West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-11

thc breeze bears to hlm tne IuAeA"i Ano' | II
sage of the unseen ginger. t
sWhy mournest thou, oh captive Knight +
While all the blessed day
Tho bulbul tunes his throat OF song
To loves i,npassioned lay7'
Whv mournest thou, when all the alt
Is burdened with delight,
Art yearning with the soaring blrds
10 wing away in flightF
.1s not thy prison richly decked,
Thy prison garden fair,
With all the brightest flowers tna' snou
Their fragrance on the air Z"
"Cbafe not beneath the silken cord
That binds thee for time
Reside Marmora's silver tide
Within our sunny cliIne."
| .eFret not to roam the distant hills
That lift their snow-clad peaks,
! Where only coldest northern wlnds
The brow of beauty secks-"
Acain and again were the evenings
hours bequiled by the tinkhng no1es
of the lutte and the sweet Voico VI
Rechedi Hanoum as yet unseen oy hc'
eager and enamored auditor, VINO iehos
ali the attributes of romance anu poess
to the fair unknown
At last rendered bold by the desires Oh
her own heart, she weaves Wreatn y.
roses the roses of Cashmere vaie-ahc L
binding it with a tress OF glossy DARK
hair uncloses the lattice grating tha1
iealously conceals hcr from the young
: Russiar's anxious sightand lightly tosses
. the Offering at his foot to see 1t sraspeo
). with eagerness and covered with fond
- Il kisses. The next evening in answer TO
the captive's impassioned pieadinss'
y Rechedi Hanoum blushing and trembling 8
;, at her own temerity, with throbing heatr
~ and ouiyering fingers unclosed the hareH
~ Rlnds and shyly came forth to meet mel
~ lover. Day after day they met until
10 the xouug Russian cnthralled by love as
. we'll as by war forgot home, duty aht
10 even the hopes of liberation that h'e
been beld out to him by the !urkish gov
- ernment. in fond intercourse Win In
10 gcntle and guilcless maiden whose hgh
he f,o+.stens danced to meet him as soon a
OF the sun had sunk beneath the plcasan
~. shade of the cypress-wail>, thelf e'enin
w tryst. But it was not to last tI"s io
~ ever: one morning u resplendent'y cia
BY Turkish official waited on the prlsont
ee' bear;uc him papers of exchange, that
lie dor which once he had so ardently deslre'
III ,,,t which now he read and re-read
Gro does the convict his death warrant
'no in it he beheld the decree thai was
oys divide himself and his lnnocent lo>
7ius Poor Rechedi Hanoum, her bright Sian
s'ie onickened by affection was swift TO re-
mi T,,on her lovers face tie omen OF So
'>o misfortune, and with gentle ana ar'p
' ., words of fondness she endeaVoreo
'no chase away the effect the cause OF "n1
"o. "a vet she was in blissful ignorance;
0"l0 last he mustered courage to toll ner
!"'o tidinrs the morning had brought MN
iSon tell her the coming day would hnd tn
OPP widely severed; also! too soon ana
tally the sensitive heart OF the unus''
.i'ei ciN interpreted the sad import OF
ne - falterin~ and incoherent words; TOO
HILL she realized that their parting mus1
hei deed he forever. That evening cle
,non all that had hitherto made lii
alnst charm for Rechedi Hanoum. Her
inc bod sunk forever. When love and
have fled WlaG SnOulu hSoP oAAo -~'
10 as the frail of tenure earthY Ere ano
, 40 Spring frightened the skies anu g
'eNon of her lovely home, earth held one
WIS ried and broken heart less; all that
t..,on mortal of tho unhappy Reehedl han
'tlole had heon laid within the quiet 81
l. hol tho grave that shields alike the q
and tho moslem.
II ms If in after years, he who had ava
cie''0 ed to life the affection slunherln
'atloa a that poor, young creatures inne
'n' heart, that scorpion-like recoilea
hand itself and gave its own death-woui
alls of within the palace of his sovereign,
house the council chamber or on the te
,,;ow field, for he lived to grow wealthy
>.o" GREAT, as mon reckon greatness, IL ~
'delng Cast one thought upon those q
their by. gone hours, hours that were tne @
crea- lIy happy because one fond ana 'rI
,"o,+ heart had shared them with NM.
W. CIV that had made up the sum Oh an II
q hna happiness for her-if he tnosSp sIS.
happy them ever, history says naugh!, ion
,aciue nv deals with mans acts not hls he"