Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-04
IN tho Atlantic Menthly.1
NOREMREGA.5
81 JOHN G. WHITTIER.

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/ 81 John G. WHITTIER.
The winding way the serpent takes
/ TIE mystic water took,
| From where, TO count its beaded lakes.
The forest sped its brook.
4 nsrrow space 'twixt shore and shore,
/ For sun or stars 10 fall,
/ While everm6Te, behind, before,
Closed in the forest wall.
The sin Wo0o. hiding underneath
Win loWers without name;
life tangled with decay and death.
Le'Igu' aflor league The same.
tnbiOkcn over swamp and hitt
Tbs, rounding shadow lay,
save where the river cut ar Will
ATathway 10 the day.
Beside thai track of air and light.
Weak rs 4 child uuweaned,
At shut Of dav 8 Christian knight
Upon his henehElan leaned.
The embers Of tae sunsets fires 1858
Along the clouds burned down;
" / see" he sad, " the d0mes and spira-
Of Norembega sown.'
" Ala,ll! the comes, 0 master mine.
Are golden clouds on high;
NOn spire Is bat the branehless Pine
That cats the evening sky"
% hnsh sna harS! What sounds arc
.hese
But chants and noly hymnss'
" Thol hears: the breeze that s,ir- The
.reeS
Through all their Ieafy limbs
% Is it 2 chapel bell that fills
The air with its low toner"
'' Thol hearst the tinkle 81 tLs ti.is,
The Insects veSper dFone,'
So The ehrist he praised! He SETS for ne
\ blessed cross in sightv'
d" Now, nay, It's but yOn blasted tree
With two gaunr arms outright q.
d" BE il wind 50 sa9 cy tree 50 STARK.
It natteyeth hOt nay knave:
Alethinks 10 funeral hymns / hark.
The cross is for my grave!
t." Ny life is.sps,d; shall not see
Ny home-set sails aga,~i
The sweetest eyes or NCrmsniie
: iaii watch fof me IN vain.
50 Yet onward still 10 ear and =y,
Fhe bafAing marvel calls,
fain would look before / die
On N,orembega's walls.
= SO, lapIy, il shall be Thy pae
At Christian feet to lay
The mystery OF the deserts heart
My dead hand PlUcked away
Z. leave ne ar hour Of rest; 90 thoa
And look from yonder nights;
Ferchsnc5 the valley oven aOw
is sf,rred with city lights
3 - l-eEc ,l,,an climbed the nearest hiu.
Fto saw nor tower nor town.
RDt, tirnugh tho drear woods. Iona and
The liver rolling. down.
lie heard the stealthy foat OF things
Whose shapes he could not sec
\ futter as 0f evil wings
The lalI Of dead 5rse.
Taa pines stood black against the moon.
4 sword Of fire hev6nd:
He heard the wolf howl, and the loon
Laugh from his reedy pond.
IIe turned him hack "a master dear.
We a;e s,nt men misled;
Ana thou hsst sought city here
To iind grave Instead.
s \ /, t5,d shall viii, what matters where
\ true mans cross may stand.
50 hea,an he DER it here as thrr.
IN PLEASANT Norman laGi9E
'sf'hes,, Vecas, paEcuagCe, 20 ~aercl hlda /
sflgnttY tower and halt:
loH river iQ lis W9pderiagS Wide
Has washed no alty wall;
b. Yel niirrored In the sulieu s,ream
The holy stars are given;
Is Nortmhega then dream
Whole waking is in Efeaveu2
B. No b,dIded wonder OF these lands
My weary eyes shall see;
i city never made with E2GFre
Alone av'a,tet2 me-
r5S. sgoa a,gStlcGs' 1 Sc,
Its mansions passing fair,
Coada0 eG{J:' lei me be,
Dear Lord, a dWeller there!"
Above tho diving exile hung
The vision 6r the bard.
A filtcred on his falling Tongue
The song Of g9oa s.erEard,
The Eei4ehman dug al dawn grave
BeBelth he hemlOcks brown,
And TO the deserts keeping gave
The lord Of liAf and town.
Years sfter, when the Sieur Cht}.r-L.in
Sailed up he mystic stream,
And NnTemhaga proved again
\ shSduW and q dream.
he fould the Norman ualpelez7 grave
Within tho hernloCk's ; shade,
And, stretcItinF' v tde Its arms &c save.
The sign that God had made
The crcss- -bbugheJ tree thaf marked he
spot
And made it fealy ground
EIe nee Is the earthly city not
Who hath the heavenly fouud'
@Sormbesa, ~ NOrimbegue, is Inc
name siven by early French fishermen
and explorers to fabulous country south
nf Cam Rretnn first 1iscnrnred by Npr- |