Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-29
TUE DocTolt's DAuGuTrR.


SIT down yonder, Philip; listen,
While / tell my sad story.
Shut the window, draw the curtain,
Ecan't see the moons soft glory
Coming thus across the sea,
Without utmost agony.
She / loycd-shewas radiant,
Young and with life OVERLOOKING!
She had dark eyes-shining shoulders
Lips of blood. If you were going
zHeayenward-yes at Eden's bourne,
And they called, you would return.
Proudcst man in all the county
Was the Doctor, Ida's father.
Twas but poor school teacher,
Tutor, to her brother, rather.
But.in spite the fathers pride
ImuSt love her OF had died.
And she loved mo-yes, say it
With Woman's pure devotion.
Though the difference between US
She was taught to think an ocean;
Yether love bridgcd DER the sen
Nay, forbade such sea to be!
Pure and perfect love, and glorious!
Tnits snnlightwe live basking.
We're the Eden gardens near W
We'dnotthink her fruits worth asking!
Life's fruit grew before us-whY
Should we look beyond the sky?
Came day OF. bitter parting
When the old man heard the story
Nc he drove out of tho doorway,
Cursed mc-he was old and hoary,
And her father, or could
III have brooked those accents rude.
Invent forth TO seek my fortune,
Her devotion with INC bearing,
Yes, her love chung to inc always,
And her fathers anger daring;
What to her was ialSehood's ETeathS
She would love me unto death!
returned-but long years after,
Young and loving her as ever
Rich beyond my utmost fancy.
When was dream ofiovc true? Never!
They had told her 4 was dead;
She believed them, and was we'd.
We'd to one her soul tlctested;
Like her father, base and Soric.l,
Who her worth in ingats counted
With the honds of stocks he boarded,
Miser, heartlcss, old and cold,
Weighing Ida against gold.
Well, he had the shining metal,
That was all his baSeness wanted,
What to him those dreams angelic
That had all=my wandering haunted?
What those cheeks ofzradiant youth?
What those lips of woman truth?
Having then the gold, / reasoned,
He had all his nature needed -
Reasoned, said Lit was passion
MaO1y a.
cared nanght for reason;
Must possess my love die!
She was willing. God of Mercy $500
Dost thou not regard with pity,
One of thine appointed angels,
Citizens Of thy white city.
Tempted, falling fainting, lost
From among thy white winged host?
So VIC travelled. You've Travelled Philip
Do you recollect at Florence,
Looking out on the Gascine,
An old village, Nilla>DOrrantz?
How its latticcd window shines
Brightly through the clustering vines?
There welived; there life grew golden;
There we dreamed alldrcams Of glory;
There whispered to her listening,
All day long the same glad story.
There she loved mo-l;sten, boy!
There God crushed our sinful joy!
How she clasped me! On my shoulder,
White as snow her cheek was lying
How she held INC! How she shuddcrcd!
Philip she was dying-dyingl
How she walled! That wall ofwoe
Sounds along the path | go.
Then she kissed me. Injoy's ocean
That kiss weighed down woe aud sank j
: And the wine of life we pressed out
In that cup of bliss and drank it!
Dashed the cup tlown-c,npty gold!
aLoosed the clasp-her lips were cold!
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