From he Emporium.


A DREAM
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] had dream A narrow brdge-way led
Across mighty gulf, in whose deep bosom,
Down, down a fiighuul depth, on pointed rocks,
The manslcd caycsses Of men were strew'd
In one promlscuousruin. Death sat there
On his dark throne, mid one vast sea of blood!
/ look'd---and lo millions ofmoying men
,Press'd madly on the space which none could


tread ~


In safety without carc--tllousands and thousands


fell
Each moment iii TIL abyss through heedlessness,
4 10 rise no more forever! Still there came
Thousands and thousands more--and inarls'd the


fall


. {Jf friends and dear companions, and cen wept,
Hut took no better head, and fell themselves
In the same ruin Some who came were blind,
And some were MANNED, and faint, and tottcring;
And some secm'd urged by every madness on;
And vet 'twas said that all were rational
Children of earth--and loumeying to the cline
E 4DfcIoudless skies and peaSeful scenes, beyond
THAT pulfo' 'er which there was but this one pas
X sage.
I look,d again--and saw that there were those
Amid Tie crowd who pointed oat the danger,
4 And warn'd and warn'd their fellows tobeware;
4 Cffer'd to lead the blind assist the malmd,
II And strove to win e'en madness back to reason.
sButthese were hiss'd at, shunnd, despisd as


men
Ofs.'e wsdom--or ignoble souls
88A ese went cautious on, and all escap'd


tain fate Of their despisers.


s4 Cit was a tl1 anf. But have thought,
Y, WV in a hic scept 10 sll.s we see