Show ° SUBSET tJ coxs SUNSET A LITERARY CURIOSITY HOW THE HON 8 5 COX CAilK BY THK SAME OF SUNSET Toe following whica appeared in the Ohio Statesman May 19tb 1S53 is the brilliant piece of descriptive writing which T on foi Mr Cox the immoitil name u Jucset lt He was editor of that paper at tbe time A G3EAT OLD BUXSST What I bturmlul sunset was t I of hat night How glorious the storm and nur ijsuaW the setting of tie tin Wu da not icmcnbjr ever to bO vd Been 118 like oil > ur round globu rue oceno opcutr lu tbe west witu 1 toclu Lorzm mil cia I ci-a gulden iulerpuutr iuglu > tie ntiica covered tine 2p ugo soil brigitsaa every object into its owu rich dYe The ojlors grew Jtup r Kud richer until the kOlUeu lustre wad trautfused Ins I it inn cloud full ut fnest lghtuiuK which leaped ID dezzttng gzss ni rucud acid ussr use city The wiLtl itroeu null lily f the slender shrubs and giaut invs wide obtis sauce tj Ui majesty time even mapped uslcre its force Ibo ttraw berry beJ and tr < i > 3 plots turned up their vrbitia to see Zpbyrua uiurcb by As tbe rum came and the puuia brim and tho gutter burned away thuudnr roareti grandly and the fire bell caught the excitement and rung with hearty chorus The south and cast rtCatveu the copious el > oeiii aud the frcbt all at once brightened up in a long polished belt ut azuio worthy ol a Iclhc eky Tiejeiitlj a cod appeared in tlc azure lull in tile form of a acasttlate city It became more vivid revoalin strnuge forms of peerltts lanes and abbusur tciuplee and r1 l cries rare lAud gruuti in this mundane wphtira It rtiniadcd us of VVurdwortb splendid voice in bid EioursKu The appaarauco ttntuneouily i di > closed Wa of u mighty ciy boldly say A wilderness ol tmildirgi Eiukiig far And elfwiihdrvn in o a wondrous depth Far sinking iiito splendor with ut end But tho city viuisbed only to give plnce to Acotnsr isle hero the 1JJ4I beautiful forms of foliage appeared im8gin a paradiso in tho dist Jut art purified air The eun wearied 1IUI the elemental commotion ak be bind tho green plains 01 tao TE Tbe great eye in beaven hut evr went not down without a dark brute Dunging over Us i departing light Tt t rich flash 01 the uncAituIy light had passed and the raii bad cd > ctd wbe I the aolotnn church beIn pealed ht laughter ol flu ohiidreu out end njou after the storm is heard with the carol ol birda while tbs forked and purple weapon of the Idle itll darted ida inicatun around the starling coUnj trying to rival l its angels and leap into ito dark windows Candles were Iightel The piano ttrikej up We feel it is good to have u horn good to be on the earth where such rerslatiuna of beauty and power may ha made And as we canunt refrain from reminding our renders of everything wonderful in i our city we hav9 begun and ended our feeble etching of a sunset which comes EO rarely that ita cory should bs committed com-mitted t3 iarjiirtal type |