New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-05


He blessed thy flowers with honey; every bell
Looks earthward. sunward. with yearniDg visit
But no bCc-lOycr ever notes the swell
OF hearts, like lips, a-hungering TO be kist'
man iigtrce barreni Would that l could paint
For others ewes tho glory OF the shore
Where last / saw thee; but the senses faint
In soft delicious dreaming when they drain
Thy of color. Virgin fair thou art,
Az sweeuy fruitful. waiting with soft pam
The spouse who comes TO wake thy sleeping heart
In this land, where the birds never sing and tho
Flowers are an scentess dwell whose presence
s. a horror. or these is the Dune Snake monster
which is tho subject OF Of the most vivid poems in
the volume Not all the human denaens Of Australia
arc couyIcts and there there Cnce SoOtchman,
David Sloane by name, a gentleman born He toiled
with frantic sort of energy that in SO young man
strange another settler Of whom he had made
friend, and who tells the story; but soon IL appeared
that DO was not himself he struggling, but for the
young wife he had left behind him IN Scotland, and IN
ayesr ho was able 10 wrte to hers Darling, I've only
a hut but come" And gladly, indeed, she came, and
brought with her happiness that the blessed spirits IN
Heaven might envy-the sweet inefable happiness Of
pure and true human love. From the picture OF this
perfect peace the stoy.teer abruptly TO paint
DuHto Snake,
long red snake-ss n what was within
Was FIRE that cleaned through bis glistening SKID
Aud has eyes iii you should 70 down TO hell
And cono back TO your fellows here and tel
What The FIRE was ike, you could ind no thing
Here below on the earth, or up IN the sky
Now mark you, these Dukites don't 60 olonei
There's another near when you see but one;
And beware you OF Killing that one you see
without finding the Otner for you NAV be
More than twenty miles from tue spot that night,
when camped but you're tracked by the lone Dukite,
That Will follow your tail like Death or FATE,
And Kill you as sure as you killed It's mate!
Wen, poor Dave sloane had lis young wife here
Three months,-'tWasJ just us time 81 inc year.
And was homeward bound, when he saw in the grass
a long rcd snake be Lad never been told
And smashed It's Nat head with the bullet goadl
lie was proud OF the red skin. so be tied
Its tan 10 the cart aud the snakes blood dyed
Tie bush On the path be followed that Night
I1e was early homo, and the dead DuEite
Wa hung al the door % be- ,. skinned next day.
So hunt up Li- cattle. A three hours tide
Brooch, him back: he gazed on ms home with pride
aud euterod-to look on his Young wiie's corse,
Aud his dead child clutchIng us mothers clothes
a. lu hight; aud there, as he gaztJ arose
FROM her breast, where twas resting the SleaulLs
niue terrible Duldte, as IL it soid,
." Zee hal reNgo0Hce, my Joe : yoU took all hdd'-
aud 10 lad the snake--Dayid sloane was mad
1.-THE Monster Diamond" IS another legend Of the
Bush tcld with great power. ticket-ofeave man had
ronnd a monster diamond and his mate upon him
before he Was able 10 secIcte it, and killed him to OBJ
tain posse sion Of 10.
Then he looked-the murderer, Aaron Mace
Al the gray blue lines 10 the dead mans face;
And ne turned away, IOr ne feared IT'S fr)Wn
More IN death than life. Then he kaelt him down
N lalb
And felt ia the breast for the fatal prize.
And this was che man. and this the way
And for that he cursed foreyernOre
BY the West Australian KOhlnnor.
II was az awful life, after that, for the homicide He
could never any more for he could part
from the company Of the aybue face Of mis- murdered
mate. The blood Of the dead cried through the
night 70 God, aud shadows that crossed the camp
turned into ghosts and haunted him. Nor his i'll
gotten wealth any comfort for dared not show IL
nse i; yet the sense OF its possession made his labor
seem baIdoT SO lie went TO old age, Oiling con-
Wet and always with the great diamond hidden his
breast His form was bent and his face scanned with
horror and gradually II grew piteOus look as If for
ever asking for the human charity which one gave.
His life grew to a curse, and he thought that death
itself could bring him 20 no worse company than the
ghosts with whom be walked forever.
20 be turned one day from tue haunts OF men,
Aud Their fIiendlees faces an Oh man then
Nnd brow deep scared with the word Despair"
Re gazed lot back as his way he took
The piteous look 10 his suuken eyes.
Told that hie was the btterest sacrifice.
And after that no one knew how HE sad life went on
or cut, until after long years sandawood cutter
found ruined hut in a Kojunup wood and IN II a
human skeleton, clad in gray. iu his paper
Oh which the stranger read, "ncketofLeave Of Aaron
Mace and from under the hands rolled down leaden
pouch in which he found lump OF quartz Of pounds
weight. Had the been committed for this lump Of
holy bands, turned yalueless. The poet does not
PLAIN
1.-THE King Of the Vase " is wonder story in which
dead child s raised 10 life by Pagan incantatoD and
fhe touch Of a mystic pearl on it's face-whieh will
charm the lovers Of the miraculous. "The Amber
whale: A RarpOoDer's Story" "The DoRIGnard." and
~Baunted by Tigers" are In the same vein with "The
Monster Diamond" thrilling tales all OF them. "Chun
der Alps Wife lie charming little Oriental love story
AI4eend Of the Blessed Virgin" lie full OF tenderness
and grace The theme is touched with the revereni
saith OF Catholic for Mr.. ORey is both Catholic
and an Irishman and cannot close my extracts from
his book more nttiDgy than with his heartfelt lines to
his Native Land"
ii CHANGED 70 me upon time 70 sail
Across the Southern Ocean 10 and fro;
And lapdng at fair isles, by stream and vale
OF sensuoue blessing did we oft times 20.
And months OF creamy loys, like Joys II Sleep
like q clear, calm stream messy stone.
UDDOted passed our hearts with yOceless sweep.
And left US yearning still for lands unknown.
And when We found one-for tits soon TO find
In thousandisJed Cathay another ise-
FoY one abort noon its treasures nlled the mind,
And then again yearned and ceased TO smile.
And 40 il Was from isle 70 isle We passed,
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