New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-29


| she left him.
With great sigh, as one who throws
| burden of. that sweet arose,
| And stood before him, trembling sore
| Fuiflled Of love their kind eyes met,
| Although apart they stood as yet,
| Helpless with pain Of ecstasy
Till from her lips a joyful ory,
| Ringing and sweet, burst forth, and he,
| Strong with loves misery,
| Faint. changed with this new joyful love,
| His wandering hands toward her did move
| Zen but little way; But round
And kissed his pale cheeks red again,
| And hung above his ovesome pain,
| Desiring him as the Spring yearns
| For the young Summer sun, that burns
His soft heart into fruitful death
His parched mouth felt her odorous BREATH
His weary burning head did rest
Upon the heaven Of her sweet breast,
| His mazed ears heard her tender speech,
| His eyes, his silence did beseechl
| For more and more and more OF love-
| How this their Joy fulfilled might move
| The world around know not WE'LL
| But yet this idle dream doth tell
| That no silent the place,
| That joyous lovers kissed and chung.
| Fen as these twain. that songs were sung
| From mouth to mouth in rose. bowers
| Where hand IN hand and crowned with MOWERS,
| Folk praised the Lover and Beloved
| That such long years, such pain had provedS
| But soft they say, their ioyance was
| Hand locked In hand, heart kissing heart,
| No more this side Of death TO part
| No more, no more-Full soft say
| Their greetings were that happy day.
| As though IN pensive semblance clad;
|
| This certain thing should seem TO hide,
That love can ne'er be satisfied
| or all the poems this perhaps Is the richest in
descriptions of natural beauty. the daintiest in
preston, the most ingenious in it's story, Space,
however will not allow us to quote from it further
nor shall we stop TO examine the tale of " The Man
who never Laughed Again" The Story Of Accom-
thus and Cydppe." or The Story of RhodOpe."
The last of all, The Lovers of Gudrun,' is much
Ill L. IL, -
tionable power is the only which We find too
long-no because it is verbose fOr Mr.. Morris
falls into that fault because the details
much elaborated but because it is oyerburdened
with incidents antecedent to the chief action of the
story The scene is laid in Iceland about the year
1000 and the argument runs that " this story shows
how two friends Lowell a fair woman, and how he
who loved her best had her to WIFE though she loved
him little at all and how one of these two
friends gave shame to and received death OF the
other, who in his turn came to- his end by reason OF
that deed" Gudrun had five lovers. and she married
four of them; but it is only with the
fifth Kiartan whom she loved above all
the world and bis cousin and brother Bodli
who loved her best and got her to wife, that the
essence OF the story really is concerned The others
might have been discarded with advantage The
cousins 60 together into Norway, and there Kiarta
forgetting GudruD ia about to wed the Kings sister,
when Bodli returns to Iceland tells what is there
happening, and induces Gudrun to marry him. But
Kiartan's first love revives he leaves the Norwegian
princess and goes home to claim his promised bride,
and Gudrun, seeking her husband he sits alone at
night in the deserted hall full of wrctched forebod-
| ings, thus upbrads him:
Because / lay awake aud Thought how men
! Have told Of traitors, and needs must see
| How such an one TO night would look TO Inc.
| Night hides thee not. Bodl Thorleikson,
Nor shall death hide from thee what thou has done
1-what!-thOu art grown afraid thou trenblest then
Because l name DEATH seed OF fearless meni
Fear not bear sword, Kiartsn Is kind,
He will not slay thee because he blind
My curse upon thee Know'st thou how alone
Thy deed hath made me Dreamest thou what pain
T. Burns in wnen he has come again
Now, when the lonred.for sun has risen at last
To light an empty world whence all has passed
Ofioy and hope.great IL thy gam herein
| A soul tho fruit of lies shall yet make vile
A body for thy base lust ~ defle.
| II thou burst come anigh me any more,
! Now have eurst thee, that tiny mother bore
| so base q wretch among good men 10 dwell,
That thou mentst build me ny TINS not walled hell
! Within me, but II longer shall live
What shall my curse be then myself 20 cursed
| That God shall mock himself for making me-
Breathess she stopped. but Bodll heplessiy
Put forth MS handS I'll be gal ned speech and said
! Aud ct word from him hope 10 have
| Kinder than this before reach the grave"
"Yca, he is kind. yea. he is kind" she cried.
/ " He lOyeth NIL. and casts his Kindness wide
| Even as God nor loves me more than God
! Loves one among Us crswlcrs DER eaffh's SOD.
| Aud who knows how love him how hate
| Each face which he looks COMPASSIONATE
| tod help me! AIN talking OF my love
| 10 thee aid such traitor may prove
| ~ thou hast the tale is fully done
We shall not follow the progress of the story bat
we must give extract The conflict between
Kiartan and Bodl has been long avcrted by the for
bearance and magnalduty of the two cousins, but
# is forced on at last by the wilcs Of Gndruns breth-
zen. Gudrun knew when ihcy were to ride forth To
slay the man she loved
Her feet grew heavy at The eud OF day
Her heart grew faint, upon her bed hho lay
Moyeless for many al hour, uuti tho snn
| Told her That the last day begun;
| Then sie arose one might IN "A dream
| TO clothc herself. III a great clOud aid seem
70 draw away from her; as III bright he'll,
Sunless bat shadOWless she saw fail well
Her life that war aud gouid be, nOw she knew
The decd unInasked that Summer day should do
/ And then she gnashcd her teeth and tore her hair,
Aud beat her breast, nor ltghteued thus despair,
As over aud over the sweet names she told
Whereby he called her IN the days ~ OLD
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