 
 Turned to climb the hillside bank, 
 (Steep as a wall was that rocky bank,) 
 Until they sto(xl on the upper ledire, 
 Leaning, hM)king over the edge, — 
 Waiting to let the train go through. 
 
 *'8teady l>oys, till the train gets thnnigh ;" 
 
 For a trembling of the iron rail, 
 
 And a far off sound like a rushing gale. 
 
 Tells of its ccjmiiig. A sudden sliock — 
 
 And leaping down the bank, a rock 
 
 Striking fii-e in its reckless way, 
 
 Until in a moment's time it lay 
 
 Just on the track, and the train was due. 
 
 "God help the souls on the train that is due !"' 
 And with the accents on his tongue, 
 Into the chasm John Chiddy sprung ; — 
 S})rung where the rock lay on tiie course. 
 Seized it, and urged it with all his force, 
 While out of the tunnel the clamor and veil, 
 
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 And the bi-azeu beat of the engine bell, 
 
 Told that the train Avas coming through. 
 
 "Out of the way ere the train gets thi'ough ; — 
 
 What are its passengers all to you ?" 
 
 l^ut he tugged away at the heavy stone — * 
 
 Tugged till lie drew each breath with a groan — 
 
 Till in his ears strange murmurs rise, 
 
 And the sparkles dance in his straining eyes — 
 
 Tugged it, and rolled it off the track 
 
 d ust in time to save from wrack 
 
 The iron wheels of the train that was iXne, 
 
 Out of the cavern the train that was due — 
 
 Out of its den the monster sprang — 
 
 With a ])anther's scream, and an iron clang, 
 
 Seized the man with its cruel fang, 
 
 Tore his tiesh and crunched his bones, 
 
 And churned his blood, on the ties and stones, 
 
 Showering the sparks from the rock that lay 
 
 \\'here the w heels just grazed as they passed on their way 
 
 ^Vhile the glare of its Cyclopean eye 
 
 Menaced the earth, and menaced tlic sky : — 
 
 That was th.e way the train came through. 
 
 Only a navvy, so say you. 
 But the train swe})t on with its hundred lives, 
 l*arents and children, and husbands and wives, 
 Swept on, unheeding the body that lay 
 Shattered, and scattered, along the way. 
 .Vud what of him ? When his tale is told 
 I^p where the gates of pearl unfold, 
 Mav he dwell forever in endless l)liss. 
 
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 For "Greater love hath no miin than tliis." 
 Only •'! navvy ! ah ye?, 'tis true ; 
 But I couldn't have done as well, nor you, 
 Had we been there when the train was due. 
 
 TO FROM 
 
 J-oy beams upon the Earth, if we but dra-W 
 E-nough in prayer on God the fount of Jo-Y, 
 N-or fret with useless cares, and nothing d-0, 
 N-or say, to harm our neighbor : tliusmay yo-U 
 I-mparting and receiving good, go o-N 
 E-ach passing day, embalmed in light any son-G. 
 
 "THOU ART THE MAN," 
 
 Thou art the man whom God did once create, 
 The crowning glory of his perfect plan : 
 He gave thee Earth and Heaven for thine estate — - 
 ■ Thou art the man. 
 
 Thou art the man who dyed thy soul with sin, 
 And in the ways of death with pleasure ran. 
 And nursed the seeds of wrath thy heart within, — 
 Thou art the man. 
 
 Thou art the man whose sins have crucified 
 The Lord of glory : for thy life He ran 
 From Heaven to Earth. For thee, for thee He died. 
 Thou art the man. 
 
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 Thou art tl;e man for whom the Judgment dav 
 M^MS foreordained Jong ere the world begun : 
 For thee its pomp — for thee its dread array— 
 Thou art the inan. 
 
 Thou art the man whom Jesus bids ix?pent : 
 Oh heed the gracious call while yet you can ; 
 For the€ his invitations all are meant, — 
 Thou art the man. 
 
