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diff --git a/22626.txt b/22626.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a703f92 --- /dev/null +++ b/22626.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1103 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of +Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the +Settlement of the City, by Charles Sprague + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, + at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City + +Author: Charles Sprague + +Release Date: September 16, 2007 [EBook #22626] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ODE PRONOUNCED BEFORE THE INHABITANTS OF BOSTON *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, David Wilson and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + AN ODE: + + pronounced before the + INHABITANTS OF BOSTON, + + September the seventeenth, 1830, + + at the + CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION + of the + SETTLEMENT OF THE CITY. + + + BY CHARLES SPRAGUE. + + + BOSTON: + John H. Eastburn ... City Printer. + + MDCCCXXX. + + + + +CITY OF BOSTON. + +In Common Council, September 17, 1830. + +_Ordered_, That the Committee of Arrangements for the celebration of this +day be, and they are hereby, directed to present the thanks of the City +Council to CHARLES SPRAGUE, Esquire, for the elegant, interesting and +instructive Poem, this day pronounced by him, and respectfully request a +copy thereof for the press. + + Sent up for Concurrence, + B. T. PICKMAN, _President_. + + +_In the Board of Aldermen, September 20, 1830._ + + Read and concurred. + H. G. OTIS, _Mayor_. + + A true copy--Attest, + S. F. M'CLEARY, _City Clerk_. + + + + +_Boston, September 17, 1830._ + +Charles Sprague, Esq. + +The Undersigned, the Committee of Arrangements for the Centennial +Celebration of the Settlement of Boston, have the honor to enclose you an +attested copy of a vote of the City Council, and respectfully ask your +compliance with the request contained therein. + + Harrison Gray Otis, + Benjamin Russell, + Winslow Lewis, + Benjamin T. Pickman, + Thomas Minns, + Joseph Eveleth, + John W. James, + John P. Bigelow, + Washington P. Gragg. + + + + + ODE. + + + I. + + Not to the Pagan's mount I turn, + For inspiration now; + Olympus and its gods I spurn-- + Pure One, be with me, Thou! + Thou, in whose awful name, + From suffering and from shame, + Our Fathers fled, and braved a pathless sea; + Thou, in whose holy fear, + They fixed an empire here, + And gave it to their Children and to Thee. + + + II. + + And You! ye bright ascended Dead, + Who scorned the bigot's yoke, + Come, round this place your influence shed; + Your spirits I invoke. + Come, as ye came of yore, + When on an unknown shore, + Your daring hands the flag of faith unfurled, + To float sublime, + Through future time, + The beacon-banner of another world. + + + III. + + Behold! they come--those sainted forms, + Unshaken through the strife of storms; + Heaven's winter cloud hangs coldly down, + And earth puts on its rudest frown; + But colder, ruder was the hand, + That drove them from their own fair land, + Their own fair land--refinement's chosen seat, + Art's trophied dwelling, learning's green retreat; + By valour guarded, and by victory crowned, + For all, but gentle charity, renowned. + With streaming eye, yet steadfast heart, + Even from that land they dared to part, + And burst each tender tie; + Haunts, where their sunny youth was passed, + Homes, where they fondly hoped at last + In peaceful age to die; + Friends, kindred, comfort, all they spurned-- + Their fathers' hallowed graves; + And to a world of darkness turned, + Beyond a world of waves. + + + IV. + + When Israel's race from bondage fled, + Signs from on high the wanderers led; + But here--Heaven hung no symbol here, + _Their_ steps to guide, _their_ souls to cheer; + They saw, thro' sorrow's lengthening night, + Nought but the fagot's guilty light; + The cloud they gazed at was the smoke, + That round their murdered brethren broke. + Nor power above, nor power below, + Sustained them in their hour of wo; + A fearful path they trod, + And dared a fearful doom; + To build an altar to their God, + And find a quiet tomb. + + + V. + + But not alone, not