Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1847-06-24

The Loves OF bertrand and m NY.
G. n rARMHk
FART THE THIRD.

himtctno ac Ihuonio
cosi.o. n ra,ts E.Is.
Twas evening o'er the woodland scene,
Hill, dell and vale, and forest green
Rcposed in the last softcned CLEAN
The sun shed on the sparkling stream,
SO like the last love- kindled smile
That lights the dying mothers eye
when breathing DER her darling child
Her last kind blessing piousy,
That cen the soft breeze signing there
Seemed Ike that whispering voice OF prayer.
Low on his grassy seat, where flowers,
Whose fragrance blessed his musiug hours
In clustering beauty, moist with dew,
In ali their wild luxuriance grew,
Silent and still, a, graceful ease,
HIS curling locks OF darksome hair
In dallisnce waving to the breeze
From forehead smooth and temple fair
lie sat IN listening mood, with esr
Attentive bent to catch strain
or solemn music. sweet and clear,
Which swelling high, would fall again
In melting cadence, soft aud low,
As some bright nil at twilight hours,
he music OF whose gentle flow
Breathes slumber TO the closing flowers.
"What sounds are these 50 sadly sweet,
Where human voice attuned to song
Is never heard these woods among
Where only birds and flowers may meet
In converse OF their gentle loves
Within these shadowy wales and groves 2"
lie said, from his breast there came
sigh 50 warm, and full. and deep
With pathos, that cen Love might claim
IL a. the hrst pure tribute paid
To some young love-inspring maid,
By his reused heart 50 long ssleep,
A novice in those mysteries
Taught only by dear woman's eyes.
Fen as the bird unconscious turns
To where the serpent's dark eve burns,
And charmed, bewildered, gases on
That eye of fire, till lost. undone,
II feels at last though free before,
That freedom IL its own more;
SO he instructive rose, and bent
HIS quiet steps, with intent
Towards the spot from whence that strain,
Which now had almost ceased. did come,
But which anon swellrd forth again
In quavering notes of sad refrain,
The grief-born melody OF some
Heart broken minstrel, while he filings
Ills fingers DER the trembling strings,
And pours out his own requiem song
Whose sounds the signing winds pToong,
As II they loved to bear to heaven
The burden OF that melody,
Too sweet Tor mortal ears even
The tones OF such soft mnstrelsy.
Ga through the fragrant shrubbey, passed
The now imprisoned youth. nor cast
One glance around TILL he had gained
The summit OF vine clad hill.
Where yet the suns las, hgh; remained,
Bathing the flowers with radiance still.
From thence around, below, were seen
HILL vale and waving forest green.
Through which. in many a vista fair,
Broke on the sight the waters bright
And psbbly strand Of kulmnHir,
While through the tree tops, free aud light.
The humming bird danced ON it, wing
OF golden tints, gladstone thing.
Up from a ihickly shaded glen
Softly and sweet that voice again
Rose upward on the evening air,
In lute-hke notes OF anthem prayer.
hneeling before altar rude,
Suewn o'er with flowers and fragrant moss,
(Embems Of Hope and SoIimde,)
Like Mercy bending at the Cross,
A beauteOus Maiden raised her eyes,
All fearful, 20 the radiant skies,
Whose CAIN and deep and cloudess hue
Scarce equalled those soft eyes of blue.
Her auburn hair all loosely suayed
In the slight bresze which gently played
Among the leaves that DER her head
Their dark green foliage Ihekly spread
Her sable robe, by contrast, lent
A marble whiieness TO her neck,
As the black cloud when torn and rent
Through whose dark folds bright glimpses bTeaL
Giving TO the ensmored eye
The fairest glones of the sky.
Near by the little mound was raised,
Green with the turf her hands had spread
Loves hottest homsge 10 the dead-
On which anon she sadly Razed;
Then looking mp to heaven again,
Breathed forth that touching, prayerfal strain.
Oh twas a scene OF painters vision,
In his inspiring day-dreams caught,
Would shame the iairest scenes eysian
That Art herself hath ever wrought
a picture teemng with beauty more
Than mortal viewed before.
lTO BE CONTINUED