The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-01-17
M,rnIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
sew onLEANs, SUNDAY, JANUARY II. 1875.
pERE MARQUETTE.
By HATTIE TING oaIswoLD.


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By HATTIE TING oRIBwoLD-
3 Oh pale yonng prisss, whose dreamy eyes did.
With more than Rembrandt splendors CLEAN,
Standing beneath the tender skies
or fair, soft France. dreaming thy dream
I gaze back az thee. through the years % n7cs'a
stGlorious with many dear.tou sht fame, - Il
And nowhere falleth teuderer seaxn -. %
Than on the page which bears thy name, II
Il zee in skysyoa,hs arst fush. DE a,o1t ,.us
j Full Of tho burning dream Of fame, o, m q
= Longing. ado~n the brea,hless hush II .- =
OF coming time. to hear thy nsune;
Aglow with all the maddening wine
y Which surges in the veinso youth,
Drunk with the splendor of the fine
Grand dreams, thou holdest for the truth.
Oh. matchless spiendor Of the dsysi
Ere yet we have unlearned our dreams;
How, from the sunset eide of life,
The radiance of them CLEANS!
SEQ thee standing now amid
Tie fragrance of those early hopes,
Why, yet, from thy deep eyes, are hid
Lies saddened western slopes.
And then I watch thee. while the thought
or duty slowly fills thy soul,
Till. by degrees, thy life is brought
Meath its divine control,
And slowly. sadly ons by ono,
Thy dreams, thy hopes before it fall. -
TIL the one thought-work to BIO done
FOE God and man-is all.
Across the sea it speeds thy feet, -.....' ,...
Across the trackless western wild, ,. ..
Where the rude savage stern and heet
Lists to the words. mild
And gentle, thou dost speak:
While others perish quick as thought, .-
They seem to read, though poor and weak,
The message thou hast brought.
Around Superier's pictured rocks
They gather, listening to thy words,
While far away the battles shocks
Seem to recede, and chords
or tenderer feeling softly stir
Within each dull and savage heart;
Christ's name upon the page they blur
With tears from founts which rarely start.
In lodges Of each warlike race
see thee welcomed with great cheer,
And many q stern and sombre face
Lights mp to see thee near.
Through dales of rivers broad and deep,
Wisconsin and the turbid Fox,
Fearless and strong I see thee leap,
Adown each bed Of rocks.
Beside thee stands . trusted friend.
The stern brave, red with war-paint stains
While on each side widely extend
The savage, unknown lands.
Portage, and marsh. and sandy bar
Impede thy course and hide their track,
But onward led, as by a star.
Thou never lookest back.
Safely through Missssippis waves.
They lead thee on nv tnn,IIv ruaet
Dottlng the shore along with graves
OF bravest and of best. "," - .--'
o, journey grand, on unknown trail, T,1-aI
Amid anew worlds darksome shades, ,-.,. =,
This new guest for ,he Holy Grail,
CLOVIS like The old crusades!
Now, by Lake Huron's stony shore, .....r
They point us to lonely grave; ..-.
Rudely the inland sea doth roar.
Wildly the pine trees wave, ''
And Jagged rocks flung everywhere, ' 't
Boar scant and sombre coats of moss; -Eea
No yine no flower Is swaying there, t.4 81.
Naught save 9 mossgrown cross- 1r
Yot moro than seulptured monument, ..
Or Aower-strewn grave in Pere Ii Chaiss,
Ii that low mound whore he, content
To rest SO, shines adown the ways
or this dnll age, and shows so,
A man to ill our longing eyes,
Wherein with sanity radiance glow .,,'
Tho beauties of selE sacrifice