Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-04-02


In Cathay or Japan, whose lofty bulk
Ragged once, ali flame: which broke its bound
aries,
Ard-torn and red and furious scattered
round
4 Levin, and lava slime, and barren ash.
Blghting what lay below Then came the hush;
And that which was all terrible. grew fair.
The Hill of Hell is Crest OF Paradise!
The cup which on its head steamed scarlet reek
And spilled forth fires. wears in the cloudless
Blue
A silvery rim Of SHOWS; the fevered breast
Slumbers in comforted. unbroken calm,
With placid bands Of giided clouds grit round.
And hues Of sunrise and Of sunset soft
On the scorched rocks. Where molten chan
nels ran
Streams of sweet mountain crystal babble
down
Embellishing black glen, and assured cliff,
! Deep hollows where sad Winter hides away
From Summer, with the snow still in her lap;
And shoulders of sharp crags and windy
shelves;
With laughing light of flowers, and sparkling
threads
OF the white falling water, and green glades
Where wild birds have their home, and plumy
ferns
Wave for them, and the iris decks their nests
/ With fiutter OF her purple velvet flags.
And, in the happy plain, that Mountains foot
Stands feared no more, but worshiped, watched,
and praised
For comeliness exceeding, and large gifts
OF cooling airs, and shadows cast around.
And wandering cloud banks with their well
come rains
Gathered and garnered: fringed with Villages
And wandering hocss, and vines; and cluster
ing groves
Whose roots, in death and desolation fixed
Make loseliness OF loss. and grace Of wreck.
SO did that Lady show peace and charm,
A gracious presence. brought from passions
stilled,
From tempeats Of the blood. forever hnshed;
Fairer, may be, as she stood there, serene,
Than in those bygone days, the evil days
When Gaiileu down TO its utmost edge,
and al the South. was loud with talk Of her
Who walked In woven gold ana wore her
hraids-
A Queen ~ in-crowning tho shameless brow
With diadem Of tresses, tied with pearls.
And set her henna scented feet on necks
OF Greek and Latin lovers
Now, most meek
The proud pale, Blended face the folded palms,
Tho knees touching She pavement. as she said;
THE Roman Lord. who may command, hath
prayed
Speech with his servant She must needs obey,
Hostess and subject. am NiriamF'
As Mary, ut the request OF plate. speaks
Of her Lord. PLATE finds the pricl1ing Of
his fbilStitDlt iittttAFtAtt anu hDAuDAll
breaks OFF the interview;
"But PLATE leaped
Fierce from his place: with yisage white and
Call them to horse he cried. FOR viii ride
To sepphoris, before the sun Is high,
II spurs can prick. One other watch spent
here
WIN brand me Nazarener~
Among the audience who have been
listening to tile words OF Mary is an east
ern slave belonging to once OF the Mag who
had paid tribute 70 the infant Jesus, and
who has returned to hear before he dies,
the story Of the Lords lie. The next day
be is given audience by Mary. Before she
begins to relate the story of Christ. Mary
Magdalene considers il necessary TO tell the
Magus the story Of her own wicked career
before seeing Christ;
~ lived. IN an this land the boldest. worst,
Who braided up her hair the harlot's way.
That beauty Nature gave me abased.
Selling il with a loveless heart TO win
Wealth and rich raiment, ard the knees Of
men.
Oh me. my days splendid and sinful Earth
Empued her stores TO pleasure me; they
brought,
To bus my smiles, their Tyrian purple webs.
Their myrrhine cups. their silks, their sards.
their nard,
Drnchnas, and darics. shcscis, scsterces:
And slaves 10 fan my sleep and gilded chairs
To bear me 90 the Temples and the feasts.
/, that am still and sane to-las, have led
Reves 50 mad the shamed stars drew the
clouds
over their argent facea. Chinnereth
Burned with our crasaets; and the waterways
Ran 10 It's brink red Uith onr chalee dregs.
Ard Syria grnauel and fierce Samaria surged,
And viii MODS olan2red round the Palace
gates
while. in these arms. Cnsar's druggcd satraps
dreamed,
Prator. and Procurator. Nay! hear all!
Not Latins only, no. nor Greeks alone;
Nor Jew, nor ldumRan FOR my name,
Ny golden infany, grew East and West;
Till Rome aud Athens heard, and Tyre and
Crete
and Cyprus, aud the Isles. and Media.
Not less than Magical and Tiberias,
Talk Of the Miriam Of Gaiileo.
The harlot with the lone black braided hair,
Who melted hearts in spiced pomegranate |
Than Alexandrian Queen more prodigal-
And laughed their wealth TO want, and trod |
their pride
Under her 'broidered sandals and took toll
OF goods and gear, wasting in one wild bout
The Temples wealth; TN like that rose faced |
one
Of Memphis, had reared pyramid
With but one block from each who fawned on
me.
Sir such was that play thy hostess here
With these white shards. which saved me, in
my lap.
Reverend and grave thou shew'st. IL thy viii be
Now 20 depart, hearing these stained lips speak,
Thou shalt have praise. not blame. from Mir
lam
The following describes Mary Magda-
ene's first view of Christ:
ssrhaf vr.,s five dav ,.-a r,,la
Up from Sebaste toward Liberals,
And on my wrist damning splash of blood
From throat of one my angry hover stabbed.
At mid feast in the madness Of the wine.
Twas there. at Kenna, mid my thickest sins,
Red outwardly with murder; inwardly
Black to the hearts core with Wild wickedness.
Dwelt in by all the seven dark devils Of Hell.
saw my Lord, Oh, first l saw my Lord,
And, sir | heard His voice. Was one We knew
Steward TO Herod for my jewellers
We're men OF ARtipasl who staid Him there
Bent for Capernaum from Nazareth
Praying swift succor for dying child,
And urging fervently. While We made halt
10 witness, tenderly the Master turned
With look ineflablo and gazed: and spake:
Col thy Son livethr
Whom | saw-with eyes