PS 219T Copy <>- ^i^ '«? "^ s^i^-V"C-^-^ 1 I c Oil ¥ ■?i>i3g->^^ ^V^ILLIAM E. F. KRATjSE. I'^m: Creation. Tlxe Mledicinal Flant. Sun and ICartli. A-inerica. .'V K'l-asTT'n-nt B^'lowt^v. The G-i-enl jP.-h i I i< ■ I '.i i 1 load. -a^<:i H San Francisco : PEIMTED BY JOSEPH WINTERBUEN k COMPANY. 117 Clay Street, between Battery anil Sansome. 180!). •3 eC ttatlis^ Eternity's commencement ! ! ! "O mortal, pray cease thy lament, Souls of the ji'odly shall ])raise The Creator of systems and rif^hteous ways; From within their own hearts extending', Their flights to Homeward are wending . And live in hope and in charity's love, In faith of His glory, here and above, That God now dwells within yon ; Thy reason is godly to know, Happy thy life in His preseijce, Sweet conscience good actions pretense. Enough the Universe in evolutions sighs. Speeds eternally the throng of lives Upon our own burning globe transparent, In firmament to other worlds translucent, Through space ethereal and infinite As one of myriad stars appearing; From afar its brilliant light returning To us, intensified! Is changing Into Heavenly Love, reflexing, His above, in all existing constellations shining. Now here all atoms piercing; Creation. Life's presence in us reacliing Transmutes, is our soul, the godly light creating; Love to be good and acting right. Hast thoa the Father forever in sight. Who gave you memory of thy past, Inveils thy future beyond the minute, last ? If not the godly light. Brighter than your earthly sight In thee were ever shining; Love to be His, is His beseeching, Each as party, to the charter Of the vessel at sea. Before the storm is to flee From the dangerous cliffs To the safe harbor, He gives To the intrepid and valorous steering, Each minute the wind may be veering; Perish the vessel, but safe are the souls "When done is thy duty, in sight are the shoals. The presence merety dots eternal time, A living death at Heaven's shrine Is your delight who godly lives, Has endless life, who always gives To Him his thanks who lives within, While I am here, points there come in. Be charitable, good and kind. To all who be of every mind. Are here thy brethren, all In him to live and to receive the call Sun and Earth. To others A'oluntarily extend Their good, which shall befriend A widened circle of the human mass, Until at last the world to class Their countless lives in a bliss of moment, The next above! To be content. |lt» tUli ft» J^^W^ ©HE brilliant Sun, in glory resting. Of worlds consumed, anew are forming Eternalh' in spaces, either Of Heaven's own transfer. Issuing intensest heat, Diffusing warmth and light to greet Universal systems, countless globes, Guiding life to far-away abodes; Its distance to this world beneath, As ours is to constellations myth. Almighty Grod, to suns and matter, is Eternal love to all creation His, To -our Earth daily rotating, Defiling before it, presenting Her spherical body to sight, The surface exposed receiving the light. Great is the bliss. Sweet is the kiss Sun and Earth. Of constant love, Consummate above. From the morning sun scaring, Attracting, surveying , With steadfast gaze, The distant haze; Enfolding the globe's Firmamental abode; As she is moving in orbit. By vapor.s in veiled yet, In darkness comj)letely enshrouded. When dense are the clouds and amassed. Rain pouring in torrents, Drenching, deluging contents. Fertilizing the crust of the Earth Entirely without it in dearth. At its height the tempest is raging. Fearfully the thunder is roaring. Flashes the lightning, igniting: Conscience rueing. Forgiveness sueing, Of thy soul in the grief; Repentance — as mercy — makes anguish but brief; Salvation is thine, by bravely amending Thy ways, to labor attending, Useful to you, and others Near you are brothers. Appreciating intentions well meant, Best seen in good actions Avell sent Value the mite as a gift bestoAved, Sun and Earth. Showiii<>- the heart within you is moved — By the power of will is charity proved. Contrary currents are tossinf.