The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-05-30
THE RlsuRREcrrD HEARTS.

Press poem delivered at the annual
meeting Of the Mississippi Press Associa-
ion, at Yazoo City, May ls, 1891, by Mrs.
losie Frazee Cappleman.
Slowly tho twilight was gathering in.
Meath the rosc.tinted wings of the West,
Aud softly the sun.brds were hushlng
their songs
and silently sinking 10 rest:
bir,i,
That plaintivels called 10 It's mate,
Aud secmed, of all nature, the one sad
hen'd thing,
Save form at the low, latticed gate.
A fair, girlish form with f,nltlcss girl.
face,
Ofthe mntchless, true Ssuthernly mould.
With iar-away look ia the great, soul
inl eyes,
That Of heart-aches aud tears pi ,iuly told;
While held in her hands was wither-
et rosebud
With jasmine aud violcts entwined.
That she elasped and unelasped aud
fervently kissed
And, III kissing seemed comfort TO find.
o, rosebud, and Jasmine, and violets
sweet.
In you each lies long buried dream,
Aud tonight, with the odor that wells
from your lips,
The Past rnshes by, as a strelm
. eyes, with your tortures and tumult
of tears;
Oh heart with your sore, ceaselsss pain;
From the Present, with all Of its an
gnisll, arise,
Aud VII gaze on the past once again.
A horseman often passed our gate
A gallant horsemah he,
With darksome, laughing, love lit eyes
That always smiled on me,
SO Oft in happy girl-hood hours,
sat beside the hrim
II some bright brooket in the woods
And wondering watched for him.
knew tho ways he frequent went,
And some mysterious spell
Would lie me there, aud held me there.
Until knew him well
Aud one glad morn he smiling gave
rosebud rich and white.
And once he brought jasmine spray,
Ahh Ntih NNttt' Af'AAtof bAte9 hAt
So, time ON time we met aud smiled,
Til one soft, summer day
lie told me Of the love he bore
Had borne for me Away
Then all my hearts l0ng pentnp life
Was given to lii, care;
And truth aud trnst were mine for him,
And trust aud truth my share.
But still knew 'twns wrong, all wrong
This love we close concealed =
Our fathers life-long cnmty
Would to ns never yield.
Aud DER our dreams the doom Of war
Burst suddenly one day;
His father donned the Federal Blue,
And mime-Cnnf tolerate Gray.
And he was of his fathers will,
While must follow mine;
He said--his cause WAS just and right.
answered. mines divine
So, thlre we severed soul from soul,
At duty's harsh behest,
And there we buried both our hearts,
While prlying peace aud rest.
On one side stood he, on the other,
With only low, gaping grave betweeI
| We silently laid our hearts there tOgethe
As the horsemeu filed 10 the battle-scen,
Little they dreamed o. the bonds that el
bound us,
Little they dreamed ofthe heart-achin
there;
Little have cared for tho woe that eI
wound us,
Fen had onr hearts to the world bee
bare.
Little they recked Of our LOVE for eac
other
Little they recked Of the sharp, pier
ing pain,
As he stood on one side, on the other
Never, perchance, to meet there agail
Checked were the tears in their silel
confession,
Crushed were tine sobs by a Wild boun'
less will;
Aud sorrow, that sought the face for e.
preston,
Was sternly bade to Eorever--be still
Yet, there lay our hearts all bleeding an
broken,
With never 4 word Of the waT-tOrn Ii
A tremnlons gla Ice was the onl y lif
token,
Aud now and anon half-smothert
sigh.
So, we buried Onr hearts from all huina
seeing,
A secret 70 all, save Him thenost hig
Still feel ia my oul that no other beil
Will love him, can love him as truly
as /.