The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-12-02


had a dream, a very pleasant dream,
dream that like the SuIcet tones Of song
Leaves music's echoes the tuBefuI ear
A phantom picture which the brain unfoIds
Amidst the darkest shadows Of { he night,
And when It's gone the image still remains
In memOry's chambers or perchance impressed
a mirrored- outline stamped upon The mind
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dreamed a park planted my head
sylvan beauty clothed and cooled my brow,
While gorgeous flowers shed perfume fhro' the air
Dear sparkling founians murmursd meath the trees
Or danced with joy, rejecting silyery beams
That played upon their surface and gay birds
OF bright and golden pIumage huttered near
Or sang their merry carols the boughs
The noontide heat was cooled by flood and shade,
Where mountain winds came signing thrO the leaves
That quvered gently with the breath Of life
While far above hung Is a canopy
The vault Of space-the soft blue tropic sky,
Ia which moved eioudIess white as driven snow
No dfscord Jared the happiness and peace
Which mingled there,-the scene Itself repelled
All rude and noisy eiamor nature smiled
On gorgeous beauty that would even tempt
angel from above to tread earth's soil,
Where high above the surface Of our globe
Remote from vice he'd stin be to Heaven:
The distant sound Of Ocean faintiy heard
Mixed with The murmur OF the fOuntain near
Lovers were seated In ambrosial bowers,
And told their tale In harmony and bliss,
UntrammeIed by the Of Earth beneath
Fer here was All that heart could well desire,
Love, beauty, peace and all the countless Joys
or natures blessings. felt thro' sight and sound:
Decay had not yet ventured to ntrude
Her ghastly form upon the youthful groves,
All spring and life the flowers and foliage fresh,
The thick kning growth but tempered light and heat,
Sweet sounds Of harmony amidst the trees
Spread and Te-eehoed over bower and path,
And, lighted by celestial beams, subdued
We're all surroundings of my fairy dream:
A vision Of the night that giistened grand
But faded Aurora lit the East
And spread her Frightening beams upon my sight
The rich enchantment vanished from my gaze
Like gay pleasure that may charm awhile,
Then iy and leave behind the poisoned sting
That pleasures of do leave but twas a dream,
Only dream that spread phantom show,
A nothing, harmless a the air we breathe.
Yet came q sadness resting my heart
missed the apparltion and sighed
To have il back for with the breaking dawn
And long before the monkey-pod had spread
It's tender leaves to greet the breath Of morn
Before the early bee had sailed forth
To taste Tia dewey sweets Of opening fowersi
My phantom park gone, and in its place
Were stretched to view upon my barren slopes
Large circing ruts and burrows on my pate
That spoiled the even smoothness OF my scalp
The cattle browzed upon my wiIhered turf
As they had browzed Of yore aud near at hand
A rounded lumber skeleton enclosed
Gin cases broken bottles and the like;
MoeIies Of barrels, cans and dishes
In fragments strewed unsightIy space wittan
While saplings, planted (careIessly perhapsD
Lay dead and dry. As seen by early light,
All what a contrast to my gorgeous dream
That thus dissolved to monuments Of wreck
And rubbish rotting mine eminence
Ionouiu, 1876.