Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-02-24
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I The sunshine has now passed from my her
m''agc, except gieam upon the sand just
w..creit meet, the sea. A crowd or gloomy
fantasies will come and haunt me. if tarry
longer here, in the darkening twilight Of these
gray rocks. This is a dismal place in some
moods Of the mind. Climb we, therefore, tho
Prlcipicc. and pause moment on the brink,
gazing down into that hollow chamber by the
ideer. where we have been. what tewcan be,
sufficient TO our own pas,ime---yes, say. the
word outrighl!-- self-suifcent to our own hap
lrincss. How lonesome looks tho recess now,
and treary too like all other spots where hap
-piness has beee! There lies my shadow in
The departing Sunshine with its head upoIrtb
sea. Will relt it with pebbles. hit! a hit!
] clap mr. hands in triumph, and see my shad-
ow clappng its unreal hands. and claiming
The triumph for itself. What a simple,on must
! have been all day, since n,y own shadow
makes meek of my foolerics!
ll,meward! homeward! 1t is time 10 has,
ten homo. |, Is time; it is time, for as the
sun :luks over the western wave, the sea
grows melancholy, and the surf has sadden-
cd tone. The distant sails appear astray. and
not of Garth, in their remaicncss amid the de-
ISOLATE waste. My spirit wauders forth afar,
.bu, finds no resting place. snd comes shiveY.
ing back. Ii is time that was hence. But
grndsc me net the day that has been spentin
src.usion. Which yet was not solitude, since
the great sea has been my companion and the
little sca-hrds my friends. and the ~wind has
told me his secrets. and airy shapes have fit
ted around me in my hermitage. Srch COM
partnership works an ctlec, upon mans char
ac,er. rs ii he had been admitted TO the sGcie-
~ Il creatures that are not mortal And when,
n | re.,1 IA, did SIR tl,n
Influence Of his day III still be foli: SO that
/ shall walk among men kindly as a brother,
win affection and sympathy, hut yet shallnot
melt into the undis,inaui>hable mass Of hui
man kind. ] shall think my own thoughts,
and ircI my Cwn emotions, and possess my
individuality UNRELATED. But it is good at tho
I'VE Of such day, to feel and know that there
arc men and women in Tie wcrld. That feel
ing and that knowledge are mine at this mo.
nrnt. for, on the shore, lar below me, the fish
ing party have landed from their skiff,, and are
cooking their scaly prey by fire ofdftft wood,
kiadlcd in the angle Of two rude rocks. Tho
three visionary girls are also there. In tho
deepening twilight, while the surfis dashing
near their hearth, the ruddy gleam uf the fro
throws strange air Of comfort over the wild
cove. hestrcwn as il is will, pebbles and sea-
weed, aud exposed to the mcancholy main
Moreover as The smoke climbs up the preci-
oicc itbrings with j; savory smell from a pan
flied fish aud black kc,teo Of chowdcr, and
-eminds mo that my dinner was nothing but
bread and water and a tuli Of samphirr, and
~ arplc. Moihnks the party might find room
itrano.ll'r guest, a, thai fiat rock which serves
hem for a ,a'llc: and il spoons he scarce, II
could pickup clam shell on The beach. They
sec me now; and-.,he blessing of hungry
nan ,ptn him- -halloc. Sir Solitary! come
down and sup with us! The ladies wave their
handb ctclirfs. Gan dcclnrl No: and be
i,owned. # my solitary joys, and this is
The swcctcs, luomt,it ola day by the sea-shcrc.