 MISSION HYMN. 
 
 Awake, awake, put on thy strength oh Zion ; 
 
 Awake, put on thy beautiful array. 
 
 Lift up thy voice and welcome thy Redeemer, 
 
 And greet the glories of the latter day. 
 
 He comes, he comes, in brightest clouds descending, 
 
 And saints and angels triumph in his train ; 
 
 Loud hallelujahs with the trumpet blending. 
 
 For Jesus comes omni})otent to reign. 
 
 Awake, awake, Jerusalem the golden — 
 Rejoice in God who comes to set thee free. 
 Behold how beautiful upon the mountains 
 The feet of him who bringeth peace to thee. 
 He comes, be comes, break forth in glad rejoicing, 
 For as the rose the wilderness shall bloom ; 
 God's holy arm is stretched out to the nations. 
 And all the isles proclaim,. The Lord h Come ! 
 
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 THE WAIL OF THE JEV/S. 
 
 Aflah, how long^ lunv I()ii_2V 
 How loiitj shall Saleiii'V walls be overthrown ? 
 How long >-.]iiill Ir^rtiel he trodden dcvwn ? 
 How long .--^hall Judah on the Ma-ter wait? 
 The Infidel alone is in the gate : 
 
 Allah, hnw long, how long t 
 
 Allah, h«tw Iang% how long, 
 For all the pain and anguish we have known, 
 A wandering jjeople, poor, de^pijied o'erthrown 
 For all onr erimes through all the bitter years 
 In dust we Ivjw, and pour out cries and te-ars. 
 
 Ob Govl, luvw long., how long? 
 
 Allah, how long, how loiig'f 
 We have no altar now, nor sacritlee, 
 Nor mitred priest to bid the ineense rise. 
 How long till He onr King and Savior eonio ? 
 We ean but weep — Jndea'shaip is dumb — 
 
 Father, iiow Iouli', how lonii? 
 
 TRUMPETS. 
 
 "Blow, blow, my horn, and let the sound 
 
 Ke-eeho from the hills around ; 
 
 The pipes of Pan were not nn re eleav, 
 
 Kor trumpet more devoid of fear 
 
 Than thou. There conies no shade of care 
 
 To sullv o'er the vision fair 
 
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 Thou bast evoked. Blow loud and clear, 
 For some must blow tbat all may bear." 
 
 80 rang the minstreFs song of joy, 
 
 And, as I gazed, behold a boy 
 
 Came whistling down the busy street : — 
 
 Torn hat, and coat, and shoeless feet 
 
 Black with the grinje of many a day. 
 
 Bespoke a heart untouched of care : 
 
 With equal zeal for feast or fray. 
 
 And ready still to do and dare 
 
 What chance might bring ; and in his hand 
 
 He bore a fresh cut chestnut wand, 
 
 From which he framed with ready skill 
 
 A rustic ])ipe ; and as his lip 
 
 Was bent to kiss the bevelled tip, 
 
 A shriek arose so loud and shrill — 
 
 It seemed as if some demon's scream 
 
 Burst forth to h:iunt me in my dream. ' 
 
 A wondrous power my spirit bore — 
 
 A wondrous way o'er sea and land. 
 
 Until upon Judea's shore 
 
 1 saw, and lo, a mighty band 
 
 Around a leaguereci city passed : — 
 
 But silent all, except the blast 
 
 That from their curving horns did wind. 
 
 Thus seven times they marclied around, 
 
 And then while trump and voice combiiied 
 
 An earthquake shook the solid ground. 
 
 The city stooped beneath the sound ; — 
 
 Tlie wall fell prone, and Jericho 
 
 Was nothinof but a memorv. 
 
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 Depending only on her foe 
 For life in nges yet to be. 
 
