Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-12-11
POEM.
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written BY . school boy.l

"'Twas In the rsstprimeval." The rapid
Umahlla,
With it, clear. cold waters. and is steep
banks, covered with willows,
Buns like . stream Of molten silver In tts
course to the sea-
And In the blue distance Mount Hood lifts
his hoary head TO heaven.
Twas here q kind.hearted old farmer had
pre-smpted . ranch 49,.
Ono hundred aud sixty acres. On this
ranch there grew berries,
And chswing.gum and hazel.nuts. To
keep his neiHhbors' cattle out,
And 10 keep his own 10, the old man built
high fences round IL,
With here and there . gate with bars, for
his greater convenience.
Near this ranch, ON . bend In the Umatills,
lived Wells Drury, :.
"a youth TO fortune and to fame" well
known. With tn old mans daughter
Drury fell In love. and the course Of his
love ran smooth % the oil
Burned nightly In his lamp. Cyrilla was
the name Of the fair girl.
Black were her eyes, and o'sr her plump
shoulders fell silken tresses,
Which caused the neighbors to stop and
gaze. forgetful Of all else.
Al the girl passed by. Her limbs were
shspely, and - we'll formed
Az those Of the Venus do Medici. Pink
elastic bands -.
That Aunt Hannah gave her which
seemed DER jealous 10 their duty.
Were clasped tight around them. One day
these trusting lovers went forth
To gather the ripe. brown nuts from on
the low.growing bushes,
And TO chew gum together. For . while
all things went lovely,
Till st LAST they came TO Q great high fence
with NO gate In IL.
There Cyrilla halted. Not that she feared
to climb the fence.
For that was lust her forte. From her
childhood years she had pl,yed
With the mountain deer, and chased Ger
the hills tho huge grizzly bear,
And In tho river jumped from rock TO rock
To spear tho passing ash.
But she deemed Il wrong to tempt. with
the sight Of well.shsped limbs.
Her guileless lover. 30, ere the upper rail
was reached, she stopped
And backward turned. To divert attention
she dropped her garter.
Which her gallant escort quickly olutohed,
and deep In pocket hid.
Believing that tho cunning girl knew not
that he had found II.
With the tempting prize delighted, Drury
cared no more for walking. 3
But with swift steps hutened home. to
feast his eyes upon the gone
That had enclrcled limbs - fair - the
starry disdem
OF night, when seen through the pure air
OF lofty mountain tops.
But how vain are the Joys Of youth The
band was made Of rubber,
And left In the noondsy sun, melted and
was forever ruined.
Cyrills, vexed BY Drury's faint heart, wed
greasy butcher.
Since then long years have passed. Youth
have become men, men turned gray,
And some have died. Drury's no longer
on the Umatills,
But, sad aud heart broken, Is now using .
Faber pencil
Upon the Comstock. Cyrilla. with seven
young butcher boys,
Seems hsppy, but only seems. Corrodins
thougnt ID gnawlpB ner
Hssrt-sripgs, and In . dozen years more
will AZ her sure - fate;
And the fair young wsbfoot girl OF hspplsr
days III be forgotten
By al save one. By him, never. His latest
thought II b Of her,
And Of her garter. Mem'ry will svsr sloas
In showing. how
Lies Rolden opportunity was missed when
the fell shadow
Lured him from the substance. For the
baubls Of Q girls garter
BE lot alp spriceless treasure, and now IN
secret mourps.
Daily, when the cold winds from up sig.
mile canyon sweep By him
Nightly, % the sun sinks below Mount
Davidson. he exclsims.
"She was 90 near unto me. and yet ! did
not embrace her;
She was 90 near unto me, and yet married
butcher"