Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-06

For the Daily Times.
THE GOLDEN ISLE.
PERSIAN LEGEND.
IT'S said that golden isle once rose
Out of the midst of the billowy waves i
Heaved up by the sea gods mirthful throes,
Where the wind with perfume laden blows
Like whispers, in lone Echo's caves . /
The shores of that beautiful fairy isle
Were strewn with the diamonds priceless gem;
And the sun. like angels fadeless smile,
Lighting the myrtle groves the while,
Shone like the Deity's dadem.
And the hills mines of emerald stones, ..v
Sparkling under the morning flowers,
That grew forever in circling zones,
Around and under, radiant thrones,
Hid amid gessamer sheen, in the bowers.
The waves of the ocean, round it beat,
So gently that, like Music's strain,
Softly breathing, its numbers sweet, "a -
In an ivory shell, while fairy feet ..-4
Keep up in dance the light refrain
O, music sweet and heavenly!-bore
On the Zephyr's WINGS to the spicy grove.
Came ever at sunset from the shore, s47 II i
Changing its numbers Ger and DER,
Like the tender breathngs of early love. - 10
The trees had leaves of beaten gold, . ,.s-.s... .
Wet with the sparkling amber dew,
That fell from the angels eyes Of old, .-..
When they wept at the chimes of farewell tolled,
In Paradise as they downward few. '>''
And chirping gayly on every tree -..,.
Were birds Of beauteous plumage bright, 60 - -
That came from strange land under the sea, i
And their wings were feathers Of flligree,
That was spun 10 the rainbow's light.
The music and birds and golden trees
Kept calling forever Peri down,
Their wishes told by the soft tongued breeze t5
Till the PERI lowering round by degrees,
Placed al last her brow the island crown.
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The band of that crown shining cloth,
FMckly studded with gems pure, E-as *
Down in the sea gods palace twas wrought,
And the of the Indian Isles were sought ia
For rub, pearl and Koh-i-noor.
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Happy the Peri lived there all day.
Rowing about from bower to bower,
Hearing the song of the silvery spray 80, -..-.gs
As it kissed the shore IN wanton play,
Or pressed she the otto of scented flower.
But flower, and perfume, and melody, --
Grew cold, at last, in the solitude,
And she sought, she knew not, down by the sea,
Meath throne and branches OF golden tree,
And in ivory sh H. the spirit she wooed.
She found it not by the shore grove,
And, signing. lay among flowers to sleep; ~ ..s..
And she dreamt of her Paradise, bright, above;
And softly came there vision Of love.
With wings of light, from over the deep =
The morning smiled the lovely scene, ..
As the Peri woke from her happy dream, = -@
ITO search" she CRIED Gin the valleys green
For the youth of the prncely mien,
Whose brow crowned with bright sunbeam"
Away few gen over the
TO whisper his mistress tale of love,
TO every zephyr, and every breeze
That strs the lilies and mighty trees,
In the garden bed and the forest grove.
From the Araby gulf to the nowery land,
At the palace hall and the cottage door,
The genii whispered the secret, and
Found not the youth of the light brow grand
Till he came to Trans sunny shore.
And as he skinned down by the Oman
Mending his nets fisher boy;
.surey," he CRIED ''this cannot be he
or the radiant brow, before me see . .
That the Peri saw in her vision of joy.''- 80
But he whispered the secret into his ear,
SECT thee boat and trusty oar,
And away DER the blowy waters steer -.
To a beauteous isle, where music you'll hear,
Softly sounding around its shore"
The isherboy heard and his heart grew light,
As he pushed his, boat on the hriny wave, 49,
And it bore him away in the starry night,
As swift the sea-birds treless flight, e. 81
By many an isle which the blue waves lave.
And on and ON DER the boundless deep
HIS bark kept in its tireless flight, -
Till wearied, he laid him down to sleep;
lie thous hit of his home by the wild crags steep,
Nor broke his slumber till morning light. H..
His boat was gone; and lone the strand
He lay, while sounds of a fairy strain, --
Floating around, though an angel band
Had joined to give him a concert grand, tLaI ~
And weave DER his brow a magic chain.
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And soft voice whispered into his ear J ..tt,-
''Son of the earth, have loved thee long; -,,..
From the seas have brought thee here, I'D, -g
Where time is not measured by heetng year, 's'1
But in joy elysan and mirthsul song ]" 49,
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And eft around the Guebers fires it's told
That he lives with the Peri still in the isle,
Happy in bower and in groves of gold, ~ T
In changeless youth, for he grows not old r., ..r
That lives in the light of a PERKS smile. '-'
lie will again when thousand years
Have tolled the hours the watch tower lone; z
Wh en- the cup is broken Of sorrnwing tears,
nd the shadow death from the earth disappears,
To reign forever on VANS throne.
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September 1865. -.F..L :...s-. 10 g.. So. -.a
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