Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-07-02
POLITICAL.
For the Enquirer
LOVERS ROCK!
A LEGEND OF "THE OLD DOMINION

LEGEND OF "THE OLD DOMINION"
Ger shenandoah's silver sparkling stream,
There hangs dark and rugged rock, DER grown
With tangled weeds, thick moss and deadly vines,
Which half conceal from view the dark gray stone;
And at its base the "Loveies- bleeding" grows
Scat ring its scarlet blossoms all around
The mysiicssp oft popularity termed, :,
BY Superstitions children, "haunted ground
The scene is lovely! Natures garden spot
By her arrayed in all that can delight:
Pine-crested hills which rear their verdan. sops
Mid wreaths of Columbine and Lycnhis o'is''
The "varnishcd holly" patriarchal OAK,
And slender beech. their branches intertwine,
Forming dark shadows round the traglc Spot
Where HOPELESS Love- his being dio iess"'
Below. fair Shcnandoais stream doth play'
Now gliding peacefully-now dasmng on
Now ,b5onah some woody glade winding It's way
Now das6ing bubbling, sparkling in the sum-
On on il wanders through its may tiach,
Nnrm'r;np sweet melodies as mus II llo"e'
Whose silver sounds the listning ear eh'fa"'''
Iuling the senses into soft repose.
Long could sing of thee lovclies OF sl!eah''
But 10 nv tale As oden legends say
A stain of blood is on that hoary rock, o,
Which neither time nor flood can WASH aM"..
Young Eyenrds blood, shed for a iaithess lose
From Lovers Rock" in warning accents CANS
To all fair madens who have lovers irae,
As Alice Efhnghams and hearts is i"'Se
twas upon "Lover's Rock" one summer eve
The lovers met-and there dld tney iehe"
The promises they had so often mace,
That each should be 10 other ever truc. Y
The silver moon looked from her throne In Heaven,
And smiled approval on the youlhI pau, ,ru,a
The night fow'rs bowed their heads IN Wines, n 1'
of the deep vows they heard re-cehoed mere
Sadly they parted; for tomorrow sun ~.
M,st see Young Everard on the foaming tloe
OF the deep blue Atlanc-every wave
Rearing him farther from his plighteo otioe'
We, on he went rejoicing in the love IT,,
or that fair girl for whom alone he brcailed;
While Hone deceirer, sung her syren song
And for his youthful brow the chapiet wreatheo'
A few short wears elapsed and Evcrard came,
From Eastern lands 10 claim his promised otiae'
And nonght on earth he said, should e'er again,
Rear him away from his lov'd Alices side
Ru, Alice was anothers In that land
To which he looked with ever longing eye
A fair home of love--hayen OF rest--
He came TO hear his doom, and thcn 10 aie'
He sighed not, spoke not, when in his Low nome
The tidngs greeted him that she hau I'o"h'-
The bird that warbled forth its softest noies
In Loves sweet measures To ms ear aiohe-
Now caroIrd forth its lays for others smiles,
ar cheered anotlier's soul with lis bllthe song
But 10 the "Lovers Rock" he HE'D him hence
Yet calm his nen wandered he along
Anon he gained the dark Inflated spot;
Awhile he gazed around, then summoned Deah'
And DER the precpice his manly form
He flung into the dread abyss beneath
And monv vears have passed, yet still there grows
The 81 oye lies bleeding round the mountain paSe
And some do say its flowers once were whue;
Rut nonpht on earth could the dark stain erase
OF suicidal blood upon them shed,
When Eyerard from the towering heights above,
Dashed him below upon their rocky bed
The victim Of deep and hopeless love
Northampton Va, June 18th.