all unblessed, + The exile sought a place of rest; + ONE dared with him to burst the knot, + That bound her to her native spot; + Her low sweet voice in comfort spoke, + As round their bark the billows broke; + She through the midnight watch was there; + With him to bend her knees in prayer; + She trod the shore with girded heart, + Through good and ill to claim her part; + In life, in death, with him to seal + Her kindred love, her kindred zeal. + + + VI. + + They come--that coming who shall tell? + The eye may weep, the heart may swell, + But the poor tongue in vain essays + A fitting note for them to raise. + We hear the after-shout that rings + For them who smote the power of kings; + The swelling triumph all would share, + But who the dark defeat would dare, + And boldly meet the wrath and wo, + That wait the unsuccessful blow? + It were an envied fate, we deem, + To live a land's recorded theme, + When we are in the tomb; + We, too, might yield the joys of home, + And waves of winter darkness roam, + And tread a shore of gloom-- + Knew we those waves, through coming time, + Should roll our names to every clime; + Felt we that millions on that shore + Should stand, our memory to adore-- + But no glad vision burst in light, + Upon the Pilgrims' aching sight; + Their hearts no proud hereafter swelled; + Deep shadows veiled the way they held; + The yell of vengeance was their trump of fame, + Their monument, a grave without a name. + + + VII. + + Yet, strong in weakness, there they stand, + On yonder ice-bound rock, + Stern and resolved, that faithful band, + To meet fate's rudest shock. + Though anguish rends the father's breast, + For them, his dearest and his best, + With him the waste who trod-- + Though tears that freeze, the mother sheds + Upon her children's houseless heads-- + The Christian turns to God! + + + VIII. + + In grateful adoration now, + Upon the barren sands they bow. + What tongue of joy e'er woke such prayer, + As bursts in desolation there? + What arm of strength e'er wrought such power, + As waits to crown that feeble hour? + There into life an infant empire springs! + There falls the iron from the soul; + There liberty's young accents roll, + Up to the King of kings! + To fair creation's farthest bound, + That thrilling summons yet shall sound; + The dreaming nations shall awake, + And to their centre earth's old kingdoms shake. + Pontiff and prince, your sway + Must crumble from that day; + Before the loftier throne of Heaven, + The hand is raised, the pledge is given-- + One monarch to obey, one creed to own, + That monarch, God, that creed, His word alone. + + + IX. + + Spread out earth's holiest records here, + Of days and deeds to reverence dear; + A zeal like this what pious legends tell? + On kingdoms built + In blood and guilt, + The worshippers of vulgar triumph dwell-- + But what exploit with theirs shall page, + Who rose to bless their kind; + Who left their nation and their age, + Man's spirit to unbind? + Who boundless seas passed o'er, + And boldly met, in every path, + Famine and frost and heathen wrath, + To dedicate a shore, + Where piety's meek train might breathe their vow, + And seek their Maker with an unshamed brow; + Where liberty's glad race might proudly come, + And set up there an everlasting home? + + + X. + + O many a time it hath been told, + The story of those men of old: + For this fair poetry hath wreathed + Her sweetest, purest flower; + For this proud eloquence hath breathed + His strain of loftiest power; + Devotion, too, hath lingered round + Each spot of consecrated ground, + And hill and valley blessed; + There, where our banished Fathers strayed, + There, where they loved and wept and prayed, + There, where their ashes rest. + + + XI. + + And never may they rest unsung, + While liberty can find a tongue. + Twine, Gratitude, a wreath for them, + More deathless than the diadem, + Who to life's noblest end, + Gave up life's noblest powers, + And bade the legacy descend, + Down, down to us and ours. + + + XII. + + By centuries now the glorious hour we mark, + When to these shores they steered their shattered bark; + And still, as other centuries melt away, + Shall other ages come to keep the day. + When we are dust, who gather round this spot, + Our