Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-12-16
POETRY.
TaE ! CLOSING SCENE.
al syErcK.


THE CT osiNG Scene.
A sssTcR.
WHO. can bring healing, 60 her hearts despair,
iser whole rich sumsof happinss lies there!
Weex,.act the following Foa a work.,
entitled, .Posticsl Sketches. BY Alaric
"a Watts" The volume isreplete with
illusions Of high poeiicai character:
Bali. FED Gag.
Pale is his cheek, with deep and passionate
thought, ssa
Save when a feverish hectic crosses 1t,
Flooding its lines with CRIMSON. From beneath
The long dark fringes OF its dropping I'D
Flash forth the ftfdl glaRces OF his eye,
Like star beams from the bosom OF the night.
Above his high and ample forehead, hoat
The gloomy folds OF bis wild wsving hair,
Even as the clouds that crown lofty hill
with sterner grandeur. Tn that qu,yering I'D
The sweIlins brow weighs heavily, as though
Bursting with thoughts for utterance too "a
tense!
His lip Is curled with something toe OF prias'.
Which i'll beseems the meekness and repose
that should at such an hour, within MS neare'
Spite of this world 'svexations, be enshilnea.
, fis not dlsdain; for only those he loves
Are round him now, with mild low whispered
words
Rendering heart.offered kindness land watch
ing,
With fondinouietude, the couch wherein
His slender for IN reciines. What can 1t Der
Perchance some rooted memory ofthe past;
Dome dream OF Injured pride that fam would
ITS con dumb expression; some herce wrong
Whichhis young soul hath suffered unapPeas-
But thoughts like these must be disPelled be,
That soul can plume its wings to part in peace
And now his gaze is lifted to the face
Of one who bends above him with an AIR
OF swest solicitude, and props his head,
Even with her own white arm, until at length
The sliding pillows replaced but, ere
His cheek may press on It's uneven down,
Her DELEGATE hand hath smoothed it. What
theme
E'orthose who love to weave the pictured spell,
And f. the shadows that would else depart
From all but memory, on the tablets far
OF the divine Euterpe
Her blue eyes,
With tenderness grow darker as they dwell
Upon the wreck before her, and atear,
Collected meath their fringes, large and bright,
Falls on the snow Of her high .neaying breast.
Too we'll diyineth be the voieeless grief
Which breathes ia each uubidden sigh, and
beams
From forth her humid eyes Too well he
That love and keen anxiety,for him
Have paledthe ruby Of her lip, and chased
The roses dye from her so beautiful cheek.
His COVERING lips pnclose, as Ii to pour
Theioud acknowledges of grateful love :,
On that sweet moprnsr's ear but his Parched
Denies Is Office. Gathering then each ray.
Eacn vivid ray of feeling from his heart,
Into a sing focus-in his eye -
His Utmost soul IS glassed, and love--deep love,
And grateful admiration, beam confessed
In one Wild passionate glance
The gentle girl i
Basks her awhile In that full blaze-then
Is stoops, .S------a 1885
And hiding her pale visage in his bosom,
Murmurs sounds inartic0fate; bat sweet
AS the low wall ofsummer's evening breath
Amid the ,wind-harP's strings. lhsn bursts
the tide
OF woe that may no longer be repressed,
Stirred from its source by chill hope-withering
fears, =
And from her charged lids big drops descend
In quick succession With more tremulous
hand
Clasps she the sufferers neck.
Upon his brow
The damps of death aresettling- his eyes
Grow fixed and meaningless. She marks the
change ~
With desperate eanestness land staying even
Her breath, that nothing may disturb the hush !
Lays her wan cheek still closer to his heart,
And listens, as its varying pulses move
HAPPY to catch sound betokening life.
1t gain--another- another
And, now, hath ceased forever! What ashriekl
Ashrill and soul-appalling shrek peais forth,
Now the full truth hath rushed upon her braini
Who may describe the ngidness of frame
The stony look Of anguish and despair,
: With which she bends Ger that nnmoying
clay: s sestA s
Not l--my pencil hath no further power
So here I'lldrop the Grecians painters veil!'
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