Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-09-18

No human neart that did not quake with
fear.
Homcwarl in haste, like birds storm caught,
all h,-':
"1h" Judgment Day" they cried; 10, it is
here
All night tn. tempest RACED; none stirred
abroad
Yet one there was. wanlrrer strayed.
who uaS,i
The strangers door, when then fearful
blast
AgainS, il hurled. Tho wind terrific reared;
Aud in The house thu woman L. adored
That lover all unluved behell a-haSt,
With fearful face and faint form PROSTATE
In fears or anguish pity he kind. Lord.
And heard her SotS thao to strange names
appealed.
AS wild storm in that wc1k human breast
As that in Natures hear, that flashed and
pcaled.
Thus, passion torn, that dove with wounded
He saw AMI could not save-then onward
rcel,d.
And to his home returned, though not to rest
The summer, smitten sore. bloSsomed anew;
From that tempestuous night was born a
day
Splendid As June and winsome as young
May.
The bilowy ocean. Ike n lover true,
Laughed bnck the sIiys unreasonable blue;
The beach with human butterflies was gay
Nor did the stranger in his cottage stay;
Here, too, the zephyrs soft and sunbeams
Alone on such day who could abide
On the broad sands her wontel path to trace
In sumptuou' robes she came like a fair
bride,
Smiling. with some high meaning in her face,
And striving shoreward near the boomin z
tide.
Paced up and down awhile with tranquil
grace.
Twas gorgeous noon, each heart with hope
clate.
The glittering air shot through with SPLEEN
dor glanced
The sunny pillows to their goal advanced,
Their hymn of sweet peace they celebrate.
Ah me, that joy-to her the call of fate.-
With swan-ike motion swift, like enc en-
tranced,
Mid laughing groups unseeing, she adj
vanced:
a reckoning hand she saw and could not
wait.
All Natures passion her rapt soul possessed,
Her eyes of lambert flame resplendent
blaZed,
The Tutoring breeze her locks of night
caTessed,
| And wan cheek touched with roseate bloom
Amazed
| At that glad ecstasy. too long repressed,
The crowd fell back, and ON her beauty
gazed
Onward she walked sublime, with rigid brow,
To meet the naughty ocean in his pride:
| Rolling with grand green waves at full high
tide
That turned cen then, ebbing that mighty
Still onward pressed Sphinx like, with mar
When, STAY a sudden voice, shrill shrek
ing, cried:
"A STEP and You are gone" Thesea's pale
bride
Paused not, and towering up with hungry
sough,
Her vanishing form the high, triumphant
With ravishment in drew Moment in
tense!
Her rescue then twas all in vain to urge,
For ere that breathless pause of sharp sus-
Her small, sad feet had crossed Life's last,
last verge;
A step resigned her to the gulf immense.
Self-sentenced she had died, so all might
And more than this to none vast given to
| Still undivulged her name and nameless
woe,
| Deep buried now with that rare loneliness
| Which no kind hand would e'er again cares
No loving eye behold. Stunned by the
| blow,
| The pale crowd, awe-struck, hurried to and
fro;
And hen mingled wall rose of distress:
Pale women swooned, and men strong.
hearted wept:
And long they sought, flung back upon the
| shore,
Her sweet dead form, with strange sea jewel.
deckd;
But never did her bridegroom bold restore
His beauteous prize; but guarded as she slept
! Entombed in state on some caves jasper
| floor.
VIRGINIA VAUGHAN
| NEW YORK, April g.