The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-03-03

And nov a. and muse on what may be,
And in ~ Vision see or seem to see,
Through anAting vapors inlerfused with liglg,
shapes lAdelermlnnte, that CLEAN and fade,
Aslhadows passing into deeper shade
sink and elude tho sight,
For two alone, there in the hall,
Isapread the table round and small
Upon the polished silver shine
The evening lamps, but more divine
The light 81 love shines over all
81 love that says not mine and thine
But ours, for ours Is thine and mine.
They want no guests To come between
Their lender glAnces like screen.
AlN lti} ihem tales OF land and SEA. lla|
And Nhatsocver may betlde
Tht CREST forgotten world outside;
Yiley want no guests; they needs must he
Zach olheFs own best company.
al|4 rlelnre fades; rs at village fair
sIoNman's views dissolve into the air,
IA Inappear transagured On the screen,
NJ N i1V fancy this; and now once more
ii part lFansGgured, through the open door
kppeass the selfsame scene.
ea1fsd Isoe the two again.
nuI not aione they entertain
4 ii.IIe Afsel unaware,
WI,h fAte b round as In the NOON
A to>aI 1nest with haxen hair.
Who tIlloned upon his lOfty chair
ufuins on The table with his spoon,
Then drops It careless on the floor
10 grasp Il things unseen before.
Af1 lhrea celestial manneH? These
4fe Nsf9 fhat win. the arts thRt please .|F=
AZ. ~. consider well the guest,
And uittsOe'er he does seem best
M ititlh by the right divine
0lh1ipitnness 50 lately born
IN nnIrl1 chambers Of the morn.
Al ab4trcign over thee and thine,
He sttAkfih not and yet there lies
f1ntsfsatlon In his eyes:
4ha Ft1Aen silence of the Greek.
The sIaTat wisdom Of the wise
f1tip1<en in language, but In looks
Here icSibie than printed books
As ffhe could but would not speak.
Aud nDB. o monarch absolute,
Ihy p4wsr IS put to proof; for To-
N6.<Io1s Isfhomless and slow, laUf
Ih1 nurse ZONES rustling like the sea-
And pushes back thy chair and thee,
Ana . good night to King Canute.
".
A. one who walking in the forest sees
lively landscape through the parted trees
Thensee It not for boughs that intervene,
~ IS We see the moon sometimes revealed
Through drifting clouds. and then again concealed
30 ibeheid the scene.
fh1ra Ire two guests at table now
Tho king, deposed and older grown,
no longer occupies the throne,-
The crown i on his sisters brow
princess from thc Fairy Tales,
The very pattern girl girls,
Al; covered and embowered in curs.
Roo tinted from the Isle Of Flowen,
And saiilng with son silken sails
fn,ni faf OF Dreamland into ours
&ba1c thelr bowls with rims Of blue
fenr azllre eyes of deeper hue
A. slooking, dreamy with delight
I3urIt Is planets that emerge
1h1<e bic oceans rounded verge
Hof<ahinng through the summer night,
fIc1Alost they gaze, yet nothing see
H><oot the horizon Of their bowls
ka& csze they for the world that rolls
with al lts freight OF troubled souls
5Hlo he days that are TO be.
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Again nc tossing boughs shut out the scene
AFsIn tI.e drifling vapors intervene.
Ana ~ moons pallid disk q hidden quite
@4> u1N see the table wider grown.
- <1tnt pebble into water thrown
NiIatsa ring of light
~ ne liable wider grown.
~ Il e>rlanded with guests
&< If <zsF Ariadnes crown
Ut< " fiIe sky had fallen down;
MaIleH* within whose tender breasts
theUzand restless hopes and fear,
Fl=I1 rHchlng to the coming years,
fI5IItf while, then quiet lie.
{ttz Ii4Aid birds that fain would fly
Bin 40 ent dare to leave their nests -
&H6 <eaihs, who in their strength elate
HI|41lsaAa the van and front Of fate, ~
E4EfF = ehampions to be
n Ne disine Knight.errantry
u{f<uEA that travels sea and land
t<1ziaE aaventures or pursues
I1<1lzA cities and through solitudes
&ft1cHated by the lyric Muse,
X*e Nt8ntom with the becoming hand,
[1a< <=IIi hllures and still eludes.