The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-08-04

The qucen-sprite stood, then leaped upon the
shore.
The fower, de'olate, deeply did depore
It's recent guest,-who in her beryi- green
Bright shallop, urged her rowers more and more,
Who filed the air with spashing silver sheen,
And softly. sang meanwhile, their quickening
strokes between.
soNi.
Fan from the realms of mortal life,
Far from all pickering,
Far from red fields with murder rife,
Far from all sounds OF tears and strife,
We live, and love, and sing.
Earthly princes rule by duy,
Earthly subjects them obey.
In lofty palace-hall,
Courticrs before their sovereign fall
BY day all evil deeds are dore,
Peace comes with the setting sun.
Now, while Nature lies reposing,
And all human eyes are closing,
And the stars their vigils keep
LabOlers fold their weariod arms,
Soldiers rest from wars alarms,
Sleep trNnsmutes them into men,
I'll the trumpet's shrll blare,
Kissing through all the shuddering air,
Calls them forth unto battle again,
Iortals, rest We while We may,
Death will meet We with the day.
But now the earth, to wick eGness prey,
In heavy slumber dreams IT'S guilt away,
Bnthed in the bamof sleep. blot FL 9
Then softly, lightly row,--tlie night ia ours,-- 7
Whose rppes break
SO ueiseless ON the pebble-dotted beach;
o softly row,-our dancing boat full soon will
reach
Her welcome, moonht sle,--and then we'll have,
Untl the sunshine shall the hill-sides lave,
JOY crowned with flowers.
The song was sung,-its body now was spent;
But though the ear it's music drank no more,
Still to the soul, in sweet bewilderment
It's spirit rolled in echoes up the shore.
To welcome home their queen Il throng old pour
OF bhesome fairies down the lakelet's side
And as she oft had done in days before
With waving hand she bade the crowd divide,
And silent moved through all, in still and royal
pide.
All the four quarters Of the globe, it seemed,
Had sent their denizens from far and near;
All that sad lovers in th cir sleep had dreumed
Of smiling efns, now were gathered here
Sly Pucks, that unto dairy y-Insids appear,
In dusk of evening, when in skipping mrtli
They hasten DER the heather, gnomes, whose
And whitened heads bespoke their ancient birth,
With all their kindred came, still rulers of the
earth.
The Falrea' castle was space apart,
In shining beauty and rcsplehdent gems;
In sooth, 1t was miracle of art,
Outshining storied Eastern dindems.
Ii to The way worn pilgrim who contemns
The pomps and vanities oi lile as mere
Unworthy trihes choosing apothegms
And scrip, and tati,-this castle should appear,
He'd ;urn his feet aside and take his heaven here
The castle, built of alabaster, stood
Viewing it's builders will, half-disdain,-
As though alone, in stainless solitude,
Had it the power forever 'twoud remain.
It's airy towers and ininarets showered a rain
or myriad spangles in g'itterng maze
Yet amethyst, sapphire, ruby, cleaned in vain;
For, from summit-tower, which high did raise
Itself {, an opal dmmed them with it's changeful
blaze.
Within the court yard all the fairy-band
Assembled some, with lightly tripping toe,
Played dances in the moonlight, hand in hand,
Some watched the fitting shadows come and go
Across each others faces from below
It's slken lashes every sparkling eye
Oerflowed with pity, when some human woe
Was told,-or, when some connter-)oy was nigh,
Each ruby, parted lip broke forth in melody.
To chronicle their wandeiings time would fail,
The books which held them earth c. uld not con-
tain;
No vice they'd been too timid to assail,
Yet had they tried thus far almost in vain.
The coon they wrought had been DESTROYED again,
Wrong was thing which by resistance grew
On hardened hearts Sins stamp would still re-
main,- #.. ... E. . .+ .l
How could the rooted Old give place to New,
or how could aged, lying lips be changed to true,
Nt.
! Tyrants they had dethroned, ,-usm pers slain;
Judges who worshipped Justice less than gold
! They had removed,-but tyrants rose again,
| Blood poured and rights were bartered, as OF old
| In vain was virtue painte | for controlled
! BY passion, the degraded current ran
IN few, sd words the story could be told, =
J This is the way, e'er since the world began,
Man fumes and irets, and preys upon his fellow
man.
XII.
| What good could water do, on seas of fire,
Could any force the oak OF centuries bend
| How could the snail the practiced runner tire,
| Or how should dwariS with giants eer contend Z
| II was in vain such messengers tosend,-
Better, they added, with long drawn sigh
Since mems discordant natures would not blend
To letthe world in all it's misery lie,-
The sovereign waved her hand, and husbed the
gathering cry.
| Lifted above the assembled multitude,
The qneen-s prito stood, with conscious oftt' air
Her zone, a strip Of rainbow, many-hued,
| Cast Off aud was .he ihirest Of the fair.
| A sunbeam was her wand,--oyer her bare
( And tiny arms she drew her purple cloak,
/ Cut fftm n sunset -cloud-above her hair
There cleaned a damond,-in voice which
broke
iAAi"iJ inc illiint7- leilul slllt- itiiiia epohc
XIV.
VIC 90 not reckon time, as mortals do,
Began the queen,-yet now well recall,
When from this throne saw each one Of you
PROSTATE before me, newly-croV ned, fall
New-hushed with royal.y, both one aud all
Then swore allegiance and throughout my reign
No rot-ruhors such as on appal
Most rulers, have reached ms,--all things emair
IN rest,-and i'll woulI, yet could not complain