>\, Tearing and lifting- The scintillating orb through space, The vacixuin refilled, time rolling apace, Truly, demurely, Onwardly, surely. Daily rotates our terrestrial globe In its assigned abode ; Circling the Sun, To the gioi-y of God — His will be done! And the Sun's greeting Is destined of reaching, With warmth and light. Gradually, all Earth and water in sight; Heralding the day by dispersing, Dissolving, condensing Exhalations and gases Into dew-drop masses, As diamonds shining. Are settling, encircling The innocent brow, white as the snow, Skirting the garb in its emerald glow Of beautiful Earth's entire conclave, Independent rejoicing, nowhere a slave; And good and bad of the human existing. Anointed with reason inspired, are thanking The Creator of Suns and of light. Of warmth and of love in its might. ! Sun and Earth For his mercy of hearts fond are to give, Here to his children, in Him are to live. Intense is the glow Fleeting below; Carrying delight From myriads might. Of dazzling rays. Through fiery ways, In infinite space abating Into genial air for the living. And the splendor of light of the days, Chasing from hill-toj)s the purpling rays, Embracing the forest, the field, and the meadow, Coaxing the insect from shadow}^ furrow Mantling the linnet, after his bath, Smoothing his feathers, is singing at last, Free and independent as the eagle. Above him in circle. Is soaring and eyeing The Spectre of Man! jDersistently trying To navigate aerial regions. Encompassing time, and their passions, Productive of good for the living, The body submissively following Genius, wherever is guiding, ( Vide ! the venerable Seward Alaska is reaching,) The search after wisdom's content. Which the tenor of life shall present. Thus the globe in daily rotating, From the meridian sun absenting Sun and Earth. One section of Earth, Is others presenting in dearth; Behind us approacliing, ExjDecting- and needing, The powerful rays, Brightening their wa^'S, United, are eastwardly moving. Upon the home of the mortal remaining — Shows us the sweetness, Divine will, completeness. Of the virtue "benevolence." Render assistance To others existing, Helpless are living, May'st thou give. That they can live. A trifle are millions, and scarce, Where millions are trifles on Earth, Thine is the heart and the wealth to give The stranger who needs — let live, Until the Earth is weaned from light, Each section gratefully parting the sight; Their plains and prairies — the mountains at last- Bidding adieu to the day held fast In their snowy embrace, A merciful grace To the belated, in twilight, from home, In valleys where hut and the dome Shelter the weary, securely resting In God, for the night, as Father is watching. 1. JiX FLOWER blooms, its (charms l)espeak 'o God's care and mine to love it; It bows its face so sweet and meek, From every swarthy summit. 2. In summer, when cool folia<^'e dense, Is screening it so truly, You know it well in all the glens From sister playmates surely. 3. Its redolence, a mighty dowry. Bestowed by Heaven's father; Which is a wealth no Avorldly glory. Without true heart can gather. 4. Will gentle zephyrs playfully. Make known its lone existence ; The world admires carelessly, Where Love has no subsistence. 5. The summer gone, it is no more, Nor can you find the spot ; Its fragrance led to it before, And now! Small deeds of heart your lot. 6. May be next year, its climbing uid a grave, Enclosed by wealth in mortar; Its odor sweet do angels crave. To carry Love immortal. ;tMtltt»l Mtmt s^Z ^ PLANT of tiny growth will speak '^ Of worlds bevoiid, of wisdom which we seek Its life is there, it 's born to wither, The root to live ! while souls go hither. Why is it here ? contemporaneously, Near me to live, and I should boldly Deprive of life what is divine, Within my reach destroy to lengthen thine ? And firmly rooted in the sacred soil, The earth in ever constant toil To germinate and bring to life. Should I mutilate, adding to strife V What is decreed, and surely is Inimitable here, designs of His Think serviceable. Heavenly trust, Because in ashes lives all earth's crust ? Each being to the chaos mass. Eternity to the hour-glass, A noble deed to outward bliss, A thought in swiftness to an infant's kiss; The plant benefactor in the fullest sense, Has neither charms nor redolence. Is born within periphery Of visage mine to visions glory; Its usefulness attention craved, From birds or insects knowing to be saved. Observing this the Indians of yore, Beyond the Hood's remote tradition coi'e, lo The Medicinal Plant. Instinctively in surety applied The plant, as remedy for linrts allied, With pain from wounds in time of war, Pursuit of chase or other