Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-08-07

THE ANCESTRAL SONG.

THE ANCESTRAL SONG.
long war disturb'd your mind
Here your perfect peace is sign'd
lis now full tide 'twixt night and day.
End your moan and come away
lWEBsrER-Duchess of Malfy1
There were faint sounds of weeping fear and
gloom
And mignight vigil in stately room
OF Chatillon's old halls rich odours there
Filld the prond chamber as with Indian air,
And soft light fell, from lamps Of silver thrown,
On jewels that with ranbow-ustre shone,
Over gorgeous couch there emcralds gleamd,
And deeper crimson from the ruby stream'd
Than in the heartbeat of the rose is set,
Hiding from sunshine MANY carkanet
Starry with diamonds, many burning chain
OF the rcd gold, shed forth radiance vain:
and sad and strange, the canopy beneath,
Whose shadowy curtain, round bed of death,
Hung dropping soemnly for there one lay,
Passing from all earth's glories fast away,
Amidst those queeny treasures They had
been -t
Gifts Of her Lord, from far off Paynim lands,
And for has sake, upon their orient sheen,
SHE had gazed fondly, and, with faint, cold hands,
Had pressed to her languid heart once more,
Melting in child-likc tears But this was DER,
Loves last vain clinging unto life; and now
"A mist of dream was lowering DER her brow,
Her eye fix'd, her spirit seem'd removed,
Though not from earth, from all it knew or
loved,
Far, far away her handmaids watch'd around,
IN awe, that lent to each low, midnight sound
Il might, mystery; and the quvering light
OF Wind-sway'd lamps, made spectral in their
sight
The forms of buried beauty sad, yet fair,
Cleaning along the walls, with braided hair,
Long in the dust grown dim And she too, saw,
But with the spirits eye of raptured awe,
Those pictured shapes "a bright, but solemn
train,
Reckoning, they floa,cd DER her dreamy brain,
Clothed in diviner hucs; while Oh heI ear
Strange voices fell, which none besides might
hear;
Sweet, yet profoundly mournful as tho sigh
OF winds DER harpstrings through midnight
sky;
And thus, it seem'd, in that low, thrilling tone,
TIL Ancestral Shadows call'd away their own.
Come, come, come
Long my lillliIlnp SOUL ScdIn u
For the step that ne er returned =
Long thine anxious car hath listend,
And thy watchul eye hath glistend
With the hope, whose parting strife
Shook the iowcr-lcaves from thy life:
Now the heavy day is done,
Home awaits thee, wcaricd one I!
Come, come, come
l,1 o L,,r,,
In the sead hearts lonely urn;
From the coil of memory's chain,
Wound about the throbbing brain;
From the veins OF sorrow deep, -
Winding through the world of Sleep
From the haunted halls and b.wers,
Throng'd with ghosts of happier hours;
Come, come, come!
On our dim and distant shore
Aching Love is felt no more.
We have lov'd with earths excess
Past is now that WEAKNESS
I'VE have wept, that weep not now
Calm is each once throbbing brow
We have known the Dreamer's woes
All is now one bright iepose
Come, come, come
Weary hear: that long hast blcd, =
Languid spirit, droopimg head,
Restless memory vain regret,
Pining love whose light is set, y
Come away It's hush'd It's well,
Where by shadowy founts we dwell,
All the fever-thirst is stild,
All the air with peace is fil)'d
Come, come, come
And with her spirit wrapt in that wild lay,
She pass'd, as twilight molts to night, away !