 "Blow, blow, my horn. Tlie vernal rain.- 
 With Siimnier's fervid rays combined 
 To feed the life within thy veins. 
 The dews, with influences kind, 
 Shed moisture on thy leaves at night ; 
 And gemmed thee in the morning light. 
 And all the winds have left a spell 
 Enshrined within thy simple shell. 
 The touch of human lip shall break 
 That spell and all thine echoes wake." 
 
 The scene was changed — and on the shore 
 
 Of that renowned and middle sea 
 
 That witnessed all Earth's history. 
 
 For thousand years ; and seemed to be 
 
 The field of nations, while the roar 
 
 Of war and waves together rose, 
 
 While Greece, or Rojne, or Carthage bore 
 
 The sway — I saw where Xanthus flows 
 
 Down from Mount Ida's mighty crest. 
 
 But still in sylvan honors drest. 
 
 The hill — the plain — I heard the strain 
 
 Of music, while the mighty main 
 
 Thundered a bass to the refrain. 
 
 And there was magic in the sound ; 
 
 For rising o'er the throbbing ground, 
 
 Buttress and battlement appear. 
 
 And while the music swells more clear. 
 
 Temples and palaces awoke. 
 
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 .-\ih1 from the teeming; soil there brol^e 
 Uiiii umbered shrines, iukI saiTed domes, 
 All interspersed with peacefui homes. 
 And thus Troy «v/x — And then tlie son^ 
 My :^pirit "90 re entranced aloDg, 
 I saw the Hellene ships app^^ar— 
 A sight of beauty and of fear : 
 f saw the strength of Ajax rise, 
 And stern Achilles' wondrous shield 
 Flash back the lightning to the skies, 
 The terror of the battlefield. 
 And then I saw, mid blood and fire, 
 The glories of proud Troy expire. 
 
 "Blow, blow, my horn, and kt th}^ noiile 
 Trium])hant o'er th^ valleys float ; — 
 Let joy be mingled in thy song; 
 And Freedom's voice the strain prolong. 
 There is no room for earthly joy, 
 -No wealth of love, without alloy. 
 No hope, nor pleasure can there be 
 Unless thou rulest Liberty,''' 
 
 Then ontre again I saw the land 
 'Of Ja'Cob, ere the foeman's hand 
 Had reft her olives, in his rage. 
 From Salem's mount the trumpet rang: 
 But peace was in its joyful clang. 
 And all Judea's heritage 
 Awoke to hear, and then a voice 
 1^'alled Earth and Heaven to rejoice. 
 It was the veiir of Jubilee ;— 
 
It wns tTie year of Liberty ; 
 And every eiq)tive now wnsfree I 
 And o'er the land the sumnnont* flew 
 "Rejoice, rejoice, the clay has come, — 
 Receive your heritage anew : — 
 Retuni iii triumph to your home I 
 Be free. Let evers^ bond be broke — 
 Be free I No mone receive the yoke, — 
 Take l>ack tlie fields ytvur Fathers tilled — 
 Dwell in the homes where once they dwelt, 
 Drink where their cups your Fathers tilled- 
 Kneel at thealtar-s where they knelt — 
 With sound of trumpet and of voice 
 Ye race of Israel rejoice," 
 
 "Blow, blow, my horn, and if a shriek 
 Curdles the blood in aprony — 
 Alf rig^hts the ear — blanches the cheek — 
 And leaves the heart unnerved and weak ; 
 ]lemember that all history 
 Is writ in blood. The lust of fame, 
 Of gold, of power — the fear of shame. 
 Like the Sirocco's baleful breath, 
 Have fllled the world with war ami death." 
 
 Inperious Rome I What fierce debate ' 
 
 Is racking now thy senate hall ? 
 
 AVhat words of pride, of wrath, of hate 
 
 Remorseless as the doom of fate, 
 
 Ring through thine ancient ca]}itol — 
 
 ' D(' If 1 1 (h( rxf ( '<( rfli ago.'" All 
 
 Shall be destroyed — The Punic race 
 
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 I.s (loomed to sink mi<l Hame and Idood, 
 
 Till all are gone, and not a trace 
 
 Shall tell where Dido's city stood. 
 
