Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-06-21


Whose heart could not mate with the common aoom'
70 fall like a spent arrow in the grave
Mid the eternal hum, the boy clomo UP
Into shy and solitary youth,
With strange joys and strange soIto"si VI ~ 'caa
He was moved, he knew not why, when ne mas soua
Among the lenghcned shadows OF the eve,
Such feeling overlooked him from the SKY.
Alone he dwet, solitary as star
Unspheret and exiled, yet he knew no scorn
Once did he say, For me, d rather Nv
With this weak human heart and yea'hinS o'oou'
Lonely as God, than mate with barren sous;
More brave more beautiful than myself must De
The man whom truly can call my ineno;
He must be an lnsprer, who can ara"
To hiuher heights Ui Bsing and ever slanu
Der me in un cached beauty, Ike Inc moon;
Soon az he fail in this, the crest ana crown
or noble friendship. he Is nousnt 10 me.
What 50 unguessed as DEAN Ie' 10 INC ueau
Ii lies as plain yesterday 10 us
Lei me 90 forward 10 my grave alone, ;,
What need have 10 lingcr by dry "ells
Books were his chirfest friends In theih ne feau
0G ,hns, yT,,, spirits who went down like suns,
And left upon the mountain-lopso DEAN
A loht that made them lovely. ms own heatl
Made him a p,cl. Yesterday 10 him
Was richer far han fifty years to come.
aIvchmist Memory turned his past To gold
When morn nwakcs against the dark wet EARTH
Back 10 the morn she laughs win dewy sides,
lin poes her voice Of larksl with Ike elect
,napinu ion opened On his lie,
Hlay all lovely in that rarer light.
He was with Nature the sabbalIi.day-;
Fur from the dressed lhrungs and the city bells
lie gave his hot biows 70 the Kissing WIND,
While restless thoughts were stirring In his hcari:
.rhcse worldly men will kill me with their scofns,
But nature never mncks nor Jeers II me;
Her d.wv s,uiinys Of the earth and air
Do wcau the thoughts That MAD my Ofalni
Our interviews stolen. can look,
Nature! in Thy serene and grltfiess eyes
Bot al long Intervals yet Nature! yet,
Ihy silence an the fairness ol thy face
Are present with Inc in The booming streets.
Yun quarry shattered by the bursting tire,
aud disembow led by the biting pick,
Kind Nature thuu hast taken Ia thyseii;
Inv weeping hprls aud soft blowing Mays,
Thy blossom buried Junes have smoolhed lis scare,
And hid its wounds and trenches deep in flowers.
So take my and passion wasted heart,
Maternal Mature! Take il 10 myself
Eiiace the sears Of scnrn, the rents OF hate,
The wounds .! alien eyes, visit my brain
With thy deep peace fill with thy calm my heart,
And the quice cuursrs Of my human blood
Thus would lie and wander, ill the sun
Reached The rr vest where all The waiting clouds.
Atlired before il homrly dun and grey,
Like Parasites that aress themselves IN smiles
TO feed great nau's eye, IN haste put on
Their purple m mites trimmed with ragged gold,
And cOngregaiing in shining crowd
Flatered The 81 lklnG orb with faces bright
As slow he ou,neyed home, the wanderer saw
The Iabourn. fires come out against the dark.
For with the nt2ht the country seemed On famei
Innnmtrablc furnaces and puts,
And gloomy l,ds in which that bright slave, Fire.
Doth pant aui Toll all day and night for man.
Tnrelr large ald angry lustreS on the sly,
ind shifting Il GhiS across the long black roads.
The shining 81, ais oi fame mat wore me sun;
Mos, hravcniy bright they Knocked him through his bars
A lost man, wiIterrd on The dreary sea-
When lohenr hath somewhat, touched his brain,
Doth shrink aud shrink beneath the watching sky,
Which hour by plainly doth express
The features oil a deadly enemy,
Drinking his with most hungry eye.
Fen 40, by constant staring on his ills,
They grew wo,-c-ieatured Till, in his great rage,
His spirit, like reused sea, white with wrath
Struck AT the Hold fast Hold iast my brain
Had | q kill with, by ynn Heaven!
