Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-08

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Before he time, 70 keep the hot rayed sun
From of her face Now come the little stars;
Through every crack of heaven DO they pour down
To catch view of her oer-loveY face +!
But now she comes hear her steps
Making sweet music for tn enraptured air :
Enter Josephine, L.
Josephine And did you think l would never
Godfrey The hours did truly seem stretched out
long,
might have named them never; but since now
I see thee here, the evil OF that time
Does serve but as a contrast TO these moments,
That like 10 suDbeams, frightened by the night
Do swiftly flee away!
Josephine. had been here,
But that some envious demon held me back,
Now placing this, now that, across my path
Godfrey. lis strange, then, that the mighty fairy
legions
Sailed not forth to guard thee gainst this demon
For know that these fairies love thee well =
I've seen them ofs, wrapt in cloak of sunbeams,
Comiog. unknown to thee to steal sweet kisses
From OF thy rosy lips; at other times
Bearing the hue from of thy lovely cheek
To paint their home, the cloud placed rainbow,
with
Josephine. You seem to be acquainted with these
Same tiny beings from another world.
'Tis only through the gate Of midnight dreams,
Be IL now known, that We may enter in
The fairy kingdom SO these compliments
Are fancies only, born within a dream.
Godfrey. Speak you Of dreams, my lovely jose
phinef
Then III tell you that has reality
Stamped on It's face. You know I've loved you
long;
Deny it not with those dark frowns; and yet
Zen they do vel become thy gentle face =
Pye loved thee long, and we'll and now l ask
A greater boon than all that hand OF thine
No answer now? Ahi in thine eye see
The hard word " No" look forth Oh Danish it
From that sweet place, where heretofore
Kind smiles alone dwelling had
Josephine; Perhapsit was not there; or, il was,
lis banished.
In answering thus, it may have seemed that l
Have been too soon in 80 surrerdering
MY hand to thee; if SO, this my excuse
Godfrey. You give excuse? no, no, 'twere better
To crush the silly laws Oh now is all
Ny happin IS complate
Josephine. And in the center of this happines:
I'm forced to tear myself away from you
But blessings test
Within the thought that we shall meet again
Godfrey. On go not yet the hour is net yet late
Josephine. Nay, but the moon is sinking DER the
hill;
See how her poor, wan face, looks thin and pale
wonder hath she lost some one of those
Her myriad, st r-browed children, that
She weeps while she majestically moves
Through nights blue heaven?
Godfrey. If she is weeping, then I'll pity her;
For while feel The sweetness of thy love,
cannoe but feel that ali the world is sad2
Josephine. The tide Of night hath nearly reached
the top;
Now must tear myself way from thee
These hours vert stolen from underneath the eyes
OF one who harshly watches all my conduct.
Godfrey. Oh not yet Josephine the stars
That mark the minute places in the sky
Have not been three tunes rounded by the Rand
of stiffness, that doth mark the hour of night
Josephine. Were to mark the hours upon this
clock,
The morning light would guide me to my home.
Godfrey. The hours OF time have shorter grown
OF late.
Josephine. Oh Godfrey, would that might yet
remain
But in this world is still a cruel fate,
Aud must tear myself away from thee
Good by, my love, good-by Exit Josphne, R.
Godfrey. Gone? Adds she gone? Oh, evening
treezs
Bear these my blessings after her. [Ext Godfrey,
Enter, L., Mrs. Stone and Blackwell, cautiously.
Mrs. StO. You have already sworn an oath SO
strong
That 1t would bind the ieeting clouds together,
Aud tie the winds frem north and east and south,
Until the earth did rest in d-owsy stiffness
Black. Ay, am bound to bind up in this brain
Your every word, and ev'n your smallest whisper.
Ii this be not enough, III swear again
By all the ars OF heaven, by earth, by sea- swear
Mrs. St0 Nay, hush
An had not a stronger hold on thee,
would not give an unsubstantial shadow
For all thy oaths. But, now, lePs to the business
You know the father Of my niece is dead?
Black OF Josephine ?-ay, dead.
