Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-03-12
THE HIGH TIDE ON THE COAST OF
LINCOLNsHIRR.
By JEAz IEsELow.

The ringers rang by two, by three
"Pull, If ye never pulled before
Good ringers, pull your best, quoth heI
ttPlay uppe, play uppe, Q Boston bells;
PLAY all your changes, all your sWells,
Play uppe The Brides ofEnderby.'"
Men say It was stolen tide
The Lord that sent it, he knows all
But in ny1e ears doth still abide
Thenessage that the bells let fall
And there was naught OF strange, beside
The fight OF mews and peewits pied
By millions erouehed on the cid ses wall
I sat and spun within the doors,
NY thread brake of, raised myne eyes;
The level sun, like ruddy ore,
Lay sinking in the barren skies;
Aud dark against days golden death
She moved where Lindis VANDERBILT
Ny sonne's fsire wife, Elizabeth.
"Cushs Cusha Cushal'' calling,
Ere the early deEs we're falling,
s'Cusha Cushal" all along;
Where the reedY Lindis fioTeth,
Floweth, Aoweth,
From the meade where melick groWeth
Family came her milking song.
'sCusha Cushal Cusha - calling,
"For the deWs viii soon he falling;
Leave your meadow grasses mellow,
Mellow, mellow
Quit your coWslips, coWslips yellow
Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot; !;
Quit the stalks OF psrsely hollow,
Hollow, hollow;
Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow,
From the elsVers lift your head
Come uPPe Whitef9ot, come upPe Lightfoot,
Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow,
Jetty, TO the milking shed.
lit be long. aye, long ago,
When beginne 70 think hoE0 long,
Againe hear the Lindis flow,
swift as an arroWe, shsTpe and strong;
And all the aire it seemeth me
Bin full officiating bells (ssyth shee),
That ring the tune Of Enderby,
Ale fresh the level pasture lay,
And not a shadOWe mote be scene,
Save where full 1--WE good miles away
The steeple lowered from out the greenei
And 10 the great bell fsrre and vide
Was heard in all the countryside
That Saturday at eyentide.
The sWannerds where their sedges are
Moved on in sunsets golden breath,
The shepherde lads heard sfsrre,
And my sonne's wife Elisabeth
Til floating o 'er the grassy sea
Game down that KINDLY message free
The "Brydes Of MaYis Endsrby.'
Then some looked up into the sky,
And all along where Lindis flows
To where the goodly vessels lie,
And where the lordly sfeeple shows,
They ssYde, "And why should this thing be"
What danger lowers by land or sea
They ring the tune Of "EndeTbyl' l'
"For evil news from Msbelthorps,
OfpyTate gslleys warping down;
For shippes ashore beyond the scOTpe,
They have not spared to wake the towne;
But while the vest On red TO see,
And storms be none, and pyrstes fee,
Why ring "1he Brydes of Enderby 2 D"
looked without, snd 10 my some
Came riding downe with might and main ;
BE raised shout as he drew on,
Till all the vel kin rang sgain,
"EliEabeth Elizabeth r.
ca sWeeteT Woman ne'er drew breath,
Than my sOnne's wife, Elizabeth,)
"The old sea wall, he cried, is downe,
The rising tide comes on apsee,
And boats adrift in yonder toWne
Go sailing uppe the mRrket-p place"
He shook as one that looks on death:
"God save you, mother I" straight he saith
"Where is my wife, Elizabeth p
GGood some, where Lindis winds away,
With her two BARNS marked her long;
And ere yon bells beganne TO play
Afar heard her milklng-song."
He looked across the grassy sea,
To right, 10 left, "Ho Enderby r'
They rang, "The Brides Of Enderby :"
With that he cried and beat his breast;
For 10 along the rivers bed
mighty eygre reared his crest,
And uppe the Lindis raging sped,
It swept with thunderous noises loud
Shaped like curling snOw-whlte cloud,
Or like demon in shroud.
And rearing Lindis backward pressed,
Shook all her trembling bankes smRine;
Then msdly at the eygre's breast
Flung uppe her weltering walls again,
Then baBkes came dOwne with ruin and rout-
Then beaten foame few round about
Then all the mighty foods were out.
So farre. so fast the eygre drave,
The heart had hardly time TO beat,
Before a shallow, seething wave
S0bbed in the grasses at our feet
The feet had hardly time to fee
Before it brake agalust the knee,
And all the world was in the sea.
Upon the roofs we safe that night,
The noise Of bells went sweeping by;
marked the lofty beacon light
Stream from the church-toWsr, red and high,
A lurid mark and dread to see;
And swsome bells they were to NEE,
That in the dark rang "Enderby''
They rang the sailor boys to guide
From roofe to roofe who fesrless rowed;
And I-rnY some was st my side,
And yet the ruddy beacon glowed;
And yet he moaned beneath his breath,
30 come in life, or come in DEATH
Q lost my love, Elizabeth"
And didst thou visit him no more?
Thou didst, thou didst, my daughter dearei
The waters laid thee at his doore,
Ere yet the early dawn was clear,
Thy pretty BARNS in fast embrace,
The li-ted sun shone on thy face,
ToWne drifted TO thy dwelling place.
That flow sire Eed wrecks about the grass,
That ebbe swept out the iocks TO sea
A fatal ebbe and flow alas
To many more than myne and me;
But each will mourn his own, (she saIth,)
And sWeeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.
shall never hear her more
By the reedy Lindis shore,
tCushal Cusha Cusha !" calling,
Ere the early dews be falling;
shall never hear her song,
'sCusha, Cushsr" all along,
Where The sunny Lindis iOWeih,
Goeth, fOWeth
From the meads where melick groWeth,
When the water winding down,
Onward hovelh to the town.