The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

Miscellany

FROM THE LONDON LITERARY GAZETTE.

THINGS TO COME.

There are murmurs on the deep.

There are thunders on the heaven

Though the ocean billows sleep,

Though no cloud the sign has given.

Earth that sudden storm shall feel

'Tis a storm of man and steel.

Tribes are in the forests now.

Idly hunting ounce and deer

Tribes are crouching in their snow

O'er their wild and wintry cheer,

Doom'd to swell that tempest's roar,

Where the torrent-rain is gore.

War of old has swept the world

Guilt has shaken strength and pride

But the thunders, feebly hurl'd,

Quiver'd o'er the spot and died

When the vengeance next shall fall,

Wo to each, and wo to all.

Man has shed man's blood for toys

Love and hatred, fame and gold

Now a mightier wrath destroys;

Earth in careless crime grows old

Past destruction shall be tame

To the rushing of that flame.

When the clouds of vengeance break,

Folly shall be on the wise,

Frenzy shall be on the weak,

Nation against nation rise.

And the worse than Pagan sword

In Religion's breast be gored.

Then the Martyr's solemn cry,

That a thousand years has rung.

Where their robes of crimson lie

Round "the Golden Altar" hung.

Shall be heard-and from the "throne"

The trumpet of the "Judgment" blown:

"Wo to Earth, the mighty wo,"

Yet shall Earth her conscience know,

Till above the brim shall flow

The draught of gall-the cup is full.

Yet a moment comes the ire-

Famine, bloodshed. flood and fire

First shall fall a Mighty One,

Ancient crime had crown'd his brow

Dark Ambition rais'd his throne-

Truth his victim and his foe.

Earth shall joy in all her veins

O'er the great Idolater.

Then shall rush abroad the blast

Sweeping Heathen Zone by Zones,

Africk's tribes the spear shall raise,

Shivering India's pagod throne:

China hear her Idol's knell

In the Russian's Cannon peal.

On the Turk shall fall the blow

From the Grecian's dagger'd hand

Blood like winter showers shall flow.

Till he treads the Syrian land !

Then shall final vengeance shine

And all be seal'd in Palestine.