New-York tribune., 1869-01-19


Then, while along the western hills
OF sunset, our hOmeward way,
heard her simple story.
How this phantom of delight came to be found
IN such surroundings the theme of the poem, which
tells the little story as it fell from tho lips of the
rustic hostess whose hospitality had afforded the
,poet Summer tabernacle among the woods. The
first act in the drama is bold step the part Of the
young lady who had come up from the city to re-
cruit her health on the breezy hills
+" She sat beneath the broad-arrned elms
That skirt the mowing-meadow,
And watched the gentle west-wlnd weave
The grass with shine and shadow.
Beside her, from the Summer heat
To share her grateful screening,
With forehead barred, the farmer STOOD
Upon his pitchfOrk leaning.
"Framed in its damp, dark locks, his face
strong manly, true, the tenderness
And pride beloved of woman.
"she looked up, glowing with the health
The country air had brought her,
Aad, laugning SAID You iaeK a wHe'
Your mother lacks a daughter
Ito mend your frock and bake your bread
You do not need lady
BE among these brown old homes
lis some one waiting ready
"'some fair. sweet girl with skillful hand
And cheerful heart for treasure,
Who played with ivory keys,
Ordanced the pOlka's measnTe.'D
The handsome ye0man was somewhat TAKEN aDach
by the overture, and imagines that the maiden Is
the suspicion and true love finds tongue
"He bent his black orows TO frowD'
IT'S well,' he said. for one likeyou
To choose fOr Ee so lightly.
"'You think because my life is rude,
take no note OF sweetness
tell you love has naught to do
With meetness or unmeetness.
"'Itsef its best excuse. it asks
No leave OF pride or fashion
II stirs with throbs Of passion.
".You think me deaf and blind you bring
Your winning graces hither
As free as II from cradle-tlne
We two had played together
"'You tempt me with your laughing eyes,
Your check Of sundown's bushes.
motion as Of waving grain,
music as Of thrushes.
"'Tho pIaything Of your Summer sport,
The spells you weave around me
Yon csnnot at your VIII undo
Nor leave me as you found me.
"'You go as lightly as you came
Your life is well without me,
What you that these bills will close
Like piison-walls about met
"'Eo mood is mine to seek wife,
Or daughter for my mother
Who loves you loses In that love
All power TO love anothcr
al dare dare your pity or yOnr scOrn.
fling my heart into your lap
Without word Of pleading"
Happily the lady is not Clara We're de We're. and
takes DO pleasure in breaking rustic hearts.
"she looked up in his face Of pain
So archy, yet so tender;
VIII you forgive the lendert
"'Nor frOcI nor tan can hide the man;
Aud you not, my farmer,
How weak aud fond a woman waits
Behind this silken arn0rI
al love you: on that love alone,
Aud not my worth. Presuming.
Will yOn not trust for summer fruit
The tree In May1day bloomingF
Alone the hangbird overhead.
His har-swung cradle strainng.
The giving that is gaining
And so the farmer found a wife,
There looks happier home than hers
On pleasant Bearcamp Water"
The engagement thus suddenly formed terminates
In the heavenliest of all marriages and tho open
hearted maiden becomes angel not only in her own
household, but to all the region roundabout.
Her presence lends its warmth and health
10 all who before N.
woman lost US Eden suc6
As she alone restore It.
"For larger rfe aud wiser aims
Tue farmer s her debtor;
WHO holds to bis auOheI's heart
Must needs be worse o. better .,
"Throngh her his civic service shows
"A perer.toned aIaoilion
The man and politician.
"In party's doubtful ways he trusts
Her instincts to determine;
At the loud polls, the thought OF her
Recalls ChIists Mountain Sermon.
He owns her logic Of the heart,
Supplying. while be doubts aud weighs,
TIE needed word in season.
,"He with pride her richer thought,
Her fancy's freer ranges;
And love thus deepened 10 respect
Is proof against s changes"
The remaining poems in this volume, though On.
equal in conception and execution, are for the most
part expressions of the fine love of nature and the
and melitative sentiment which characterize
the genus of the author
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