The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-06-18

NutuO ) INTENDED DrlGe:
Blanca Buonaventi was indeed a woman
worthy of sculptor's Loves for all those
beauties which art has initiated from ma
ture were mingled in her. In her form
were blended all that had till then Thought
the localities of Grecian grace and majesty.
In motion she was stately as the swan and
swan the air rather than walked the earth.
Her step was inaudible music her voice
sweeter than the recolected music of
dream. Her mind was book Of pure and
wise thoughts, written surely by some hand
divine. Her countenance such as angels
wear-and they were made fair that man
might love heaven, where all is beautiful.
Love shone in her eyes, but with so holy
and placid a fre,-two sister stars, burning
IN the winter, beam not a ehaster light.
Wherever they turned, all eyes We're iilu-
minated, and whatever she looked upon re-
fected back the beauty she turned upon it.
Indeed all those fair and admirable qualities
which make woman worthy of'that paragon
OF earthly creatures-man-she was perfec-
ton. That Guido should love the gentle
girl was no longer wonderful: for I even
loved him the more that he did love her,
so endearing q power hath beauty in its
purity"
They were to be married on the morrow and
the Italian lady, subduing her passions to a sis
ters love, attended the solemn ceremony, and
agreed to accompany them from Florence to
the sea coast, where they all took shipping for
Syracuse, the residence Of Biancas family, and
are oVertaken by storm.
"The frail vessel which had lain on the
waters like log, strained under their
strong stirring, and creaked as if its ribs
were severing. High wave followed high
wave, as if indeed they were not high waves,
but mountains sliding off the face of the
earth in the sea of space-when rolling
some way over the common level of the wa
tiers, they fell with crushing noise into
the bed OF the sea. At length all the fury
OF the tempest seemed gathered, and again
the lightning glanced along the deck, and
mingled with the washing waves so that it
was not easy to say whether the water was
not lightning, or the lightning the water,
for they appeared one. The crazy vessel now
dipped down, and now heaved to this side. and
now to the other, like a toy in the hands of
the mighty tempest. The master gave COM
mand, seeing that the sea broke, with every
rush, over the ship, that those who feared
the peril should go below but not one of
the trembling throng stirred from where
they held by the ship-for all saw the worst,
and thought it not possible to escape from
1t. Blanca chung in horror to her husband,
who strove to comfort her, and bid her take
heart Tho old s.ae.a oerepe1 i,is lead WIZ
the foldings of his cloak; and as he sat mo-
tionless and wordless, seemed the very res
ignation of despair"
The storm increasing the vessel was driven
IN tho a.,
ing The Tragedy now thickens
"It was true that she had endured but
little hurt, and with the recoiling hush of
the waves, was thrown afoat again; but
ere the master could leap to the helm, to
put her further out, a strong sea came driv-
ing before the wind, which now blew as it,
would part the poles, and again flung her,
as if she were no mightier than a sea shelh
upon the sharp rocks. She broke, at the
blow, like parted bread, the stern half of
her bulk tumbling over into the sea, while
the head of the vessel lay reeling on the
rock. Then the shrek of dismay went up
from men that were never more to call on
Heaven; for many of the crew were crowd
ed about the helm, and when 1t parted, went
down with her never again to rise with life.
! The venerable Baptista, Guido, his fair
wife, and my wretched self, still chung to
the chains at the bow; but not long held
we there, for a strong wave came mounting
at our backs, and in a moment we were
hurled with the halved vessel down from
the reef into the gaping abyssmsl depths
we had left in the sea. Again the flag
ment mounted to the surface, and we had
all held to each other and to the ropes which
were coiled round our bodies, save the fee
BILE Blanca, who had sunk out of the grasp
Of her husband, but being entangled in the
coils of the ropes, was not swept into the
sea. We might hear another wave coming
with rushing roar towards us, as if it had
determined we should be its prey when
Guido, seeing, with the calmness of cour-
/ age, that, if we awaited it, our escape was
hopeless, cried out, Father, take thou the
core of tire LADY E~~,ino. &c Will of thy
daughter and let us at once leap beyond
the reef into the sea, and struggle for the
! land
"And now shrink not, as from the SER
pent fiend, to hear me tell the story of that
crime which has cursed me here, and which
may hereafter. After these words, he
again cried out, Blanca, my beloved,
/ where art.thou p The fatal love which had
leo upon me ike name upon living
sacrifice, even in this awful hour, burnt SEN
sibly in my hateful heart and prompted by
that miserable passion, and the love of him
and of life, some fiend answered surely with
my tongue, Here = and he caught at me as
a desperate browne doth at floating weed,
and, leapng into the sea, cried to the old
man, Follow me, father, follow!' But he
heard him not; for saw that he was dead,
and had fallen on his swooned child, who,
as we leaped into the sea, shrieked out, and
auditorily informed me that she still lived,
though my struggling soul would fain have
! quoted its conscience with the thought that
she was dead, and so have palliated to itself,