Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-14

Wild was Weesh-KO-da-ne- lola,
As the woodland lavandola;
Radiant as the aureola,
Sh ming round the summer moon;
One OF those bright, earnest faces
Beaming out in drearest places,
Like dew-besprent OASIS
Flashing in the deserts noon.
Graceful, like the slender willows
Swaying DER the dancing pillows;
Pure as snowy water-Iilies
On the leaping waves that ride;
And her silvery ringing laughter
Mid the rocks re-echoed, after
Her Whit bark canoe would Eaft her
From the rivers pebbled side.
OF tn fawn skin, soft and spotted,
Heavy fringes round them knotted,
And with frath,r.tuftS he-dotted
Were the robes that she had worn.
They had called her Sweet S rawberry,"
And so bright she was, and merry,
That at times she teemed a very
Little ouphe Of Kuhiebornl
When the lavrock's clear hosannas
Rung across th- broad savannas,
And the Dawn flun- out her banners,
Heralding the coming day;
Never changing in her mild mood,
Went she ranging hro' the wild wood,
Singing songs Of happy childhood,
WITH the robins rouudelay.
Daring all her mates to follow,
Dsshing down the dewy hollow
For the arum's white corolla,-
or, with laughter low, and sweet,
Culling roses f ON the fallows,
With tn gaily tintel mallows,-
Or g padd ing down the shadows,
With her little, naked feet.
Where along the verdrnt valleys,
Sleep he clear "oak opening" alleys,
And the IDLE zephyr dailies
With he young m mpsa tree;
Hitler every passing summer,
Game tbs wild ami play fal hummer,
Ever hailed WELDON conner
With the blossom and the bee.
Where the sunshine's golden wedges
Lie between the rocky lodges,
Lighting up the spiky sedgeS,
Came the little maiden too,
Peering down the bOsky dingles,
Where the wave with Sunlight mingles,
And her brown cheek burns ana tingles
With feeling strange and new.
Lovely still, but oder, stronger,
She was now chile no longer,
And the souls unsated hunger
Cleaned and start ed from her eye;
For along through mis- and shadow,
Down the c. press shaded meadow
WoUing phantom voices led her,
Call ng calling to the sky.
Forms few by her in the dimness,
Cloud ensLroudcd, vague and limbless;
And a shadow strange and rameless,
Stole away her childish mirth;
For her .pirit now unheeding
On its lOtOs fruits was fee ing,
And its thought, like birds Of Eden"
Never touched the lower earth.
To the hsntoms, low, 81 fear ye,"
Said she, for her heart grew weary,
And the path Of life Sc med dreary;
She was walking al alone
On star ess Path, and sparkless,
On wiliered wy, and marklesS,
Like the night-wind down the darkness,
And The tempest, wandering on.
Clesr the night, and iridescent
Shone the new moons hsloed crescent;
And the maiden's argue quiescent
Floated on the calm lagoon;
VIII, n in robes II beamy whileness,
Like the gossamer in lightness,
differing in unshad1wed brightness,
Came the Spirit Of the Noon.
"Cfild al mystery's baptismal,
Leave this shore so drear and dismal,
Rising through the blue sbysmal
Reign with me-my love, be mintw
To her brow the bright bio. d rushes,
From her soul glad music gu,hes,
And amid her burning bushes,
Soa she murmurs, " Ever thinel"
Soul with soul forever blended,
Heart 70 heart, with wings extended,
Hand in hand, they swift assembled
Where the tempest armies form;
And she g,ztd With timid wonder
At the misty realms beyond her,
On the kingdom of The thunder,
Aud the birthplace Of the storm.
Softly sped they-lest some hraken
OF this upper deep should waken,
And the fair rar'h-ehi d be taken
To the gob.in's cloudy lar;
Passed they sWif' the thunder highland
And along the misty skylAnd,
Reached at last that crescent island
In the purple deeps Of air.
When the morn was davning wanly
Long the mother sought her only
Darling, where the barque so lonely
Kissed the laksiei's pebbly shore;
wide she sought her through the forest,
Crying, In her grief tn sorest,
al shall know the dress thog worestt7
But the maiden came no more
Twelve more days the sVn had sounded,
And the line Of light that bounded
1he new m on, grew iun snd rounded,
L.! upon Its shining space,
Lay a spotted robei II, caught her
Lihed eyr, and truly taught her
To behold her I-ng-lost lighter
In a spirit close embraced
Type size Is Of souls love laden
Sweetest child, ami fairesi maiden,
Passing to the b!l,sfal Aden,
Gene alm0s, as soon as ven,
While the crushed heart aches and listen
Passing oal into he distance
Changing all this DARK exisienre
For the blessedness Of heaven.
when the pulse Is low and IAgrArd,
When he bros Is damp and hagsArd,
And oar f.fing ieesh4ve staggered
FToE The rev made grave away,
Par beyond ths eioUsls Of even,
Par beyond the sisters seven"
Lired scs Not 80 .fiIr y1ro1a Asdrea,
We could hear their RageI lay.
This tradition cd aud hOaFy,
with is weird sna mythic stery,
Holds to me hiisAa glory,
FOF witAin lrssSn hes.
Llks that mother WeAry-hearted,
Throegh ths sky's great deep, anchAgisa
let As seek our loved, departed,
In the hene ssy0ad the skiesi
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