Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-13
FUTURE LAND.-PoE.E1IC EEE Culnsl

oH-EI IL EFFORT
by MILL THE DREAMER.
ONCE ! went boating, boating, heedessly and
How was drifting, the pillows of ~
dreamy sea, rare and
So, as though the sails were mapping, they ko,.,
ly a-fapping "eP' ial.
10 The waves that rolling, singing, were
music finging "PPlOs
Round my fancy bark and m.
Soon, though conscious YET unheedipp. av.u
tie world receding, 0y Went
Vanishing as was speeding. fadiDo. eiD,;
ilr-of sky, IN &s
Sill with its immortals mul,ering, and ,bs;,
vows a-uttering, weakly
Searching hope and finding trouble followr,
his taTouTite bubble, Zach
Ever. ever, till they die.
Here, said /, is cease of sorrow, and the d.,;
the morrow udy as
Hope has timed with the colours TO an ardsr, !,
ing eye, 'Ons'
And unfettered is the awning, not a sinule ,,o.r
6awning, 0eI
Quiet fakes of sunlight roaming, vein and bro
5eauteous DOMINIC, aNd
Round my fancy bark and me-
So swept a,drifting, drifting, lulled By sons a.,
by the lifting, S
Swelling, sinking of the pillows of that ,,,.
dreamy sea;
And my brain became BETTING place for various f.,
cies fitting,
Who, with tangled footsteps knitting, sweet and l.,
ing thoughts were knitting
Round my heart and memory
And so fairy and beguiling were those thought. 4.
came a-smiling-
PeePing, blinking, laughing, winking, and lock-,
al
That the toll there of linking act and purpose,
my thinking,
And if so my bark had, drinking, swallowed w,..
unto sinking,
1t would ne'er been known 70 m.
For the air so gently moving, in its very moin
soothing,
Waited me DER waves and pillows with ouain,.,
quiet glee,
And Its wings were incense laden as with fragrap
brought from Eden,
Which, my very senses tapping, I-perhaps Ias
was mapping
Listless let my helm 60 free.
Then-but then cannot tell you, for l harena
words to tell you,
How, like glorious sunset halo, there stresb.B
along the sky
An emerald tufted golden line, the edges of .ho,s
sublime,
Where there broke in ripping rhyming, SPRAYS tn
mellow music Ginning,
All across that dreamy sea.
SO drilled, nearing, nearing, with certain jorld
fearing,
As we feel when we are dreaming, with an open
trembling eye,
And there shapes grew on my vison-Shapes that j
surely were Eiysian-
For they had no earthly forming. but were such d
in the morning
OF our burning youth we ses.
When, with fairy footsteps dashing, there came ss
the shore a-fashing
Troops of beauties, such as never poor moria gs
did see
Light and Iustrous the glanees, from sucheys
as Musiem fancies
Only own Eden frightening, touched with qas
loving tightening,
Eyes that were most heavenly.
Then, as though gush from heaven on angs1
voices driven,
When a sinner is forgiven, rolled and rushed I'D
melody IS
| Welcome to the Future-land, come and touch
magic sand,
Come where shadows never stand, OF rest upon
sky or strand,
We welcome, welcome thee.
And, bewildered by this meeting, more beWldarl
by the greeting
That those sweet and fairy creatures there had sa
then 10 me,
|, not waiting more or pressing, gave the shosl
foot's caressing,
Joyously my fortune blessing and those angel shape
blessing.
That SO warmly welcomed me-
So they showed me all the glory of that land'
told the story
How every human heart had hopes there, sweeiJ@
that were 10 be,
Some in hundreds, some one only but ne Il'lng'
| so lonely,
| None SO all be-steePed in sadness, but iha'u@'
| there were some gladness
Lightning its futuritY.
Then asked them, so assembling that they SAW
| inward trembling,
| If so thai it were custom, would they $40" y
hope to me?
| When-ah how well l knew her-radIant al
heavenly flower ri,
Plucked within the recent hour, from the rare'I b
bower,
A fair maiden came TO me.
Wavy hair like Lethe lavng-black as Plum'F
the raven, III
And ey es lustrons, of a warm, deep and s~
gray;
Lips that, like the bow of Cupid, bent in bS''
coral-looPed, ii
Teeth, whose white, transparent edges, lovely H.
Pearly wedges, ri
Peepe d between her smiles 'lS'
IS Mannie,' SO the angels called her, " Mannie ~
my bosom told her, ..oi
Told her of that deep devotion that my hea'''7
lips would say, ,,r
How tina; all that earth had given, and ny '"'
hopes of heaven, inf
Would be nothing, could be nothing, unless 'A"-'
ardent loving,
| Found some favour in her eye