The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-11-08
The place was sacred to love forever

The place was sacred to love forever:
I Though both grew cold in the worlds chill s,;,
And forced the links of their love TO sever
By the ire-fy's light. where the insect flew.
| Iitania knew where her throne should be:
Twas where the Haliotis threw
Its sparkling rainbow canopy
And some brought honey ior her to sip,
In cups where the bee had never flown,
| With urns of dew for her royal lip,
Which even the shrimp had never known.
They broke the sleep of the water lilies,
For wealth of fragrance to please their queen
They brought the rose and the amaryllis,
Verbena, and the engantne.
And merrily now had the dance begun;
In circles of light on the close cut green;
Inc grass blades, each living one,
blending their lights in a brilliant sheen
Like breaking waves in the setting sun
VT golden clouds, when the day is done
Ana 'hey moved like TENTS on the fowery sea,
When hurricane sweeps DER prairie!
Hank bark and the inging blood,
Suddenly stares the frightened fays,
ana they rush TO their queen In wild amaze
For distant shrieks, and fearful sounds
Then stillness-and now piercing cry,
An earthquake shudder of something nigh
|. Unknown, yet felt in the pulses bounds
"A dread, like some foreboding sadness,
gloom like that which borders madness
And why is this, that sudden CLEAN
Throws into shade the moons bright BEAM
There's rush like the bending of ripen d maize
A sound like the wind in November DAYS,
When the blast screams through the skeleton
trees,
And the dry leaves whrl in the eddyino breeze
There's tramp of seeds in the forest near
Aud this is the cause Of the elin's fear.
Well may they fear. for foe has come.
That moves TO the beat of the muffled drum:
A band of spirits that hate the light,
And roam, like ghools, to feast at night
10 batten on food which the Jaws of death.
when The blood dries up have 10 reptiles left
10 howl their delight when good man errs.
And fiatter the bad to their sepulchresI
They come, like cloud o'ev a summers skvr
All mirth is hushed, and the dance gone by.
On WORCESTERSHIRE, which that day had stunq
An infant that slept, while its mother sung.
Game the king of the spirits, and round him
crowds,
Deck out in shreds of dead mems shrouds,
In every CHASTITY shape that CLEANS,
Before the eye in fever dreams
And myriad others, like vapor dense,
Or the atoms that form pestilence.
Full of amaze was the fairy queen
But soon she rallied her princey mien.
AND waving her sceptre around the throng,
ne herald smote on the sounding gong
And million spears in moment shone,
Like sunbeams, all around her throne.
" why come ye here, unhallow'd crew.
Have We not enough in the world to do.
Is there not enough of guilt in men,
why come we here from your loathsome dem
by Inc moonbeam's sheen, which We dare eclipse
BY the light which spreads DER woman's lipsr
by the ties OF love, and the chain that binds
innocent dreams in lovers minds,
Beg0ne unless stain is found
On the ermine path of our fairy ground
IT that is pure, abide our SPELL
Away to your graves, and your loathsome belJi'1
hey stood unmoved-when the king spake thus :
. Boast not, proud queen, midst fallioo curse :
One of your fays has broken her VOW
And The blush may be seen on her visape now.
She has roam'd the earth, and is roamino still
And fills place it is ours to fill.
What right has she TO break young hearts?
The merrest boon our caste imparis.
Yet, even now, one heart is breaking
Beneath her charms, all hope forsakng.
we come to claim our right! yield up
The syren, with her charmed cup
Or bid her cursed tribe forever,
Cry Katydid which fay did never
Titania turn'd to the clear, cold sky;
ana, while tear bedew'd her eve,
With tones that grief could only break,
The test and maledcton spake:
by all the vows that e'er were spoken
by all the vows that e'er were broken
Let The guilty tribe to the green leaves fy,
And chaunt for ever their summer cry 20
10 an instant, the trees were filled with fays-
While the moon shone out with brighter blaze.
And cry burst forth, the throng amid
g Katy did! Katy-did! Koty did &! Katy-did.,'.