The Morning herald., 1875-10-30

d1rK! TO my lndla1 beauty N l''h'
My cockat0o, creamy white, "a
With roses under his teathers- ~ ug,t
That flashes across the light. ,.,,
Look! listen! as backwar and forwa:
To his hoop Of gold he clings,
How he trsmbles, with crest upiifted,
And shrieks as he madly swings!
Oh, cockatoo, shrek for Antony! +,
Cry "coms, my love, come homs!
Shrek "Antony! Antony! Antony!'
TIL he hears you even in Rene.
TAers-leave me, and take from my chan
ber
That stupid little Eazelle,
With its bright black eyes 70 meaningies
And its silly tinkling bell! ..s
Take him-my nerves 10 vsxes-
The thing without blood or brains,-
Or, by the body Of Isis
I'll snap his thin neck in twain!
Leave me to gaze at the landscape
Ni;tily stretching away,
Where the afternoons opaline trsmo ors
Der the mountains quiverinx play:
TIL the fiercer splendor of sunset
Pours from the west its fire,
And melted as in crucible, ,.u
Their earthly forms expire;
And the bald clear skull Of the desert
With glowing mountains Is crowned,
That burning like molten jewels
Circle its temples around.
1w'll lie and dream of the past-time
Eons Of thought away,
And through the jungle Of memsry,
Loosen my fancy to play t.I
When smooth and vslvsty tiger
Ribbed with, yellow and black,
supple and cushion footed
wandered where never the track W."
ora human creature had rustled .A Ht'
The silence OF mighty woods, u, ,,.A.ay
And, fisrcein = tyranous freedom, .,...y
l knew but tho law of my moods. ,
The elephant, ;trumpeting started, }! 'a
When he hoard my footsteps near, u.,.
And the spotted giraffes fled wildly a.,
yellow cloud Of foar.
I sucked In the noontide splendors
Quivering along the glade, q u
Or yawnins, painting, and dreaming. ~.
Basked In the tamarisk shade, n3I 3
Iill heard my wild mate roaring, .5,ug,
AS ths shadows Of night came on, ....
To brood in the trses' thick branches.
And the shadow Of sleep was gone: VI"
Then reused, and roared in answer
n And unsheathed from my cushion ed
uyi feet ,..I.. .,.,s..,. ..
~ curying claws, and stretched me. ,.,,
And wandered my love to greet. "''.
We toyed in the amber moonlight .,,
ID Upon the warm fiat sand, .,..,..,
And struck Mt each other our massive
arms ','.H- d. " ~.
Vt How powerful he was and grand! '
His yellow eyes flashed tiercsly |,.p =
'e As he crOuched,akd gazed at me. ..,Y
And his quivsrinx tail, like = serpent,
,g,, Twitehed, cprving nervously. ., A.,
Then, like astorm he seized me
With wild triumphant cry, ,.''
And We met Is two clouds in heaven ia
When the thundsrs before them nv.
Wssrapplsd and struggled together. {,
For his love, LIKE his rage, was rude. "a
And his teeth in the swelling folds of my
neck
' At times in his play drew blood. S''' ~. ,
Often, another suitor- ...., ,.,.....,.
For I was tiexile ana fair--,..,, ',,.
Fought for me in the moonlight ''
While lay crouching there. '~'
TIL his blood was drained by the desert :.
3 And rutflsd with triumphs and power
He licked me and lay beside me b, '.u.I,.
To breathe him 2 vast half hour, -,
Then down to the fountain We loitered
whers the ant.lobss came to drink -"
Like a bolt We sprans upon them ''1
Ere they had time to shrink, " $40
We drank their ableod and crr.h .I
Ana tore them limb from limb, b. gh
u" And the huntriest lion doubted '''' p"
= Ere he disputed vita Him, "}"f On
. That was 4 life to live for, .raan,.o5I
Net this weak human life r., .auI ,a.
With its frivolous, bloodless passions,
= ,1ts poor and pstty strife. ,,' I,-,
Il come to my arms. my hero @'a., IoI
no The shadows Of twilight grow u.'
2, And thstigers ancient fiercsness !,,.
l0. IN my veins begins to aow., ~. -,