The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-08-24
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By W. ". STORY,

nore. my CHAIRMAN, take my bracelets, ->>.",-~
They barwitha purple stain Il .l.-7 sz.,;s5
Ny arms n1 turn oyer my pillows
They are hot whore have lain: ''''' T.'-'~'
Open thslattice wider, ;'@: ! ga!
':gA,gauzc Der my bosom throw, .3
And let me inhal~ the odors -"''
That over the garden blow. @.t =, ,, ,!5ly
dreamed was with my Antony , $500
: And in his arms Law;
All, me! the vision has vanished
Tho music has died away. = @@as' r
: The fame and the perfume have perished- T..
As this spiced aromatic pastille,
Tha twound the blue smoke of its odor, -"
~ 1snow but an ashy hill. ,..o7.,,:
Scatter upon me,rose leaves, L ! :.,.. y 4.
They cool mo after my sleep,
And with sandal odors fan me '''
Till into my veins they Creep: =
Reach down the lutte, and play me, ..a
melancholy tune,
TO rhyme with the dream that has vanished, :,
=" And the ,sl,imbering afternoon. .... ~.
- There, dfowsf1gin golden sunlight, .,s..-
Loiters the slow. smooth Nile,
Though slender papyri, that covor 80.
The'wary crocodile. go -. . -
The lotus Tolls on the WATER, -, /, nj ,,
And opens its heart Of gold,
And over its broad leaf pavement
Nevera rippleiis rolled: :. = =
The twilight ,hreeze is too lazy ,!.> ...t!
Those feathery palms to wave,
And yon little cloud ia as motionlesg - .
!: ?. Az . stone above grave. g q ~
Ah, me! this Iifeless nature :! s. .s-ss :
: Oppresses my heart and brain!
Oh for storm and thunder,
For lightning and wild fierce ralni =.
Fling down that luts-I hate it'll
:. Take rather. his buckler and sword,
= And crash them and clash them together
Till this sleeping world is stirred.
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Hark to my Indian beauty
My cockatoo, creamy white,
=: With roses under his feathers-s., ., !,
That flashes across the light.
Look listen! as backward and forward i -
To his hoop of gold he clings,
How he trembles, with crest uplifted,
And shrieks as he madly swingsl
Oh, cockatoo, shrek for Antonyr e..
x, Cry, "Come, my love, come home"
Shrek, "Antony Antony! Antonyr"
Till he hears you even in Rome.
There-leave me and take from my chamber
That stupid little gazelle, .,
With its bright black eyes SO meaningless,
And its silly tinkling bell
Take him-my nerves he vexes- -,
The thing without blood or brain,
Or, by the body of Isis,
I'll snap his neck in twain!
Leave me to gaze at the Landscape
Mistily stretching away,
Where the afternoons opaline tremors
Ger the mountains quivering play
3 Till the hercer splendor of sunset
Pours from the west it's fire,
And melted as in crucible, ,:
Their earthly forms expire
And the bald blear skull Of the desert =
.'r With glowing mountains Is crowned,
That, burning like molten jewels,
Circle its temples round. -'-..' '-.'
will lie and dream Of tho past time,
' Eons Of thought away, =, -.
And through the jungle of memory
Loosen my fancy to play;
When: smooth and velyety tiger, :
Ribbed with yellow aud black,
Supple and cushion.footed,
Wandered where never the track -
Of human creature had rustled
The silence of mighty woods
TIE elephant, trumpeting, started
When he heard my footstsp near,
And the spotted girafes fled wildly
In a yellow cloud of fear.
sucked in the noontide splsndor
Quivering along the glade,
Or yawning, painting and dreaming,
Basked in the tamerisk shade,
Till heard my wild mate roaring,
As the shadows of night came on
To trood in the trees thick branches, ;
And the shadow of sleep was gone;
Then reused and roared in answer,
And unsheathed from my cushioned feet
My curving claws. and stretched mo :;
And wandered my mate to greet.
We toyed in the amber moonlight,
, Upon the warm fiat sand,. ,.,....
And struck at each other our massive arms
How powerful he was and grandl - -.
j.. His yellow eyes flashed fercely ..,':'..
As.he crouched and gazsd at me,
And his quivering tail, like serpent, -
" - .Twichsd curving neryously ;@s!y,s. T..
Then like storm he seized me
With avid, triumphant cry, S'' 80 =
: Andswe met as two clouds ini1eavsn 8: zoe
When the thunders before them 1y; y
We grappled and struggled together,
+ For his love, like his rage, was ruds;'
And his teeth in the swelling folds Of my neck
At times, in our play, drew blood. ,<'s'
Often another suitor-- ...
For was fexile and fair
: Poughtfor me in the moonlight, ~ = 9~
I While I lay clouching there,
Till his blood was drained by the desert;
And, ruf1ed with triumph and power, Z
90. He licked me and lay beside me
To breathe him a vast half hour;
d Then down to the fountain We loitsred, ~.
Where the antelope. came to drink
Like a bolt wesprang upon them,
:. :. Ere they had time to shrink. g.,
We drank their blood and crushed them,
And tore them limb from limb,
And the hungriest lion doubted -!
Ere he disputed with him.
= That was a life to liye for!
Not this week human life,
/, With its frivolous, bloodless passions, i
:. 1ts poor and petty strifei . = g.,
Come to my arms, my hero, ....-4
The shadows of twilight grow,
And the tigers ancient herceness
In my veins begins to flow. ,t.., -
=, Come not cringing to sue me
Take me with triumph and power. = Ss''1 /
Z. As awarrior storms fortress - :,.3 :
Twill not shrink OF cover,
Come as You came in the desert, - e
Ere We were women and men,
When the tiger passions were in Us,
And love as you loved me then I: ~
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