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.74 VLS‘IO/lr OF 2171? flGES.

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Kentucky University, June 10, 1873.

BY W. B. SMITH.

I slept: but not as when, his pinions dipped
In dews Lethean, the poppy-wreathed god
Incumbent hovers o’er the weary couch,
When", open flung, the doorways of the soul
Not one intruding fancy captive hold,

While Memory slumbers on her watchful throne;
Nor yet as when, the brain by fever scorched,
Imagination with unfettered wing

Through airy nothing throws her giddy flight,
Peepling the hungry void with horrid shapes
Phantasmagoric. Other slumber weighed

My eye-lids down, wherein the mind awake
To higher light the invisible discerns,

And looks familiar on the viewless world.

Before my eyes, the veil of flesh withdrawn,
Unboundcd or whose limits far remote
Still fled the eager-following gaze, a wood
Of sorrowing cypress spread its sombre shade.
Settled above, impervious to the day,
Doubt and Confusion hung, disheartening clouds ;_
And sullen ever, swollen oft, a blast
Raved through the forest’s solemn-sounding depths.
Amid this labyrinthine error strove

The wayward tides of life in eddying stream.

Ah! sad the sight as hither thither borne

'l‘hey rushed in blind contention, void of aim,
Obedient to the tempest’spvarious voice.

Not native seemed they to this wilderness,

But oft some glance that sought in vain the skies-—
The burdened Spirit’s voiceless dialect,

Or, when the vexing whirlwind, half in scorn
And half o’er wearied, lulled its howl, a wail
That saddened all the listening air around,
Shrill-piercing as the final shriek wherewitli

An oft deluded hope its parting ghost

Yields to the wind, beSpoke dishonored fall

From sun-clad highths of being original.

Extinct their glory, their discrowned brows
Furrowed with angry thunder from on high,
They trod with ceaseless foot still round and round
The ever-circling, self-pursuing maze

Of mortal life, by Aspiration driven .
That, restless, armed with Memory and with Hope,
Incessant plied its double-smiting scourge,

 

 

Scorning delay. But Heaven’s immortal love,
The fiery furnace of its wrath surv1ved,
Not guideless left them in the wandering waste;
For, as I gazed, and while my giddy sense
Reeled sympathetic in the general whirl,1
Appeared two forms whose maJesty divme.
Showed them conSpicuous nor _of mortal birth.
The one, a woman whose irradiate brow
Glowed unforsaken by the light direct

From God effused, and of her borrowed beams
She ever mindful still with steadfast eye .
Struggled to pierce the low-hung gloom and blind,
Sad canopy; nor ever once escaped .

Her wide—embracing glance what meteor-light
Transient, or ray from star or tw1n horned moon,
Adventurous dared unequal combat wage
Against the hideous dark that quickly closed
Its jaws, of prey insatiate. Her name,

On high among the immortal, Joyous throng,
Was Faith—that only; other titles, men
Seeking to honor lavishly conferred,
Unmeaning many, contradictions more,

And thus the simple modesty of Heaven .
With earthly pomp offended. Towering high,
Sterner to view appeared the other form,
Self-centred, self-collected, undismayed,
Undoubting, by the might of inborn god
Alone, deSpite the many—folded gloom,

To lead his faithful followers, erring not,

Up from the restless valley to_the highths
Forever mantled with tranquility. .
Reason his name, who and his Sister Faith

In primal harmony round the Paternal Throne
Of God once walked, discord unthought, unknown.
But now upon the night—invested earth, :
Their common parentage forgot, diverse

In council who together should have strivcn
(And haply not in vain, Since complement

Of other’s being each in each received,

And in such double fullness stood possessed

Of perfect fitness for the appomted work,)

To lead mankind, bewildered and amazed,

To light from out the dark and erring wood——
Lost each from other in the far remove .
And obvious gloom, dissentient notes_on h1gh
They raised and summons to the mobile crowd.
With equal confidence the glorious goal

Of happiness reconquered both proposed,

By paths divergent Wide. Poured after each

A many-mingled, half-unconscious throng.
But most the woman, troops innumerous,
Thick as the fleecy vapor-flakesthat crowd '
To earth when Boreas, terrible in Wrath,

Roars from Sierra’s cloud-embosomed top,
Eager pursued, for that her ecszer path

Led downward to a vale horr1fic,vast,.
Immured with cliffs precipitous and Wild,
That from their foot—illefying stideis aliggr‘ild

Dis ersive fiun a su en pros ra e g ,
Blagkening thegnative midnight cf the wood.
In mingled stream c‘ontinuous thithu: flowed
All nations, tongues, tribes, families of earth-
The swarthy Indian and the blue-eyed Goth,

 

  

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The toged Roman and the turbaned Turk.