 Cato the censor — Tliine the lips — 
 
 Emit these darts with venomed tips : 
 
 Rome's wisest Senator art thou. 
 
 Oil drivelling fool canst thou not see 
 
 The enervating luxury, 
 
 That will creep in when victory, 
 
 ]More fatal than defeat, shall bow 
 
 Rome's lusty strength — a baser yoke 
 
 Than Caudine F<jrks or Cannae's stroke, 
 
 But through the forum rose the shout 
 
 Caught up by all the rabble rout — 
 
 ''Let Carthage he destroyed ;" and shrill 
 
 The trumpet rang from every hill — 
 
 Let Carthage be destroyed ; and far 
 
 Resounded fierce the cry of war : 
 
 And woke the distant field of ^Nlars. 
 
 And first the messengers ride out, 
 
 AV^ith trumpet clang and battle shout, 
 
 Until beneath the silent stars 
 
 Nought else was silent, and the street 
 
 Re-echoed to the tramp of trampling feet,- 
 
 ( )f legions hastening to sail. 
 
 While Africa, with terror pale. 
 
 Yet snatched new courage from despaii'. 
 
 And when the weapons failed for war. 
 
 The Punic maidens gave their hair 
 
 For bowstrings. But all vain their zeal, 
 
 For ground beneath war's iron heel 
 
 Proud Carthage fell. The victor's rage 
 
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 Spared neither youth nor treml)h'ng aae, 
 While slaugliter, rapine, fire and lust 
 Levelled the city with the dust, 
 
 "Blow, blow, my horn, a louder note : — 
 For bursting from the cannon's throat 
 The voice of Heaven — the breath of Hell — 
 The sulphury blast combine to tell 
 That War has gained a mightier name, 
 As the Apocalypse foretold 
 The smoke, the brimstone, and the flame 
 That o'er the prophet's vision came, 
 While centuries their woes unfold." 
 
 Napoleon the destroyer — Thou 
 
 Who drenched a third of Earth with blood ; 
 
 Before whose wrath the nations bow, 
 
 And kings to do thee homage stood : 
 
 What countless myriads at thy word, 
 
 S()rang up and seized the battle sword, 
 
 O'er Lodi's bridge thy legions poured — 
 
 O'er Al})ine rocks thy eagles soared — 
 
 Marengo saw thy chivalry 
 
 In triumph hear the Fie i;r ck Li. <^. 
 
 Leipsic and Austerlitz behold 
 
 Tlie wavering balance of thy fate. 
 
 This rose in triumph : That, through great 
 
 Disastrous o'er thy l)anners rolled, 
 
 Rameses saw with stony eyes, 
 
 Thy navy sailing up the Nile, 
 
 And Tabor heard with wild surprise, 
 
 And hearinir echoed to the skies 
 
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 The t1iati(ler of thy cannon, while 
 The sacred mount wa?^ canopied 
 With Battle cloiid:^. The Spluiren pm^s 
 Belield thee threading It^ defile 
 Around a slippery Mer de Glace^ 
 Above tlae nionnt's tremendous pile 
 Whence avalanches plunging s]>ee^l 
 Tore through th<e ranks with breathless force. 
 At WagTam stern thine tirmy t*tood. 
 And Linden's sno\Vs and Iser^s flood 
 Were €riins<)n'e<^l by thy sold icr.s' blood, 
 l\ylani and Bonxlino came. 
 And then Muscovia's wasting fkime ; 
 And faniished^ frozen, back to Fran^oe 
 Thy legions fled, while Co&sack lance 
 Harassed thy march and dimmed tliy fo]-ce. 
 Until th^^ (iuard, .<o tried^ so true 
 To serve thee, died at Waterlo(x. 
 
