The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-12
aGIsCIILANY
A Poem by tho Author or "Adnin
Bede."

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A Poem by tho Author or s.Adnn
Bede."
''The. Spanish Gypsy" a narrative and
dramatic poem by the famous "Gcorge
Mll9t;" VII Pc pc published simau!taneonsly ana l.!
By Ticknor & Fields, carly next month. 1t
has been already read i'll private circle of
English critics, and pronounced q work Of
marked and original genius, showing that
George Eliot" IL not only one Of the
leading novelists Of the day, but that she
first poets OF our time. s'The Spanish
Gypsy" opens grandly with description
Of Spain, which We print from Ticknor &
Fields proof sheets:
TITS tho warm South, whore Europe
spreads her lands I}IlC
Like fretted leaflets, breathing on the
deep;
Broad-breasted Spain, leaning with equal
"a cain, earth-goddess crowned with corn
aud vinos)
On the mid-sea that moans with memo
ries,
And on the uutravelcd ocean, whose vast
tides
Pant dumbly passionate with dreams of
youth.
This river, shadowed by the battlcments
And CLEANING silvery towards the North
ern sky,
Feeds the famed stream that waters An
dalus
And loiters. amorous of the fragrant air,
By Cordova and Seville to the bay
Fronting Algarya, and the wandering food
Ot Guadiana. This deep mountain gorge
slopes widening on the olive-plumcd
plains
OF fair Granada; one far-stretching arm
Points to Elvira, one to Eastward heights
OF Alpujarras, whore the new-bathed day,
With orif1amme uplifted DER the peaks,
Saddens the breasts of Northward-looking
That loved tho night. and scared with
soaring stars;
Flashing the signals OF his nearing swift
ness e,
From Almeria's purple. .shadowed bay
On to Alhambra, strong and ruddy heart
OF glorious Morisma, Sasping now,
A maimed giant in his agony.
This town that, dips it's feet within the
stream,
And seems to sit o tower-crowned Cybele,
spreading her ample robo adown the
rocks,
Is rich Bedmar; twas Moorish long ago,
But now the Cross ID sparkling on tho
Mosque,
And bells make Catholic the trembling air.
The fortress CLEANS in Spanish sunshine
now,
t'Tis South mile before tho rays are
Moorish;)
Hereditary jewel. agraffe bright
On all the many y-titled privilege
OF young Duke Silva. No Castilian knight
That serves Queen Isabel has higher
charge;
For near this frontier sits the Moorish
King
Not Boabdil the wavcrcr, who nsurps
A throne he trembles in, and fawninng Iicks
The feet Of conquerors, but that fierce lion,
Grllsy Ell Zagal, who has made his lair
In Guadix's fort, and rushing thence with
strength,
Half his own ficrcencss, half tho untaintcd
heart
Of mounted bands that fight for holiday.
Wastes the fair lands that lie by Alcala,
Wreathing his horses neck with Christian
heads.
To keep the Christian frontier-such high
trust
Is young Duke Silva's; and the time is
great.
lWhat times are little? To the sentinel,
guard.)
The fifteenth century since The Man Di-
vino
Taught and was hated in Capcrnaum
ls near its end-is falling as Il husk
Away: from all the fruit its years have
ripcnc1.
Tho Moslcm faith, now flickcrins like
torch
In night struggle OH this shore of Spain,
Glares, broad column of advancing
flame,
Along the Danube and tho Illyrian shore
Far into Italy, where eager monks,
Who watch i'll dreams and dream the while
they watch,
See Christ grow paler in tho balcful light,
Crying again tho cry OF the forsaken.
But faith, tho stronger for extremity,
Bccomts prophetic, hears the far-off tread
VI Western chivalry, sees downward
sweep
The .arch-angel Michael, with the gloam-
And listens for the shrek of hurrying
Chased from their revels in Gods sanctn
ary.
so trusts the monk, and lifts appealing
eyes
To the high dome, the Churches firma-
ment,
Where the blue light-pierced curtain,
rolled away,
Reveals the throne and Him who sits
thereon.
So trust the men whose best hope for the
world
Is ever that the world is near it's end;
Impatient of the stars that keep their
And make no pathway for The coming
But other futures stir the worlds great
heart.
Europe is come to her majority.
And enters on the vast Inheritance
Won from thc tOml,a f,f ,ni<,bty ou,a,t,,,..