Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-06-03
OruuiIle Dai,g Butte Rttura.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, JUNE Sd. 1857
n Dream.

tl0n, Dut SUBJECT 10 my own, and only
my own, vpl,tion. felt | could go
where desired, and as rapidly as |
pleased. | hesitated to move, for it
appeared to me that, having determiu-
ed my course, could not thereafter
change Olth'occurtet to me, and
instantly | stepped towards the polar
star My strides were leagues in length
and more rapid than tive forty
blood. | walked high in the air.
Mountsins covered with snow, volca>
noes into whose cratrrs could look
an endless depth; torrents, lakes, vast
seas, were under my rapId-movng feet
! saw, II the unimaglnable proiundity
of the crater, an ocedn-surging fire.
Every wave was crested with foam as
white as the foam of the sea, bnt it
was foam of liquid fire. 1t was white
lightning, flashing incrssantly from the
bott unless sea OF hell. At will | stood
sun, and gazed INTO this special gehen-
ma, surprising that imagined by any
mortal mind, BY drgrees / saw dark
spots on the sea of fire. As quick as
thought, they elongated into human
forms, and long columns of moving fl
cures swept like marshalled batalons
towards some unseen point. stdl
gaz d, and the ocean of fire became
field of FURNISHED gold, and the foamy
cre>ts were banks of pearls and rocks
of diamond /; the figures were Of human
shape, moving over the 90 den feds.
| saw "a palace in the plain of gold 1T
rose to my feet, and they rested on the
parapet ct one of its towers. | was in
the very key o: the celestial arch, and
the foundations Of The palace were in
the centre Of the earth. | must 20
down its stairway. | commenced the
luhuite descent. For long years des-
cend d, ever winding, ever going down.
At length | III t Il pers III | had known
ages age. She was clad in robe OF
ice, bespangled with stars Of crystal
gold. Sae stretched out her hand to
lead me through ii to.tuOus hall. dimly
lighted with carryatides, holding III
tn,lr hands thigh bones covered with
pho>pnorous for torches. took her
prof red band, and my own burned as
If touch d b, the flaming cinders OF
Il furnace. but 1t was the burning of
intense frost My hands became mar
Ole in hers, and they seemed like
wci4hts attached to my arms. at
tempted to pull tn IN away, but my
ig hand parted from my wrist, and
remained in h rs, and the stump OF the
arm da"gled by my side like the me- k
of dcad swan over the shoulder of a
returning hunter.
Where do you lead me. II Ida Is
there no eud 10 these ever turning
halls y
.lcs.' '.sho answered, with a frozen
smile. which cr5ckled her frost cove ed
features Of aIab ster like pine boughs
luaDed with snow III una winter. 1
IN leading thee to my chamber, there
we will rest
But do you live in this silent, de-
serted tower, whose head Is III heaven
and whose feet are IN he'll =
Silent did you say Llslen!'
| heard the scream of the wind,
sounding as when it Comes from the
north, in a starry night, over the glis-
tening stepp of ice IN Siberia The
roar of the torre is, the howl of beasts,
the cl .ng oil arms, and thu din Of mar
tial music commlngled with the singing
of ,ouD 2 girls, whose voices were as
soft as the phyr in summer
There is no stlllnes here, thou vast
deaf before
% God. let me be deaf now y and
ins an ly all was still as the unoccu-
led space beyond the domain OF mat
ter.
'Hilda,' said |, 'end this horrld jour.
ney. My very bones are crumbllng to
dust IN tni, ete.nal frost.
Enter said she, as she pushed open
door of crystal. We were in sa-
loon a hundred feet high, and "a thous-
and iert III length and breath From
the dome above US, hung "a chanlaller
of amethyst, with FIVE hundred burn
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