New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-05

EnETlT A Posx-as Miss 1.xoxons b. Josxs,
Upon rock, close BY tho wild sea shore.
Mfars Echo cfSen hroka ths siiert spell,
And loved her magic regions 10 explore,
T6 sssk sech lonely nook and hidden dell,
STOOD one whose beauty, rich in innocence,
Md Ahbna IN happier hours; now her soul
Hal Iost ~ rcsscns taat bright jewel hence
&Ikd Ned intH 4 higher, holier goal.
Hkithss s1e came, nor h&ply knew. the why,
Unaess to seek reas within the sea,
Where every misery should gently die,
And ffoIn iss darkness should her soul be free
Thc winds waved back Her paly. golden hair,
AZ ragingly they tossed The tempest high;
Shs sniisd, and dia her heantseus locks repair,
Gayiy, Is though she came not there 70 die.
Y Thou ocean. and she nauttsred strangely wild,
SSH gently lei nv angry billows i1ow,
4nd III tlay bosom 70 receive q child
Hho long hath wished 70 be thy depths below
I'M wiliing Net single step advanced;
HI NY hands we're clAsped Id firm resolve;
A nonl6nt more her soul was al entranced
BY Nv sMeet cpoings of astraying dove.
Il might owner, z abe exclaimed g and art thor
xorHe,
81 Ike nayself. to crush stern deaths release?
On NJ mon come V call my spirit home,
WHARF an Ii happiness, and love, and peace2
III haAf shon too been rfazea by blighting wrong,
Ana wandering to recall ruant mate?
Ihsn shlnt Is likH unto mine own sad song,
E0r seek one who left me but 81 late;
lima stin thol may eht be that darling one,
Transformed, ny long-crushed spirit to con
Thsn genty tell thine Edith. tel her soon,
That aow'rs may bloom in her hearts wilder
nssu Y
she stretched ID vain her hand TO touch the bird
That new afffighted ID d higher stem
0f that rude tree, that, sheItering her bare head,
Dsoppsd from its boughs messy diadem.
Ihnt wreath Ut Nature moved the breaking
heaxt,
WINE Memory painted pictures 81 the past
i Hin s0ul, 10 many years prison dark
u beam from Reasons sun received pit last,
And shs remembered bow the laurel crown
Haf1 lnred i brother to Il distant land
How fhms had wreathed her temples with re.
nown,
AMI Honor waited ever her command.
And saith NV could view his dark eyes burn,
Ana his check linsh with beauty rich and pure
Ak! would he never might the tidings learn,
Hox lii young soul had persisted to adore
Shc pressed in anguish her beWildered brain,
Throbbing beneath the strange, unwonted
Hight,
And nstsr cloked within each bursting view,
As sun she sought fond Memory's morrow
bright
she looked npon the messy wreath again,
And thought upon d loving SISTERS face
Who once had formed for her q diadem
W. Hdd d beauty To each childish grace;
ana how tie flowers died within her grasp
III faaing fingers as the hours sped,
All6 nov anguish each cherished hope at last,
IhA dying flowers mingled with the dead;
A1d " sgination led her on
III mink upon that SISTERS lowly grave,
she whispered 1 Evar To each passing wave
Hard-hearted Echo mu1mured back the word,
sAnfI gently \ EVA, fell upon Her ear;
Tks accents sm0te with joy her bosom's chords.
Ihen died way 70 leave her dcubly dear.
And once again upon the wreath look
Of fond ana earnest love ahe wildly cast,
And once again in Memory's faithful book
Shb saw vivid picture N the past.
81 rexelry s hushed; The busy throng
HaTe felt each scene Of gaiety and pride;
Yonng Edith ii her bower stands alone
Hen thoughts with one who lately left her side.
Down 1t her feet d wreath of roses lying,
HAD lately fallen froln her snowy brow
Each flower, fts mission over, i but dying; 9
One dimpled arm supports the curIs; but now, 9
lNeoed nv tie zephyrs 81 the midnight, y
Fond words with gentle breezes mingling gay. 2
ana Edlth, IL loves dream, knows but one name y
III sing responsive to her hearts first lay. 81
No gaxed npDn she withered flowers there, g
Ard read ii each loving token true, p
5ut Eembled Lest tho promises SO fair "a
Nigh. Ike lie roses, Hither Tor the dew.
[he moonlight through the iattieed window bd
STRAINED, da
And mingled with the fading wreath Of love, 4"
Presenting 4 heavenly promise which It sealed, BE
With thoughts All holy Of q truth above. La
vet Reason ann had risen but to set, an
And ae last scene had loosed her heartstrings Ell
naere- pa
4 CRY Of joy, and ere she could forget, be
The wearied body sank upon the shore. WI
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