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Show THE DAWN OF THE DAY-STAR. When first across the trackless path of time The world began her isolated way; When first pray thadows o'er the hills did climb Ami sun brought from the dentils the pristine day. ! On that, the earliest morn that ever blushed, i While yet the rose 'nc-ath right-dew ! bent its r,e-d ! And wakening breezes soft the wild ' flower brushed, I ' A deepening shadow over all was spread. Our father Adam, he whose fall had brought Tki.s gloom o'er all mankind, looked through sad tears; Far down time's vale his eager vision sought The promised Light to shine in after -( ars. Yet 'twas not given our ancient sire to see; In darkness walked ho even to the t onb. .And raanv generations yet to be Walked "like to him beneath that sable gloom. That Light must one day come the wise men knew; Still, like lost sailors on a wild, rough yea, They mailed 'mid shoals, and ere the night " was through. Their shins gave way before the morn could Ik;. Night had no moon whose beams could find their way Amunl the cloud and shine on men below; be-low; I I av had no sun whose penetrating ray Could pierce the gloom and let its radiance now. Four thousand years of walkine in the night. Four thousand years with deepening gloom above; Then, as th prophets told, the long-sought long-sought Light Appear-d at last the Light-of Peace and Love. Karth saw the elou-i roll back from Bethlehem; Beth-lehem; She saw the heavens beam with His bri-rht Mar, Then angels joyed, and shepherds worshiped wor-shiped Him. And wise men came with incense from afar. Paul Jerome Pagan. |