As skeletons down in tue deep dead sea
Mrs Sto Aud more than this, you know her
father had a fortune that
Black. He lost in speculation
Mrs Sto No; there's our point; he never lost
dime,
As most men did believe but when at last
He lay upon the bed of death, he called
To me, aud bade me bring him pen and lux;
Then, with his trembling hand he wrote his will,
And gave that will to me.
Bv its wording, was executor -
HIS property, which money was in bank,
In three days was TO be drawn out by me,
Aud. till her twentieth year. IN land invested.
Now as you know, upon Ia Atlantic shore
Her fat died.
Some relatives she still hath living there
OF whom she knows not, nor shall ever know
While thought still hath home within my brain.
Black Laside.l There thought viii dwell till
Hell hath smoked it out
But why hold out such secrecy DER this?
Mrs Sto. BE nOtinpatient; know you not that
heaven
Has placed the sharpest thought in that same crea-
ture,
That on its belly DER the earth creeps sowest
Black. So you go on upon your belly creep,
Or IN that way that pleases you best.
Mrs Sto Then would have you wed this jose
phine
Blaet Ne wed the girl?
Mrs: Sto. You wed the girl 2-methinks mighty
Black Ay honor, yes; but if 'tis but for honor,
Then, be 1t known, l am no marrying man.
Blaef. Al, there you speak my ear opes wife
his Coor
To let that sound come tripping gayly III
Mrs. Sto. Hark, then, 20 me Ii you will marry
And take he- off to some far-distant land
Where her kinsfolk can never hear Of her,
Then you shall have a third OF all her fortune.
Are you agreed?
Black. Am Iagreed VIII you not give me more ?
Mrs StO III see thee broiled upon gridiron
Black. Then surely I'm agreed.
Mrs Sto Then thus it is
Arranged. This winter go we to New York
There will you marry her. and take her off
To the Australian land Then I'll come back
To this bright Western shore,
And while do invent some pretty tales,
To please the ears Of those few friends she hath,
VIII gladly the fortune which kind fate
Hath gently laid down upon my lap.
Since this business, Of so great import
To YOU and me, Is DER, may az well depart.
Black. Nay, not 50 quick. Am | to ne'er return,
With this sweet bride, TO my native land?
Mrs Sto. Not with thy bride But if she dies
out there
OF pestilence or by the ague chill;
Or if, perehsnce, some reptile taste her blood;
Or il some wild beast tear her limb from limb
And of these dangers there are many there
Then may you come back to your native land.
Black. Then YOU NAV see me roasted on a griddle,
Or turned to fodier for the Devils mares
I'll not accept such terms as YOU have made
Mrs. St0. Did You not say you would accept my
termsl
Black. Did I, i faith; then viii change them
now.
Mrs Sto. For twenty years you've served me as
a friend
Perhaps, at FIRST l did not think on this
Considering, then, thy many years Of service,
I'll make thy fortune half as great again.
Black. Now, like stole must perforce accept.
Mrs SO. Then is our business IExeunt.
ScESS III.-A dining room in MIS-. stones house
in Berkeley.
Enter Servants.
1st Sergt. How long Wilt be before they have
r turhsd
Cd Sero't. From church the time will be one
hour.
Sd SerU't Ard that. by my arithmetic. viii leave
Three hours for Us to make the dinner ready
1St SeTD't 20 servant girll You Saw the marry
ing, Nell how went it oifl
NeH How went it off it went of as a hoarse
Over precipice.
ed !Seru't take you not:
You know, good Nell, your wit does shine 30 bright
That ours IS blinded by it. Then tell US
How looked the bridegroom, and how looked the
brde7
Nell Nay, III not that; I'll tell how looked the
bride,
And then how looked the bridegroom.
Cd Serv't. As you will.
NeH Av, as | will then listen now 10 me -.
When all were gone hurried to the church,
And. as | entered in, wild echoes rushed
From ont their hiding places-then, like fends
Cried out to one another
Taen came the miLister.
And they stood up the bride like a sweet liiv
On which black night dctl scowI with her dark flce-
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