The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-11-20

language, Wnicns nHvlng tneIr origin, rs
in all countries they are found to do, in
some general impulses and necessities,
are alike common To all. Thus day by
day, they went on teaching and taught
until ii ceased TO be difficult 10 make
them comprehend their several emotions.
Nor were the lessons of the beautiful
Amaya--for such had she already taught
him was her name---been confined to the
use of words. She had led him among
the rocks, at the tide fall, and had taught
him many mysteries. Plunging fearless
ly into the deep on one occasion, and
disappearing from his sight, with wild
shriek of desolation, VeIasquez leaped in
after her. He too, was an excellent
swimmer, and with joy beyond express
sion, he beheld her in a vast hollow of
the deep, separating from their beds the
largest pearl oysters. He, also, like her.
self, soon became familiar with the buoy
ant element and though no longer valu-
ing treasure, which in his own country
had been beyond estimation, he never
theless employed himself in gathering
the precious gems, and storing them in
bis habitation. Great was the wealth
which, without any prospect or possibility
Of its use, the Spanlard was thus enabled
to amass and when he sometimes looked
upon his stores, and thought Of his own
sunny lands, and the rich vineyards and
the blooming groves, which he no longer
could behold, his spirit grew melancholy
within him, and he even turned with a
Iistless eye of indifferent GOODNESS upon
the young and simple creature, whose
love was little short Of alteration, and
who should have been all to him, as un-
der such circumstances he was more than
every thing to her. AT such moments Of
dependency on the part of her lover, she
would employ the gentlest arti6ces, the
tenderest attentions; and sing, in her
own island language. notes, the pathos of
which spoke as earnestly, in the deep
and touching emphasis of their tones,
as they could possibly have dope in the
sense of their language. Wooing him to
these hollows of the deep, formed by the
growth of the coral rocks, her strains,
describing their savage epjoyments, and
soothing him for the deprivation of those
to which his life had been familiar, would
sound not unfrequently, as we may sup
pose, in language like the following:
Come, seek the oceans depths with me,
For theirs are fowrs beneath the sea;
And wondering gems Of many hue,
To light thy path and meet thy view.
And many a pearly shell is there, a,e
hollow bright and water clear
And amber drops that mermaids weep,
In starry caves along the deep.
There, with the thousand gems SO bright.
Thoult never feel the weight of night;
But in ono long and sunny day,
Thy life in calms shall lapse away.
II is not much, too well know,
The young amays can bestow;
But, If a heart that's truly thine,
10 worthy thee, oh cherish mine.
And I will sing thee songs of truth,
And teach thee tales Of endless youth,
Such as our peoples prophets hear,
|. When winds and stars are singing near
Ofregions never pressd by times ID
Unknown TO grief and free from crime;
Whose sons are spirits pure and high,
\ Whose daughters, beings ofthe sky.
or homes and heaven which, If we prove
True ever to our mutual love, ,,s..,,
Our hearts shall win, where blooms & flowers
And fruits, shall evermore be ours. W
Come, let US rove the silver sands,
Nor dream thou ofthose distant lands,
Nor teach thy spirit thus TO weep,
Thy early home boyonP the deep
Imay not give thee much to move s ~
Thy loftier spirit down to love .as &f
But mine, alas no longer free, n
Igive-I give it ALTO thee. DQ
b have no hope, where thou art not,
No dream, but thou art thero the thought
No single Joy, no dread, mo fear,
!. But thou and ] are mingled there.
And though, as our traditions say,
There bloom the worlds Of lasting day,
would not care to seek the sky,
Ifthere thy spirit did not fly.
With a sentiment like this. Of the
deepest confidence and love, did the
young savage seek to compensate the
Spaniard for the loss of those enjoy
ments of his own country, and for those
many associations Of kindred and socie-
~, which made him often turn upon her
a bleak and melancholy eye.
Nor were her labors in this way attn
gether without the satisfaction of their
most appropriate reward. Her song
won him from moody contemplations |;
and her love, warm from the heart, and
kindling with'its truest fires, made the
wild blossom around him, and filed him
with associations which, by, their variety
serving to divert bis thoughts from the
one direction, brought his spirit degree
of relief, that supported him ia a life, to
him, full Of priyations. vr.
But a change was about to como over
the spirit Of their mutual dreams. There
came at last tall aud stately vessel to
his relief, in the approaching canvass q