The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-05
From the Louisvil's Journal.
Dreaming to Order.

My friend Maggie gave me piece Of cake left
by Jenny Lind, and promised her to dream over
it. As bedtime approached, | said TO myself
" Now, as have some dreaming to do, must try
to get into dreamy state. For Maggies sake, |
should like to do the job in the very best style"
| looked into the fire, and soon began to num-
Der of forms, animate and inanimate, playing fan
tastic tricks in the crate. The boundary line be-
tween the real world and the dream world began to
waver, and the two worlds seemed to run into each
other A beautiful haze spread itself around me,
and for time | could nothing else. Then my
body itself seemed to acquire kind Of hazy feeling,
the particles retaining their form, but becoming
etherealized. A sense of lghtness and expansion
pervaded my system. | raised my arm, and it did
not seem willing to fall. | started to walk, and
founl that | acquired such an impetus by touching
one foot to the ground, that | could scarcely get
the other down. | felt myself becoming more and
more ethereal My soul seemed to expand from its
seat in the brain, spreading itself till it filled every
pore of my body. | foated along without being
able to touch the ground. | felt uncomfortable,
and wished for some one to steady me. l was too
light for the earth, and too heavy for the air. Sud
denly felt thrill of ineable pleasure in every
part Of my system. The power of gravation was
overcome, and | shot away from the earth with
the speed OF lightning ! could no longer even
see the planet had left. in an atmosphere of
glory-brght beyond all human imagination but
the most gorgeous cOlors were SO blended and har-
monized that there was nothing glaring. breathed
the spendor and it seemed the appropriate food for
my ethereal nature. There was an exquisite
| sense OF harmony throug hout my system. There
| was not merely visible, but audible adaptation
! of one part to the another. The seemed to be
| musical accompaniment to the body and even
the fingers, and different parts Of the fingers were
audby harmonious with each other. Indeed
when | saw or heard it, | soon discovered that the
| glory around me was the harmony OF the spheres
| The colors the sounds that the heavenly
| bodies make in their motion, each of them like
angel sings, still choiring the young yeo
cherubim." They literally sang to my eye" a,
| well as to my ear.
1t is impossible to describe in the language Of
mortas the ecstatc delight OF my whole being as
| perceived the harmony of the spheres with two
| senses at the time, and those senses in 81
heavenly degree of refinement. | with my
ear and heard with my eye, and each lent t.
each double charm. The pleasure no
| merely doubled by being derived from two senses
at the same time, but rendered thousandfolt
more intense by the harmony between the tw
senses. heavenly tone would throw off beau
tlful color, and it sounded if all the beauties
music had been collected into one note. Again,
| would hear sweet note, and all beautiful color
would seem to be mingled together in the most er
chanting glow Then the harmony between tn
two manifestations of the same thing added il
| tensely to the emotion.
Mortas may make some approximation to a cor
| ception OF my idea by imagining the to sin
out its colors, and the nightingales notes to form
| rainbow OF song around it. But this is not al
| The rainbow must be heard as well seen, an
the song of the must be well as heard
Nor is even this all. The exquisite harmony be
tween the visible and the audible manifestation
must be heard and must be seen.
While my delighted spirit was looking and lis
tening, seeming to be at the same lime all eye an
all ear, suddenly tone more beautiful than any
had heard went sounding through the empyrean
looked and traced the brig htness of its a
it foated through the OF harmony. 1t ha
over me irresistible power Of fascination. | wa
obliged to follow, and away flew. As looket
the sound seemed to form itselfinto the features
8 SOUL On it flew as if earnestly seeking for som
thing. A dim spot came in view and | found "
were rapidly approaching the earth. The Nortl
3 ern ocean was soon beneath us. The object Wi
following flew rapidly and eagerly as ever till
. saw it enter cottage in Sweden l saw it
, | more but Swedish maiden in the cottage open,
her lips, and the sound there.
= | | started-there bright fire in the CRATE
e the teakette which had been left the fire w
5 singing and spouting steam. The vapor seeme
t to be the sound showing itself to the eye. Ha
8 | been dreaming with my eyes open ?" said
o myself "and is my music of the spheres nothil
s but the music of this sphere OF teakettle?
$ one way or the other, however, | have fulfilled n
If promise to Maggie" THE DREAMER.