The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-03
POETRY.
OOL0RS EXTOLLED, WHITE ABOVE
THE REST. SISTERS LOVE.


FOR THE HERALD.
Among the things OF natures vast domain,
(And. oh! how lavish the Variety
That most delight and hold our finer sense.
Are colors, manifold and past compare
And little OF tkeir worth is told, If. with
The sating Of the eye-which simply is
A dormer TO the soul-the ord ends.
For. often, by their q eat sublmity
And gorgeOusness, the spirit sart become
Entranced and elevated to a plane
Which runneth up along the milkyway
Until 1t intersects with that wherein
The Oliver stands. Here matter unto soul
Surrenders sway.
Ofthese. enrolling all
The earth. is green, that ;ints the blade of
grass,
And leaf, and messy mound; gray lendeth
charms
Alike to early dawn and locks of age;
Cerulean hu s iliume the cloudless sky
And tranquil deep; OF gorgeous sunset, gold
The secret is; and black, the comedy choice
or holy, cloistered nuns and mourning ones,
Who, tear blind, are denied the lighter
shades.
Pink gives the soft, beseeming tinge to cheek
Or inaidsRhosd, aud lovely. shrinking bride
And sonnet lines. even, dainty hues combine
Add coyly steal away TO glowin air;
Or, summoned, they may be, by that most
grand
And aws-inspiring voice that speaks from
The storm and makes the bildest scoffer
quail.
They there c,nspire with countless glisten-
ing drops
New come from weeping clouds, and DAT.
with joy
Because OF theii release, to institute
The "bow of promise in the sky" This done
they HE to earth again, in ones or groups,
AS fttest 3 .ems to decorate
The beauty things of field. and air, aud
stream.
or these are flowers, birds and finny tribe.
That ravish so the eye, and ear. and smell,
And catch the muses. l. their happier moods
Who, only so, can choicest gems conceive.
The c'lors mother-na:ures prize the most
Are those OF very gayest, freshest tone.
AS If in early infancy; for such
Become, and somehow seem OF right to claim
A Kindred with the darling young. who are
A wealth untold In happy homes. These fail
And preciO US buds. " It'll Instinct born of Iove,
To cotors cling with andim inished grace
And fervency. as up they climb &c shed,
New sweets, and blossom with the added
years.
Albeit SO .ubdued or modified
srom time TO time as that they shall accord
With wearers growth and age, and seasons
change.
And so, with what OF faithfulness my pen
Affords is praise to colors freely given;
And II but sparingly bestowed, some share,
At least, is rendered each and all alike.
All did I say? and not a thought to white!
Wnich, now the list is scanned, .appeareth
not?
Aye-rightly too, since 1t no color is;
Or so, not stricl y one. Yet is. land more!
For In It are concentred ali the rest.
What else Is symhol OF the spotless snow,
Or trusting heart grow strong and purer
through
Adversely. Till Bauhgt OF guile or doubt
Obscures the view beyond?
Ignore we white,
Vet pirate OF "virgin robes CT chastity
A Id "p, arly gates OF heaven" All, no these
Are unimpeachable; and it of all
The c"lors. know, their chosen type. Or,
There skeptics still, who would but cam,
see.-
There center thought upon q "sistel s
love-
Unique in kind and purpose-grandly so!
All rights of self suoservient to q seal
- ould freely pay a valued life, need
Be. but TO stay an migrate brothers fall;
Its purity a shield against decline,
And white the pei feet emblem. y. &c.