The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-31
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And never can renew the spell 1 That thralled the reason ere it fell. PART SECOND.
 pEsoLarIok. Leave we ihe Sun 10 rapturous hour And speed our muse to beauty's bower. 1 Lo. on dusky, bcetling cloud, Behold her form in anguish bowed. 1 Left in the gloom her lover fed,
 Small wonder if the iady's dead. Care on that once celestial bro~ Bereft Of all its radiance nov Weep for the pale and pezriy de@ Wrung from a heart, alas, too true. Where now arc all those wondrous dyes That flashed before our startled eyes Where nov are all the thousand charms That ~oocd Us 10 those rounded arms Where now the loye-lit eyes, whose beams Pursued us even in our dreamsi Why still the lips whose coral hue Might tempt an anchorite to wool Why sleeps the breast whose snows nigh chain
 Apollo in her humble train. Weep, love. Let all thy tears be blood And yoa, ye Cupids sho have stood Before her face now howl and vail Since all those charms could naughi avail. But hold she lives she heayes sigh. Those charms were too divine to die. & Wait swift ye Winds from northern snoWs A toasted swans wing for her nose. Bear swift ye brecke, from tropic trces. Sharp aromatics-makc her snccxc. Love .oii son cloud with dew o'ersprczd And place il meath her dropping head Throw back the hair from heauteous bross. Wave, Cupids. wave your pinions now Through him ~ho faiters m his trust His own bright arrow shall be thrust. Bathe soft those lips with odorous hsS.. 0, rccrean, Sun Where are thy rays, One golden beam Of love from you Would blush her marble breast anea. Would light again the fickering 6ame Within her languid, pulseiess frame. Blu, see spark of lightning flies Swift from hex now diiated eyes. See the fierce flush that dyes her broh, ind neck and cheek with crimson glow Veins the high head, gives statlier micn. Arms the fond heart with proud disdain. Her love resslscd, and shall her throe> 10 other eyes her grisis disclose. Shall tears and sobs and bursting sigh Reyca her swelling agonies Death 10 the thought though suns should
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 rheir poltroon souls in Oceans dccp Ill .css bc dry Though gods iorsakc. And the crystal dome oi heaven should break And no, globe or sphere remain Tn all the dcsolatc domain. Sui undis played her wild despair. still checked must be each rising tea Though left alone, ufi.osed. unwooed. by memory Of the past pursued, Stlii must she wrap m pride her i-rm And comcth calm, or eometh storm GHa...s ss remain n -SecGssing pogsr-- Though all the clouds of heaven should low er Abos her head. thus will she prove How iight she held this light O love. But pride alone cannot console The fouily wronged. indignant soul Where love has had complete control. Nie~ the the dun dam, whose breast with
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 The wild, ,cmpcs,uou>, mountain food In sturdy strength for ages past. BegLn to give, to weld at last: Its pondcrous heart portentous moan. It's welding side reproachf,ti sroan> Soon ~iil the bursting waters pour Wide, wild destruction on the shore. Not so: here gaps deep crrvssse- The rushing watcrS. roaring, pass And Altering through thousand Se4niS. Emerge to view thousand streams I hat glide and twist their tortuous tIsi Through many a fragrant dell and dale Thus when by some great moral strstn Our chiefcst passions rent m t~air And all our fond illusions fly Before the food. Reality, An hundred minor passions seek To cssc the hear. that -~isc-s ould bFeak.--- Thus with the skies, who now replaces The ieecy clouds 70 screen her grace, Did up her hair in wretchcd plight Got mad because there was no light, Arranged her girdlc with pout, And put the attending loves 10 route tiny cloud lay m her way. She slapped II, clean Ter Bafin's Bay She tore the qui. .ering clouds asunder And flashed the Lightning a, the Thunder. She piled the trembling ciouds again. And spanked them till they wept like ram. The Loves and Cupids strove 10 dy And hide them from her threatening eve. Around, across, and darting through. From bank to bank like lightning flew She followed, caught and sent them crying Then sent the whimpcring clouds fsing. Till nothing else remained On high Bu, she, my lovely, peerless Sky: And then ambient air reclining She vowed she'd cease this silly pinns And thus resolving not 10 weep She sohbcd her loving soul 10 sleep. For mornings dewS the facts disclo>s We witnessed only halt her woes.
 papy Tulpn