The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-16

they while away the day, chatting |
costly, eating clam chowder and soft |
soeil crabs, drinking iced clouds. 4" |
snd watching the bathers who. in a
costume that would bring a laugh 10 |
snv ups OF old Neptune himself, are |
iolnns, tambling, bobbing up and !
u IN the surf in most eomical !
iasnio0' laughing and shouting in |
very msoness OF merriment. As the |
sun siAKs we stroll far away over the !
smooth stretches OF sand, inhalinp the !
rare fragrance of the salt sea air that
comes with healing on its WINGS !"
and fairly intoxicstes with the mere
delight Of breathing; listening to the
murmur OF the sad sea waves" and
watching the stately ships float like
gigantic sea-birds over the waters.
until the largest ship that passed us,
with her white SAILS set, her pcnnons
floating, and all her mighty machinery
| In stately motion. seems now like
white slbatross sailing slowly across
the blue distance, and now hovers q
mere speck upon the appraised wall OF
waters on the far verge of the horizon.
The twilight deepsns, the bell of
the return bostis heard sounding scross
the waves, the crowd troops back, the
band strikes up, the boat swings round
and away We sail with the sound of
sweet music and ripping laughter
dancing over the moonlit waters, and
echoed by the song Of the sounding
sea-homeward bound.
The sun rises. like giant refreshed
TO run his race" the birds awake, tho
breeze IS out, and all earth reioices IN
the song OF summer. Behold the same
merry party on board the Daniel
Drew, armed and equipped with fans,
shaWis and (by NO means least in i'm
pOrtsnce) we'll filled lunch basket,
and bound for trip up the Hudson.
All, happy day. what pen shall picture
thv delightsf Al! the morning we sit
on the aft guard and laugh with the
suniit waters and sing with the breeze.
! We watch the vine leaves swaying in
the wind, the grain fields waving
their green sud golden plumes,
the meadow grass bright with
gold and crimson blossoms, the
hillsides white ~ snow with
starry oxeyed daisies. the lovely villas
GROWING the green pine clad hills,
anu, most magnificent OF all, the
stately p disades that rise like cloud
csppId castles, mile after mile along
the ryer side, with glnnpsss of ruined
tower ard buttress, bsttlement and
donlon Keep, peeping from behind q
wilderness of tangled vines, with a
sound of dripping water in their moss
covered corridors, and wild wood
flowers thrusting their heads through
the ruined halls.
Now we have passed these mighty
ruins where surely in the olden days a
giant race once dwelt, and our boat
glides into the placid waters Of the
Tappan Zee.
'.fsolkd purple 20 IL
She satls and Rceks
| Blue inle,s, and Iaeir crystal ssks
! Where high rocks throw
( Through deeps below
| A ddpnceted golden ow.'
How the hr-clad highlands lift Their
msjeftio heads on eitSer side of rs Us
we wind our tortuous course between
them, and now We are rounding to, at
the most strongly, serenely, sublimely,
| beautiful spot 90 tins continent. TAX
ing a carriage, we wind up the hill TO
the college and encsmpment grounds.
Surely in NO other place have art and
nature so wrought together to create
spot before whose glorious beauty
all "oras snoald pa'e ana isoe into
nothingheSs. we uiivessio~iy around
the GROUNDS, lost IN dream OF Devil
oefing loVeiiness; we stop AZ the
cemetery gaze, sh6 ut ana stroll through
It's quhet paths where names OF heroes
dear 20 every american hesrt meet Us
on every s'oe. here STANDS piains
massive, granite monumert-on one
sioe C0,. hooert ANDERSON, on the
o'ner roit oumpter' HOW IKE
death knell ON the heart, echoes,
through the SHADOWS Oh tue long, daik
years, tue Doom oi that h,st gun tnat
propnes'ed TOO 'e"'y '"e oeSo'"'ion ia
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