The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-24
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CLEOPATRA


BYw. W. STORY.
Here, Chairman, take my bracelets;
They bar with purple stain
Ny arms. Turn over uy pilloxs-
They ars hot where have lalh
Open the lattice wider,
A gsuzr On my bosom tiinO~.
And IL: me iniale the olors
That over the garlen flow
dreamed Was with my Antony.
And In his arms lay;
All me the vision has Vanished
Its nsisie has did aSay;
The hani- and the perfume have prrisasd-
As this spiesSl arssazfie pastilie,
That wound the blne snsoke of liz odor
Il now but an ashy hill
Scatter upon Io-c-ieayes,
They cool me after sierP;
And with sandal odyr- Tan mr.,
I'LL into my veins they creep;
Reach down the Lutte, and play me
A melancholy tune.
To rhyme with the Lranl that has vanished,
And the slumbeTing afternoon
There. browsing in golden sunlight,
Letters the slow smooth Nile,
Thfough slender papyri, that cover
The sleeping crOcostilei
The lotus lells on the water
And opens its heart Of gold,
And oyer its broad leafpayeInenf
Never n ripple is rolled:
The twilight breeze is too lazy
Those feathery palms to wave,
And yon little cloud Is as motionless
As 4 stone above grave
All, me . this If.less nature
Oppresses my heart and brain!
Oh Tor q storm and thunder
For lightning and Wild fierce rain
Fling down that luie-I hate il
Take rather this buckler and sword.
And crash them and clash them together,
Till this sleeping world Is stirr-d'
Harkl to my Indian beauty
Ny cockatoo creamy and white,
With rose- under his feathers-
That flashes across the light
Look listen A. backward and forward
To his hoop Of gold he elngs;
How he trembles with crest uplifted,
And -hrieks As he madly swings.
Oh. eockatoo, shrek for Antony
Cry, Come, my love, come homer
Shrek, Antony Antony Antonyr'
Till he hears you even In Rome
There-leave me- and take from my chamber
That wretehed little gaz-lle,
With its little black eyes meaningless.
And its silly tinklins bell
Take him-my nerves he y-xes-
The thing without blood OF brain-
Or. by the body Of Isis
IN snap his neck in twain!
Lave me to gaze at the landscape
Mistily stretching away,
When the afternoons Opaline tremoTs
Over the mountains quiyering play;
Till the fiercer splendor Of sunset
POurs from the west its FIRE.
And melted, as in 4 erueible,
Their earthly foTms expire;
And the bald, blear skull of the desert
With glowing mountains is crowned,
That. burning Ike molten jewels,
Circle its temples round.
will lie and dream Of the past time,
4fons of thought away,
And through the jungle Of memory
Loosen my fancy To play:
When a smooth and velvety tiger,
Ribbed with yellow and black,
Supple and cushion.footed,
wandered, where never the track
Of human creature had rustled
The silence Of mighty woods;
And fierce in a tyrannous freedom,
knew but the law of my moods.
The elephant, trumpetins. started,
When be heard my footstep near,
And the spotted giraffes he'd wildly,
In yellow cloud Of fear.
i sucked in the noontide splendor,
Quiv-ring along the glade,
Or, yawning. painting, and dreaming,
Basked in the tamarisk shade;
Till heard BY wild mate roaring.
As the shadows of night came ON.
To brood in the trees thick branches,
And the shadow of sleep was gone;
Then reused and ruarrd in answer.
And unsheathed from my cushioned feet
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