When  his  telescoj^e  broke  through  the  welkin's  blue  shell

And  he  went  where  the  angels  began  to  rebel,

And  strange  stars  blossomed  round  him  like  daisies  in  June,

Two  mornings  at  once,  on  the  splendor  of  noon' !

And  death-proof  it  all  made  bim  if  anything  could  !

'Twas  in  August,  they  say,  when  Columbus's  brood

Slipped  silently  out  from  the  earth's  azure  eaves,

— Like  a  flock  of  young  swallows  when  summer-time  leaves, —

And  plumed  up  their  pinions  and  parted  the  blue,

And  the  sky  was  unrent  and  the  trinity  through  !

♦Cannon  invented  by  a  Francieoan,  were  first  fired  in  August  and  at  Creasy.
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Shook  off  the  old  world  and  shook  out  for  the  new !

Were  they  shrived  ere  they  went  ?     Were  their  sins  all  forgiven  ?

For  they'll  flutter  their  wings  at  the  windows  of  heaven  !

Hark  !     The  Admiral's  haU  :     "  World  ahoy  !    Whither  bound  ?"

And  the  answer  comes  back  on  a  breaker  of  sound,

And  the  flag  of  the  Andes  in  fire  is  unfurled,

And  Niagara's  thunder  of  welcome  is  hurled,

"  We're  at  anchor,  your  honor  !    It  is  Liberty's  World  !  "

Magnificent  Age !     When  water  and  fire,
The  lamb  and  the  lion,  together  conspire,
And  the  atom  of  rain  the  robins  are  'drinking
Can  set  the  dull  iron  to  throbbing  and  thinking.
It  enters  the  heart  of  a  ship  in  her  sleep —
There's  a  cloud  on  the  sky — a  wake  on  the  deep —
There's  a  soul  in  the  oak  that  would  kindle  a  king.
And  she  crashes  away  without  hfting  a  wing  !

Take  the  old  "  Franklin  Press  "  where  the  dead  were  laid  ou-t.
And  the  printer  in  mourning  went  plodding  about.
