Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-03

Like gaelic, and wild the echo rings,
DJoUSI
The Arab girl, betrayed, begued,
Dark beautiful and fierce, the deserts child;
1t is as though in some deep mountain shrine,
Springs to the eye a sudden lighted mine
or gold and Jewels. Her clear.arching brow,
Quick, curling nostril, all inflated now,
And eyes that sleep in trkness, speak her race.
Graceful in gliding to her circle place;
With hasty hand from IF her forehead pale,
She filings aside heavy, pallliEe vel,
And with a soul all passion and all fire,
The priestess Of Osiris swi gs her Tyre,
While from her lip steals forth monOdy,
Deep. uttered, like song Of prophecy.
Red tulips cluster in her midnight hair,
Half braided up with gems, half on the air,
And DER her bosom flowing as to rest
In sable rpples the crimson vest
Her slender form, two jeweled zones enclasP,
And rubies glitter in her dsgger's hasp;
She stops-she starts-the eloquent rich blood,
Like the red lava's swift and burning food,
Shoots to her throbbng TEN les. Is it shame,
Or only mOdesty that wakes the flmef
Her eyes yelled, her spirit may not brook
That others the soul they hold should look,
Conscious thai now she cannot choose, but hide
Yet all alone, and she will sit, and brood,
Upon the phantoms of her feVerish mood,
(Her thoughts at least her own uncurbed and wild.
As best becomes the wandering Bedouin's child
Until her eyelids close, and childhood's years
Have bathed their aching orbs in tender tears.
She dances here to night,-it was his will
Her beauty should enchant the crowd, and still,
Though wretched, ruined. fallen and betrayed,
She wept-impored,- still loyed-and still obeyed!
A circliDg mist arose, on snow-white wings,
wIeathng and twining in two vspory rings;
Slowly it rose, it passed that halo eli I'd,
And tn re beneath it Stood form more proud,
More silent, more serenely bright than all
Who yet are marshalled in that tented hall,
Like a planet ushered in o ace,
Pausng moment ere her glorious
Begin, to pray and lift her upward gaze,
In ensely worshipping Then in the mazs
She joins anon. vestal leen might wear
Such lofty mein, such proud, imperial air,
Might envy her that large, dark-rong eye,
So full Of soul in native majesty
How strange those eyes, AMI deep! their dusky hue
Like the brown t~iight which the looks thro ugh
At times It's said thew shoot fercer ray,
Like the sSift meteor on its gancing way
Among the night clouds Yet it is not of,
For their glance /, calm, and mild, and soft,
Soft her voice, which echoes like flute
In some dim aisle. when all things else are mute,
The chiseled outline OF her faultless face,
Would be severe, for its sad, sweet grace;
Pale passion flowers, such as strew the sod
Around the altar OF the unknown God"
Bind her loose tresses, and her features hold
nxedness, still, statuesque and cold,
Yet winning, and most lovely. All so pale;
Her heart too slumbers in It's hiding veil;
II love, IL hate e'er haunted il, to none
She told the tale, but patiently, and lone,
Bore on, bore all, till by a deep control
Peace sat amid the shadows Of her soul.
All she too much of life has early known,
The nattered, worshpped, loved, and still ALONE,
LEoSTIUN, amid the starry throng
How like goddess crowned she sweeps along,
Trcading the lofty circle OF the skies
As If familiar with their mysteries
A mystic, subtle, delicate perfume
Stole up the arches Of that silken room
Binding the sen,es. Darker, darke- grows
The atmosphere, and faint the day-god Cows
Yet, in a moment all is bright,-'ts past
Another star has rsen--'tis the last.
Whence came IL born OF Lighter darkened airy
Enough tits here, and none know WHENCE or where.
Silent and shadowy, and like spell
or glamour on the air, her presence fell
Mysterious and resistless. Nothing warm,
Or living seems she, but her fragile form
Swims, floating in the eye, unreal all
And cold as moolight "a marble wall.
As from a fail of many-tiated spray,
Half in mist. wreath shroudng up its way,
Mockng the yourg enthusiasts summer dream,
Steals forth the spirit Of a haunted stream,
And on a utting rock seems poi ed to dwell
Hung in mid air, and balanced by a spell,
So shone CYANE Cold azure is her eye;
It neither question asks, nor gives reply
To those that question it. And yet 'tis meek,
With long, gold lashes and the white-ro,e cheek
They shade, is all so pure, AMI pale, It's lue
Rivals the pa'lid moon flower washed in dew.
Her heart is far away, iii silentness,
Cold and unsunned II lies, and she will press
Her thin hand on il, with 'Wildered air,
As IL to question whether its despair
Has chilled it utterly, and life has passed
Unmarked, unfelt, unhe eded and at last
Hers Is a common destiny she heard, believed,
She loved, she trusted, and she was deceived
So ike her life, her race darky run,
To that pale planet fArthest from the sun
Round their dark orbits sweep those forms Of light,
Marking in harmony their wheeling flight,
Seven lovely madens gathered site by side,
Or Greece the aJwer Of Athens halls the pride.
Now dancing DER the tvght's darkened line,
Now filing ont into the mornings shine.
Nov floating inward TO the dAwning's shade,
By wells Of crimson, gold and silver made,
Then flashing back amid thousand streams
or rosy brliancy, the sunsets beams;
All altting by like bird; Of gorgeous dyes,
Which poets tell Us come from Parad Sc
The sun looks down, ard to the muse's notes,
Faster the lovely pageant round him floats,
As fall the silvsry leaves OF sAraschind,
Their white feet glanciag bound upon the wind;
wreathed and ubwre-ghing parting but to meet,
Softly their voices minlie, wild and sweet,
As scattering buds and blossoms In their way,
whirls round and round, the beautiful array.
The darkness fAls,-the pageantry Is Ger,
The footballs echo musc's tones more,
The dancing stars are gone. the sun has set,
Lonely and mournfaly the winds have met
In the Pavilion lone. So dowa the stream
OF Time, thus passes The enchanted preAm'
And the hrg h, planet system Tar sirosd.
swerps ongsri like a thoug ht,-a dream Of God
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