, 1875-02-07
DUQUs;SNE.

'ner i1sE respects TO Tue veteran ma Rndly negro
DUQUEsxE.
17Gl.
| Where tie mad torrent Of north-hound stream
Leads from its cradle in the mountain-pass,
And like . thread OF glinting gold duth CLEAN
Amid the waving wcQf Of 1ne1dow-grass, -
/ ragged Tooiulau built little nest
OF ftathsred frs and everlasting pine;.
| An odd-ahaped crown upon the 1pountafn~crtst,
THUS home Of Rie, from beyond tie Rhine.
! Ao brought no heritage from other lands,
70 nalsSf ssors 40 @ gl'mmsE a Of Of hnSs gold
| h wife and dauahter cral In fairy mold.
| And jet q KIg WAS be, whose royal away
Stretched into wooded depths he nayer KNEW
/ Iis kingdom wtapt in txillght-shzdoss gr2y
is boundaries marked by tender, misty blue
His rule IVES gracious, aud his reign Was long,
The red-nau Droke his bre1d and brought him boads
And War-Nolf listened to the Frauloin's song
of German loves, and famed o:tl fsuaal deeds;
And each new day brought lender thoughts cf him.
Aud clch new twilight found him At her feet,
Bsneaih An OAK upon the valleys rim,
Where tangled grasses and tho waters meet.
One day the aun arose, and Rtoue and set,
Aad Wa1-Wolf came no: to the trysting- place.
Another, snI xIo.hsr CAME, aud Jet
e. Tough. foT home, and fame fame ana fa.ed race,
Against the nlaudate OF o Hr:toa's reign
No braver knight Ger bore p.ucisd aInce
Than la who led the van ut old Daquesaa.
The wave Of war bore dow, tbs fighting daul,
and swept his Gllas to she setting E1n,
Like red TEMPEST blown from trees lii fall
Along steep hanls where west-oound HateSs run;
And here be pitched bis ten:, and bulk bis fires,
The stricken red-taan, suaatting 'ce1tl the blow,
While III his hesr # burnt ardent, ferco desires
70 queneh hia ahainc il 1ife.hlocd o. biz foe.
Thsoush ~ vs;s tSs 9ays the yelSw ;stan noT
and in the winter, when the north ninls blew
Through leaaess Stiffness aud thn skies vera black
And heavy with the weight Of unshed snow,
y II md in
But nerer drew the Hrrow on tha doe,--
Its pleading meekness e'er his strong arm stayed.
And for him geEuu1ed WITH beads tbs plumnsed zone,
And would lave spread theie hair where War-4Folf
kneit;
Yet stiI ne soa1d not call one maid his own
His heart far away, where mountains r,ss
Like cone-shapcd isles above sea Of mist;
Whe1e morning opens first her dswy eyes,
And needed pine and hushing suulach kased.
And thoughts ct fair Kataae came to him whan
He mused in secret Of these other days,
And tried to win him from these bare brown men,
And fccua the glamour Of their sayaga waya.
Flo could not bo a traitor to his Kind,
Although his heart Wna in foreign breast:
But, passion-spurred, ho left them au behind,
And went to meet the morning, from The west.
III.
/ mate for katrine from the atoried Khtne.
The golden network Of her hair had caught
His heart, and held it by that mystic sign,
That dumb submission, only lovers know:
And, though he sighed, be silt would not be free-
There Is rapture in the lender glow
For be- who ias not known what It's to feel
Tie pulses bounding at another 8 tone,
nor felt lis hsart beneath another's heel,
The 1iEest ioy Of Life has never known.
He told her legends Of her natiYe lane, -
OF rnins hoary, and Ut fdungeon-keep,-
4 part OF which she could not understand.
He 11ale her smile. and sometimes made her weep
Der fate OF Kings who perished long a.o,
Ere madcap Folly sought the gdiden fleece,
Ere fnfr Tradition, with a mothers glow.
History through the AtTcpk8 Of ancient Greece.
He sang TO her OF knights, and ladies' faiE,
And With tie past tho present sti1l ho blent;
And thus his lore advanced With dninty care,
Until Ut last he won shy consent.
Two patlzs that had for yeara run far apart,
Two T. ct tasttng lovers 5otned By hand and heart,
Would leave the twilight for the open day.
Up through the Bca Of he1n1ock and Of pine, |
Tie white-faced moon s4iled calmly and serens:
Upon its disc, In fs!ntest, vague outline, |
Some half-ttueed wonder could be plainly 4eeu-
Fair Ks:rine asked her Rodolph to explain
What neaut this symbol that was written s1ere,
Or was it clouds, or objects on the plain
Caught up by mirage and reflected thare7
Ana had the moon grown bright and thin As now
By rubbing always tween the clouds and eky7
md had this Barne old moon looked On the brow
of Ata1at, before the earth Was dry 2
And had y gazed upon the Babel piia
Nhi'c yet Ihe folly was but half complete
aud had 1t seen brave Alexander smile
While all tie world lay crorchng 1t his feet7
Tho learned lore her lover now displayed
seemed like magic taie, but, nh mora true;
And, as they slowly meath the branches straSed.
;he drank hts words, 81 flowers drink thu dew:
10 hung she On tho magic Of his lipa.
The whiproorwilis low aong went By unheaEd;
The eioluence Of soul to soul ectipsed
rha feebla treble Of the louely bird;
Tor noted she tie nights delicious calm,
The seeIdug hills that leaned against the sky,
'he breeze nude heavy With the dowcrs' balm:
lie only knew abe 1ored, ard he wzB nigh,
hey parted at the sti1e with w31m embrace
md Rrztp Of hand, and glowing, farewell hss.
he had not learned to turn away her face: |
i child in years you must remember this.
he watched him in the cleaning disappear;
raven sailed into the darkness, roo.-
Is moving shadow, like new-tound fear,
eli on her face from out the ether hlne.
he did not meet him in the early dawn;
he did not meet him when tho moon Wis high:
he cage WAS empty, and the bird had 8one;
e wished for death, and Sc: he dare not die.
% sought her On the mountain. In ths vale
e called her in the dusky solitude;
e told h,s story to the Tagrant gale.
nd harkened to its echo In the wood
be spring-time came without the wedding g-cheer,
nd thus the time passed, year snceseding year,
ntil another deeade lad beSun,o
an years Of searching for missing form,
IN weary years Of even hope denied,
en- years Of pilgrimage through calm and storm,
tth one fair phantom ever ut his side.
9 lived aione, hermit Of the WOOD
breeding, melancholy. oldish man
thousand feet benaath, the rirer ran.
nd evening found him aIways At his door.
1ad'og his eyes, ana looking to the vest
weary Ezilor g7zing from the ahore Fl
e. leafy ocean, yet by keel IMPRESSED. IL
10 clouds sailed ur, and over, and above; II
ae birds swept under, but they made no sign =
1at they had in the sunset seen love, ,
lore that seemed to him almost divine I
soreumes asked the winds i aught they knsu
one his heart had hungered for 50 long: L
,eJ moaned in pity, as away they flew
ound tbs world, with neveE-endiug song.
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length theTe cana hero from the ses,