New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21

Where NE is gay a glaneing stream.
Aud all things answer the Poets dreami
KnOwst tnOu tue Lands
Might l. with him who loves my lays, repairl,
In this Southern land Of bloom and beauty the poem
opens With a description of an Indian girl asleep. You
Gee her in al her loneliness. creature strange
a. a morning star" Then the birds "sing loud" and
wAken her.
Her eyehds blink against the heavens bright beam
stu dim and dark with dream,
Her breathing quickens, and her cheek CLEANS red,
And round her shining head
And with her little hands
enades her soft OFbs and upward at the SKY
She gaLeth quietly;
Then at one bound springs with a sudden song
The fOTosttrack a.Oug
She hurTies through the cool deep shades where the
bright birds and cry the high branches and
"everywhere beneath them in the bowers. float living
thiDgs ike flowers" lowering and settling. On her way
she another sleeper, grssping hunters gun. and
with a dark smile on bis bearded lips. The dusky
maiden, Red Rose Of the poem bends over him. and
the madden in the sun but she does not hear
Ihe warning which the sing and the winds sigh.
Dark maiden, what is he thou lookest ont
60 for iis eyes are blue. his skin is white,
And giant-iike his hight.
To him thou wouldst appear tiny thing,
soine small bird on the wing.
Bone small deer 10 be kilPd ere IL could fly,
Or To be famed, and dle!
o look not. look not, in the hunters face,
Thou maid OF the red race,
He rs a tame thing, thou art weak and wild,
Thou lovely fOTest-cbildt
How should the deer by the great deer-hound walk,
The wOOd-dove seek the hawk
Away away lest he should awake from rest,
Fly, sun-blrd 70 thy nest
He stirs in Sleep and steals away Then follows
description Of the and the circumstances Of his
birth and breeding Down in Maine. where human
creatures smphibious in their natures, and the
babies float IN the like fishes, the Harris,
gigantic race, OF whom the allest and the strongest
~
he had grown 10 be thirtyyearsOld giant, six feet
inches in hight His brethren prosperous farm
err all of them, had welded their rural sweethearts
and settled down at home. They
Thrifty men. deyOut believers,
OF the tribe of human beavers;
Life 10 them, with years increasing,
Was an instinct Deyer-ceaslng
To build dwellings multifarious
In the fashion called gregarous,
To be honest in, their station,
And increase the population
OF the beaversl They moreover,
Tho their days were cast in clover,
Had the instinct Of seerettng;
Toihng hard while time was heetiDg,
Like the bee and squirrel races,]
Quiet stores Of yellow money,
IWhlch is human nuts and h0neyI
They we're good enough, in their simple wsy-went
every week meeting, and prayed by dozens. But this
strong son. Eureka, slightly wanting in "the tribal
instinct" refused follow the fashions Of his and
had gone away from home his youth, whaling, hunt
ing. trapping, trying every kind of life. and
Free any wave, and only
Lonely az d cloud Is lonely.
Here is his portrait:
Pause a minute and regard himl
Years OF hardships have not marrd him.
Limbs made perfect iron-solderd,
NarTow-h lppd and mighty-shouiderd,
whisker'd, bearded strong and stately,
With smile that turks sedatey
In still eyes OF a cold azure,
Never lighting TO sheer pleasure
Stands be there mid the green trees
Ike the Greek god Herakles.
stay nor let the bright allusion
Lead your spirit 70 confusion.
Tho wanderer and g creature
Almost a. SOD IN feature,
This mans nature was as surely
Bouilese and instructive purely,
A. the natures OF those others,
His secaier beaver-brOthers;
Nothing brilliant, bright, or frantic,
Nothing maidens style romantic,
Flasbd his slow brain morn or night
Int spiritual light!
A. waves run and as clouds WANDER
Roam'd this thing in human clothing,
intellectually nOthiDgl
NE Ioyed Mature, but only dumb creature might,
with seDse Of knship and familiarity, but with no
poetic appreciation, no sense Of its beauty.
or course be- in his turn, found the Red Rose. She
Vas The granddaughter OF an aged Indian chief. Her
fstheT and mother were both dead, and she bloomed
beside The old like rose that by dark, sad
water grows and IembIes" sbe wore coarse serge
role curionsIy embroidered, which set Of well her
<asky beauty.
sbe uas q shapey creature. tall
AID sllghtly form'd but plump wthsJ,-
shapey a. deers re-hpelY fair
As Creatures nOurshd by wSrD air,
And luscious fruits that nterfuse
sOmethingDi their own glorious hines,
Aud the rich odoFthat perfumes them,
IBto the body that lmss them.
bbe had drank richness tbro and t1ro'
A the great flowers drink Eight and dew;
And she had caught from wandering streams
Their rasIiess motion and strange gieams
From snakes aud no that giow'd around
Had stolen Into her blood, and found
warmth, peace. aud silence.
OF cosrss 1t Was the old old story OF
Lps and lips 10 kiss them;
Eyes aDdeyes " behold;
HaDds and baDds ~ press them;
Arms and arms 10 eIsfold.
Az the spring thrills the trees smile Of the
Red Rose thrilled tie ragged giant, and almost awoko