The stately Persian and the restless Greek.

Nor wanting seemed, to swell the burdened tide,
The pensive children of the Flowery Realm,
With them who, shivering ’mid the northern spray,
Hear ever-more the wreck-unsated main
Roar round their homes that tremble o’er the waves.
A darkening efflux, streamed her dusky sons
Tumultous from out the torrid clime
Where from exhaustless quiver pours the sun
Down vertical his verdure-conquerin g shafts.
All these the greedy vale, expanding wide,
Eager received nor slight incumberance felt.

No longer now appeared the form of Faith,
But in her stead a monster grim and dark,

Of shape quick-varying and inconstan: mien;
Firm on the groaning ground her feet were fixed,
And all her head the cloudy night involved.

. She, with her leaden sceptre stretched afar,
Bowed prone to earth each once erected form.
As when beneath the whirlwind’s rapid tread
And angry sinks the erst wide-waving corn,
And carries with its golden glories down
To dust the husbandman’s elated hopes-—

So, underneath the subjugating rod

Of Superstition, fell Humanity.

In form not only, but the answering mind
In every thought and feeling sought the earth.
For from the dark expansion of her wings
A nameless, shuddering horror fell; the air,
Oppressed, the immaterial burden owned,

And everv soul, each high desire forgot,

Relaxed throughout, confessed the dreadful load.
Not else beneath the Bohun-Upas shade
Who once reclines to rise may never hope,

If faith be given the tales of mariners
Exultant o’er the danger-crowded deep
And treacherous, in voyage round the orb
Terraqueous to Java or the isle
Sumatran, vanquished thrice—tales often told
By fitful firelight to the rural throng
Gaping, with wonder fed but never sate—

I—low thick distilled the dews of death depend
From every leaf and scatter far abroad

Still desolation o’er the barren heath.

Such dismal umbrage made her pinions vast,
And horrible, in lurid flame, on high

The baleful effluence of her breath was rolled.
Now madness strange or seized, or seemed to seize
The nations congregate; on every side
Up rose unnumbered altars dedicate
To sun, or moon, or fixed or wandering stars,
Earth, ocean, air, with all that each contains,

Or animated or inanimate——

Idols insensate, carved of wood or stone,
Repulsive forms that not the spacious globe
Explored from Arctic to Antarctic pole,

Nor e’en the ravening chasm of hell could yield—
Distorted Fancy’s brood, misshaped, abhorrcd,
Native to night, by silence fittest named.

Nor hateful less appeared the tragic rites

That fed with frequent death the hungry flame,
Of altar-pyres, and all the earth around
Baptized with ceaseless, infant-slaughter streams
Of sacrificial blood. The vexed air

Reeled swooning through its broad circumference,

Grown dizzy with the Babel rage immense

Of dying groans and sharp, despairing shrieks
Of immolated victims, anguish-torn,
Commingled with the Bacchanalian din

Of maniac worshippers. In dreadful state,
Uplift above his ghastly brother-gods,
Grim—visaged Moloch horribly advanced

His fiery form, with arms outstretched, to graSp
The children by their parents flung to death,
And joyful fold them to his burning breast. _
There rolled the ponderous car of Juggernaut,
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And from its horror-sounding axle poured -
Wide through the gloom reverberative roar

Of- bellowing thunder, mingled with the groans
Of devotees, in frenzied suicide,

Prostrate beneath its murder-glutted wheels,
Crushed deep in earth to instant sepulchre.
There, swarthy-hued, the children of the Nile
In solemn adoration gathered round

Osiris, Horns, and the Theban god
Amenophis, by some else Memnon named,
Whose jealous statue (say the fables) hushed
Its mystic melody save when the sun,
Dispersing wide his horizontal beams,

Evoked brief welcome to the orient day.

There Isis hid her conscious impotence
Behind her awful, never-lifted veil;

And over all, in godship tutelar, .