joys, our griefs, our very names forgot, + Here shall the dwellers of the land be seen, + To keep the memory of the Pilgrims green. + Nor here alone their praises shall go round, + Nor here alone their virtues shall abound-- + Broad as the empire of the free shall spread, + Far as the foot of man shall dare to tread, + Where oar hath never dipped, where human tongue + Hath never through the woods of ages rung, + There, where the eagle's scream and wild wolf's cry + Keep ceaseless day and night through earth and sky, + Even there, in after time, as toil and taste + Go forth in gladness to redeem the waste, + Even there shall rise, as grateful myriads throng, + Faith's holy prayer and freedom's joyful song; + There shall the flame that flashed from yonder ROCK, + Light up the land, till nature's final shock. + + + XIII. + + Yet while by life's endearments crowned, + To mark this day we gather round, + And to our nation's founders raise + The voice of gratitude and praise, + Shall not one line lament that lion race, + For us struck out from sweet creation's face? + Alas! alas! for them--those fated bands, + Whose monarch tread was on these broad, green lands; + Our Fathers called them savage--them, whose bread, + In the dark hour, those famished Fathers fed: + We call them savage, we, + Who hail the struggling free, + Of every clime and hue; + We, who would save + The branded slave, + And give him liberty he never knew: + We, who but now have caught the tale, + That turns each listening tyrant pale, + And blessed the winds and waves that bore + The tidings to our kindred shore; + The triumph-tidings pealing from that land, + Where up in arms insulted legions stand; + There, gathering round his bold compeers, + Where He, our own, our welcomed One, + Riper in glory than in years, + Down from his forfeit throne, + A craven monarch hurled, + And spurned him forth, a proverb to the world! + + + XIV. + + We call them savage--O be just! + Their outraged feelings scan; + A voice comes forth, 'tis from the dust-- + The savage was a man! + Think ye he loved not? who stood by, + And in his toils took part? + Woman was there to bless his eye-- + The savage had a heart! + Think ye he prayed not? when on high + He heard the thunders roll, + What bade him look beyond the sky? + The savage had a soul! + + + XV. + + I venerate the Pilgrim's cause, + Yet for the red man dare to plead-- + We bow to Heaven's recorded laws, + He turned to nature for a creed; + Beneath the pillared dome, + We seek our God in prayer; + Through boundless woods he loved to roam, + And the Great Spirit worshipped there: + But one, one fellow-throb with us he felt; + To one divinity with us he knelt; + Freedom, the self-same freedom we adore, + Bade him defend his violated shore; + He saw the cloud, ordained to grow, + And burst upon his hills in wo; + He saw his people withering by, + Beneath the invader's evil eye; + Strange feet were trampling on his fathers' bones; + At midnight hour he woke to gaze + Upon his happy cabin's blaze, + And listen to his children's dying groans: + He saw--and maddening at the sight, + Gave his bold bosom to the fight; + To tiger rage his soul was driven, + Mercy was not--nor sought nor given; + The pale man from his lands must fly; + He would be free--or he would die. + + + XVI. + + And was this savage? say, + Ye ancient few, + Who struggled through + Young freedom's trial-day-- + What first your sleeping wrath awoke? + On your own shores war's larum broke: + What turned to gall even kindred blood? + Round your own homes the oppressor stood: + This every warm affection chilled, + This every heart with vengeance thrilled, + And strengthened every hand; + From mound to mound, + The word went round-- + "Death for our native land!" + + + XVII. + + Ye mothers, too, breathe ye no sigh, + For them who thus could dare to die? + Are all your own dark hours forgot, + Of soul-sick suffering here? + Your pangs, as from yon mountain spot, + Death spoke in every booming shot, + That knelled upon your ear? + How oft that gloomy, glorious tale ye tell, + As round your knees your children's children hang, + Of them, the gallant Ones, ye loved so well, + Who to the conflict for their country sprang. + In pride, in all the pride of wo, + Ye tell