 "Blow, h\{i\s, my horn, a sweeter strain : 
 The world shall echo it again. 
 They only are the truly brave 
 Who offer up their lives to save 
 The weak, who bind the broken hetirt, 
 Who heal the sick, help the oppressed ; 
 Wlio lead tlie weary one to rest ; 
 Who when Sedition real's its erest 
 Receive, repel, the fatal dart. 
 
 That luiiuui tiger from his lair 
 Had stolen, and with hideous roar 
 lievelled in slaughter at Cawnpore— 
 
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 Ki\([ torn the yoiiiiu', the brave, the fafr ; 
 
 And with new appetite for gore 
 
 ToLn^'kuow nisbed ; and ronnd and r<i)innl 
 
 He swept with i^iany a wary bonnd- 
 
 All pitiless the Sun looked down 
 
 l^pon the plaiu with (jorpse!? ^trown. 
 
 And childhood's plaint^ and woman's prayeir 
 
 Where hushed in silent ^d despair. 
 
 Like lig-htnmg, springing from the gvunnd 
 
 That Scottish maiden looked around^ 
 
 And cried, '^I hear the pibrocks call — 
 
 It is the grandest of them all — 
 
 The gathering of Mac Greggor's clan : — 
 
 'Tis Havelock's march :" and every man 
 
 In silence stood, and every ear 
 
 Was strained, the welconi^e sound to hear 
 
 In vain^ — the tale could not be true : — 
 
 When hmder came the words of cheer, 
 
 "Dinna ye hear? dinna ye hear? 
 
 An' \vill ye no believe it noo ?" 
 
 Bound every heart ! for bursting out 
 
 O'er cannon's roar and battle shout, 
 
 The sweetest music e'er was played 
 
 Was that the [)i[)es at Lucknow made. 
 
 ''Blow, blow, my honi. Thy voice from mine 
 As mine is from a source divine I" — 
 That God whose hand controls the spheres 
 Or bears thy summons to our ears. 
 Complete in greatness ; yet whose eye 
 Detects the mote that passes by ; 
 To whom the stars their anthenjs sang-. 
 
While Heaven witli ludlelu jahs ranir : — 
 That (Jod shall give the trumpet breath. 
 That calls the world to Jit'e or death. 
 
 That niighty trumpet — at the sound 
 
 The dead shall rise! The solid ground, 
 
 lu-ensate now, shall trenddiug tly— 
 
 The stars rush madly through the sky — 
 
 The moon, the sun, shall cease to shine. 
 
 Slie Son of Righteousness divine, 
 
 Who died for man on Calvary 
 
 Shall come in clouds of majesty. 
 
 Before Him Heaven shall flee away — 
 
 Those shining orbs be brushed aside 
 
 I^est they obscure his clearer day, 
 
 That glows from out the portals wide. 
 
 His eyes are as a fiery flame ; 
 
 And on his vesture is the name 
 
 "The Lord of Lords, the King of Kings :" 
 
 And Heaven's armies in His train 
 
 vShall ride. Through Heaven the summons i-ings, 
 
 *'For (rod Omnipotent doth reign !" 
 
 That great assize — I^efore His eye, 
 
 Behold the Universe draw nigh : 
 
 On either hand the hosts divide. 
 
 The Judge is come ! who shall abi<le, 
 
 (Without an Advocate) to dare 
 
 The wrath of (rod ? or who can bear 
 
 The light that pierces every heart, 
 
 And lays its guilty secrets bare ? 
 
