The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-13

From The Ru.tiaa Of TargaHcg."i 80 q
l stood before noble range Of. noun
tains, clothed from top to base with frest
green forest, and stretching round abou
me in semicircle. Blue aud clear abov,
them shoAe the Southern sky. The sun
beams played upon their tops, while in the
valley, half hidden by the grass, gurgled
the running brooks.
And there came to me, in thought, q
story OF the ancient time; how once, in the
first century after Christ's birth, Greek
ship sailed the EGean Sea.
1t was noon. The winds were laid at
rest. When OF a sudden from the cleai
sky fell voice, as il from heaven, saying
TO the helmsman: "When thou by yonder
island sailest, then cry with loud voice;
Great Pan is deadn" ....
The startled sailor shook with fear; yet as
the ship passed by, obedien,ly he cried
"Great Pan is dead" .a.
And now, at once, there rose, as il in an.
swer 10 his cry, from all along the barren
shore, wall and mighty groau, while IN
long.drawn lamentation echoed the cry:
"Dead is Great Pan! Great Pan 10 dead!"
Thus ran the ancient tale, and, as /
unused upon II, there came to me strange
and wondprous thought: GLOW were it II
l, too, should cry?" LEX.
But in the joyous presence OF that lovely
scene could not think OF death, and SO
with all my strength ] cried: W
ARISEN Is great Pan! He Is ariseD!"
And at once-0 wonderiull-therera rang
from all that circle OF green hills, as 'twere
10 answer to my call, joyous laughter,
while with one accord, on every side, there
arose the sound OF happy voices and youth.
full tongues re echoed the glad cry:
"He IL arisen? Great Pan is arisen"
All nature about me then Segan to smile,
brighter than the suAbeams on thu heights,
more Joyous than the the purling brooks
that murmured in the grass. l heard the
hurried steps Of fairy feet, and throng the
thicket saw the CLEAN OF snow,white gar
ments and the rudy glow Of naked limbs.
The jmpbs, the Dfyads, and Bacchantes
were thronHng TO the vale. Suddenly
from every side they came. From their
immortal heads streamed down the waving
hair, their shapely hands bore garlands
and the cymbals, while lluyhter-clear
0lympian laughter-rippled round about
them as they came. -.
B.fore them strobe goddess, taller and
more loveier than them all. Upon her
shoulders hangs the culver; in her hands
she bears the bow, while above her clus.
tering hair sparkles in silver light lustrous
crescent.
Dlana-art thou she?
Suddenly she halts, and with her all her
nymphs. The clear.toned laughter dies
away, and saw how deathly pallor crept
DER the features OF the goddess thus struck
dumb. l saw her limbs grow rigid, her
lips part in unutterable pain, while in fixed
gaze her eyes stared in the distance.
What had she scent Whittier bent her
gaze?"
II, too, turned to look.
On the horizons farthest edge, circ!ed by
fertile fields, cleaned like point Of fire
golden cross upon the white tower OF
Christian church.
The cross had met the goddess eye. Be-
hind me then / heard shrill, long sigh,
as when mighty harp.string throbbing
snaps asunder, and when turned again
saw no trace Of pymph or dryad. Before
me still there lay hegFeen, tar.stretching
wood, and here and there in the dense
thicket cleaned for an instant something
white, and vanished. VAST the garments
Of the nymphs, or WASH mist cloud rising
from the valley?
| can not say, ....-.