Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-07
EST TABLISHED 1910.
For the Sunday Appeal
SHADY SIDE.

BY ANNIE CHAMBERS EErCHUh.
shady sidel
Where the lirio dendrons stand,
Every leaf an outstretched hand'
Every flower golden chslice
From the Kings own starry palace
with bright nectal Overrun
Fron the yvfue-vats of the sun
More than all the world beside,
Dol love thee, shady Side!
Shady side!
Where. through vistss green and Wldei
Arrows from tno suns red culver
Pierce the deep and silent nNer,
While the wan white lilies lean
Ghost-liSe. meath the willows green,
hiding from the garish light
Waiting un the lonely night
with her spectral finger, trim
Stsr-lamps ir the ether dim,
More than all the wOrld beside,
poI love thee, shady Side
shady SideI
Where the maple branches swing
While ths robins ride and sing;
Where beside a cottage hearth
CriclIets make their social mirthi
Where the cattle in the dell
Rest beside the cool deep wen
Meath the hickory trees;
But IT'S not for these,
Bird and tree aud lily blossom
Leaning O'er the rivers bosom
More than all the world bsside,
That l love thee, Sh-dy Side!
SHADY side!
Where the bluest, clesIest eyes
Looked their last up3n the skies;
where the rosiest, sweetest lips
Purpled in Deaths dark eclipse;
Where the sOftest dimpled hands
stifened in white muslin bands
Where my Josey died
Summer flowers sprang up TO meet him,
Summer birds sang loud 10 greet him.
RIue-bells, nodding wild and sweet,
Clustered round his baby feet;
VIolets. at his violet eyes
Looked. in timid, glad surprise;
And the grosbeAk, crimson crested,
Eagle-eyed and golden-vesied,
Kingly troubsdouT,
Bringing from FAR trOpic seas
Strange, enhancing melodies
Perched beside the door;
Perehed where bright mimosa blooms
Crowded vita their rosy plumes.
And while JOsey played,
Poured between the ripping falls
or his baby shouts aud calls,
Sweetest ssrenade!
But, one morn, his blue eyes lifted
Sky-vVard, saw the flowers that drifted
Snow-white, down Heavens esplsnsde;
Outstrstched beckOning baby hands
Wooed him to those summer lands,
While a sweeJer strain he heard
Than the song OF any bird;
s., with mild, angelic features
Turned away rom earthly creatures
That clear summons following on,
Through the Valley d AK aud Lone,
Went he 10 The sky,
As OF old, a holy child,
Heaying heavenly accents mild,
Answered, " Here am l."
Shady Side!
have wandered fsr and wlde,-
Where the meek arbutus blows
Close beside the mountain snoysi
Where the bright pOmegranste tree
Blushes by southern sea;
Where Canopus through the dark
Skins the waters like barQue;
Bot come again
Where the lilies lean beside
Mississippi's solemn tide,
Mourning, b. the rivers shore,
Little feet that come no more;
And my silent tears are falling
As hear the robins calling
All day long IN vaia!
Every blossom, every tree,
Whispers Of the loss to ms;
50, to one who loses me best,
would, earnest, cay,
When to my pale lips be prest
Deaths cold cup Of silence, pray,
Dear one lay my weary head
Down TO sleep beside my dead,
Where, the live-lOng day,
sight and sound from shady Side
Tell how Josey lived and died.
Il Looking southward from Galveston Island,
e beautiful star CauOpus, in the constellation
r1O Ndt,is Uuvisible IA hfgl latitu les, Is dis
1ctly seen IN winter. "a few degrees aOOye the
1rizou. Il is frequently mistaken Tor the
int of a disiaat ship.