 Xo pleadings can avail — No part 
 
 Can show escai)e ! Atonement none — 
 
Fydvh several sin comes thronging up 
 To plead for Teugeance, and alone 
 .Must bear its guilt. That mighty roll — 
 That record of ten thousand years ; 
 On which our deeds, like pens, enscroll 
 f)ur crimes in lurid characters 
 Broad a.^ the ^un ; is opened wide. 
 Kg place for trembling man to hide 
 C'reation sees. No refuge there 
 From shame, frmn jxiin, or from des})alr. 
 Oh Blessed Saviour, Let thy blood 
 Shed for my sins, that crimson flood 
 Atone for me, I j)lead thy name — 
 For me thou didst endure the j^hame — - 
 For me didst sweat, and bleed, and die : 
 And Thou wilt never pa,-?s me by. 
 I claim Thy love, I seek thy grace^ 
 And find in thee my Itidhuj jilacr. 
 
 THE MASTER IS COME AND CALLETH FOR THEE. 
 
 The Maimer is come, and calleth for thee. 
 
 Go work in my harvest to-day ; 
 For white is the field, and abundant the yield, 
 
 Oh why should the reaper delay ? 
 No matter just where in the field you may be, 
 (io work with the blaster. He calleth for thee. 
 
 He calleth for me, he calleth for thee. 
 
 He calleth for you and me. 
 
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 The ]Ma.«ter is come, and ealleth for thee, 
 Thouii'li <cloiicls gather dark o'er thy way ; 
 Though friends be all gone, and thou left alone, 
 Yet He's thy su])]>ort and tliy stay. 
 No niatter how lonely the journey may be, 
 1t<» walk with the Master — He ealleth for thee. 
 He ealleth for vou and me. 
 
 The Master is come, he calieth for thee, 
 Though sin lies like lead on thy soul ; 
 Yet He bids thee rejoice, oh list to His voice, 
 He bids e'en the leper be whole. — 
 Xo matter Jiow burdened thy spirit may be, 
 iU) kneel to the Master, He calieth for thee. 
 He calieth for you and me. 
 
 The blaster is come, and calieth for tliee. 
 Behold where His table is s])read. 
 And whoever will may jvartake to his till, 
 I'nquestioned, of heavenly bread :— 
 Ko matter how poor and desi)ised you may l)e, 
 <70 feast with the Master — He calieth for thee, 
 He calieth for you and me. 
 
 Tlie Master is come, and calieth for thee, 
 Let thy gift on the altar ])e laid ; 
 He gave thee His blood, He poured forth the flood 
 That thy ransom for sin might be paid, 
 Ko matter how dear to thy heart it may ])e, 
 (4o give to the Master — He calieth foi' thee. 
 He calieth for vou and me. 
 
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 WOUNDED IN BATTLE, 
 
 (The Antlior's Experiem-e.) 
 
 WoiiiHkMl in l)attlc ? Yes, I felt the Mvi)ke 
 Thiill tlirouiih my nerves. I mw the tide tluit broke 
 From my rent veins, and with a dizzy pain 
 I s(tULdit a respite from the leaden rain. 
 
 'Twas when our uloi'ious l)annner seemed to cower, 
 When Treason's hosts rushed on in ma(hlened power— 
 AVhen even Hope's briirht winii: was plumed for flight- 
 Vah)r pive way to fear, panic and fli_Lilit. 
 
 ►Short space I moved, and then my failinu' strength 
 Refused tol>ear me on, until at length 
 Helpless, beside a fallen tree, I lay, 
 A mossy trunk fast hastening to decay. 
 
 That morn, while stood the regiment in arms. 
 All ready, waiting for the war's alarms, 
 Our letters came ; but time would not allow 
 To read the white winged missives until now. 
 
 And lying thus beneath the murmuring, pines, 
 While stood on either side the emljattled lines. 
 And near me lay the dying and the dead, 
 I In-jke my letter's seal, and thus I read. 
 
 '•With cheerful zeal thy course of duty run — 
 (xod nothing does, nor sulfers to be done. 
 Rut thou wouldst do thyself if thou eouldst sec 
 The ritd of all events as well as He. 
 
But <»)i, iiow weary the hours ere})t on 
 
 That starle!<s night, while waiting for the (hiwn ! 
 
