Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-09-13

Anu Will Nstll'lstl DAOlN l1lA AllC
TIL into my veins they creep;
Reach down the flute, aud play me
melancholy tune,
To rhyme with the dream that has vanishe
And the slumbering afternoon
There, browsing In golden sunlight.
LOiters the slow, smnnth Nile
Through slender papyri, that cover
The sleeping crocodile.
The Lotus lolls on the water
And opens its heart OF gold.
And over its broad leaf pavement
Never a ripple is rolled.
The twilight breeze IS too lazy
Those feathery palms to wave,
And yon little cloud is as motiOnless
As a stone above grave.
All me this lifeleSs nature
OppreSses my heart and brain!
Oh! fora storm and thunder,
For lightning and wild, fierce rain!
Fling down that Lutte; hate It
Take rather his buckIcr and sword,
And crash them and clash them together
TIL this sleeping world is stirred.
Har5 10 my Indian Beauty
Ny cockatoo, creamy white,
NE-;tI, ,.,,s,,., ,,,,gl,, l,;,, r,,tI,or,.
That flashes across the light.
Look listen as backward and forward
To his hoop of gold he cIings,
How he trembles, with crest uplifted.
Aud shriells as he ma5ly swings9
Oh, cocllatoo, shrek for Antony;
Cry Come, my love, come homer
Shrek Antony, Antony. Antony
Till lie hears you even in Rome.
There, leave me, and take from my chambt
That wretched little sazelle
With its bright, black eyes so meaningless
Aid its silly tinizling bcll
Take Him-my nerves he vcxcS.
The thing without blood or brain
Or, by the body Of Isis,
I'll snap his thin neck in twainl
Leave me to gaze at the landscape
MistiIy stretching away,
When the afternoons opaline tremoTs
Q'cr the mountains quiFering play
Till the tiercer splendor Of sunset
Pours from the west its fire,
And, melted as in a crucible,
Their earthly forms expire;
And the bald, bIear skull Of the desert
With glowing moPntains is crowned,
That, burning like molten Jewels,
Circle its temples round.
I will lie and dream of the past time
lEons of thought away,
And through the jungles of memory
Loosen my fancy to play.
When a smooth and velvety tiger,
Ribbed Wit yellow ahd black,
Supple and cuShioned-footed
Wandered, where never the track
Or human creature haI rustled
The silence of mighty woods,
And, fierce in a tyrannous freedom,
knew but the law of my moods.
The elephant, trumpeting, started,
When he heard my footsteps near,
And the spotted giraffes fed wildly
In Il yellow cloud of fear.
Isucked i'll the noOntidc Splendors
Quivering along the glade,
Or yawning, painting and dreaming,
B;tslted in the tamarlsll shade,
Till hoard my wild mate roaring,
As the shadows of night came Oh
To brood in the trees thick branches,
And the shadows Of sleep were gone,
Then l reused, and rOared in answer
And unsheathed from my cushioned feet
My curving claws, and stretched me,
And wandered my mate to greet.
We toycd i'll the amber twilight
Upon the warm fiat sand,
HndStruck ri each other our massive arm
How powerful hc was and grand
Ills yellow eyes flashed ficrccly
As lac crouchcd and ga2rd at ME,
And his quivcring tail, Ikea serpent.
Twitrhcd, curvinE ncrvously.
Then. like a storm he seized me.
With wild, triumphant cry,
And we met, like two clouds IN Heaven,
When the thUndcrs before them fly.
We grapplcd and struggled together,
For his love, like his rage, was rude;
And his teeth in the swelling folds of my nee
1t times, in our play, drew blood.
OnCn another suitDr-
For WAS ilcEile and fair
Fought for mc in the moonlight,
While lay crouching there,
TIL his blood was drained by the desert:
And ruricd with triumph and power
He licked me and lay beside me,
10 breathe him Il vast half hour
Then down 10 the fountain we lOitcIed