of them, the brave laid low, + Who for their birthplace bled; + In pride, the pride of triumph then, + Ye tell of them, the matchless men, + From whom the invaders fled! + + + XVIII. + + And ye, this holy place who throng, + The annual theme to hear, + And bid the exulting song + Sound their great names from year to year; + Ye, who invoke the chisel's breathing grace, + In marble majesty their forms to trace; + Ye, who the sleeping rocks would raise, + To guard their dust and speak their praise; + Ye, who, should some other band + With hostile foot defile the land, + Feel that ye like them would wake, + Like them the yoke of bondage break, + Nor leave a battle-blade undrawn, + Though every hill a sepulchre should yawn-- + Say, have not ye one line for those, + One brother-line to spare, + Who rose but as your Fathers rose, + And dared as ye would dare? + + + XIX. + + Alas! for them--their day is o'er, + Their fires are out from hill and shore; + No more for them the wild deer bounds, + The plough is on their hunting grounds; + The pale man's axe rings through their woods, + The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, + Their pleasant springs are dry; + Their children--look, by power oppressed, + Beyond the mountains of the west, + Their children go--to die. + + + XX. + + O doubly lost! oblivion's shadows close + Around their triumphs and their woes. + On other realms, whose suns have set, + Reflected radiance lingers yet; + There sage and bard have shed a light + That never shall go down in night; + There time-crowned columns stand on high, + To tell of them who cannot die; + Even we, who then were nothing, kneel + In homage there, and join earth's general peal. + But the doomed Indian leaves behind no trace, + To save his own, or serve another race; + With his frail breath his power has passed away, + His deeds, his thoughts are buried with his clay; + Nor lofty pile, nor glowing page + Shall link him to a future age, + Or give him with the past a rank: + His heraldry is but a broken bow, + His history but a tale of wrong and wo, + His very name must be a blank. + + + XXI. + + Cold, with the beast he slew, he sleeps; + O'er him no filial spirit weeps; + No crowds throng round, no anthem-notes ascend, + To bless his coming and embalm his end; + Even that he lived, is for his conqueror's tongue, + By foes alone his death-song must be sung; + No chronicles but theirs shall tell + His mournful doom to future times; + May these upon his virtues dwell, + And in his fate forget his crimes. + + + XXII. + + Peace to the mingling dead! + Beneath the turf we tread, + Chief, Pilgrim, Patriot sleep-- + All gone! how changed! and yet the same, + As when faith's herald bark first came + In sorrow o'er the deep. + Still from his noonday height, + The sun looks down in light; + Along the trackless realms of space, + The stars still run their midnight race; + The same green valleys smile, the same rough shore + Still echoes to the same wild ocean's roar:-- + But where the bristling night-wolf sprang + Upon his startled prey, + Where the fierce Indian's war-cry rang, + Through many a bloody fray; + And where the stern old Pilgrim prayed + In solitude and gloom, + Where the bold Patriot drew his blade, + And dared a patriot's doom-- + Behold! in liberty's unclouded blaze, + We lift our heads, a race of other days. + + + XXIII. + + All gone! the wild beast's lair is trodden out; + Proud temples stand in beauty there; + Our children raise their merry shout, + Where once the death-whoop vexed the air: + The Pilgrim--seek yon ancient place of graves, + Beneath that chapel's holy shade; + Ask, where the breeze the long grass waves, + Who, who within that spot are laid: + The Patriot--go, to fame's proud mount repair, + The tardy pile, slow rising there, + With tongueless eloquence shall tell + Of them who for their country fell. + + + XXIV. + + All gone! 