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Bridgnorth Beacon Articles

Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.

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Articles:

1. Notice to Advertisers.
2. Advertisement - Stationery
3. Advertisement - Publication
4. Advertisement - Drapery
5. Advertisement - Bookseller
6. Births, Marriages and Deaths.
7. Notice to readers and correspondents.
8. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Title
9. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Objects
10. Report on the Morfe Flower Show.
11. Opinion on emigration for gold-hunting.
12. Report on the harvest.
13. Local Information - Grammar School, Choral Society and Philharmonic Society
14. Local Information - School-masters' Association
15. Local Information - Quatt School
16. Local Information - Religious & Useful Knowledge Society, Mechanics Institution
17. Local Information - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, etc.
18. Local Information - Sanitory state of the town.
19. Local Information - Militia
20. Local Information - Cholera, and the Fair
21. Petty Sessions - Conviction of Hawker
22. Police Reports - Non-payment of poor rate calls.
23. Police Reports - Drunkenness
24. Letter to the Editor
25. Letter to the Editor
26. Letter to the Editor
27. General Information - England - Politics and the death of the Iron Duke
28. General Information - England - the Advantages of Free Trade.
29. General Information - England - A Royal Teacher.
30. General Information - England - Proposals for new ocean vessels.
31. General Information - Ireland - Erin go Bragh
32. General Information - Ireland - Tenant right.
33. General Information - Ireland - An Irish Mother (a pig tale).
34. General Information - Scotland
35. General Information - America
36. General Information - America - Christianity among the Jews
37. General Information - America - Drinking pact.
38. Ecclesiastical Information
39. Ecclesiastical Information - Methodism, Convocation and the Vicarage of Shiffnal
40. The Press - The Duke of Wellington
41. Literary Extracts - Advice to Theologians
42. Literary Extracts - Fasting Extraordinary (An account of the process for electing new Bailiffs)
43. Literary Extracts - Habits of a Man of Business.
44. Poetry - Introduction.
45. Poetry - The Buried Flower

    Poetry.

    (for the Bridgnorth Beacon)

    THE BURIED FLOWER

    On a flower, whose root was found in the Pyramids, in the hand of the mummy, and being planted produced a beautiful and fragrant blossom.

     Spring up, O buried flower!
    Open thy buds to the noontide hour;
    Pour thy rich odours on every gale,
    Bid e’en bright roses before thee pale;
    Win thee a name and a queenly place,
    Mid the fairest blossoms of sister race;
    The sunbeam bursts with a wordless voice,
    And bids thee in beauty unknown, rejoice;
    The dewdrops fall in a diamond shower,
     Spring up, O buried flower!

     Darkness enwrapt thee long,
    But the might of thy hidden life was strong;
    In the house of death, in the caverned gloom,
    Slumbered for ages thy glorious bloom;
    Stillness dwelt there in eternal reign,
    Suns rose o’er the earth, for thee in vain;
    In the hand of the King who had passed away,
    Folded and lifeless thy petals lay;
    Waiting the time of thy beauty’s dower,
     Spring up, O buried flower!

     Sunshine is round thee now,
    The breezes play o’er thy shining brow;
    The south wind breathes in its fragrance round,
    The air is filled with a summer sound;
    The bee broods over thy honeyed breast,
    Swift birds poise o’er thee in graceful rest;
    Rejoice in the wealth of thy glowing life,
    Fold not thy leaves in the tempests’ strife;
    Droop not when winter or dark storms lower,
     Spring up, O buried flower!

     Speak to the hearts of men,
    There are bright words written by brook & glen;
    In the lily’s robe, in the arum’s sign,
    But none have a promise and voice like thine;
    Tell of the years that have lonely past,
    Tell of thy triumphing life at last;
    Thou hast arisen from death-like sleep,
    Shall not the parted o’er whom we weep
    With a mighty hope, and a song of power,
     Spring up, O buried flower?—

    Unda.

46. Poetry - The Nightingale
47. Serapiana - Random facts and information.
48. Serapiana - Prescriptions for moods and fits.
49. Serapiana - Anecdote on annexation.
50. Serapiana - Anecdote on the rewards of honesty.
51. Serapiana - An unfinished ode, and printer's notes.

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