I'd teas, The tonight Dreadful words,
Whose very terror banched his conscious lips
He uttered in his hour Of agony.
With quick ard subtle poison IN his veins
w tth madness turning in his heart and brain,
Wild words, kr sh,nngs, round his pald lips.
lie rushed de in the very eyes OF God
Twas ate iur II. reached the opon roads,
Where night nos Redeemed by the drudging hres,
The drolpSy S.ecpicS toHed the hour Of One.
The city now Vas left long miles behind,
A large black hll was looming 'g1lnst the stars.
lie reached ia summit. Far above his head,
Up there upon The stM and mighty night,
Gods name lorittcn in cords while he Stood
Silent and Mrob5ing Ike midnight star.
Tie rased his hands. Alas! Twas not in prayer
He long Ind ccused 10 pray. Father, ne sald,
i wished 10 iuusc some music Ger Thy world
To strike from iis firm seat some lodry wrong,
And then To die in autumn with the flowers
Aud leaves. and sunshine have loved so we'll
Thou mghst have s,nooed my way 10 some great emu
But wherefore sprak! Thou art the mighty God.
This cleaning wilderness OF suns ana worlds
IL an eternal and triumphant hymn
Chanlci by Thee unto Thine own great sell
Wrapt in IhY skies, wha, were my prayers 10 Theei
My panas7 My tears Of bluodl They cnuid not move
Thee from the depths ul Thine immortal dream.
hon hast forgotten me-, God! Here, therefore here,
10 night upon this bleak and cold hillside,
Like forSaken ruich Ere rW die,
And as my pale. fronts the pitering night,
Ii shalt rcpruacl Thee before all Thy worlds.
His death did disturb that ancient Night.
ScornfuIesl Night, Over The dead there hung
Great uulIs al sirnct blue. and strewn with stars
Mo sound imuliun in the eternal depths.
EDWARD.
Now what n suIrn blooded f"" was this,
AT sulks with earth and IIcarenl Gould nc not
ont ,recp his passion ike clustering day,
and be clear. skitd thereafter! He, pgnr wretch,
Mus. needs be famous Lord how Poets peck
Colder thu lunar rainbuws, changciulcr
Than sieektd puppies on pigeons neck,
Mole iransiory Than a wuman's love,
The bubbles Of her hcart-and yet each mocker
Would gladly sell his soul Tor one sweet crumb
To roll beneath his tongue
WALTER
Alas the youth,
Earnest rs lame, could not tame his heart
AS to live quiet days! When the heart.slCk Earth
Turns her broad bark upon The gauIy sun,
Ind stoopS her reary forehead 10 The night,
To struggle rih her Sorrou all alone,
The moon, that patient sufferer pale Nth pain,
Presses her cod lips on her sisters broD,
TIL she is calm But in his surtnw's night
lie found no comforter. 4 man bear
A worlds contempt when he has that within
Which says he's woHhy-when he conternns himself,
There burns the hell So this wild youth foileI
In q ereni putpusc-in an agony,
In which he learned Ia hate and scorn himself
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UNREST.
''Unrest! un,esl The passion painting sea
Watches the unveiled beauty Of The stars
Like great hungry soul. TIE unqniet clouds
Break and dissolve, then gather IN mass
And iDai like mighty icebergs through the blue
Summers like bushes, sweep the face oi earth;
Heaven yearns in stars. Down comes the frantic rain
We hear The wall Of the rcmorsefuI winds
In their strange penancc. And this wrcched orb
Knows not the taste OF rest; maniac world,
Homeless and sobbing through tho deep she soesp IS
Nearer seem 10 God when looking thee.
'l'is ages since he made his youngest star
His hand On thee as twere Yesterday.
Thou later Revelation SRptr Stream,
Breaking Nth laughter from The lake dirne
Whence all things ao~! PIP. So, Sc
LisTLEsssEss
my dropping sails
Flap idiy 'gdinst the mast Of my intent.
/ ROT upon The leaters rhen my bro'c
Should CRATE the golden isles. p. lot.
.'Twas here spent my youth, as far removed
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