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AsJl Wft ihall sleep and heed it not
How fast the fleeting moments fly l
How sad the thought that we- must die f
To kaow the earth, with all its store
Os joys, to us will be no more,
And Nature ’a strife must end in peace t
Our labors, fail, our senses cease :•
Thoughts rise no more-, nor passions more
The quiet breast with hate or love ;
All sounds upon the ear will die,
And light no more illume eye ;
The tongue will pause, the* heart wild rest—
An awful stillness seize the breast;
The soul, dismissed will steal away,
And leave the cold, unconscious clay,
Which, in some lone, sepulchral spot
Will buried lie, and be forgot.
Then, strange to think, when we are gone,
That still will rise and set the sun ;
The, day will dawn as fair,- as- bright
The stars will glow as rich at night;
The world will move just as before;
The wind will blow, the ocean roar :
The forests murmur in the breeze,
And verdure clothe and leave the trees ;
The buds will swell, and'blossoms blow,
And changing seasons come and go :
Though all to us will be forgot,
And we shall sleep, and heed it not.
And other forms will walk the earth,
With other scenes of joy and mirth ;
And other friendships will be formed,
And other hearts with love be warmed;
And smiles will please, and tears will flow;
And sighs -will heave Uw bteasts of snow;
And poets sing, and lovers sigh,
And more be born, and all to die;
Though this to us will be but nought,
We all shall sleep and heed it not.
Though the green mound upon our breast,
Or sculptured stone, should mark.our rest,
Yet soon that stone will fall away,
And earth be levelled where we lay;
The clod by ploughshares will be cleft,
And no sad traces will be left;
And strangers’ feet will tread the spot,
And pass our rest, and know it not.
Or o’er our dust may cities rise,
And point their turrets to the skies;
Ambition, wealth, and power and pride,
May spurn the earth in which we hide;
Or saints may kneel, or.buffoons play
Where lost, our names and ashes lay ;
Yet all to us will be forgot,
Still we shall sleep, and heed it not.
But stranger still, (should we pursue
A future thought that may.be true,)
Not only man, like leaves, may fall,
But the whole nation sink, and all
Be lost—extinct this race of man,
Like Palenque, or like Copan ;
And over all this broad domain
A wilderness may rise again ;
From sea to sea, from coast to coast,
Our arts, our name, our nation lost;
While o’er our ruin Nature rears
Iler forests of a thousand years,
Where savage men may find a home,
And kindred beasts may howl and roam.
Yet all to us will be forgot.
Calmly we’ll sleep and heed it not.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST M E S.S'E N O’E R.
The Past Eternity.
He stood upon a craggy shorey
Not of the earthly deep,
Where waves in elemental roar
Know not the rest of sleep;
He stood beside a wider wave
Than ever was the seanaau’s grave;.
The motionless and leaden sea
Os the long past eternity.
He saw no vessel moving there.
No bark upon the tide.
That heavy lay in thick black air,
Hiding its boundary wide,.
And darkening from the silent shore’
The dead, dead waters evermore—
He saw but one sad object there,
The grave of hope as of despair.
No wreck lay on its silent strand,
It there no fragment threw ;
O’er all that perished from the land
Its sluggish waves it drew ;
’ Whelmed them unfathomably deep
Mid an illimitable sleep;
And nothing e’er emerged again,
Or left a ripple on that maim.
He stood upon that shuddering shore,
Yoid, calm, dim, desolate,
Till deeper shades the wave came o’er,
And shadows small and great,
Like- the Morgana oft times cast —
Formless and few in. gloom they past, —
Upward reflected from below
In the sea’s depth they come and go.
There wore but shapes of dimness weak
As outline of a dream,
Yet they were all his eye could take
Unwhelmed in that black stream,
Os former worlds, and thoughts and men,
That were, and ne’er should be again—
The all of what full soon will be
Oar semblance to posterity.
The gazer saw—his heart was sad;
lie viewed that ocean with despair;
lie mum Bred not, but mournful, clad
In resignation linged there
One little hour, until the tide
Rose o’er him, and he tranquil and ed,
And with the nameless in that - o-i,
Forgotten, sank and passed away !
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