accidents debar. All imitation of a pachydermal fury, Innate in man in whom mercy Had not applied the break; Subdiung passions through religions make, Hindering wrath to plunge headlong- God's images into death, which shall belong To life as guard o'er every soul's salvation. Thus from i^ain arose warm gratitude, (As well as barbarous servitude;) The Indians delight at vanquished pain, Unloosening his freedom's chain. Plucked herbs, preser\ing plants to jionder O'er the marvelous, what is divine is yonder; Onward sped the reputation Of a plant's innate power of consolation. Until shrunk up to dust became Both without record of their fame. By the world's sublunary sway, Myth and legend became order of the day. Superstition's bigotry, Cruelties and depot's rivalry. With lucid intervals at last, Of know^ledge's gleaming light to cast A furtive glance at tiny plants. Inland greening or on ocean's sands, ' Until Apollo rose the pagan's God of Physic, And Theophrastus botanized in Greece and Egyjjt, ^sculapius had saved the life of Hippohtus, Was Physic taught by Paracelsus. Science made* a plant's true worth imperishable, The plant itself, of life inestimable. The Medicinal Plant. i i Wherever decks the earth, the loving floor Shall by it, benefit the rich and poor; At any time at any place arise Nevp men, new plants to pliiralize; Ancient wisdom, by additional research To prolong a life, at best to perch Upon the higher branches of the presence Of the tree of life's existence, Ever green to mortals millions, Ever adding ages legions To its imperishable roots. The love of God to ofi'shoots, By suns assisted and by air. The one to see, and by its glare Breathe the other to deserve, The reasoning power and the nerve To stand the trials of a life. Made by ourselves as unrife, In wisdom comprehending The proper use of our senses tending Towards confusion in selection Of what is good for life's protection. As far as minutes are concerned Of what a centenarian has gained; A better knowledge than the rest. AVho end their life without true test Of a mortals power of endurance, Yet is the child superior of innocence, Before him goes atoning parent's sins. Preserved alike are both in Heaven's regions; For death is knowledge of the fact That life in him is never ending and malefactors sacked ; Prove human laws infringe upon divine, Instead of life long caging, slay penitence sublime. .mtftftt^ 1 j|| ROM the conlines of two oceans ^'^ Rises the uatiou of men, Herakl of Freedom's emotions, To the opj)ressed in their den. Piercing- the darkness of ages. Reaches the light of the free; Independent forever to races, AlKed with us to Thee. 3 United, are liappy at home, In this land of Liberty's choice; Acknowledge the good which, alone. Can quicken the heart to rejoice. The mind is directing exertion, Labor is gladly performed; Morals shall free from coercion, A life bv senses misruled. Yii-tues encircle the cottage — The palace's widened aisle; Humanity severing bondage. Intolerance welded awhile. iinenca. 6 '3 Prize highly the gift of the poor, Of noble intentions — assurance Only the Union is strong to allure The world to Freedom's procurance. Learn from the people the secret, Where wisdom is hid among-. That thy thoughts to motives concrete, In tune with thy mirthful song. If actions be bright as the day, AVarni is the shake of the hand; Shall usefulness bloom in May ? Persevere in labor, and love this laud. IMMEDIATE EFFECTS UPON CALIFORNIA AS A MANUFACTURINC? STATE, AND UPON SAN FRANCISCO AS THE WESTERN CARRIER OF THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE TO ASIA AND TO OCEANICA. The following poem conveys a strong impression of the manifest destiny of America — not only as the hojie of oppressed mankind, but by the aj^plication of steam — the harbinger of charity, to six hundred millions of Asiatics. The entire Asia has never voluntarily traded with us, because the Chinese demanded material proofs of the siiperiority of our civilization over theirs, which we did not give lucidlj' enough. My idea is, that we here in America must now commence manufacturiiig by steam their antediltivian patteens and sell them to the Chinese at a profit, to the great astonishment of both. If we thus benefit them materially, they will speedily sympathize with us generally, and not only enrich us and the entire civilized world, but themselves become votaries to it. rv^^^g/> Onward rolls the avalanche, Westward flows the mighty stream, Of the greatest worldly branch, Of mankind's — nations' dream. From New York, the eastern station. From Chicago's central strength, Collects the progress of the nation, To amass in San Francisco's leng;th. The Great Pacific Railroad, 15 3. Westward bound lias civilization spread, From western Asia to Euroi^e's steppes; From Europe to America was lead Arovmd the giobe to Asia's adepts. 