New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Ioycrr1Uoyy,s NEW VOLUME.

The Courtship Of Miles Standish, ana o'h'f
Poems" by the author Of " lIiswatha and Evan
geline" will he published next month, BY Inkn"f
& Fields. From advance sheets w are enao'ed 70
give our readers few extracts from the forthcoming
work. This volume Of 2l5 pages consists OF one
long POEM. occupying something over 1oc pages
and twenty three lyrics making the second part OF
the book, which portion of the volume the pot has
entitled Bird. of Passage Our hrst extract
.haI be- from the Pilgrim love story, The Court
ship of Miles stand.sh.'
THE wEDDING-DAY.
FoRIH from the curtain OF clouds, from the tent Of
purple and scaret,
Issued the sun, the great Hgh-Pne-t, in his garments
respendent,
Holiness unto the Lord, in letters OF hight on bis fore
head
Round the hem Of his robe the golden bells and pome-
granstes.
Blessing the world he came, and The bars Of vepor
Cleaned Ike CRATE of brass ard the sea S: rs fset
was laNeT
This was the wedding morn Of Priscilla the Puritan
Friends Were assembled together; the Eide AMI iagis-
trate also
Graced the scene with their presence and stood Ike
One with the sanction of earth and one with the be.s
ing Of heaven.
Simple and brief the wedding, tha; OF Ruth and
Of Boaz.
Softly the youth and the maiden repeated ths words OF
betrothal.
Taking each other for husband and wife in the Magis
trate's presence,
After the Puritan way and the Iaudabls custom of
Fervently then, and devOuty the excellent Elder of
Plymouth
PRAYED for the hearth and the home, that were founded
that day in affection,
Speaking of life and of death, aud imploring divine
benedctions.
Meanwhile the bridegroom went forth end stood with
the bride at the doorway,
Breathing the perfimed air Of that warm and beautiful
morning.
Touched with Autumnal iinis, but lonely and sad in
the sunshine,
Lay extended before them the land 81 toll and pm
walton;
There were the graves of the dead, and the barren
waste Of the sea-shore,
There the familiar fields the groves of pine and the
meadows
But to their eyes transfgued It seemed a. the Garden
Of Eden,
Filled with the presence Of God whose voice was the
sound of the ocean
Soon was their vision disturbed by the noise and
stir Of departure,
Friends coming forth from the house and impatient of
longer delaying
Each viii, his plan for the day. and The work that was
LEFT uncompleted.
Then from stall near at hand, amid exclamations oil
wonder,
Alden the thoughtful the careful, So happy, proud
of Priscilla,
Brought out his snowwhe steer, obeyng the hand OF
its master,
Led by cord tina, tied to an iron ring in its nos.
tris,
Covered with crimson cloth, and cushion placed
for a saddle.
She should not walk he said through the dust and heat
OF the MONDAY;
Nay she should ride ike queen, not pod along Ike
peasant.
Somewhat alarmed a, first, but reassured by the
Placing her hand on the cushion her foot in the hand
of her husband.
Gayly, with Joyous laugh, Priscilla mounted her
pslirey.
" Nothing is wanting now, be said with smile, but
the dis'af
Then you would he in ruth my queen, my beautiful
Bertha"
Onward the bridal procession now moved to their
Happy husband and wife aud friends conversing to-
geher.
Pleasantly mumnred the brook, as they crossed the
ford in the forest.
Pleased with the image that passed, Ike dream OF
love through its bosom,
Trenuous, floating in air. DER the depths of the azure
abysses.
Down through the golden leaves the sun was pouring
his spendors,
Cleaning purple grapes that, from branches above
them suspended,
Mingled their odorous breath with the balm OF the pine
and the fr-tree,
Wild and sweet the clusters tha; grew in the 1aey
OF Eshcol.
Like picture i, seemed Of the primitive pastoral
ages
Fresh with the youth Of the world, and recalling Re
becca and Isaac,
Old and yet ever new, and simple and beautiful al
ways,
Love Immortal and young in the endless succession OF
lovers.
~ through the Plymouth woods passed onward the
bridal procession.
Here is the Introductory poem to the Birds OF
Passage" written in Longfellow's most peculiar
and striking vein: