Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-08-21


shore.
A crystal arch doth span the waters o,er
An airy structure, wrought of mist aud
light.
Flashing its prismic colors on the breast
OF wavelets, journeying in sweet unrest
Shoreward in ripping cadence, soft aid
low.
Blushing and Frightening in the radiant
glow.
Kissing the shores In murmurs of de-
light.
Within this realm, where fairy splendors
reign,
Where light endures till Morn returns
again.
There dwells Nymph. too fair for NOR.
tai kind.
Queen Of the Clouds and of the Mountain
Wind !;
This realm her kingdom, this arch her
throue;
Nephele her name, her fame unknown.
'Tis hers with royal mandate to control
The clouds and winds that round old
Mansfield roll
Her they obey, to marshal for the storm.
The tempest's rage, or sleep in shadowy
calm.
Sometime in mood tempestuous, her com
Bids forth her vassals in direful band,
10 terrify and devastate the land.
From their grim caves, obeying her be-
hest.
The lurid lightnings for their battle crest
they thunder forth upon the fearful
quest
Anon, in kinder mood or happier hour,
Fresh from the confines of her misty bow
She sends them laden with the genia1
shower.
When thus her royal wishes she reveals,
Slowly sweeping DER the thirsty fields
They drop the golden seeds Of future yields
Again in changing mood, with wand OF
high,
She bids her Zephyrs mount the azur'
sky
70 catch the silver cloudlets passing by {:
And then. on airy wing, shadowy thron,
SkirtiUg the mountain tops. they floa
along
TO the slow music of the Zephyrs' song.
Oft on her misty throne, the fair Cloul
Queen,
firing to rule so royalty unseen,
10 mortal gaze unveils the hidden scene
0bcdient Zcphyrs then. with fingers feet
Uprol the cloudy curtain from her feet
Or in the walls do open gateways sweet.
When to Olympian Jove. his hidden thron
Did irksome grow, keeping his state alone
He bade his cloudy walls be open thrown
The Hours who kept the gates, at hi
command,
With magic touch did ope the portal
grand,
And heavenly glimpses gave to all tn
land.
With piercing eyes the Poets of the time
Gazing enrapturcd through those gate
sublime,
Have writ the stories Of that wondrou
CLINE.
So here have I. as did the Poets old,
With rapture watched these cloudy wall
unfold:
Else could not this story here have told
Such now the scene, where many year
ago,
Ere mortal foot had trod the virgin snow
Which piled its drifts Ger Mansfield
summit cold,
A stately palace stood its outlines bold
lowered grandly upward through the eu
chanted air,
And crystal walls flashed back an ic
glare.
! Encircled by the hills which now enclose
The Lake of Clouds, its magic walls up
rose,
Wrought by the spells Of Frigia, Ice
crowned Queen,
Who hoped Aer reign had here eterna
been.
With strange devices, and with wondrou
skill
She reared and fashioned to her sovereig
will
Its walls, its turrets and its glitterin
dome;
Here fixed her seat-here set her ic
throne
Beneath her cruel spell how bleak an
The mountain slopes and summit glade
appear;
Those hills where now the purple spuuce
grow,
Stern Frigia covered with perpetual snow
No hardy flower, no mountain shrub 0
tree
Dared raise its head to brave her hars
decree;.
And all the region on the enchanted hill
Murmured mournful monotone Of i'll.
From this bleak waste, magnificent an
grand
Her 10y dome uprosc, o'erloOking all th
land :
With lofty battlemcnts and towerin
7 spires
1t caught the golden light Of heaVenl
fires,
And robed divipely with celestial glow,
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