Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-04-08
BUREN, ARKAEsAs, SATURDAY AoRNINc 8 APRIL s s4s.

esodoss sniugHng with my innsost spirit, and It's
cool, iumincus. dew nias hovering all around me,
and envisoning me, = Its gay spectral pavilion.
The lovely hce, onspeakabiy moro lovely as It
came rssress was touching mine, and--its lips INST
my own. 4R ssEe
Great God what mystic, unearihly change
passed cser my spiris with the slight. chill pres-
surc of that deashlike kiss. Had ten thousand
siectric bHttsrics charged with IiEhnings from as
|Snany thtinder clouds, been let df On my heart,
|thO effect could NOT have becu more instnnta-
nsous!y and awfully stunning. I felt my heart
give one leap. and fall against itsAesh- wallis mo
tonleas .s q stone. Ny bsair seemed whirling
aloft on the wind-eddies Of universal conflagra-
|aion, THAI swept esen among tte stars. ! could
feel my soul changing into mast cloud Of thin
self lnm,uos1s mist. that felt chill - wind from
gravcyard; and thnf so1t seensd bosing ito emo
tons, and powers, fcarnnd hope, and Iife-love It.
self. And in very madness, ionged for deaih,
and misery, and darkness, and horror. III
Again that wondrous figure kissed me. mud az
il kissed me it smiled love-smile as of early
youth, and one word Of whispered music passed
from those cold lips into the central recess Of my
very being--and their carne another change along
my whole spiritual nature, Hsupernal Iigh., and
odors Of Eden, and delicious tastes never rnelted
on mortal tongue, and skyey splendors seemed
mingled in my soul as in a wine-glass. The soul
grew elastic, buoyant, and minbow-wings fell out
from il. and it arose and hew upwards, and that
Elce and those eyes flew along with .it--and the
whole universe assumed an ethereni, spiritual, all
glorious aspect, and noated onwards with the soul.
loosely, brightly, and supremely happy, in the
vast infniiude! z s3.a FL
All nature was changed. Ny soul looked down
wards. on tn world !; there Il swung. and whirled,
and danced on the void space keeping time, and
singing morriy with its sister planets. But its
cold, dry materialism was gone. Its frame work
of ininaitable mechanism was luminous like the
stars, and great soul animated It. and played
upon il as wind on an EoIian-harP; End its rivers
OF crystal were thickly peop'ed not with the
scaly tribes alone, but with majestic gods, and
beautiful goddesses, os the young worlds pools
sung. Thcy trippcd over the green sward.-
They gazcd from the mountain-tops. They
drove therial chariots, with harnessed airsteeds,
along the smooth, liquid floo- Of the sky. There
they all were Just as old Homer sung them ages
OH ages gono-by. Not one tint of heavenly beauty
faded; not ono single mnd-i -iewel dropped of.
II 4 looked upwards to the stars. They lay thick
10 imn,ensity, as il. million suns had been
ground down, and their fire poaoder scattered in
tho bossadlese spase aa sesis Of light for ansin-
measulabe cross or worlds and the cold aspect
OF materinlism was gone from them, and warm
and mighty spirit looked out Of their bright win
dows; snd each lad the Astrological charge of ln-
dividuals, and tribes, and nations in other orbs
end each wns pecp.ed with its own peculiar order
of spiritual life adhesive to corporeity radiant as
ts own beams.
In an ,extacy sd towering and violent as to be
almost disruptive Of being, ! exclaimed TO thai
face, md those intent, and unfathomable eyes
that stH looked down into my own. 4-Oh face OF
Sernph beauty. Oh eyes Of light which suns be-
low Gtd's throne could never yio'd, tell ME the
hidden mystery ornilthis. Are these vas, spirit.
scenes illusions Of The fancy, false creations tc
mock, and deceive US, or realities. as they seem
more real than life iseifi Are theso but the
fairy forms of imanations. tho air-castIes of the
sours thild's play, and If so-why Oh why are
1they SD much more beautiful than tho cold. mate.
rial perceptions Of the understanding -
| Thai face smilsI more compassionatcly. those
starry eyes we're filled with jewsied tears. again
those cold lips kissed me. and parting slightly ID
llow, ringing, memory -haunting tones, the colo
answorcd Man in body, but infart in mmortn
ltnauzhs, lisy own qnestien may suge1s, its answer
4 Thou aft now truly in tho world OF imagina ton
land its world is az hig above the frozen cay-ort
S|of the understanding. ss the stars are above tn,
II mud-btilt earth. Bot what infinite liar told thee
that tho bright raaliiiss Of the regions Of in,agi
nation are rarealS And how couldst thou, for nj
Nstusfss Sctt<s sfns Atso 0St oouuttcS, ulvuoS
good, and hoest places, that thought can reach
arc hut mockeries, and mirdgc curses false am
hateful as helf 7 isthy rough bound materi
alsm Of the coarse judgement, that is false.''
"It isthy logic, not poetry, which lies to thee
Logic, thai phys with oxtefior forms and drapery
and d,eau,snDt Of the sweet spirit, that looks on
into ths soul Of fancy. Imaginaiioa never toll
Ia falsehood. a gorious reality corresponds viii
her every gny picture. Two worlds indeed thcr,
are. tbs eziernai, end the spiritual, The visible
and th invhibie 70 he oorporsni oye. the surface
world. ard Tho unsesny esesnai land Of sprit-es
tsence, over; vhish nc ehsags passes. Both world
u lco-oxiss IN ainc and epete. yrhs gross, bodil,
surface senscs show ell n1nkindt and ever "a
boasts that pesish, thsras ths satsssai, spiritrs
eye, placed IN NJ deepest, jofisst rs,o~s Of ~
IintclIecau,j natars, foel ndbis ~ sniy, pierce
into tho sisst Own. ~ ~ = 1less, curtains
veil is haaa. which, l6ly ~t,esS Ssahe' corposs.
n scnsss A. hslf'aHlS ~ tll sbalss eye VIA
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