Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-09-05
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1914.
THE LOVE DREAM.

l have mad tonight strange, Out
beautiful dream. /, seemed to me that
walked in a garden full of flowers. 1t
was spring--the birds sang, the heaven
was clear, the air mild and pure, all was
beautiful around me-but | did not feel
myself happy. / wandered softly along
and looked towards Alfred, who walked
in the same direction with myself, but
upon another path, separated from me by
little stream, whose silver waves spreng
forward one over another, and whispered,
"liow charming, how charming it is TO
rock upon cool wavesl"
And | was obliged TO repeat for myself,
"How charming, how charming" Al.
ired a.so looked necessarily towards me,
Fad il seemed to me that our looks by de-
grees began to beam.
All at once he went down TO the shore.
and stepped into little boat which aoa,-
ed across the stream. and suddenly paus-
ed a, my feet. Alfred reached forth his
haEd to me to enter. would not. and
wept, | knew not rightly why. Then he
took my hand, and drew me with gentle
| force near him in the boat. lwept still,
but felt myself not unhappy.
Then began the boat, as if guided by
invisible hands, TO move itself, and rock
ed lightly and pleasantly down the stream,
whilst the silver waves splashing kept
around it and sang melodiously, GLOW
charming it is, to rock together upon cool
waves" | wept no longer.
Alfred and talked with each other,
and that which we said enchanted U.s.
We fioated softly away under balsamlc-
breathing iower-arches Of lilacs and ros-
es, The flowers loosened themselves
from their stems and fell down upon us,
whilst voices from them whispered, "How
blessed it is to love one another, and to
be united % and we repeated amid joy.
full feelings, GLOW blessed !" Then came
the night, but night without darkness,
for all the flowers began to shine in their
bright colors, and every wave looked up.
ward with little bright shining diamond
in its point. Above our heads aoated a
light cloud, from which beamed millions
of stars. All at once Alfred said, "See
there the gravep And before US saw
something dark, formless, horrible, into
which we were hastily driven. l felt,
however, no fear. Then something like
the waiting of wing touched our eve.
lids, and we slept, But our sleep had
lovely dreams, and we ceased not to see
one another. Then it was to me, as il a
gentle kiss was passed upon our lips, a
kiss like that with which mother awak.
ems her sleeping child, and we awoke.--
A beaming morning-red surrounded US.
We held one another by the hand, and
assembled ever higher and higher into an
atmosphere of rose odor. felt my being
Il light and ethereal. Every particle of
heaviness, of depression, of discomfort.
was vanished; felt it was forever. In
sea OF crystal clearness, which lay be.
low US, our figures were reflected, and
saw myself so beautiful that it enchanted
me. "Now, for the first time;" thought
|, 81 am worthy of him!'' In the midst
of the transporting feeling of pure and
increasing Joy, stole suddenly the thought
through my soul, 'If all this should be
only a dream, and should wake no more
in dream, but in reality - All, truly, all
was only a dream. | perceived all at
once the cry OF the night.watch, "The
clock has struck one !'' and the bell of
the Countess which called me TO her.-
The Countess fancied she heard a mouse
in her sleeping. room, and would allos to
me the part of a cat. which performed ex.
tremely NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bremen
From the SOLITARY.