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Newspaper
Geneva Express
Location
Geneva, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1856
Page
7
A. T Wheelee presents a temperance poem for the Geneva Express celebrating the rise of temperance across states. The piece envisions a future of prohibition, divine sanction, and moral renewal, invoking Bacchus, gods, and celestial imagery to urge unity and steadfastness in the temperance cause.
The passage extols Mexico as a dazzling city of beauty and wonders, likening it to Venice Granada Babylon and Damascus. It imagines an observer who has seen the world and describes Mexico’s towers gardens and mirrors. The fragment notes a vast death toll in China since a great revelation.
A narrator recalls meeting an old musician in Bonn who tells how Beethoven, then poor, visited a blind girl and her brother. Beethoven plays to them by moonlight, improvises, and reveals rare tenderness, but later never returns. The piece ends reflecting on the ephemeral nature of such moments.
A collection of historical death scenes and final words, noting Augustus Caesar Julius Caesar Siward Nelson Bonaparte and others. The passage contrasts poised exits with graphic, patently sensational lines about mortality and posterity, and includes a vivid aside on a printer’s festival toast about editors and public notoriety.
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