Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-15

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Faint and low the bell is tolIing,
Through the cloudy raulted sky
Comes is haunting echoes, rolling
Like the banshse's warning cry.
DARK and dull, the clouds are soowliuEi =
Creeping slow from human sight
Through their despz- tae ole moons prowl
ing,
Cold and stiI, pale silence slumbers,
Marble form and glazing yes,
Midnight, chanting mystic numbers,
On his pulssiess bosom lies.
Down the ciOistera streWu with roses,
Broken Jewels, sullled pinmes,
Where the past The vista closes
Autumn sleeps amid the tomba-
In the purple dome of midnight
Coldly glesaas h polar star
And the beyileeEed moonlight
Forests, midnight masses saying
Echo back a ghOstly cry
Like a phantom steed's wild neishins,
Demon-driven through the SKY.
Through the white and cleaning heaven
d5~n0TERkes falling fast behind)
Glides 8 chariot, phantom-drtven
BY the rushing Northern Wind;
Ocean waves on bleak shore scattereds
Tossing manes-a white plumed band
Are his coursers, chained n fetteEed
By the Iee-King's iron hand.
Cold hia piareing breath is blowing,
From his hercely nasnlng eyer
Streams The waving, on9CkiSE, EeElnS
CLEAN OF air-dra=n cimeterL
Peal on ped, with crashing thunder
Sea ahore resembling a
Cleaving snow-wreathed elouds asunders
Rides the goblin Water king-ar
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Creeps q faint and deR6fS fear,
Ghosely Whispers cries dnholys
strike upon the startled eRr;
Roundth chariot adly dRshtns,
Weird and silent shadows roll,
Whtte-winged coursers swiftly fashing,
PhRntOm-dwellers OF the pole.
Der their white, t-ransparent bosoms
Silver moonbeams CLEAN and shine.
Crusted SHOWS, in buds and blossoms
Mid their streaming hatrSntEine;
Eves whose Wild and fearful glazing
Seem a madmanis pierftng shrc@,
Or a duh, despairing FALLING
From their dun recesses speak
Viswsess wings in mid-air swooping,
Feet rom which no echoes fan,
Round the monarch swiftly tzooping,
Hold their ghostiy carnival
Wild their snowy robes are s~treg4aing,
And their hollow tones resOuud
Faint as echo' self, and seea-5n3
But "the shadow OF q SOUND"
PHANTOM CHORUS.
i Memories Of o fTuitless past,
u Golden dreams that faded fast,
Blossoms nipped " icy blast
Night winds OF SePtembeEi
From YOU dara and dismal tomb
Hiding light and song n bloom
GhGst and shadow, tTocping cOme,
Hail q King Deeemberi
Lofty aims, but born to die,
Bnghted dreams Of purpOse high,
PsIid shades of destiny,
Grey ghosts of November!
Raise thy holocaust Of tears.
Faded hopes, and faithless years,
To the king o. Sa1bts and fears
Shadow King Decembvrf
Blo-ssom-dreams Of rosy hue
Caught from Passions glowing hTo-,
Fading beams that ftful glow,
Loves last dying embs-!
From the deeps OF Lethean C--eams
Tnrow thy faint and ghostly CLEANS,
Hail the king Of fcaed dreams,
Leaden King Rroefcr5r:
Ghosts OF many a wasted s6-rt
Cropping taSs through msesery's tower,
TfNose accEnCd and fatal dover
Is-thGt ye sR.ember;
Clasp the asp with ceaseless sing
Strike the harp with shattered sting.
Loud thy tyrantS praises sing,
Iron sfpg December! -
Spirits Of the Wind and Wavet
TrOoping from your misty cave
hOuuQ the QOOuic4 elAQ bnEfGk AuQ rave
Mast and keel dismsmberi
S-rreucnInB nznus, saa Fs----.s~S-
Blanchlng lips, and groans, and cries
~Bring-thy cruel sacrifice
% thy King Decemberi
Spirits OF the Storm and Cloudt
Sweeping DER the mountain proud
Weave the pilgrims snowy shroads
Mercy ne'er remember;
Pile the mausoleum high,
swift and cold and silently,
Till thy affairs kiss the sky,
Marble King Decemberi
Speed the ~reyel-strike the Tyre,
Light the Borealis IRE,
Up the heavens climbing higher
Pile the glowing ember;
Circling oun thy footstool, we
Raise u choral hymn to thee,
Bow the head, and bend the knee,
Peerless King Decemberl
December LIST, lS72.