The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-21
Spanish Pictures.

1.
While Juan sang, all round the tavern court
Gathered constellation of black ewes.
Fat Lola leaned upon the balcony
Mn ains ILLS, tnat light have pillowed Hercules
N""O to oU. us Known the mightiest Spanish
Tim Alda's face, sad as a wasted passion.
rails >
The little Pope showed his two black beads.
MS nat rlnged hair and small Semitic nose
complete and tiny as a newborn minnow;
rating his head and holding in her arms
The baby senior, stood LorenzO's wife
All negligent, her kerchief discomposed
BY little clutches, woman's coquetry
Quite turned to mothers cares and sweet con.
tent,
These on the balcony, while at the door
Gszed the lank boys and lazy houldered men.
Ills likely. too, the rats and insects peeped.
Being southern Spanish ready for lounge.
we see the company, above their heads
Inc braided mating, golden as ripe corn,
stretched in curying strip close by the cranes
ELSEWHERE rolled back to greet the cooler sky:
FOUNTAIN near, vase-shspen and brOad-li
where timorous birds aliRht with tiny feet,
Andhy away again with lndpped beak.
On the stone floor the juggleris heaped nm poods
carpet and hoops, viol and tambourine
"nere Anni0al sits perched with brows severe
a "a serious ape whom none take seriously,
obliged In this FOOLS world TO earn his buta
BY hard bufoonery. We see them ali
ana near their telk-the talk of Spanish men.
WIN southern information, novels tuned
Saressingiy between the consonants,
persuasive, willing, with such intervals
As music borrows from the wooing birds.
mat plead with subtly curving, sweet descent-
ana yet can quarrel. as these Spaniards can.
IT'S daylight still, but now the golden cros.
Opnited by the angel on the dome
STANDS rayless IN calm color clear.defned
Against the northern blue from turrets high
Inc hitting splendor sinks with folded wing
Dark-hid tll morning. and the battlements
Wear soft reentiDg Wilderness melowed DER
Dy summers generous and Winters bland
NOW ID the east the distance casts its veil
And gazes with deepening earnestness.
IN me oII ram iretted mountains in their robes
or shadow broken gray; the rounded hills
Reddened with the blood of Titans, whose hinge
limbs -Us0
Entombed within, feed full the hardy flesh
vi cactus green and blue, broad.sworded aloes:
The cypress soaring black above the lines
vi WhlIe court-walls; the jOinted sugar-canes
Pale-g golden with their feathers motionless
In the warm quiet; all thought-teaching form
y Dtters itself in firm unshimmering hues.
FOR the great rock has screened the yestering snn
That still on plains beyond streams yaporous gold
among the branches; and within Bedmar
mas come the time Of sweet serenity
" men color CLOVIS unglitterng. and the soul
VI visible things shows silent happiness.
As that Of lovers trusting though apart
Inc ripe-cheeked fruits, the crimson etaled flow.
ers;
The winged life that pausing sees a gem
SunnlDgly caryen on the dark.green leaf:
The face OF man with hues supremely blent
10 dinerence fine as a voice mid sounds
Zach lovely lightdpped thing seems TO emerge
.. i1shed gravely from baptismal sacrament.
All beanteous existence rests, yet wakes,
lies still, yet conscious, with clear opened eves
And gentle breath and mild suaused low.
lis day, but day that tails like melody
repeated on string with graver tones
Tones such as liDger in long ewelI.
GEORGE ELIOT,