Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-05
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Margery Gray.-A Legend of Vermont.
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hH het eateAs Due eyes 2ancihg uo"h TIE lonely torres
way
la her arms her laughing baby with its fathers dark hal
played
As he fingered there beside them leaning on his sy spade
am going 10 The whestot," with smile said Rober
Cray
"l you0o too lonely MHgop, If lloayo you all tho day
Then she smiled cheerful answer ere she spoke singh
word,
And the tone Of her replying sweet as song o bird
No. she said u take the baby aud 30 stay with An
ME brown
You must meet there, dear Robert, ere the sun is Quit
gone down"
Thus heypaned Strong sturdy all the day ho ,borea
on,
spiding Up the fertile from stubborn forest won
And when engheuing shadows warned him that tho sur
was in the West,
Down the woodland ssles ho FASTENED whispering Nov
for home and rest!
But when he had reached tbs friend rl.
Neither wife nor child was waiting there to welcome Robert
She safe athome said Annie, for sDe wen, IN bopr
sgon
"I' strange did not meet her came Tie answer quick
and low.
Back he sped but night was ang and path he scarce
could see
Here and there bis feet guided onw,d by some deep
gashed tree
When logh be gained thu cabin black and desol,ts il
stood
'old ib' hearth The Wndow'nyless IN the 'lIes solitude.
"ha murmured prayer, shpddsr, and cob NJ anguish
wild,
Hack he d'aed through tho forest, calling on hi. wife and
child.
Soon the 'e'i.r'd settlers gathered from be clearing. far
And The solemn woods re.oaalsa win te, voices f.nF
,lesr
Torches a'rsd and fire.. sndcd and tho horn. long
peal phg ouf,
while he startled .shoe. answered 10 tn. b,ri, ,yoo5,ns
shout
But vain their sad endeayornsht by night and day b, day,
For no Hgn nor token found they Of Oh. child Or Nargery
Grey
Woe Woe orpfstg Margep wmherbsb, on hersrn.
On her homoNard wsy she started fearing nothing that
could harm
Win Zip andbfoN unuoubed and heart IN utter rest.
Through the dim woods he singing 90 tae dstus st
hetbfessL
Do' IN sudden terror p.usos s,tsd ,hs roand n blank
dismay.-
Where were all the white ,e,rred bsmlo,k oiun, ou the
lonely way
God Of a'Fes She had wondered from tn. pathway not
auee,
Giving mute, but kindly warning. could her ,,r.nins
vision see!
Twilight ds,psned into darkness. and . star. cana ,u,
on high
Al vas silent in the forest the owl, low, bodins cry
kound shout her in the midnight ,,ssty shsdows softly
tupi,
And the baa' upon her OOsm closed nd eve. nnd slept
h'rk' a'hOa ,nd I'll, dI,i,nes she could see torhs
geami
But alas 'h'eould reach it, and vanished like dream
Then smother shout-Inolhef bur she ete,med ,nd sob
bed In vain,
Rushing wildly toward tn, she could never never
gam
Morning came and with the sunbeam. hope and coutsse
more
Surely o another nish.a her long wandering, would be
Ger
- see 'ooh'd the wans baby, ,nd when faint rom van,
Of food,
A'' the Wn'efgesn' and that she found within The
wood
The days so long aud drs'p tn. night, moro drs.y
still
More than once smouldeuns fire ia soms sheltered nook
ihe found
Ana she know her husband, footprint. close beside on the
ground
b'~ned the fourth relentless morning. and tho .un,anp
eye
Lokedupon the hasgard moiher looked TO see the b,b, del
All day long It's plan,s moaning. wrung the hssr Of Mar
geg Cray,
All Hsh long her bosom eradled it, pailad iag OF clay
Three day. more she bore /. with hsr on her rough and
toilsome way,
m across its mar5od beauty stole the que spot Of decay
Then she knew that she mus, leave in the wilderness
sleep,
Where the ptoSlng wild beast. only watch above It's grave
should keep.
Dumb with giefshs sstbs'dsit Al how long she
knew
Were the tale, her mons, taught her Of the dear An Father
tue
When the skis. bras. above her, ini the ssrh VA
cold and din,
And when all her tear. and pleading, brought answer
down from Hin
But a'' stern Lo, The ynnt bais her take her burden
up-
tohst lips pale aud shunken pressed sg,n the bsteup
up she rose still ttampug onward through the forest ,r
and wide
nn the May aoSsr. boomsd and pori,hsd and the svs,,
June roses dsdl
Iuy and August broush her fruit. and berries iom ,h-r
store
il Tho golden rod and s.tef said that summer
i the naples and the bryhes donnsd their robes gssn
and gold
ldI the tDd'were hs.,ins solauud. and tn, dws were
poang sod.
"Hshe doomed 10 roam iotevstoct the desoated cafth
sa' The last and only being in those wild, Of human bthi
sometimes from her dteap pathway wolf VI black beat
turned away,
hat once did human pf..sp,s b... the sight of Nsee
Gey.
oa' 'Dll m9m'us n October when the wood, wee bwwn
and bsts,
through the streets Of ancient Chm,sown, with strange
b,Nidtttd ar
"'a'd p,nt and p,lid wom,p, whose d,heyelled locks
otbuNn
'"ln naked breast and shoulders in the wind were
"tan'es down
wondering snss, tell upon her wor.ss y,sd their mod.
eUes.
'"e slowly 'su,utsd near her, drawn b, plying surprise
'lne s'a'' ons, = they Whispered. nats her tangled
hair she ,e.,st
N'a h'''t, rt, pity on me. bt ( Ann no, m.d, bot
oui"
'''a net pscn, story in sv,gus, di,ioated u,y,
,p-,..s' IN. Nh'' ir' she motmuret, " rsss me home
,,.,,. ,u "d he, rond.rns. ", are on the
,'.' ~1.a s'' '' 'rd ~,''n Deep til, channel !. and