T  TNANSWERED  and  unmatched  he  died
^-"^      The  free  alone  revere  his  name.
A  KANSAS  PICTURE.
,  on  through  wastes  untamed  and  dread,
Our  lone  and  silent  marches  led ;
Wide  stretched  the  plains,  untouched  by  man,
Where  still  and  solemn  rivers  ran ;
Green  rose  the  woods  beneath  a  sky
That  heard  no  sounds,  and  far  and  nigh
Within  the  horizon's  vast  belt,
A  world  spread  out  wherein  there  dwelt
No  throne  of  power  to  set  aright
The  ruthless  wrongs  imposed  by  Might,
Or  wreaked  by  Hate,  or  wrought  by  Lust,
No  safe-guard  that  the  weak  might  trust,
No  lofty  court  of  last  appeal,
No  law  save  that  the  rudest  feel    •
Within  their  hearts  ;  naught  to  oppose
Marauder's  craft  or  ruffian's  blows  —
Only  Nature's  grand  repose.
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OPPORTUNITY.
IT  OW  vain  are  Wisdom's  mandates  cold,
•*•   *•     The  voice  of  precept  or  of  creed  ;

How  vain  example  may  unfold

Its  logic  stern,

Or  Honor  burn

With  lofty  zeal  to  intercede  ;

How  passing  vain,  in  Beauty's  need,

Are  all  prevailing  powers  of  good,

If  but  she  list,  in  tacit  mood,     •

To  soft  Temptation's  siren  call,

And  Circumstance  approve  her  fall !

It  little  recks  who  wooes  her  then  —

Too  soon  she  wails  o'er  what  hath  been.
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aLENDARE.
T_  T  E  loved  to  view  roused  Nature's  rage,

And  read,  as  from  a  written  page,
The  signs  she  traced  on  mountains  hoar,
On  flaming  skies,  on  seas  in  pain,
On  rushing  stream  or  beaten  shore,
On  quaking  hill  or  ravaged  plain.