With echoing yelp, the dog Anubis barked.
All these, more human, craved not gifts of blood,
Content with fruitage of the plenteous earth,
More odorous than from her open lap

E’er Nature shed in aromatic wealth

O’er Saba’s favored coast, to lade the winds
With perfume, winged, thence at eve to fan

In drooping flight the Erythraean wave,

But not to Heaven arose the incense-smoke;
The indignant air refused the ungracious load,
Which, falling slowly down the altar-side,
With sluggard step among the valleys crawled,
Or piled its lazy columns, mass on mass,

Down deep within some dark and drear ravine.
Only aloft the serpent-tongued flames
Incessant streamed, encroaching on the dark
Loathing to yield, and painted every face

With tenfold horror as abroad they flung

A lurid glare that counterfeited hell.

Far different, if doleful none the less,

The path that Reason pointed; fewer far

His steps who followed, but with equal zeal.
Distant, faint glimmering through the gloom, uprearep
A mountain—range its many whitening peaks.

As some night—wandering traveler, forlorn,
Robbed of his path, exploring far and wide

With restless glance the unvarying waste of snow,
While all around the deepening winter grows,

If chance, apparent through the blinding storm
Tremble some distant, hope-enkindling ray,

With quickening step pursues the gladdenin g light,
Nor once forsakes it with unwavering eye, '

So Reason, to climb the dim distinguished highths
Impatient rushed, with kindred ardor fired.

Not him, nor yet the valiant souls he led,
Discouraged once the wild and rugged path,

With steep ascent and windings devious.

Onward they pressed, with arduous enterprise,
Precipitous cliffs o’er coming, all the wood
Checkering with frequent counter streams of life.
I gazed and gazing saw the multitude,

Near and more near as drew their glittering goal,
Wider and wider still dispersive show

Their broken ranks; disparted here and there,
Who once with energies compacted strove,

And common aim, their common guide or lost,

Or indistinctly through the shade perceived,
Plodding their painful routes, the unwearied few
Sought independent mounts. . Each summit claimed
But scanty pilgrimage. The weaker throng

Or stood despairing ’neath the bafiiing walls,
With lock still upward fixed; or else, o’ercomc '
In vain attempt to thread the labyrinth

Of boscage clothing all the mountain side,
Careless pursued with retroverted course _

What downward widening path, by chance disclose 3,
Lay obvious. All these were seen no more—
Soon lost amid the undistinguished throng
Urgent to reach the Superstitions vale. ,
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Its peaceful waters through a silent dell
Slumbering betwixt, two giant guardian hills,—,
If haply, driven by the fervid breath

Of Eurus or of Auster up the steep

Of heaven, some thunder-freightei cloud unsheathe
Its lightnings on the gleaming highths, while rush
To earth in deluge all the darkened skies,

And down the hills resounding instant pour

A thousand streams concurrent toward the dale,
I mpetuous,—-aroused to torrent rage

With thrice augmented volume foaming, these
Seaward, involved in quick absorption, whirls.
But look! the highths of proud Philosophy

By unassisted human might are scaled.

I saw those dauntless spirits lifted high

Each on his conquered pinnacle. They seemed
Load-stars of thought; or like lone sentinels
Upon the towers of some beleaguered town,
Whose slumber-unsubdued eyes survey

With glance discursive all the subject plain,
And what way e’er the hostile ensigns strive
Instant espy nor unsupported leave

The adverse front defendant, force with force
And craft with craft opposing. Stood they thus,
Victorious, discipleless: for who

Might fellow? who the difficult path obscure,
By single footstep marked, maintain? or who
The unfrequented summits gain save those,
The mighty masters? Theirs, unfruitful toil;
For cold and gleaming with eternal frost
Appeared their highland foothold, colder far
Than Ural’s or Tukulan’s utmost peaks

High towering ’gainst septentrional skies,
Where frozen Desolation sits enthroned,

And undisputed sceptre wields. The air
Wrapped them about with frigid vestiture,

And far abroad a stillness circumfused—

The first—born offspring of despair; not long,
For sudden trembling seized the void throughout,
As up from hill and dale and deepest wood

A simultaneous, myriad-voiced wail

Arose and slowly floated to the highths
Empyreal. Such chorus of distress

Ne’er IIadad-Rimmon heard when Judah poured
Her annual sorrow o’er the zealous king
Iconoclast, fallen on Megiddo’s field;

Nor ever Gilead’s oak-enveloped crags

With groans of Israel’s daughters resonant,
Each year assembled, to lament the fate

Of her the virgin victim of the vow

To Ammon fraught with ruin, and to him

The conqueror with equal woe. And thus

It cried: “ O vanity of vanities! '

IIow impotent the mightiest might of man!

