THE PASSING CLOUD. O CLOUD, so beautiful and fleet, A car, a globe, a golden gloom, Such golden light the young moon threw 'Twould make a brain-sick painter pine In such a cloud the angels seek Such cloud when Jesus, long ere day, W. T. CALL him not Brother," whose unhallowed hand Hacks down the roof-tree of our common home! Call him not "Brother," who, with sword and brand, Lays waste the heritage of our fatherland! Call him not "Brother," who, 'mid cannon's boom, Beats down old landmarks, shrouds in endless gloom The hapless ones his greed hath barred and banned! He is a Cain! Cain-like must be his doom. THE COMET OF 1861. SAID TO BE THAT WHICH APPEARED IN THE WANDERER among the spheres Where didst thou hide in perished years Time has relentless driven His hour-winged coursers by, Trampling dead ages, since in heaven Man saw thy mystery. Tell of our sires' amaze At thy portentous ray, And plague with red right hand, Then, wanderer, tell anew Deep graves have hid from living view Pilgrim of heaven! to me Thou hast no ill portent, Thy glories do but prove, Howe'er remote they shine, CYRUS REDDING. THE RISING OF THE NORTH. THANK God! the deathlike, strange repose, The horrid paralytic rest Is ended, and a Nation's breast, A people long grown servile-necked It is as when the valley heaped With dry bones, at the Prophet's word, A wind miraculous had stirred; Such life from seeming Death has leaped! No more supine, while traitorous foes Trample her rights, her prowess mock, But, roused for Battle's rudest shock, When Sumter fell, the North arose ! -Madison (Wis.) State Journal. 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