National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-18
RATES OF ApvEnrIsINo.
The Lost I'Iclnd.o
NY THE HON. ROBERT aTHASoE.
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Cluster, Of brilliant stars that shine,
IN cid the vernal even
sisters We were, Of race divine,
And Fthra's daughters seven
Vet yainly doin the curious eye,
your shining throng explore
Six Of You only, deck the sky,
The seventh, in seen no more.
Lord, Of the thousand nocks that stray,
In Mauritania wide,
Alias. from Ocean bore away,
Fair Fthra for his bride.
And offspring Of this god-like race,
Seven daughters crowned their love,
Fnr six OF whom, u glorious place,
l. found IN Heaven above
There AZ constellation bright,
Whose light may never fail.
Near Taurus in the summer night,
SIX shining Pleads sail.
The seventh alas We yainly search,
Thro igh all the Heavenly host,
That glitter in the ETHEREAL arch,
Peionis' child is lost.
Yet calmly shining there on high
Six ? eiads hold their flight,
A. though their sisters In the sky,
Like them were winged with light;
Brightly they shine no gloomy clouds
OF sorrow dim one ray
While q mysterious fate enshrouds
Her that has passed away
Yet lovely as themselves was she
A heavenly in her BIRTH
And with step AZ light and free,
Trod tn IIcsperian earth.
And with them through it's gardens roved
And plucked their fruit and flowers,
Aud happily they lived and loved
Through childhood's happy hours.
But chidhood's hour, soon passed away
And distant sutors came,
With homage at their feet to lay
Suitors Of wealth ard fame.
Proud Of their birth no mortal dared,
To offer VOWS OF love,
Each with God, her fortune shared.
Aud some aspired to Joye.
But gentle Merope alone,
True woman, without art,
Shared with a mortal man hls throne,
And Welded him her heart
That heart-a treasure richer far,
Than his Coriuthian State:
Che gave, and ceased to be a star,
10 share her lovers fate;
Left the Hesperian gardens where,
Had been her childhood's home,
And lost the right to be an heir,
In brighter worlds to come.
Such is the mighty power OF love
BY the great Father given,
A star from her high sphere will move
And mortals rise to Heaven.
Thou fallen star no more may shine,
Gone all your heavenly charms,
Extinguished every ray divine,
Within mortaPs arms,
And time who touches with decay,
| things OF mortal birth.
Hath with his bosom swept away,
Lover and loved from earth
And gazing in the deep blue sky,
Upon the vacant place,
Sad tear-drops gather in the eye,
For Meropes disgrace!
We think how transient was thy Joy,
How short loves fittul reign,
Thy hopes eternal to destroy
Never to bloom again.
And sigh to one 40 kind and fair,
Ruin and death should bring,
That Love, amid his flowers should bear,
Concealed, a mortal sting.
Then. gloomy fears like shadows fly,
Across the troubled mind,
That all who venture love to try,
The Pleads fate my find,
And vet, admlringly we see,
Devotion such as thine,
And better far love Merope,
Ih1n all the stars that shine,
And fresh in memory, we viii keep,
or love, the priceless cost,
As OveI Merope we weep,
The gentle Pleiad lost
Among the wild romances Of Heqthen Mythology i
'Nd that Atlas one Of he demigods, who vs., King o
gurtsnlA famous for the pose -ion Of the Hespor al
rdeus snd ~ numerous focks fell in love with Ethra
e y the Ocesnides, or daugnters Il oceanps, an'
rried her That seven daughters were the fruit o
is marriage. who all formed an alliance with Gods o
ui-GOds. except one. whose name was Nerope- Sh
irr ed a mortal Sisyphus King of Cornth. Some o
sisters became part of the extensive household o
pitr r Kthra was also called Peione-and all he
lghter- translated into stars, and formed por
rs OF that constellation called Pleiades. from tn
eek word -ignifying to sail, except Merope She VA
rey left out, or her light 80 very dim 70 he hard
ertible, in consequence IL is supposed OF having Dc
'ded herself by uniting in marriage with mortal
ID hence she is spoken of ss the - Lost Plead.