His faith all treachery, falsehood his truth,

And evanescent his most lasting joys!”

So once complained the pleasure-blasted heart
Of David’s son, the splendor-weary king,

And catholic humanity again

The awful truth acknowledged. But the power
Of man equate not with the power Divine.

For scarce was mute the murmur of the wail’s,
Expiring echoes, when from the east effulged

,. The sudden radiance of the dawn; far up

The ceped sky the sun’s precursive shafts,

Shot fast and rapid, chased the flying night.
Still zenithwardthe crimson-bannered morn
Advanced triumphant; while the following orb
Of day in state majestic slower reared

Above the horizon his immeasured disc.

In hopeless contest with his level beams

Cloud after cloud at first its darkness rolled
Athwart his glorious visage; unobscured

The conquering star increasing splendor flashed
Diffusive. Kindled by his touch, the top

Of every mountain glowed; rolled from above,
The clouds disclosed the universal blue

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The hardened heart of Egypt’s fated king
Ielenting, Amram’s son with outstretched hand
Backward compelled the desolating storm

From Mizraim’s coast accursed; or like what time
The seer of Patmos in ecstatic trance

Beheld the sixth apocalyptic seal

Opened and heaven departing as a scroll
Convolved. As higher still the sovereign flame
Ascended, wider trans formation seized

The earth around: the shivering atmosphere
Quick caught the fervor of his arrowy war
And shaking off its icy stillness stirred

With vernal breath the waving wood; the plain
Blossomed in lavish luxury bestrewn

With instantaneous flowers that wide exhaled
Ambrosial redolence; the landscape, all
Suifused with golden glimmer, rendered back

A variegated Splendor; through the mead
Careless a thousand wandering streams discoursed
In choral symphony or echoing rushed

In hoarser cadence down the murmuring hills.
Ne’er scene so lovely the Cashmerian vale,
First Eden called, thence Garden of Delight,

Presented to the eye of primal man 7

Entranced, ere the malicious enemy

With hell-engendered guile fair Eve seduced
To fatal trespass and all earth deformed.

But mightier metamorphosis appeared

Within the vale of Error populous.

As when the potent wand of Magian seer,
Thrice waved in mystic circle, with the word
Pronounced of talismanic virtue full, \
Headlong dismisses to the underworld

Or scatters else, in flight precipitate

I‘o outer dark, legions of evil sprites;

So from the swift invasion of the darts

Far cast of that illustrious Day-god throned

In heaven sublime, fast fled the afi‘righted rout
Tumultuous of Pagandom amain.

Vainly they sought the friendly arms of Night

 

‘ Together fugitive; no place for her

Or them was found upon the broad expanse
Of earth, and faster the horizon‘fled

‘And vanished, chased by omnipresent day.

Their insubstantial being they resolved

To ancient Nothing, while their votaries

In blank amazement stared brief interval.

For lo! emergent from the middle plain

In mingled beauty and sublimity,

Direct beneath the zenith-flaming sun,

Was seen the mount Religious; on its top
Reason and Faith their common lineage
Confesscd and common guidance of the light
Divine. By universal impulse driven

All nations thither flowed; the widening base
Capacious all encircled. Happy he

Whose steps lay nearest the summit, where all hues
Of purpling morn, and golden noon, and eve,
R0 seate, were blended. Up the people gazed,
Rapt into wondering ecstasy. Anon

Heaven’s azure portals, on euphonious hinge
Unfolding, issued thence cherubic hosts
Innumerable, making ether bright

With swift-traversing splendor. Down to earth
Wheeling their circling flight, they cut the air
With rainbow—tinted plumage; in their hands,
All instruments of harmony divine;

Now in mid—air orbing their shining ranks,
IIovered suspense, a firmamental cloud,

Of lightsupernal. Silent transport seized
Thelistening universe, when from above,
Below, around, in common rapture burst,

And floated blending to the Eternal Throne,
Music like that mysterious spheral chant
Ilymned o’er Creation at the dawn of Time.
If mortal echoes of immortal strains

Offend not, and some favoring power attend,

J Thus might I say the choirs responsive sung.

 

  

 

 

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SEMI-CHORUS 0F IMMORTALS.

Lol Where the Star of Day,

Victor exalted high,

Scatters Night far away

Down from the vaulted sky.

And the glory fast flushing

The regions aerial,

Through the wide azure rushing

On pinions ethereal,

Hath compassed creation in radiant flight,
And robed it in garments inefi‘ably bright.

