The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19
In MY vineyard.
BY BAYARp TAYLOR

J.
AZ last the dream that clad the nela
IA fairest fact, and stable;
At last nv vines covert ylelo,
A patch for song and fable.
thread the rustling ranks, that hide
Their misty violet treasure,
And part the sprays with more than pride,
And more than owners pleasure.
The tender shoots, the fragrance fine,
Betray the gerden's poet,
+ whose daintiest life Is turned to wine,
Yet half Is shy to show IT.
The epicure, who yields to toll
A scarce fulfilled reliance,
But takes from sun and dew and soil
A grace unguessed by science.
t-4 III.
Faint odors, from the punches blown,
Surround me and subdue me;
The vineyard-breath OF many q zone
Is softly breathing through me;
Prom slopes of Eshkol, in the sun,
AID many hillside classic;
.aroIa where Falernian juices run,
- And where they press the Massic
,s,-s-S W.
The hungry watts replenish,
And. less from earth than from the SKY,
Distil the golden Rhenish:
Where, light Of heart, the felals
Compels his stony level
To burst and foam in purple spray
q The rose that crowns the reVell
So here, as there, the subject earth
Shall take o tenderer duty;
And Labor walk with harmless Mirth,
And wed with loving Beauty;
So, here, gracious life shall fx
: Its seat In SUMMER weather;
FOR sap and blood SO sweetly mix,
And richly run together.
VIZ
The vine was exiled from the land
That bore but needful guerdons;
5 But now we slack the weary hand,
And look for gentler burdens;
We take from Ease grace ABOVE
The strength we took from LABOR,
And win to laugh, and WOO to love,
Each grlmly earnest nelgnoor.
~ VII.
What idle dreams Even as muse,
j feel falling shadow;
And yapors blur and clouds confuse
- Nv coming Eldorado.
!. Porientous, grim, ghost draws nigh,
TO clip my flying fancy,
And change the shows OF earth and SKY
4eWith evil necromancy.
VIII.
; Tne leaves on every yine-branch curl
AS II frost had stung them;
Tne punches shrivel, snap and whirl
As Ii q tempest lung them;
And as the ghost his forehead snakes,
Denying and commanding,
But withered stalks and barren stakes
Sarreund me where Pm standing.
( siBeware p' the spectre cried; "the woe
or this delusive culture
The nightingale that lures thee so
81 Shall llhatch o rayening vulture-
To feed the vat, TO fill the bin,
g Thou pluck,st the vineyards folsom,
That drugs the cup OF mirth with sin,
The veins OF health with poison J"
5 Bot now golden mist was born,
S With violet -edors mingled:
felt . brightness as OF morn,
And al my pulses tingled;
( and forms srose-among them first
: The old Ionian lion,
s And they Sicilian MUSES. nursed-
Theocritus and Bion.
And he OF Teos, he OF Rome
The Sabine bard and urban;
& And Saadi, from his Persian home,
And Han1 In his turban;
: And Shakespeare. silent, sweet ana grave
And Herrick with his lawns on;
. "A Il MI rnal1Ow hurly- brave.
Along with rare Ben Johnson
ape comforted T, they seemed TO say;
aPor Nature does no treasons:
she neither gives nor takes away
Without eternal reasons.
{ she heaps the stores Of corn and oil
In such o liberal measure,
Z That, past the utmost need OF Toll,
There's something left for Pleasure.
! XIII.
ssrne secret soul Of sun and dew
Hot yairly she distilieth,
And from these globes OF pink and blue
Al,-nless cup she illeth:
Eho 10 eth her may take delight
M:Nf At for him she dresses,
Nor ina In cheerful appetite
Z The portal to excesses.
81 XIV.
ewes. ever since the race began
TO press the vineyards juices,
II was the brute within the man
Defled their nobler uses;
But they who take from order JOY,
" And make denial duty,
nat chain the brute they should destroy
BY Freedom and by BeautyW
I 7hey spake; and, 10 ! the balefll shape
Grew dim, and then retreated;
And bending DER the boarded grape,
me vines my vision greeted.
ne sunshine burst, the breezes turned
Yhe leaves till they were hoary,
: And over all the vineyard burned
A fresher light Of glory
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