 I slei)t at last, and in my dreams again 
 
 I saw the carnage of the battle plain. 
 
 The morning came, bright, beautiful and fair — 
 The birds' gay song was thrilling all the air, — 
 Nature was waking up, from terror free, 
 But War's wild shock was our stern reville. 
 
 Oh who that saw it ever can forget 
 The grand, fierce movement w'hen the legions met ? 
 Thank God, the day was ours. That banner's light, 
 In triumph, burst once more upon my sigiit. 
 
 Brothers in arms, it' e'er a traitor hand, 
 
 If e'er a foreign foe insult our land ; 
 
 ]^y tliat bles't flag, by all your glorious scars, 
 
 Kathe)' bear all the stripes than lose tlie stars. 
 
 NEV/ YEAR'S BELLS, 
 
 Ring, ring, merry bells ring 
 With silvery voice, and clear ; 
 Telling out, with your ,p)yful swini!'. 
 All the hopes that shine, the blos?omi)ig 
 In the path of the glad New Year — 
 Hopes with never a trace of fear — 
 Hopes to the merchant, — of mighty gain 
 With the swift return of his argosy. 
 Hopes to the farmer, — of golden grain 
 Waving light ovei- all tlie plain. 
 Like the shiniua^ waves of a sunset sea. 
 
Hopes to the .statesman, — of growiiiu' power, 
 
 (rrowing with each ending h(nir. 
 
 Hopes to the maiden, — of conquest,— gay 
 
 Hopes to the lover, — of bridal day. 
 
 Hopes to the child, — of summer's play, 
 
 Of a sunlit clime where no storms lower. 
 
 Where the gentle breeze fans the leafy bower. 
 
 Toll, toll, ye sad bells toll. 
 
 With a shivering voice of fear. 
 
 Calling out the solemn roll 
 
 Of all who wandered from the goal 
 
 They sought in the bygone year. 
 
 How gold has failed in a single hour 
 
 Before a whispered breath, — 
 
 And nations shrink from famine's power. 
 
 And dread the coming death. 
 
 How the statesman's dream of fame is fought, 
 
 And the maiden's witching glance is pale, 
 
 And the lover lies in some silent si)ot. 
 
 And the child a brighter clime has sought. 
 
 Where never a storm can assail. 
 
 Ring, ring, merry bells ring, 
 
 With silvery voice and clear. 
 
 Thank God for the Winter — Thank God for the Spriii 
 
 Thank God for the hopes all blossoming, 
 
 With never a thought of fear. 
 
 ^«#^IIe: £.nc{.' 
 
The undersigned having listened with great pleasure 
 to the poem of the Rev. Loyai Young, D.I)., on the 
 Fh.od as j)robably seen and interpreted by Noah liini- 
 self, take a like pleasure in coniniendino- it i,, j.i-inted 
 torni to any of their friends who may have the oppor- 
 tunity of purchasing and reading it. Even when the 
 Dr. rises above written liistory t(, draw scenes and utter- 
 ances from ids imagination, he is gnided by concei)ti(>ns 
 as elevating as they are pure and scriptural. Hi< leM.l 
 ers, especially those who are familiar with his christian 
 ch^i^cter, successful life-work, ami matured experience, 
 willfolh.w him in these sketches with both intrre^t -md 
 profit. 
 
 WAsjTiNdTox, Pa., Mny ]S, 18S7. 
 Here follow the names of 
 
 Kev. James I. Bkownsox, DJ) ) 
 Rev. Jas. Meciiem, D.D. '- l\<u>v< 
 
 Rev. James H. Sxowdex. ^ \ . 
 Rev. Hexky Woods, J) J)., ' 
 
 Pi'ofessor in W. c( J. (/olle^e. 
 Mrss N. Sjierrarj), 
 
 Principal of Ladies' Seminary. 
 ^Mhs. .James L Bhowxsox. 
 
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