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Devil's Tea Table by S.Q. Lapius (James Ball Naylor)



The Devil's Tea Table
O monster rock! Firm-poised it stands
Upon a base of crumbling shale.
'Twas shaped by Satan's cunning hands
In ages past- so runs the tale-
And served Hell's demons, great and small,
As table to their banquet ball.
Though countless years have rolled away
The Devil's table stands today
As firm as when, with hellish glee,
The black imps held their revelry.

It seems the feeble flut'ring breath
That issues from the lips of death-
The faint and fickle summer breeze
That stirs the blossoms on the trees
Could shake the great rock's slender base
And hurl it from its resting place.
And yet the strongest gales that sweep
Across the torrid Indian deep,
The Polar winds- the fierce cyclone-
Are all too weak, combined alone,
To cast the monarch from its throne.

Beyond the blue Muskingum's bed
It rears its gray and wrinkled head.
Though aged, still erect, sublime
It gazes on the march of time,
And towers above the verdant sod,
A monument to nature's God.
When years on years have hurried past
Until God's dial marks the last,
Oh! May the grim old rock still keep
Its vigil on the stony steep.



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