The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-06


All snowy in their maidenhood,
Twin lilies Of the wilderness
A shepherd and his shepherdess,
la Ardens gloomy wood!
But comes anon, with hating step and pause,
miserable man
Revolving in each lengthened breath he draws,
The deep, dark problem of material laws,
That life Is but span:
Secluded, silent, solitary, still,
Lone in the vale and last upon the hill,
Companionless beside the haunted stream,
Walking the stars in the meridian beam,
Himself the shade of an Oershad0Wmg dream.
Blighted the rose
With his imaginary woes,
And weaving bird and Tree and fruit and flower
Into q charm OF such mysterious power.
Such plaintive tale,
The beauteous .kies grow pale
And the rejoicing earth looks wan.
Like jacques her lonely, melancholy man!
Ring silver sprinkling, gushing bells
Blow clamorous pipes replying,
In the tipsy merriment that swells,
Forever multiplying!
He comes! with great sunshiny face
And chuckle deep, and glances warm,
Sly mods and strange attempts at grace,
A matron on each arm;
He comes of wit the soul and plth,
Room for him! Sir John Falstaff with
The Merry Wives Of Windsor.
LO! on blasted heath,
Lit by q flashing storm,
The threatening darkness underneath,
Three Of the weird form!
Chanting. dancing altogether,
For a charm upon the heather,
Filthy hays in the foul weather!
The spell works, and behold!
A castle in the midnight hour,
Multi I'd mid battlement and tower,
Wherein the crystal moon doth lower
Antartically cold!
A black birds note hath drilled the air,
And left the stiffness still more drear;
Twice hath the horned owl around
The chapel flown, nor uttered sound;
The night.bre now doth scarcely blow.
And now, 'tis past and gone;.
But the pale moon that like the snow
Erewhile descending shone,
Encrimsoned as the torch OF Mars
While cloud on cloud obscures the stars
And rolls above the trees
Cleaves the dark pillows Of the night,
Like ot-smitten sail IN flight.
Over the bowling seas
God what piercing shrek was there,
So deep and loud and wild and drear,
It bristles up the moistened hair
And bids the blood to freeze;
Again-agan-
Athwart the brain,
That heightened shrek Of life-extorted pain
And now, It's given Ger
But from that pile despairingly doth soar,
A voice which cries like the uplifted main,
"Glamis hath murdered sleep-Macbeth shall
sleep no more!
Thick and faster now they come,
In procession moving on,
Meath the world-embracing Dome
or the unexhausted One;
Mark them while the cauldron bubbles
Throwing spells upon the sight
And the wizard flames redoubles
In intensity of light.
Here is one-a rustic maiden
or the witching age
Cheeks with beauty overladen,
Blushing like sunset Aidenn-
Mistress Anne Page!
Here another that doth follow,
Full Of starch decorum-
wise man, this Cousin Shallow,
Justice Of the Quorum:
third is timid, slight and tender.
Showing harmless Master slender,
A fourth doth frowningly reveal
His princely mantle jeweled DER,
BY knightly spurs upon his heel,
And changing sound of martial steel,
The dark, Venetian Moor
The fifth advances with a start,
His eve trausfiAing like dart
Black Richard of the Iron Hearth
And now they rush along the scene
In crowds, with scarce pause between,
Prelates high, In churcn ana state,
sneakers daxterous in debate,
Counters gay in satin hose,
Clowns fantastic and jocose,
Soldiers brave and virgins fair,
Nymphs with golden flowing hair,
And spirits Of the azure AR,
Pass with solemn step and slow
Pass, but linger as they go,
Like images that haunt the SHADES,
OR visions Of the white cascade,
Or sunset on the snow.
Then. then, at length the browning CORY comes
Loud trum pets speak unto the sky, and drums
ITnroll the military chain
From pole to pole
Greet wide the wonder Of the poets soul;
With raven plume,
Hamlet, the Dane
Bright shall thine affairs be
First of the holy minstrel band,
Green az the yine-encircled land
And vocal as the sea!
Thy name is writ
Where stars are lit,
And thine immortal shade,
mid archangelic clouds displayed
On fame's imperial seat
cts the inseparable Nine
n its reflected glory shine,