The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-11-12

All round the coast the languid air did
| swoon,
Breathing like one that hath weary
Like a downward smoke, the slender
| stream
Along the cliff to fall and pause and
A land of streams! Some, like a down
ward smoke,
Slow-dropping wells of thinnest lawn,
did go;
And some, through wavering lights and
| shadows broke,
Rolling a slumberous sheet of foam
below. It
They saw the cleaning river seward
| flow
From the inner land"
The knights were so enchanted,
they felt like ceasing to weave the
mystic circle, taking up their abode
there, and joining in the choric song
of Ulysses band when they came
into the Hollow Louisiana"
"There is sweet music here that softer
falls
Than petals from blown roses on the
| grass,
Or night-dews on still waters between
walls
OF shadowy granite, in cleaning
pass;
Music that gentler on the spirit lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes;
Music that brings sweet sleep down from
the blissfui skies"
They spent two joyous days and
nights in the enchanted valley, which
quite surpassed 'The Happy Valley
of Rasselas."
They rambled, they boated, they
bathed in the sea, and they bathed
in the lake.
The second evening the musical
knights began to sing sweet and
inspiring melody of profound signi-
ficance to the Intelligent, entitled
NINETY nine bottles hung upon the
wall" As he.deep volume of song
rolled majestically on, all were car
ried away in raptures of eyer-in-
creasing delight, except fantastic
knight who first grew silent, then
sullen and finally began to fight with
every one in the vain attempt to ar
rest the music which flowed serenely
on like Tennyson's river, forever
and forever"
At Hama the knights were joined
by joyous troop of water-nymphs,
who led them to the silvery waters
in the deep caverns of Waianapa-
napa. Some of the mermaids plunged
into the shining waves, and diving
under the rocks came up in distant
caverns, where they were hidden
from sight. They were closely fol
lowed by norman.
"Who would be
A norman bold
Under the sea?"
Who wouldn't be?
But time would fail me to tell of
Hama with its hospitable inhabitants,
its green hills, and soft white shores,
where the "tender curving lines of
creamy spray" break upon the sand;
of the kindly priest, his paintings,
MOSES and curios; of the merry
rain and the rapid disappearance of
a golden bunch of bananas; of Kipa-
hulu and its waving cane. looking
over to the fields of Kohala; of Waiu,
its wind-swept shore, its starry night
and Tapping tent; of Kahikinui and
its barren waste of "a; of Ulupa-
lakua, its lowing herds, brilliant
peacocks, green lawns, stately trees
and solemn tomb; of Kula with its
roaring bonfire, juicy beafsteak,
sweet corn, and its stories of the
olden time. At Hama a knight of
great experience, tact, boldness and
prudence, gave us his easy and SEN
sible solution of one of the most |
difficult questions of our lives.
When asked by the inquisitive
company how he proposed" an
swered instantly, Il told her that 1 |
loved her, and L asked her to be
mine This straightforward method |
with the eapricious sex is recorded
for the benefit of all coming genera
tons of knights.
We must not forget the wild and
beautiful rainbow falls of Alalele
where the knights of the incompre-
hensible belt lay prone upon their
faces, while they were firmly held
and looked with a shuddering Joy
over the dizzy height. 1t made such
an impression on one, he afterward
dreamed that that rainbow was a
solid prism of ice; that one of the
fair knights whom he had offended
pushed him headlong sheer over the
beetling edge of the windy precipice.
He slid down the ice prism till
within sixty feet of the bottom,
when he shot like an arrow into the
boiling waters, and going down some
fathoms it was four minutes before
he could rise to the surface. Yet,
strange to say, he rather enjoyed
the excitement of this novel tobog-
gaming.
On the rough "a a daring feat of
craftsmanship was performed. One
Of the fair knights feeling tired lay
down fiat upon her back on her
horse and quietly rested, gazing at
the heavens while her animal scram-
oled up and down the most frightful
Another knight who saw
her, but who was too far behind to
help her if she had fallen, nearly
tainted and fell from his horse, the
,old shudders running down his
pack as he saw her horse jumping
Up steep place and she apparently
asleep! When Di Vernon was duly
'ested, she simply rose in her saddle I
md rOda on unconscious that Sha .