SEMI-CHORUS OF MORTALS .

S plendors celestial,
Falling to earth,
Fulgence terrestrial
Call into birth.
‘ And see the bright vision !
From baptism splendid,
in beauty Elysian
All nature ascended;
And the perfume of gratitude, zephyr—upliftcd,
To heaven in cloudlets of incense is drifted.

CHORUS OP MORTALS AND IMMORTALS.

Let all the Seraphim
Bow down and worship Him;
And earth sempivernal
With anthems eternal
Extol Him supernal,
O’er powers infernal
Forever victorious,
High-throned and glorious.
While light from His countenance ceaselessly streams,
5 Life, Truth, Love, and Mercy enkindle His beams.

REUNION OF THE PERICLEAN SOCIETY.——On the
6th of June, the last’Friday night of the past colle-
gate year, the active members of the Periclean So-
ciety, together with all of the old members whom
it was possible to notify, met in their hall for the
purpose of organizing a reunion to meet from year
to year. Hitherto there has been no organization
of this description among the Pericleans, but the
necessity of one has long presented itself to many
minds. Many who have left their ranks to mingle
in the busy scenes of the world, are always near at
hand during commencement week, and eager to visit
that hall which is hallowed by so many memories of
past pleasures. To give them an opportunity of
doing so, and at the same time of meeting their for-
mer comrades, isthe object of this organization.—
They also think that it cannot but stimulate the
young members of their Society to more active ex-
ertions, in order to emulate the success of those who
have preceded them. In order to render the meet--
ing as interesting as possible, it was decided that
two of the old members should be appointed to de-
liver an oration and a poem. then the time ap-
proaches every member will be notified of it, and
his presence solicited. Should unavoidable circum-
stances prevent any from being present on that oc-
casion, any communication from them will be joy-
fully received;while those, who decide to attend,
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Rev. John Early, President of Georgetown College,
died Friday evening, May 23d. His funeral services
teok place on the 26th. He had been Presldent of sev-
eral Colleges previous to the time he accepted the posi-
tion which be filled at his death. _ From 1858 he has
been connected with Georgetown College, and the dura-
tion of his term of oflice is sufficient to show the satis-
faction he gavc as President, and the loss his College
1118 sustained; ‘ '

 

 

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H. P. BRYAN, Periclean Society,
J. A. DEAN, Union Literary Society.
WM. MYALL, Cecropian Society. ,
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This has been the theme of school-boys—‘and
school-girls, too—and the hobby of the learned (?)
for so long a time, that it is becoming a trifle thread-
bare. We could hope, therefore, to elicit little that is
new, by following the footsteps of either the fledged
or unfleded referred to, so we have concluded to
make a “new departure,” in our dealing With. the
subject. \Ve do not promise that this will be any-
thing brilliant or startling, for our stock of-Wisdom
is yet too small to “declare so great a dividend ”

We propose, then, to notice a little the abuses of
this precious privilege, called “independence of
thought.” We all know that it is precious, and has
been productive of many and glorious results; but
we know equally well, that'many, in their treat:
ment to it, have showed themselves the fools we
always suspected them to be. This is not demon-
tory of the thing itself, but averification of the 31d
adage, “murder will out.” If a man has little sense
the less noise he makes the fewer people wili

July 1, 1873, .

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find it out; but as certainly as he attempts to
go “beyond his depth,” he will expose his lack of
that very useful article, common sense. By the
way, there is a large class of persons, now-a-days,
deficient in the respect last named. Everybody is
willing to admit this, but the dificulty is, no one
thinks that he’s the man. You might search
from “Greenland’s icy mountains” to “India’s coral
strand,” and you could not then finda man lacking
in common sense, at least, he being the judge. Of
course, you could see many who would lay no claim
to genius, but their consciences (‘9) would allow
them to go no further.
. Many think that independent thought is persis-
tence in disbelie‘ving everything that everybody
else believes, and in picking flaws in the evidence
submitted to support received truths. As soon as
they get sight of a mathematical formula, or catch
the faintest gleam of light from philosophical in-
quiry, they begin to doubt everything they have
ever heard, and call this original thought, while the
the truth is, it is the most unoriginal thing in the
‘ world. And so far from being a work of candor or
good sense, it is no more than the veriest fool could
do. Lest they should get no credit for knowing
anything, they will bring up monstrous absurdities
in philosophy, that in after time they may be famed
for invention. '

Under the influence of this mania for independent
thought, scientists frequently