Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-13

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=, The pisything Of your summer spo
The spells you Weave around me
You cannot st yoilr will undo,
Nor leave me as you found me.
80 You 20 as lightly ss you came,
Your life is well without me:
Whist care you that these hills will clio
Like prison-walls about me?
No mood Is mirle to seek q wife,
Or daughter for my mother:
Who loves you lOses in that love
Al power to love anOtherI
"' dare your pity or your soOrn,
With pride ycUr own exceeding;
ding my heart into your Jap
Without word Of pleading
"She looked up in bis face OF pain
SO archly, yet 80 tender:
Aud II / lend you mine she said,
viii yOu forgiya the lender7
"FNor frock nor tan can hide thet,Jsn
Ao0 see you not, my farmer, IN
How weak and foni q woman wan
Behind the sIlken srmor7
az I love you on that love alone,
And not my worth, presuming,
Will you not lrust for summer fruit
The tree in May-dsy blooming -
Alone the hsngbird overhead,
His hair swung ga adie sirGinlng,
Looked down TO sss loves Miracle
The giving thst is gaining.
"ABd so the farmer found wifs,
His mother Found daughter:
There looks no happier home than hers
! On pleasant BsSrc1mp water.
"FIoSers spring to blossom where sh
walks
Tse careful vays 81 Suty:
/ Oar hard, stiff lines 9f life With her
Are wing curves Of beauty,
"Our homes are cheerfui for her sake,
! Oar dOOr-ysFds brighter blooming,
Aud all shout the leisl air
Is sWeeter for her coming.
Unspokeu hOmilles OF peace
Her daily life is preaching;
The still refreshment of the dew
Is her unconscious tesehing.
"ARd never tenderer hand than hers
Dnknits the brow OF sIIing;
Her garments to the siek mans ear
Have music 10 their trailing.
And when In pleasant harvest moons,
The youthful huskel,s gather,
Or isigh-drives on the mountain wgys
Defy the winter weather.
" In sugar -osEP Ps, Shel south and warm
The winds OF March Srs blowing,
And sweetly from IT'S ghsViDg xSins
The naples blood is 1i5Wlng,-
" In summer, where some liiled pond
Its Eirgin zone is Bearing,
Or where Ids ruddy autumn fire
Lights uD tbs SPPle-Psring,-
F" The eosrssness Of a Iuder time
Her fney uirlh disIlaces,
A sGbtler sense OF pleasure fills
Each rustic sport she graces.
F" Her presence isRas Its warmth and
health
To ail who come before It.
II woman lost as Eden, such
As eas alone restore il.
'' For larger hfs snd wiser aims
The farmer is her seS:O :O-;
Who holds TO his anothss's heart
Must needs BE- worse or bstteT.
- Though her bis civic service shows
4 pBreF toned ambition;
No dsGble conscious ness divides
The man and politicisr.
. - psrty's doubtful ways he trusts
Rar "stincts 10 determine;
A. the lon, Ills, the thought Of Der
RsesIls Cbrist,s fountain Sermon.
He owns her logic Of the nSs.srt,
And wisdom Of unreasOD,
applying. while he doubts and weighs, 7
), 'ee needed word in sellson.
Ha ses with pride her richer thought,
H. :. Qey's freer rangsR,
- Ia - bus deepened 10 respect
Ia nToof : Fsinst all changes.
And - ssa ~, Nks at ease in ways
TIIs e..t a..Io y TO travel,
nd If she reads y th ca ltured eyes
What hIs nosv sos, Ne Llnrayel,
Sdll clearer, for her ke Nusr sight
Or beauty aud OF WOuds
g learns the meaning Of u nHis
He dwelt from childhood un, Nef.
And higher, warmed with sNumer
lights,
Or winter-erowned and hoary,
le ridged horizon lifts fox him
Its inner veils OF glory.
BE has bis own free, boekless Tore,
The ibssoDs nature taught him,
le VISION which the WOSds and hills
And toiiing men have brought him:
The steady force Of will whersby
Her hexile grace seems sweeter:
le sturdy counterp0iss which makes
Her Woman's life compieter:
latent 4re Of soul which lacks
No breath Of love to fan &c;
I'd wit, that, like his native brooks,
Plays over solid granite.
Vow dwaTfed against his manliness I
. fe sees the poor p etsnsioD,
e vSnts, the aims, the follies, born
" 'ashion and conviction.
low ufe behind its accidents
tsnds strong and self sustaining,
E bum an fscs transcsndiLg all
he los. ng and the gaining.
md 80, iIR grateful Interchange
u teacher aud of hearer,
eir lives their true distinc.ness keep
While daily drawing nearer. !
nd If the hrsbsnd or the vile o
q homes ssroUg light discovers ?
,h light defaults as failed to meet
he blinded eyes OF lovers, u
Why need We care to ask e-who .
dreams
Without their thorns Of roses,
wonders that the trnest steel a.
he readiest spark diseloses? "
or stili In mutual suffersnce lies
he secret OF true living: Z
We scarce Is love that never knows
'he sweetness Of forgivlng. Z
We send the Squire to General Ccslrt,
% take his young wife thitaer; j
prouder man electlon day h
Rides through the sweet June weather. !.
Ie sees with eyes OF manly trust
AL hearts to her incliniug; Il
I less for him bis household light d
That other share its shining." q
rs, while my hostess sps.ke, there
grew ~
Before me, warmer tinted
ID outlined with teDderer ttrace. I
The picture that she limited.