The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
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50 THE MIS1RESS OE
Lovely children of the light,
Draped in radiant locks and pinions-
Red and purple, blue and white
In their beautiful dominione,
ON the earth and in the spheres
Dwell the little glendoVeers.
And the red can know no change,
And the blue are blue forever
And the yellow wings may range
Tow ard the white or purple never
But they lningle free from strife,
For their color is their life.
when their color dies they die
BLEND With'earfh or ether owiy-
Ieaking where their spirits lie
Not stain, SO pure and holy
Is the ess ence and the thought
Which their fading brings to nausht
Each contented with the hue
Which indues his wings with beauty.
Red or yellow, white or blue,
Sings the measure Of his duty
Through the summer clouds in peace,
And delights that never cease.
Not with envy love they more
Locks and pinions purple-tlnted,
Nor with jealousy adore
Those whose pleasures are Instituted,
And whose purple hair and wings
Give them place with queens and kings.
when purple gIendoveer
They surround hlm, far and near
With their glancing wings and dances,
And do honor to the hue
Loved by all and worn by few.
In the days long gone, alas +!
Two upon a c4oud, low-seated,
Saw their pinioUs IN the glass
OF silver lake repeated.
One was blue and one was red,
And theloyely pair were wed.
- Purple wings are very hne,'
Spoke the voice of Ruby, gently;
3. Ay,5' said Sapphire, 50 they're divine -
Looking at his blue intently.
g But we're blest-7 said Ruby. then, =
- And We'll nor complain like men,
Sapphire stretched his loving arms.
And she nestled in his bosom,
Whlie his heart inhaled her charms
As the sense inhales a blossom;
Drank her wholly, tint and tone,
Blent her being with his own.
Rapture passed, they raised their eyes.
Eut were startled into clannor
OF s marvellous surprised
Was it color was it glamour
Purple tinted. sweet and warm
Was each wing and folded form.
Who had,wrought it-how it came
These were what the TWAIN disputed,
how were mingled smoke and fame
Into royal hue transmuted2
Each was right, the other wrong:
But their quarrel was not long;
For the moment that their speech
Differed DER their little story
Swiftly faded off from each
Every trace of purple glory:
Blue was bluer than before.
And the red was red once more.
Then they knew that both were wrong
And in,syInpathy of sorrow
learned that each was only
In the power to lend and borrow
That the purple never grew
But by grace of red to blue.
So, embracing in content
Hearts aud wings again united
Red aud blue in purple blent,
And their holy troth re-plighted,
Both, as happy as the day,
Kissed and rose and few away.
And for twice 81 thousand years,
Foating through the radiant ether,
Lived the happy glendoveers,
OF the other ie3ious neither
Sapphire naugflt without the red,
Ruby still by blue bestead.
But when weary of their life,
They came down to earth at even
Purple husband, purple wife
From the upper deeps of heaven,
And recliued upon the grass,
That their little lives might pass.
Wing to wing and arms enwreathed,
Sank they from their lfe's long dreSrnins
Into earth their souls they breathed:
But when mornings hight was streaming
All their joys and sweet regrets
Biooned IN banks of Yiolets!
Dr.. j. q. Holland. IN ScTibTes's for NoreUtber