Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-01-24
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
1he y1p0rs weep their burthen to the ground,
Man CONES and tills the field and lies beneath,
And aft,r many summer dies the svar.
Ne only cruel immortality
Consume. | wither slowly in thine arms,
ilsir at the qllet limit OF the would,
4 white.hsite' shadaw roaming like dream
The ever sllsnt spaces OF be paet,
I.i-!old.d nir.a, ana cleaning halls of morn.
Alas for this great shadow, once q mao
So glorious in his beauty and thy choice,
Who msdest him thy chosen, that he seem d
10 his great heart none other than God
| ask d thee, " Give rne Immortality
Then didst thou gran; mine asking with smile,
Like wealthy men who care not how they give.
But thy strong Hours Indignant work'd their
wills,
And beat me down and marrd and wasted me
Aud tho they could not end me, left mo main q
10 dwell in presence Of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all was, in ashes. Can thy love,
Thy beauty, make amends, tho even now,
Close over Us, the silver star, thy guide
Shines in those tremul0us eyes that fill will
tears
70 hear me ? Let me 70 take back thy gilt
Why should man desire IN any way
To vary from the kindly race OF men,
Or pass beyond The goal # ordinance
Where all should p.use, as il most mect for all
A soft air ians the clouds apart there come
A glml SO Of that dark world where | was born
DC. more the old mysterious gIimmer steals
From thy pure brows, aud from thy shoulders
pure,
Aud bosom beating with a heart renew'd
Thy cheek begins to redden thro tho gloom,
Thy sweet eyes brighten close to mine,
Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team
Which love thee, yearnlDg for thy yoke, arise,
And shake the darkness from their loosen d
names.
And beat the twilight into flakes of fire.
10 ever thus thou grOwest beautiful
la silence, then before thine answer given
Deparlest, and thy tears are On my check.
Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears
And make me tremble lest saying learnt,
In days far of, on that dark earth be true?
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts,
Ay me ay me with what another heart
10 days far OF, and with what other eyes
| used to watch--if he he that watch d
The lucid outline forming round thee saw
The dim ourls kinjle into sunny rings
Changed with thy mystic change. and felt IN
blood
Glow with the glow that slowly orimson'd all
Thy presence and thy portals, while lay
Mouth, forehead eye.lids, growing dewy.wsr
With kisses baimier THAI hallopeuing buds
OF April, and could hear he lips thar kiss'd
Whispering knew not what OF wild and swee
Like that strange song heard Apollo sing,
" bile lion like mist rose into towers
Yet hold me not forever IN thine East:
How can my nature longer mix with lhnc'
Colby thy rosy shadows battle me, cold
Are all thy lights, aud cold my wrinkled feet
Upon thy glmmering thresholds, when I
steam
Floats up from those dim fields about the hon
Oi happy men thaS nave the power to die,
Aud grassy barrows Vi he happier dead.
Release me, and restore me to the ground
Thou seest all things, thou wilt see my grave
Thou wilt renew thy bsauty morn by morn
earth in earth loreot thsse empty courts,
Aud thee returning on thy silver wheeis.