'tis ours, the goodly land-- + Look round--the heritage behold; + Go forth--upon the mountains stand, + Then, if ye can, be cold. + See living vales by living waters blessed, + Their wealth see earth's dark caverns yield, + See ocean roll, in glory dressed, + For all a treasure, and round all a shield: + Hark to the shouts of praise + Rejoicing millions raise; + Gaze on the spires that rise, + To point them to the skies, + Unfearing and unfeared; + Then, if ye can, O then forget + To whom ye owe the sacred debt-- + The Pilgrim race revered! + The men who set faith's burning lights + Upon these everlasting heights, + To guide their children through the years of time; + The men that glorious law who taught, + Unshrinking liberty of thought, + And roused the nations with the truth sublime. + + + XXV. + + Forget? no, never--ne'er shall die, + Those names to memory dear; + I read the promise in each eye + That beams upon me here. + Descendants of a twice-recorded race, + Long may ye here your lofty lineage grace; + 'Tis not for you home's tender tie + To rend, and brave the waste of waves; + 'Tis not for you to rouse and die, + Or yield and live a line of slaves; + The deeds of danger and of death are done: + Upheld by inward power alone, + Unhonoured by the world's loud tongue, + 'Tis yours to do unknown, + And then to die unsung. + To other days, to other men belong + The penman's plaudit and the poet's song; + Enough for glory has been wrought, + By you be humbler praises sought; + In peace and truth life's journey run, + And keep unsullied what your Fathers won. + + + XXVI. + + Take then my prayer, Ye dwellers of this spot-- + Be yours a noiseless and a guiltless lot. + I plead not that ye bask + In the rank beams of vulgar fame; + To light your steps I ask + A purer and a holier flame. + No bloated growth I supplicate for you, + No pining multitude, no pampered few; + 'Tis not alone to coffer gold, + Nor spreading borders to behold; + 'Tis not fast-swelling crowds to win, + The refuse-ranks of want and sin-- + This be the kind decree: + Be ye by goodness crowned, + Revered, though not renowned; + Poor, if Heaven will, but Free! + Free from the tyrants of the hour, + The clans of wealth, the clans of power, + The coarse, cold scorners of their God; + Free from the taint of sin, + The leprosy that feeds within, + And free, in mercy, from the bigot's rod. + + + XXVII. + + The sceptre's might, the crosier's pride, + Ye do not fear; + No conquest blade, in life-blood dyed, + Drops terror here-- + Let there not lurk a subtler snare, + For wisdom's footsteps to beware; + The shackle and the stake, + Our Fathers fled; + Ne'er may their children wake + A fouler wrath, a deeper dread; + Ne'er may the craft that fears the flesh to bind, + Lock its hard fetters on the mind; + Quenched be the fiercer flame + That kindles with a name; + The pilgrim's faith, the pilgrim's zeal, + Let more than pilgrim kindness seal; + Be purity of life the test, + Leave to the heart, to Heaven, the rest. + + + XXVIII. + + So, when our children turn the page, + To ask what triumphs marked our age, + What we achieved to challenge praise, + Through the long line of future days, + This let them read, and hence instruction draw: + "Here were the Many blessed, + Here found the virtues rest, + Faith linked with love and liberty with law; + Here industry to comfort led, + Her book of light here learning spread; + Here the warm heart of youth + Was wooed to temperance and to truth; + Here hoary age was found, + By wisdom and by reverence crowned. + No great, but guilty fame + Here kindled pride, that should have kindled shame; + THESE chose the better, happier part, + That poured its sunlight o'er the heart; + That crowned their homes with peace and health, + And weighed Heaven's smile beyond earth's wealth; + Far from the thorny paths of life + They stood, a living lesson to their race, + Rich in the charities of life, + Man in his strength, and Woman in her grace; + In purity and love THEIR pilgrim road they trod, + And when they served their neighbor felt they served their God." + + + XXIX. + + This may not wake the poet's verse, + This souls of fire may ne'er rehearse + In crowd-delighting voice; + Yet o'er the record shall the patriot bend, + His quiet praise the moralist shall lend, + And all the good rejoice. + + + XXX. + + This be our story then, in that far day, + When others come their kindred debt to pay: + In that far day?--O what shall be, + In this dominion of the free, + When we and ours have rendered up our trust, + And men unborn shall tread above our dust? 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