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And was clothed with a sway that was destined to prove
Far grander than that of Olympian Jove.

I send forth the Bible, the classic, the story;
I tell of brave deeds and the patriot's glory,
I issue great thoughts and they fly like the light,
That shoots its sharp gleams through the gloom of the night.

To the millions who read I'm commissioned to state
What histories tell and what fictions narrate,
What science proclaims, what theology preaches,
What invention finds out, what philosophy teaches.

Now my noise is the song which some great poet sings,
Now the burning oration that thunders and rings,
Now the sweet tale of love, now the advocate’s pica,
Now the message that flashes from under the sea.

Make the furnaces hot, and the steam— crowd it 011
Tilt my mission is ended, my laurels are won,
And the world, all renewed, shall applaud and confess
It was fashioned anew by the swift printing press.
I I en r y D a ven po rt.

POMONA D ESCRIBES HER BRIDAL TRIP.

V T O W , then, says Tone, after he’d been thinkirf a while, ‘ there’ll
X \| be no more foolin' on this trip. To-morrow we'll go to
father's, an’ if the old gentleman has got any money on the
crops, which I expect he has by this thme, I’ll take up a part of my
share, an’ we’ll have a trip to Washington air see the President, an’
Congress, an1 the White House, an1 the lamp always a-burn in’ before
the Supreme Court, an1— 7
“ ■ Don't say no’more; says T ; ‘ it's splendid !’
“ So early the rex' day we goes off jus’ as fast as trains would take
us to his father’s, an’ we hadn't been there more'n ten minutes before
Jorie found out lie had been summoned on a jury.