, 1875-08-01
THE LONGEST DEA1R-KATcA.*

Tha woman Is pfrtur* o'.1.
The syra.:;sa Suns have touched Lar faco:
The coil cf gold upon Lex brow
Shines hack On AZ In'trEa} race
With tupsk fGtsuru and Lis{xE Rf@en.
Old ralsce lamps behind her bErn,
The errnina Mol4lsf& 0u hss train.
Her ever-constAut eyes s:iE scurn
For ono who came not back Ia Spain;
And din and hollow is her lraiu.
One nniy thing kha knaw tn life, i
-Four hundred ghosur years ago
That she WIG Flemish rit'1?s etfe-
Nor much beyond ahe cs1od " kEows'
Without yotca ahs tells ne 20.
FhtlJp the Beautifnl-whoae cyes ., -
Might win woman v heart, fear,
Even from bis grave! "He Will s1fse,"
The monks had nn1m,lrad " ajs Mes,
.*And reign once more among u here"
Rbe hoard theis whisper, aud futgps
Castle, md Ar1gon- and al
gare ltiHp, who lad loved her not:
Tho cruel darkness ct bis poH
seeuacd on Al empty world to saA
she toot the desd u,an--to her night
A Prince in death = disguise, 10 fah
A. whap hix way vsrd while eoald Tight
Ths throne he wedtted hes to shafe-
And followed, hardly moving whsfa+
At,nost as dumb a be, she dsd,
pall1d md uastsd, toward tho pt-ss
Wust witt the hour when Dodss sweet ztac9
should oreathA inta hi4 oesathlesE faoa.
once, when The night ~.s vrs1d WITH rain, >
She sought copventb tpeter- HhsA
The tapers showed a yelled train
OF nuns, instead Of rps!od ncns
She stols into tho night again:
81 rnese vomsn, sainted though they BE-"
She moaned through ali her Jealous mind
An women still, and saxL aot W.
Philip the FAir-though be II blind!
YAvoe with HIN 3et ahan md"
Then, with her pfseous ycasnsug wttd:
~Unclose hia cofan quick, pray"
FYercei7 the sudden lightning aInii&d-
When they had laid tie lid away
Liks scosn, upon tbs regal c!Ay~
She kissed the dead Of many days,
~ though he ucre an hour aAlosr>
Dark men with swords to guard he1 wxy
Wep& for her-rur she did not wssp:
Rhe bad har vigil left to keep.
They reached the appointed csofstsr. Whas
The heArt Of Philip w1thering lsy,
she without moan, or tear, or s1nale.
watched from her window, legends saJ-
Watched ssvsn nod forty ysAss A~ayt
Winds blew the blossouDt to md fro,
Into tina world and out again:
y Hs will coma back to me-, tnow-
Poor whisper Of wandering bxata
To peerless paf11f3c&4 peSEs@73 t1<0"
Al. longest, 1onelest, naddext tryst
Wns ever kept On eartht And so
Had he arisen would be have tlssea
The gray wan WOMAN be had 1nef
Ox-tau9ht hax bow tbs dad tos&SsT
Cox,ld ahs have won, dtscTuvned md otds
Tbs lovs abe could not win, to sootas
When qnecnIy purple, fold On tol7,
And I'll The subtle gFace Of youth.
pnl,1ad her Ia bide = h1pah8 txu&h
DID sAa not fsncy-<hould shs ~
That coffin. watched "a Lo0&t 0ac70se-
Tho ruya1 tenant there would 10
atttf 1o1tn4. zti1 f1ir, when be 4fosa,
Besids her vithezed ls>ves and Known.
H.wonn hays laughed TO bznxths tha tA3a
on this crazed ksrangura love. fear.
9yeash moon and ross and nightingale,
With eou1tIy jewels Rltmrnse1pg nsae,
Into sonaa lovely iadys sar-
-,Nrs. s. II. B. fsaa
.Joanna. tho wife Of Philip the Hand1ozne. vaa h
laughter ct Ferdinand aud Iszbe11a. sister of cathe
no o{ Azaeon, snd mother Of the Kkupsro< Charles
Hunting Deer with q steamboat~
The Portland ~0rgonian DESCRIBES an episod
II tho Fourth at July thus: ''On The afternoo
xss On her way from Freepoxt to kala80A, sl
sighted a deer in the river about = mile beio
tte latter place. When first seen ho was aboz
one third OF the Way acrosa, And striking ci
boldly for the Oregon shore. ThA: stesrner III
beaded for him WITH all haste, and khete bslr
40 fi5earms on board except I ANAL p0cket-pi
Eol, it wss decided to trJ 10 cApturs him ali7
A moose was made IN rope And thrown "a Il
boat approached, but missed the Eamo- ri
deer whi.ied and mAdo for the Washington II
riso1y eide, which Was tho nearest, but Cap
HnnfinQtou turned the little steamer in tine stY