Constitutional Whig

The following beautiful lines from the Cincinnati American, are supposed to be from the pen of J. G. Whittier, the Quaker Poet. They were suggested by a brilliant article in the American, with the caption "he is not fallen!" in reply to a vindictive attack upon Mr. Clay, headed "He is fallen!"

HENRY CLAY.

Not fallen!--no! as well the tall
And pillared Alleghany fall:
As well, Ohio's giant tide
Roll backward in its mighty track,
As he,--Columbia's hope and pride--
The slandered and the sorely tried,
In his triumphant course sink back.

Star of the West! a million eyes
Are turning gladly unto him;--
The shrine of old idolatries
Before his kindling light grows dim!
And men awake as from a dream
Of meteors dazzling to betray,
And bow before his purer beam--
The earnest of a better day!

He is not fallen!--seek to bind
The chainless and unbidden wind--.
Oppose the torrent's headlong course,
And turn aside the whirlwind's force
But dream not that the mighty mind
Will bend before the blast of hate.
Or quail at dark and causeless ill!--
For though all else be desolate,
It stoops not from its high estate--.
A Manlius 'midst the ruins still!

He has not fallen! every breeze
That wanders o'er Columbia's bosom,
--From wild Penobscot's forest-trees,
From ocean's shore--from inland seas,
Or where the rich Magnolia's blossom
Floats snow-like on the sultry wind,
Is bearing onward to his ear,
A homage for his lofty mind--
A meed the fallen never find--
A praise, which patriots only hear!

All hail!--the hour is hastening on,
When vainly tried by slander's flame,
Columbia shall behold her son
Unharmed--without a laurel gone--
As from the flame of Babylon
The angel guarded triad came!
The slandorer shall to silence then--
His spell shall leave the minds of men
'And higher glory wait upon
The Western Patriot's future name!'