New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-30

/ i crash ri voices on tie passing wind,
! 4 heavv throtsing Of my aching brow,
\ Ana leaving ali ever loved behind.
j Iwill pass over what then became
lii that strange land, So lest % homer, iame
The song, the dance, and laughter wild and gay,
1 Coarse midnight rcrels, turning night TO day,
The Bacchanalian feast, wine bright and red
And helIish. Then hope from me fed. S
0no tirht watched the moon rise pale and cold,
And ride ilnperious through the midnight sky,
4 1ased until the stars seemed to behold
Her toy impress in my frozen eye.
Proud, stern and griesed nor did she deign to look
Upon the dark clouds floating here and there,
Her face was like silver covered book
Whereon we read the titleof despair.
That grief touched around my palsied pride,
! laid my own hand on my life and died!
Life. thought and feeling ceased abrupt and short,
Aswhen we reckless come, upon chasm's brink
And sudden stop. a cold and marble sort
OF freeziness whenser stroye to think
Was all knew. vet knowledge had not.
And life and death and earth were one great blot
Nor feeling had land the sky and sun
Were all gone out, or mingled into one.
At length, as in o dream most indistinct,
felt, Or sdsc two stars in beauty rise
! Just up above me, each golden link
As :twere between myself and Paradise;
And as they came straight Down from heaven to
me
a white cloud floated slow and gracefully
Athwart the sky, and caught in its embrace
Those shining orbs-oh, then saw a face
or such exquisite beauty peering through
That heecy cloud and hazy mellow blue,
With waving hair Of blended gold and light
Above the brow so beautifully white,
And eyes so strangely pure that meath their ray
I grew unsteady, and quick turned away.
Intensely bright were those Koh-inoor eyes,
All! purity herself weuld love to prize
Their memory. 0, never in my dreams
Of earthly happiness and heartfelt bliss,
OF on the tide Of life's dark varied streams.
Had e,er seen a face, a form like this!
Seft al the mother bird unfolds her wings,
Dropping in fondness der her startled young
So o,er me light and free fell those gold rings,
And round my form her spirit arms were flung.
Through the infnity Of space we few,
Mid haze and dust and stars we hurried through,
with her long finger pointed to the sky
And holy looks within her lambient eye,
on, on, W. flew; when light proclaimed il dawn
felt my pinions grow, and she was gone!
I saw vista carpeted with flowers,
Whose sloping arches leaned against the sky,
Far in the distance were most gorgeous bowers
And pyramids Of every hue and dye,
Small ink-winged butterflies with silver eyes
FIeated about and sip'd the shining dew,
| / saw q myriad stars above me rise.
And these high gates unveiled in light and blue!
turned one glance to earth, no still was there,
Then poised my snowy pinions for the fight,
Swift ~ thought, hurried through the air,
Leaving below me all the gems Of night
nv spirit leap't q free, light-wiry thing,
For all but one Of earthly ties were riven.
Why does remembrance that dark shadow fling 81
Fen is sit beside the gates Of Heaven.
Twas but last night when first turned from
va prayer
pressed my hand in silence on my brow,
And Oh, ] heard his dear voice on the air.
y Az plainly as u hear the Hallelujah now.
Quickly passed yon arching wall Of dew,
Stretching mine arms adown the slope Of Heaven,
But fleeter cen than these light wings flew
by heart to kiss the heart it had forgiven.
saw him standing meath the star-lit sky,
And caught his wild song as Boated by:
Came back to NE! come to this ioyless world,
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