The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-10-01
THE PACIFIC
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Night PIciure.-
When day hath dropped behind the weariei ~orld
AMI t~uigh,'s azure curtains hang around,
All innged With dewi then doth the busy night
Wave veb-drrams round the tendrIl Of my heart
AL quiyerinE with love for night, and moons
And wastes o violet s-as, with murmurinE sounds,
Lllirg sumnicr-usiinight shores. Pesrl-paVed
And starlight pcbbed, tall entAngied there,
Amid the sHken m-shes Of my dreams,
hold these fragments captive
Now bamy dews.
Closing the drowsy Ids Of lingering day,
That hcth wakeful a Ihc verge Of dusk,
Imprin: bright In kisses on her eyes,
60 holding them in sleep.
Amid the eIouded eIolsters Of the East,
The of vcspcrs twinkle silently,
And through the hushrd hours Of breathiess night,
The psnsiye matron- moon, with paIid brow,
Doth wsnter like nun. cloud hooded, while
she tells her s,ar-beads through her holy round,
Aud seeps deW-tears Ia pcnance for the world.
You
DER fond % 81 tile vinEing stars,
And mournfai moons, that float adOrn the SKY
Through silver ripples. For ever loved
To Iic mid pensye airs, with haIfshut eyes,
And see the moon csreering through the deep
Mysterious sky borne BY gentle gales,
Half holding In their breath for fear Of i'll
On, on, she speeds till ~ the morning blooms,
And heaps her rosy spendors in the sky,
SIZE wrecks amid the sIorss Of the day.
Against the changing pulses Of the world
With kind affection ani in seutIe deed,
The tzilt sht eth with ber fair brown cheek.
All dimpled with star CLEANS
Then cares.
While night comes lowering DER US like q bird.
Shaking the darkness from her jetty pIumes.
80 through hushed watches TO the dawn she sits,
wing-feded in the darkness
The star. we're los, in cloud and the sad moon
In uIId deIirigm did seek TO hide
Her brow within the Mats, and showed her
At the sad Ioss OF these, her favored ones
Then Ia the strangeness of her great distress,
She sought 10 thrust herself upon q cloud,
AMI wreck her any helpless ship
wGuId strand upon q misty hidden shoai-
60 went she reeing her damp grave,
As morn was budding in the fragrant East
And busy sunbearns buried her from view.
Ys. once again
the nigh. in weeds and girb Of woe.
With all her wealth OF dewy locks unbound
The jeveIled moon, upon her mourufil brow,
And 'nid her flowing tresses, glossy black.
The entanSed in hushed ustre lay,
Dead pearls amid her hair.
At last the feversh moon,
Mofssning her lips upon the seas damp verge,
Grew wondrous radiant, and a. hight Of bloom
Poured all her silver Ger the waves, aud fell
10. from the Iaboriug womb Of cloud black night,
Mid palIid shuiders, and uneasy mosns
Creep bosserous, tsttng breezes, bleak and chill,
That fret the restless waves to loud complaints,
And Arzry lashinss Of long foaming Shores
See you the East grow merry purple robed'
See you the sseel-gray mists stand blank around
Like sentries IN a scene! Now all the
Grows ripe in rudy Iustre, of wine,
ToiIing IN purple richness, and the air
All heavy with the breath Of opening blooms,
Is telIng narvels in a merry way
Now list my friend Give for words:
Feel you prayer gushing from your heart,
Thai al your struggles cannot, voceless, hold'
l. there a Iifting Of blank dead, lids
From eyes Ioug held In blindness, but now opei
Unto the fearful sPendors Of new life,
CAIss poor words, We cannot give TO me
A living tongue 70 syllable my thoughts-)
This-this IS but eye-siimPse Of the day
This is the birth Of morn
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