Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-01-18


He, athirst, had paused to drink
From the fountains sedgy brink 49,.
He but loitered there to lave
In the pure, psllucid wave --~z
Forehead fairor than the sun
Fer before had shone upon.
Hapless child of Air and Tellusl*
Thou that madest Juno jealous!
Seek no further to discover
Footprints of thy faithless lovere
In the blue, inverted skies,
Star.lke spiendors greet his eyes;
Echo's eye no moro may please
In himself, himself he sees
When the beauteous phantom first
On his ravished vision burst,
ae, mayhsp, was not aware ..
His own face was lnirrored there;
fn,the crystal depths alas
He but saw, as in sglass,
Lips sparted-chesks aglow,
Flushed, for all the world, as though
Roses were about to blow,
Which had budded in the snow.
Ali Narcissus, the TRANSMISSION
Observation-Disclosures
OF those false and real glances
Thy perplexity enhances;
Even had a chance beheider,
Peeping, unseen DER thy shoulder,
There essayed the true to sunder
From their simulaera under
Water, flushing into wine
With each rosy blush of thine,
He had died in the endeavor,
An idolater forever
Who may fittingIy express
Such unreal loneliness?
Who with truthful touch may trace
Pictures, vocal of the grace,
Which informed the phantom theref
Sylvan Gods may never chase
Nymph or Naiad with face
SO ethereally fair;-
Never WOO to their embraces
Three in one-the Sister Gracesl
Fantasy forever flies
One, who fain would realize,
Undiscovered from the real,
An indefinite ideal:
Who may indicate the ending,
Or beginning Of the blending,
Seven, several hues that simmer
In rainbow growing dimmers
Who unravel opasescence
In its very evanescence?
Who dispart the ttints that glimmer
In the faint illusion kindled
Ere real splendor dwindled!
Still more futile his essay,
Who would wildly portray
Scarce perceptible decline,
Where the substance and the shade,
Interfused-togetass tads!
Metaphor may not define
Stealth of gradual decay,
Toying with its tortured prey
Growth of shade-4aecrease of shine
Nsrcissus in those, eyes Of thinel
Alasl that one so young-so fair
So radiant in his golden hair
Died in selflove, OF selfdespairl
Of Echo, in the reedy. lake
In the tangled hazel brake
In the green hearts Of the dells-
In the hollow ocean shells,
Only now, an echo dwells.;
And where young Nareissus died,
Bending Ger the CLASSY tide,
Blooms q solitary flower;
Beauty is its natal dcwer.;t
Fair and fragile is its bloom
Faint and:feeting its perfume,
And it ever leansto look
At its shsdow in the brook.
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shculdst thou. like Narcissus, guess
Half of thine own loneliness,
Though his fate were surely thine,
Echo's, never would be mine!
Shouldst thou half thy charms discover,
Maiden, peerless as thuu'art,
Hope would droop within thy lover
Die upon his loyal heart;
Love-thoush mine-with hope would pc
ish,
J, with life itself would part,
Sooner than survive to cherish
Thee, as otkers than thou art!
Knowing all thou vert before
Self thou learnedst to adore.
Seeing what thou then wouldst be,
l no more could bend the knee;
Loye-though mine-would not retain
Fond regret forSone so gain,
Longer than thesfountain kept
On its bosom ripples made
BY the tears Narcissus wept
When, by sell, to self betrayed,
In the sparkling depths below,
lie beheld the rosy glow
Waning on his cheeks Of snow;
While from out his haggard eyes
All the light that in them lay,
Like the tints of twilight skies,
Faded monrnfuEy away!
.cho was the daughter Of Air and TelIus. -.
Jsrcissus was transformed into the flower VIII
his name.
he most mischievous liars are tho
, keep just on the verge of truth.
'oung men who would prosper in 10
uld WOO gently. 1t is not fashional
young ladies to take ardent sp'r'ts.
4 celebrated French woman has 81
It the greatest blessing woman can
We on earth is the continuance of
ection of her husband after marriage
Fate must trouble itself about num-
foolish people; for no sooner does q I