New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-11

For which sir IeIFauIOduc uON IiSS
In SUCH a sorry plight"
For five years the happy couple live together in peace
hut there Is one cloud that sends dark shadow over
their pathway.
ASK not my name" her husband said,
LEST should be 10 thee as dead,
Lest YOU should weep SAD tears"
The ladies of her retnue stung by the curiosity that
has tempted the female heart IN every age since the
mother of our race preferred forbidden apple to the
Joys OF Paradise urged solicit her lord to reveal
his history Envy and spite added rancor to their
words, and overcame the scruples of the loyal wife.
One day they walked the riverside,
The nameiess knight and she
"Here first | saw thy slallOp ride
Upon the smooth Rhlne's quiet tide;
Since al. these years I've been thy bride,
And YOU unknown TO me-"
al am the son of Parcival
Who found the holy Grail.
And with my sire l guard the hall
To see that harm may not Oefall
The sacred relic. And they call
Me- LOhengrln Farewell
Then down the Rhine was seen to float,
Drawn 10y a swan, sue" whlte,
Upon the buOyant foo s. boat:
And through the AIR "a buge-noto
Called to Mont SALIVA lar remote,
To guard the Grail, the knight
Then while his wife in sorrow walls,
The knight has left the shore
Again are spread the fcathery sails
To win the aid of favorng gales;
And never IN those pleasant wales,
Is LOhengrln seen more
The closing poem reates btOIy slIue
gle between good and evil in the human soul suggested
perbaps by Rezsch famous picture of the chessplay
ers and teaching the awful moral with equally i'm
pressiye emphasis.
THE DOOMED MAN.
II IS the good ship Hildehraud
That sails the stormy sea
But her GOth stand away from land
No danger can there be-
Though the tempest blow. and the wild waves aow,
The ship is stout aud strong.
And safely 10 the port WI 70,
Let the voyage be short OF long.
"Come. tell a story of the seas
a cOmrade asks the master,
" With this gallant ureeZ1, you NAV rest in ease,
The tea-new flies not faster"
"Then fIl the glasses all around"
The WellpleaSed master cries,
"And I'll tell what Is found III a ship that is bound
To no port TIL the last man dies.
"There floats a ship in the northern elmo
That has drited a huhdrrd years;
For fearful crime, till the end OF time,
A ated man 1t bears.
"Upon the deck and on the mast,
The everaliing spray
Is borne Oy the blast, aud freezes fast,
Till the ships an iceberg gray.
And in the cabin. pale and wan.
Between two spcctCrs erlul,
Sits fated man, While they strive who can
Gam the troubled soul OF him.
sAnd one plays for the fiend OF he'll,
Aud one redecms iIOm SIN. . D.
And the dice they tell they fall from the she'll
But neither yet shall WIN
And ever there the dice are cast
For the fated man To see ;
Until the last OF earth lis past
He sits in agony.
Long years ago once did sail
Far into the frozen North,
And heard a hail, like dying wall,
From a drifting ship sound fOrth
"Upon the deck, and the mast,
The ever falling spray
Was borne by the blast, and frozen fast
Like iceberg huge she lay:
o'Oh tell me does the end draw nearl
And when Will time hc done 7
There many year he has watched in fear
While his soul is lost and won"
II tins volume the work of young poet, sup
pose, he may DO received with cordial greeting not
only for his brilliant promise, but for his excellent per
Torrance He clearly has the soul Of poetry within him.
and needs only larger experience and faithful
seoraton OF his powers to ascend TO still loer nights q
feeling and expreesion