Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-12

Charmed to bliss, thy soul shall catch the CLEANS
OF mystic glories in ambrosia dreams.
HAYNES SONG OF THE NA1ADS
Twas midnight, and Islept-a troubled sleep
And then glad repose-yet not too deep
For happy thought. I wandered far in dreams
Thro' valleys sweet, by soft meandering streams
Then back to welcome scenes, where thou didst
To sway supreme-of every thought the theme.
Methought, on Luckawana's* shore, alone,
| ITO list the music of its monotone),
| walked-nor noted that the Summers sun
Well nigh his long diurnal race had run;
TILL leaning DER, watched Lilyf lave
It's graceful petals in the limpid wave,
While floods of golden light the waters kissed,
And robed in rainbow hues the rising mist
Iknelt, and plucked the tiny, tender flower,
When, 10 AROSE as from Fairy bower
being, such as Tales say Naiadst are
More bright-more beautiful than evenings star.
And tho such beauty told of Heavenly birth'
It seemed, once had seen the same on Earth.
I would have worshiped-but the Being spoke
And, as her voice upon the stiffness broke,
A thousand thoughts were in my bosom stirred,
And touched chord of memory with each word.
And thus she said :-ssThou art but Mortal,
Youth,
And, being Mortal, thou mistrustest Truth
Believest not in Nymph's, nor Maids power
To bless the mortal, who may choose that flower
Whose tender life enfolds some Naiad state
Whose Destiny involves some Maids Fate.
There flows no stream but has its Naiad Queen,
And Fortune follows him by Naiad seen.
Tho countless Lilies by each stream repose,
But one the Naiad Being can compose.
That one but seldom found so Mortals few
With Naiad Nymphs have known an interview.
And this the wherefore that ye Mortals doubt,
For mortal minds will not believe scithout
The proofof Sense. But know that thou art blest
Because thou tookst that plant, and left the rest
Ask what thou wilt; what eer thy thought sug.
gests
'Tis mine to give-'tis mine to grant requests. "
Iwould have answered-but l burst not ask
The wish my yearning soul had failed to mask.
Again she spoke :-sIt needs no Naiad Sprite
To bode thy want-so clear to Human sight.
Thou lowest, Mortal, nor wilt thou confde
To her thou lowest, what thou canst not hide.
But, sad, thou seekest Luckawana's side
To tell thy tale to Luckawana's tide.
Now. tho thy wish, as yet, is unexpressed-
TO MEET THY LOVE- will that thou be blest;
But paint the maiden as she seems to thee,
And straight the self same maiden thou shalt see. "
She paused-then, lowly kneeling, replied
"Thou, lovely Queen of Luckawana's tide
Sweet Naiad Nymph, since thou hast bid me tell
How looks the Lady whom l love too we'll
can but say I fear I cannot paint
In words the virtues of seeming Saint.
But, oh, her form and feature! save thine own,
No mortal man a fairer eer has known.
So like to thee in every grace of thine.
So like to thee in every lovely line!
Yet, tell me, why hast thou her image borne!
Oh! tell me, why hast thou her beauty worn?
Art thou, hersey-but mirrored in the mist?
Or do dream or do ye co-exist?"
But, ere ceased. the Fairy scene was gone,
As moonbeams melt before the flush of dawn;
And in its wake radiant maid was seen
The image of the self.same Naiad Queen.
Methought she neared to speak--but ere she
spoke
The chain of thought was lost and-I awoke
To know the Nymph of Luckawana's stream
Vert thou-the Spirit Of my every dream.
THE RETREAT, Richland, S. c., June 2, 1860.
*The Luckawana is romantic little stream OF
Pennsylvania.
1.-THE Lily of the Valley:-Convallaria majals.
1t was to the "Naad.like lily of the vale, whose
tremulous bells are seen through their pavillons
of tender green" that the Poet Keats has as
signed a diadem
No flower amid the forest fairer grows
Than the sweet lily of the low y vale,
The QUEEN of flowers.
IA Naiad in Mythology is water nymph;
female deity that presides over rivers and springs
think that Webster is in error, in making the
plural of Naiad, (nayad), Naiades, (naya.deez)
The Greek plural as well as the singular has
been anglicized Naiads, (nayads).