The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-14
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WRECKED.
BIZ WILL d KEENAN,.

BIZ WILL KERSAN.
o, twinkling locks and tawny, they shine in
these sea-pinks here.
o, tigar-like eyes, their lustre in these pas
sioa-fowers appear!
o, brave, white brow and beautiful, these
daisies it does iilume.
o, sweet lips budding with laughter, in thi.
ripe, red rose they bloom!
| For 10! where l kissed and kissed him, II
the milk white moons away.
In splcnd-ous fire the flowers blaze out O.
his burieI clay.
| So fierce was his love and frantic that some.
times In sudden mood,
| He tore me with teeth and fingers, and
feasted upon my blood;
/ worshiped him, body and spirit, when,
with a betrothal ring,
He made me his queen and vassal, himself
my vassal and king.
Then jealousy came between US with wills
pers / cannot name;
o, fall on me rocks and mountains! for |
was alone to blame;
Only faded flower, u glove and a tress OF
hair,
And beautiful, brown-eyed picture of one
who was bright and fair;
But, o for my faith was shaken. and deaf
was nay mad distrust,
When he spake of a santed sister asleep in
the Spanish dust.
Then, woi with proud com passion, STARE
well, AMI farewell spake he;
"But Christ and the Twelvemonth coming
will witness my worth of thee;
"And then, when the reveling Summer dis
tilleth her dewey wine,
Back, back from Egyptian palm groves L
will come and will call tl-ec mine"
V.
He sailed to the lands bloom burning under
ssarIetest skies away,
Over passionate seas of purple, deep into
diamond day;
He read all the rude, strange marvels of
mystical pagan lands;
He tented in tamarisk bowers in the depths
OF the desert sands;
He stood in majestic temples where thun-
dered the organ peal,
By shrines where effigies rested in glitter
ing plates of steel,
Where the green inblent with the golden,
the blue with blood-red light.
Fell over the 'b-oidered banners that whim-
pied By affairs white,
He talked with king and courtiers where
odorous gum-woods famed,
And girls white breasted were dancing in
nakedness unashamed,
Where lutte and bassoon and viol shook all
of Che shining blooms,
And the riot of voices and laughter rang
down through the princely rooms.
qu2ffed the bea Iers of lotus, and Chridded
the depths of air,
And went with the pale winged angels up
many pearly stair
My thoughts were of Titan trumpets that
shook all the earth when blown,
or palms and chaplets and Tyres, and the
white, ineffIble throne;
But out of these vivid visions l wakeneJ in
wild alright,
In the bursts of the phrenzied tempests that
walled through the moonless night,
And sheeted wraiths stalked by me to the
tolling of funeral bells,
And my thoughts -were OF letters of fire,
and the serpentS of smoking hells.
VII.
1t was in the early evening, and ont OF a
Sowing sky,
The terrible lightning darted and the winds
went roaring by,
Tearing he black, black pillows into snow
lest shiels of white,
When out on the far horizon his vessel hove
in sight.
laughed at lunatics loully, laughed as
lunatcs DO,
1 clenched my ten thin tihgers till the blood
came oczing through;
l felt like a feshless spirit all drunk on de-
licious wine
Despite the angels of heaven, the demons Of
hell, he was mine!
But bark to the hurried signals through the
spray and the tempest shocks!
His vessel, great God is steering right down
the dreadful rocks!
1t strikes and is shattered asunder; it sinks
with a sudden spasm.
Aud the dark-limbed, drowning sailors spin
round in the roaring ohasm.
TX.
o, emerald EARTH sail swiftly through the
limtless seas OF space,
And past all the ship-like planets to the
paIm-cool port of grace!
Sail swiftly! The shining angels may win
him away from me,
And leave me alone in Heaven to pine
through Eternity
OKOLoNA, Mss, March, 1877.
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