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[ORIGINAL POETRY FaR THE Guardian.) THE L A W S • A ODE. BY JOSEPH DOWNES, AVTHOR OF THE MOUNTAIN DECAMERON. The tide of Life roars through the noon-day city And like a narrow sea's pent strife. Tumultuous seems that tide of Life For there, are pa,"ionslln.traine,1 by pity, Pent in ten thousand bosoms !—yet, 'Innocuous its Jong thunder 10118; Composed. as in one anchoret. ■ The Vearnins 0(" minion lIollls TRere glitter gold and g<-m« unbarred, in loellrh' of Rapine's hand and eye; And Beauty walks, withotit a guard. Many a foul secret Tarquin bv Thte deadlirst foes their deaiiliness control, All. as-fto some high presence breathing awe, v Shut all the angry paasior.s in the *OM1; Whose that hiwh pressence ? thine celestial Law — JVI an's'Sa viour, God's vicegerent here below I J "Thine! wloich.1ike His. the rebellion awes, ■Silent, invisible, withollt a blow; "TIIY pbwer henigÍl, which, while 110 sword it draws; h'1'('ities keeps the peace of solitude, h pead a* war's ted tyrants cannot make, Willr lire and sword without a drop t.f blood Or Imt of those who dare Man's hlootl to take Glory to God's vicegerent here ,below The curse of God and Alan, and ellch wild woe Of anarchy betide Law's, Mercy's, atllre's foe II. That title h stagnant in the midnight City; Now Lnt and Bapine vigils keep; The helplessness of death-like sleep, Is upon thouands midt a masked banditti. Wolves oPthe city's fold. that prey, Jiig-ht-niasfced, behind the back of day Now shan not veiled Kevenge run wild, While the strong man is as a child; > Guilt-like agaunt wolf prowls awake ? And Ilapine rush and Murder If break Into the bloody house of Life ?" o calm as in a convent sleep Thfl feeHe Infant, fearful wife; Who- their armed watch above them keep ? Who saves from ev'n Fear's false alarms ? Only the mother's, husband's arms Nor tower, nor "drawbridge, gates or parri-on. Hnt Law-the deity of Order—Law Refore whose power shrink, in comparison Annies and chains aoj racks omnipotent in awe, Know then. unnatural, erring A nuchist Thy good that hers is Nature's, Freedom's cause That in resisting Social Order's laws. Thou dost Heaven's blessing and Man's rights resist. ill. Beasts have thc niggard privilege to LIVE; By others' weakness and the chance of stnfl" But social Man's sublime prerogative. To hold life's lease direct from (jod-the lifo • Of Gods in heaven's impregnable, Towers smiling down on men defiance Such fearless life, such citadel, Mankinds, where Law invites reliance. And Man in grateful reverence relics; Rise from the pismires' city in the sod. Up through Earth's meanest, proudest families, Tbe desert's trihes-the the skies- Bees round their queen as angels round their God— From anthills, hives. to realms beyond the sun, Th' harmonious whisper vast, ascends—"thy will be done!" A low, angelic diapason War, And Horror, penance for its every jar Nature and Nature's King an anarchy abhor As the whole billowy anarchy of tides, Chafed into fury by the winds, obey Night's calm, cold queen who walks the milky way So, holy Law! thy peaceful influence glides Into the minds of men, each passion's wildness, O'ermastering not by fury but by mildness Glory to God's vicegerent here below And thou, whate'er thy clime or creed, her foe,— Wake and respond Amen," blind Anarchist, Earth's true divinity, awake to know Own Demogorgon and deny the Christ, Rather than rave, Law's ingrate-atheist, Deny thy Saviour HERE. meek arbitreiJs Of mortal strifes, who like Heav'n passionless, Ope" 0.1, Eden in the wild man's wilderness Builth.

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Saturday, May, 27, 1843.