The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-05 00:00:00

THE FEVER-DREAH.

Oa his Addy-drawled eanalthe ley
In a chamber of lofty ateming,
Bet Ids wandering thoughts were iler away
the height of his freer-dessaing.
• tiechl deem was that dew el de pad,
Of a life of evil without costrel,
And sinful memorise were thronging fed
On that doddering, guilty, thoseditless soul.
Feuer, by tertered swam led,
Phantom dopes from the past was bringing;
Not yokel= they gilded around his Med—
ia& km, to him was clear and ringing.
• Yr year girl came with innocent eyes,
And a voice like the murmuring wind
When atimested with sobbing it moans and dim—
Mee whispered low to that frenzied mind
"I do not reproach thee—l know too well
How litde thou dose remember me;
Yet sue allay sorrow I fain would tell,
Of ray tsars, my love, for then—for thee.
I never torgot that paesiOnate dream,
I never forgot that summer see
On my short sad life there was poured one gleam
Of sunshine ; it came from thee—from the.
" I was nought to thee when that dream was wi—
lt, memory was all in all tome.
I serer forgot—my heart to the last
He wildly vaMly, for thee—for thee.
How essillot thou forget the words then 'pokes ?
Wade which had brought new Ids to me.
I do not reproach thee—my heart was broken;
But I had been loved by thee—by thee.
" Loved ? Was that hour all the lore thou oonklat give
For the deslidess love that was given by me?
I do not repeated the; but how could I live
And know meal nothing to thee—to the ?
I do net mama the; an early death
We to to ore than life could be,
Is my distant hare—with my dying breath
I whispered a prayer be their thee."
fibs vedshed—sad as her sad vole's moan
Ice that shed chamber died away
He oovend hie face with a heavy
As tossed on his fevered couch he lay.
He shuddered, another yoke he hears,
And a merciless glance is on him now—
Bright, beautiful, cold, this vision appears;
No pity mete on her hedonism brow.
" Had then heard M thy world of the guilt--the shame
Which darken my brow and fix my fate?
Hat then herd with moms. d my ruined nand ?
Thy emcee has mote too lam—too late.
When alms lave uttered my name with tern
As the same of a lost degraded one
Had thou thought when ever that bright morn
When I Intend to thee doh—alone?
" I listened with love's gird Innocent joy,
And a stainless name and mod were mine;
One day could sully—one hour dortroy—
And the hand that did it was thine—was thine.
I loved sad I trusted thee—well I knew
How fah, how ligh:Aire 1:yellove for me—
Lost, realism sad whet am I now?
I sin lest I I am lost the—through thee."
Mr glided away, and are he could know
That shelter phantom filled her place,
• nonrated voice was murmuring low
• mennehl we was had on hie floe.
" Hest thou ever turned one sorrowful thought
To the lot which thy love prepared for me?
Ha thou erkit Its emu, amps, brought
Foehsee-yeeee—to thee—to the ?
" I cannot 6.10--ear love was a crime
From Me fret hist spark to its last regret.
Yet though abssami—ellence—euffering—tines—
I km thee yet—oh l I love the yet.
Thy Add than come with thy fatal power P
ley path la life lay apart from thine ;
To the each things were the sport of an boa:—
Thou heat never hews love like mine—like Mine.
" Love—that was strenger than woman's pride—
Than the ems af get, recorded above—
Love—ever itegethd when by thy side
Of all save the Parkin which men call Love.
Forgive me, If once In my wretched life
I whom. I pine to receive from thee
One word to sheer on in the daily strife
Which life has become to me—to me.
" A daily strife in a woman's heredit—
ament", jealousy, pride, remoter, and fear,
And Love—that at times can o'erwhelm the red—
I wee dear to the. once' too dear—too dear.
oodd not love lightly—Arm could'et not love well.
I have watched thy life through these long, long years,
Incmstaat—faiikless. How many can tall
Tees wee than hest brought thorn—the tests—the tears.
"I love heel alas—eye sow, wed now
I casse wed lir kw that am—
Dm alum ry segisk ma ism ear Wry ;
Then brit bred me same-1 rill not Sort
Forget P to my life's last, ibursil,
The life made ao false mid defal by Ore—
The remembrance of thee, sad thy fetal power,
dust be cherished and thrilling to re—so re I"
Bhe past—and still by his fevered bed
Such vision glided, such words were
Till his strong Mme shook with reetors:tined
For the hearts he had lightly won and broken.
On his richly drawled couch be lay
In that chamber of lofty seamier,
And they who tended him turned away
From that terrible fever-dreaming.

THE ART MANVEACTCHE ASSOCIATION.—This
society dno-ishes , the prospectuses for the year an just
Issued, and entunerate 77 works of art-industry for distribu-
tion to sulectibers ; among then are productions by issorly
an the leading inanufocturers of England.
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Du ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON.—At the
eseatkly goserel leaseag held yesterday, at the Society's
Hawn In Hanover-square, the Right Hon. Sir George
Clerk Han., vioe-president, in the chair, Mews. P. Rudy,
1f.H.8, and H. A. Deans, were elected follows of the
essisty; Worm L. M. D. Spews and A. C. Blackstone
ware prepaid Si candidates for the fellowebip, cad
Parfait 0. dm linrs, of Paris, as a corresponding ineenbe
of the woisty. Among the donations recorded in the repo,
of the emeacil wee a valuable collection of living anima*
promoted by Hari
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the even.
fag meeting, nest Monday, at Burlington-home, Sir Roderick
I. linchine la the chair, the following papers will be read
—I. Farther Account of Ezplorations la the Dim, But
of the Haw*" by Cyril C. Oraimen, F.R.G.S. 2.
" Contributions to the Knowledge of New 0u1u.," by Dr.
&Imam HO., cominwalcated by Jobs Teat., Esq.,
P.R.O.S.

The Fothergilliaa gold medal for the present year
his ham awarded by the Council of the Method &elegy el
they to Dr. Hobert Barker, of Bedford. kf hie essay on
the eta
et ioehris end mieemata in the production of
the ham*: almooes :—Typhus and typhoid forme, cholera,
the emotimoto,

AMIVAL.—A Dutch •esasl is lying
dag•lei is Port Use Reads with cargo of wild beasts,
ineeistiog et Hoes, ligen, zebras, boa ocastrictore, and
memos supers.