The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-25
POETRY.
DESPAIR.

[Alfrcd Tenuyson ppblishes = dramatic monolocu.
Ninsteen.h C0tn0y. Itis srhe story OF man and his
wife. who losing faith In good fttnre life, resolve 70
commit suicide by drowning. The womas II drowned
has abandoned. Tue following ale quotations from
tus poem
L. II you that preached in the chapel there,
looking over the sand,
Followed us, too, thai night and dogged us
and drew ils 10 land?
What did feel hat night? you are curious,
how should tell?
Does it matter SO much what felt? you res
cued me. Yet was il we'll
That you come unwished foe, uncalled for, be
teen me and ihe deep aud my gloom?
Three days since, three more dark days o
the goddess gloom
OF life without SUI, without health, with
out hope, without any delight,
Can anything here upon earLh-but, oh, God
that night! that nigh,!
When the rolling ewes of the lighthouse
there, ou the fatal neck
or land runDiug out into rock-they ba'
Glared on our way toward death. remem
ber, thought as we passed.
Does IL mat er how many he saved? We arr
all of us wrecked at last.
Do YOU feai ? And ,he"e came through tn
roar of the breaker a whispers a breath.
Fear Am not with you? / Am frightened
at life, not dea'h.
And the suns Of the limitless univers
sparkied aud shone 10 the skg, .
Flashing with fires as OF God, but we kno'
that their light was lie.
Lightly step over tue sands; The watees, yo
bear ,hem call
Life, with its anguish and sorrow and error
away with it all.
And she laid her hand in my own; she W;
always loyal and sweet,
| Till the poipts in the foam in the dusk can
playing about our feet,
There was as,.ong sea cutenG hat cou
sweep us out of the main.
God! Tho felt as spoke was taking Il
name in vain.
All. God aod we 50 ued to each other,
kissed, we embraced, she and J,
| Knowing the love we used 20 believe eve
| lastiug would die.
| w. had read lneir kDow-nothing books, al
| we leaned 20 he da' ker side.
All. G od, sbould we fiud him? Pc haps,pt
baps, if we died, " we died.
We pever had fouod him ou earth; This ea'
is q faoherie>s hell.
Dear love, ,forever and eve, forever aud eve
farewell
Never cry so desola'e; no. s'uce The wo'
Never a kiss so sad, no, not since the conn
of,.man;
But he bdud wave cast me a>bo'e, and y
saved me Q valueless life.
Not a graz Of gratitude miud,you have p'
ed the man from Lhe wife.
I am left alone on The land; and she is al'
on the sea.
If curse meant aught, would curse you
not having let me'be.
Have crazsd myself over their horrible
fdel writings? Oh, yes,
i For these are the new dark ages, you see
the ipfideI press.
When the bat comes out Of his cave ana
owls are whooping at noon,
Aud doubv is he lord of th'S dun3hih'
crows 70 the sun aud The moon,
Til the sun and the moon OF onr SKIES
W boih of them sutned iuto blood.
And hope will have broken her heart
q ming after shadow OF good,
For their Knowing aud know-nothiog DC
are scattered from hand to hand
We have knelt in your know-all chapel
looking over the sand. ......
- All, yes have had some g'immer at u
In my gloomiest woe
. or G od behind all, after a''-'he great
for augbt that know.
Rpt The God Of love aud of hell, toge
n they can't be though.
n If there IN such God may tue great
v, curse him and bring him TO nought.