The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-06-24
TO ELLEN.
'IIIH NOgEIyO MIMI,


Mountains aud heather blooming fair
A highland lakca lady we're
The playmAtcs Of my dreams,
Year, pass'd, away my dreams were gone
My pilgrim footsteps pressed alone
Llch KatTlne's SiOrled shores;
And winds that winged. me DER the lake
lhelthcl low, as II they feaf'd to break
The music Of my oars
No tramp Of warrior men was heard
For welcome song Or challenge word
llslen'd, hut In vain;
Aud, mOOr'd beneath bis flvOTite tree,
As vanly wOO'd the mlnsttelsy
Ol gray-halred "Allen lAnc."
I saw tho highland heath flower smile
In beauty upon EllGn's lsle;
And COtlclel In Elen's bower,
watched, beneath the lattice leaves,
Her coming, through summer ewes
Youngest and lOyelIest hour.
She came not; lonely was her home.
Herself Of airy shapes that come,
Like shadows 10 depart.
Arc there two Ellens Of the mind
Or have lived at last to find
An Ellen Of the heart"
For music like the lOrleref's now
Rings round me, and ngaln bow
Before the shrine Of sonS,
DeyOutly Us bowed In YOUTH
For hearts that Worship there In truth
""''"' ''V''V' 'o""S'
And we'll my heart responds to-day,
Aud willingly IL cords obey
The minsirel's loved command
A minstrel maid whose infant eyes
i"2ked on 9hos Too l,. any ,, skies
"' ''"O','o0'' > 'u'''' '"""'
amd gcagl " thew !hG wdeai sue tTI ~
Or bc,t in ,Iesh.bcl mIr,h; " '''''''
And lovelIrr still her smile that seems
lI p D1 me e. welcome ,nson,,, 'q hn my dreams
I' " ''' 90
Sas shall n deem .ha y TN n,II smile
Some lonely hour Of care;
And will hii Ellen PROVE to he,
bat I II1,i hr !, n I'm DER tie "'
0Ys ', Wv "
4tshaII LIZ, ;IKS Ine morning Inh s, %,"'
SpCcl hIII and yaiS along,
And at hG cottage hearth, ere night,
6H1nsU w. ,,, nss' MIX 0 IciIShi
~ rl's ",e1tw ,morvIng. LIr,i'S snn1
Accommodating the Dopm was a short
a., H. ,,I't,I La ,t,.I,, la. e.. H..
'"eI! ~ wh'c" ~ W., H'""H' ie' ~ H'i
elutilul lines: Though they did not
,tiOusly intend to make me q happy man,
hey have certainly made nc very proud
ne"
lie asked her TO accept n copy Of bis
oems "in consideration Of the beauty OF
Is type and the vastness Of the Margin"
nd closes thus: III am. dear Miss Camp
ell, very gratefully, or, II YOU arc In good
arrest, ns | very much fear you are not,
am, dear Ellen, very aiTeCtiOnately
ours. "I'trz GREENE lIALLEcK."
Her reply to this IL letter Of uonsid.
rable length, in which she thanks him
Or the promise Of his book, and declares
hat "enger expectation stands tip.toe on
he misty heights Of the blue Ohio to hail
: approach She closes by saying that
hen he is in fashions crowded hnll,"
r listening to the trump Of deathless
,me,' she would not claim one thought.
"Rut whcn the busy crowd /, gone.
And hlishtIy on The western Ky
ri '', wIIf ,hI,Snp ~, I" ,E ~, ey s'o""
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