The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-12-16
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PART w.
.7nien renounces Pleasure far Duty, aud therein
yfndS Peace.
Once more it is the Midsummer, the eve ofgood
St. John,
When ali the merr fairy folk will to the earth
"What must we do with Anien'" the fairies cried
''alack,
"For if she tread the earth again we ne'sr shall
win her back.
".4nd for she is so beautiful, with her we must
not part;
"Iet's lay her in heavy swoon and steal her
human heart;'
They laid her in heavy swoon but the heart
they could not win,
For the faric cannot steal that heart which is
not shaved TO sin.
Lets bind her with fairy spell, spell so
strong and deep!'
With that the maiden's head bowed down, as
if she sank to sleep.
A trance like sleep empowered her, as with
clasp Of death;
There was no color on her check no heaving
of her breath.
She's safe! she's saleH the fairy folk they shout
ed all aman,
"The living cannot fetch her now from fairy
land again.
And now the realms of fairy land were hushed
like sleeping thought,
And all was still as vacant space before the
world was wrought.
Like TO one dead lay Ancn beneath the mystic
yoke,
Till ali at once the spell dissolved and her dull
cd senses woke
'Lool, up look up, my A men, a low voice muir
m"red sweet
The marble lips grew rosy red, the heart began
"Open thine eyes, dearAnen' felr not this
charmed placed
She look cd-she saw her parents dear down.
looking on her face,
Their forms were of such grace as stirred love
rather than surprise,
Immortal love was in their voice and goodness
in their eyes.
Up from her couch the maiden sprung, 'Oh take
me hence, away,
"For We are good and true, she cried, Sand
now my heart can pray,
"The bonds that held me even now are severed,
let me 60
Ilenccforth will abide with you, for ye are
true know'
"Thou can'st not dwell with u.s. they said, 'for
thou art Of the earth,
"Thou hast not passed the gates ofdcath, which
arc Of life the birth.
"NIeek Anicn bowed her head adown like flow
or snt by the sun,
And murmcrd in a patient voice "the will OF
Heaven be donc:"
And now that shining fairy land even like
dream was gone,
And AMEN on the Dinas Rock at day break
The emerald robes of fairy land in which she
was alrayed,
Grew dull before the light of day like sunshine
dimmed to shade.
Upon the Dnas hill she stood mid rugged crags
and hoar
A homcly robe of peasant grey the garment that
she wore.
The visionod shapes that set her free no longer
filled her sight,
She was alone among the hills in the solitude
Of night.
Poor AMEN Rhaa! her heart was sad with COM
ing mortal thrall,
! Her soul was dark and from her eyes the human
tears did fail,
"Lord. am weak" said AMEN, and sank up
on her knee,
81 thy poo servant, am but weak-unless thou
strengthen me-"
The peace Of God came Ger her soul, and Ancn
Rhaa rose IN,
'Dear Lordn said she, 'whatc'er it be, tits will
drink thy cup
Down from the barc-hill top she went into the
peopled glen,
And from that day sweet Ancn dwelt an angel
among men,
1t was not for herself she strove, nor for herself
she thought,
But for the GOOD of others with steadfast heart
she wrought,
She was the teacher of the young, the succour
of the old,
And she had wealth which far surpassed the mi
ser's hoard Of gold.
For she had love that would not tire, nor patience
| unsubGucd
The scrsc duty well fulfilled, the bliss ofdong
good.
The bards of earth sang forth her praise in many
lovely Law,
And angels took her soul to heaven upon a
Christmas-day.
BY this artifcc, tradition tells us that ihe
| fairies of Dinas- Rock were accustomed to decoy
many youthful victims
J. NJ. oREM. WIN s. HOPKINS
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