Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-04-10
THE LEGEND.

Prom the dizzy castle tips,
She would watch the silent ships,
Like sheeted phantoms, coming
And going eyermoret
While the twilight settled down
On the sleepy little town,
On the gables quaint and brown,
That had sheltered kings of yore.
Her blue eyes drank III the sight,
With full and still delight;
For it was a fair scene
As aught in Arcadie
Through the yellow beaded grain,
Through the hamlet studded plain,
Like trembling azure vein,
Ran the river to the sea.
Spotted belts Of cedar wood
Partly clasped the widening food
Like knot Of daisies lay
The hamlets on the Hill;
In the ancient town below,
Sparks Of light would come and 90,
And faint voices, strangely low,
FROM the garrulous old mill.
Here the land, in grassy swells,
Gently rose; there, sunk in dells
With wide mouths of crimson moss,
And teeth of rock and peati
And, in statue-like repose,
An old wrinkled mountain rose,
With It's hoary head in SHOWS,
And musk roses at its feet!
And so oft she sat alone,
In the turret OF gray stone,
Looking DER red miles OF heath,
Dew-dabbled, to the sea,
That there grew village cry,
How Maud's cheeks did lose their dye,
As a ship, once, sailing by,
Melted past the sapphire lea.
Lady Maud" they said, 3" is vaini
With cold and fine dsdain
She walks DER mead Hnd moor,
She wanders by the sea-
Sits within her tower alone,
Like Gnone carved in stone
Like the queen of half zone
All, so cy-proud is she"
When Maud walked abroad, her feet
Seemed far sweeter than the sweet
Wild flowers that would follow her
VIM iriuvsvrnt ryes'
And the spangled eglantine,
And the honeysuckle vine,
Running round and round the pine,
Grew tremulous with surprise.
But she passed by with a stare,
With a half unconscious air,
Making waves of amber frOth
Upon a sea of maize;
With her large and heavenly eyes
Looking through and through the skies.
As if Gods rich paradise
We're growing upon her gaze
Her lone walks led all one way,
And all ended at the gray,
And the ragged, jagged rocks,
That tooth the dreadful beach;
There Queen Maud would stand, the Swe,
With the white surf at her feet,
While above her wheeled the feet
Sparrow hawk with startling screec
When the stars had blossomed bright,
And the gardens of the night
Seemed all full of marigolds
And violets astir,
Maiden Maud would sit alone,
And the sea with inner tone,
Half of melody and moan,
Would rise up and speak with her.
And she ever loved the sea-
Gods half uttered mystery
With its million lips Of shells,
Its never ceasing roar;
And twas we'll that, when she died,
They made Maud a grave beside
The blue pulses of the tide,
'Mong the crags of Elsinore.
One chill red-leaf falling morn,
Many russell Autumns gone,
A lone ship with folded wings
Lay doing of the leai
1t came silently at night,
With its wings of murky white
Folded, after weary flight
The worn nursing Of the Sea!
Crowds of peasants fockcl the sands;
There were tears and clasping hands;
And sailor from the ship
Passed through the graveyard gat
Only Maud, the headstone read;
Only Maud? Was'tall it said?
Then why did he bow his head,
Weeping Late, alas too late?'
And they called her cold. God knows
Underneath the winter SHOWS,
The Invisible hearts of flowers
Grow ripe for blossoming!
And the lives that look so cold,
If their stories could be told,
Would seem cast in gentlcr mould,
Would seem full Of love and sprinl
"Therese, to your heliotfopes!
That faint for you on thymy slopes!
Gather the daisies in the dew,
The violets and the pimpernels;
You have the rhymes made for you"
And they are sad as funeral bells
They chill my blood. o Launcelot,
] fear am like your hire Ladye'-
watch for my lover here BY the seal
The May has come, but it brought him |
He wrote Us he would be home in MAY:
We were to walk in the young May moo
Its crescent turned to an orb. IT'S Jun,
lam weary Of waiting day by dayw
Ipressed the hand she had given to me,
And turned and stared at the twilight SCI
How could speak of the ship that was
A month ago, on the English coast?
g. Sinner, Chris, has died for yo