4. Four hundred millions of tlie race, Now in reach by one month steam, Shall compare what we can trace. Of progress since the Bible's gleam. 5. V Be assured of Freedom's right. Vested in the soul of each; Stretching farther than their genii might. Nor worship of the sky can reach. 6. Strong in will, ability and wealth, Superior in religion, civilization's hope, Shall we convince, and not by stealth. With China, larger than all Europe, cope. 7. To benefit four hundred millions Is to enlarge the civilized world; Not only we, but mankind's legions Shall then rejoice, and sheathe the sword. 8. To the Chinese to prove that we are wiser. Is to convince them through their pockets; Thus steam must be the strong adviser, Its whistle our progress sockets. 9. Blessed be its vastest quickening power, Which, next to love, is truly our own; Fraternally we live and shower Constant happiness through its blessings known. 1 6 The Great Pacific Railroad. 10. Immense the commerce flowino- Westward, Small in return the fear of inundation; Their exclusiveness is antedeluvian windward, Unconcerned by emigration. 11. While, when here, whoever is of mankind Is always welcome in America; It is the crib in which the entire human race shall find The savior from tyranny: Justicia. 12. We shall remember that this soil Is but tenanted from Almighty God ; Therefore, to circumstances let us adapt, and by it foil What is not humane among the human lot. 18. Adding to work for all upon the spot. Discriminating well adaptedness, In harmony the human lot Cements with love their usefulness. 14. As to the work itself to find, At all times steady, well-paid labor; Is not the genius of America behind To j)ush us on to valor ? 15. And gives us now the best of lecture Of how to stop the present crisis; Chinese goods we here must manufacture, Rely on steam to cheapen prices. 16. Instead of losses, shall huge gain Kedown upon Eureka's million; In front are we the vanguard to attain What moves America in her Westward mission. The Great Pacific Railroad. 17 17. New factories arise in all directions, All laborers benefited by Tlie hum, supiDort the just reflection, That we are one beneath the sky. IS. As to the laborer here, who by his toiling- hands, Hls love for wife and many children shows; We shall iDrotect his time and wages where he stands, Securely his haj^piness flows. 19. No umbrage does the merchant take, At odd demands upon the trade; But promptly manufactures for his sake, What shoes and cues suit their parade'. 20. The lesson is a sharp one surely. To every lukewarm hopeless one; Who does not now conceive completely, What's manifest, that will be done. Quite natural the eastern goods accumulate. And dollar stores the consequence; Until we rise and here create, A Lowell for the World's convenience. 22. The g-reat Pacific Railroad l)uilt. Is not to alienate, but to unite All national interests centering- in that guild Which is the World forever, now in sig-ht. 23. Reflect upon the railroad as main artery, ^ To diffuse the progress of America- Shall now unite with Fulton's ocean's' mastery And course the world from California 3 t8 The Great Pacific Railroad. 24. Glorious be thj future, California! A new era date from San Francisco - We shall lead what leads America, To mankind shall we progress show, 25. In order that thy soul retain The echo of these hojieful lines, Ride quickly to the clifi's, and near the Golden Gate remain . Until the foaming truth upon you shines. 2(5. And if by sunset you still ponder Upon the use of the great ocean, May the lions' roaring thunder Aid me, rousing thy emotion. 27. Is not the Union now on national highway, Flooding our dearest home ? The same what Europe did in times away. When low tariff laid our interests low. 28. Draining Eureka of her money, Stagnating our manufactories' wake Between two tires, do we know from hearsay, Cho