The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-05-04

In the classroom blue-eyed Phemie
Sits half-listening. huahed ana dreamy,
To the gray-haired pinehed professor droning
70 his elasss Of girls, tln .s-rEsi sitf
And around har IN their PLACES slfHne f
Rows OF arch and sweet young faces
Seems 70 I'll The air with color hnsd from eyes
and lips and curls - .rf att
Eyes of every shade OF splsnaor. tEl'
Brown and bashful, blue and tender. ss5s
Grey and giddy, black and shFobbing with
deep impassioned hght
Golden ringIets, raven clusters,
Auburn braids with sunny lustres,
Falling ON white necks, plump shoulders, cloth
ed in green and blue and white.
And the sun with leafy reflex
or the rustlIpg Hnden-tree hecks
All the glasa doors Of the cases ranged along
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Flecks with shadow and gold the teachers
Thin gray hair and worn pinched features,
And the pupils heads, and sends thrill Of July
over all aafe eiHf t
And the leafy golden tremor
Witches 80 the blue-eyed dreamer
That tbe room seems filing straightway With
forest green and old -.fE M
And the gray professors speech Is ff.i =.
Heard like wind among the beeches.
Murmuring weird and wonurons secrets never
+ quite distinctly told Ha tsi t'.f.
And the girls around seem turning
Into trees-laburnums burning,
Graceful ashes, silver birches-but .hrough all
the glamor and change
Phemie Is conscious that those cases
.HNi0 rnltuuam uf wmw&mha8 wNmnN
The preadamitic fossils Of dead world grim
and strange. f.sI .s Us rff.4. F.
Labelled shells suggest iIls motion. .l sM
Moan, and glimmer Of The ocean, as..tsf
Where belemniies dropped their splndles and
tho sand-stars shed their raysi t
Monssrous birds stalk stilted by as
She perceives the slab OF trias N l
serawled with hieroglyphic claw-tracks Of the
mezozoic days vastf fsast
And before her she sees dawna
Pageant Of an awful. fauna .rff
While across silurian ages the professors lee
ture blows
E an the while soft and pleasant 49,. ~.
Rustic Of dresses, an incessant
meagre nose. .tntfslirfffE aI HraNrn
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But the old man turns the pages
OF the weird illunfined ages,
Tracing from earth's mystic missAl the antiqui-
0t man aaff nam 81 tsI77
mot aix thousand yearas but eras, O.
Ages, cons disappearas
Cropping back We Touch the syssem whore the
human first began.
Centuries as we retrogress are n
DwArfed 70 days" says the professor,
"Ald our lineage was hoary ere Ewes apple
tree grew greeniT IS ltaferlsa aHl
sFor the bee, whase drowsy hummlng,
Was prophetic Of mans coming, IuuHf
Lies 10 gem-like tomb Of amber, buried in the
f 'H'0osHe' my sue sl f4asf IS taitHsi raoa
'.At what point man came. know nos. M
Logic proves not, foesils ahnw not. .s...ss
But bis dim remote existence Is fact beyond
dispute. ftsas1I tatf t'.F
sEtHIs ffs FH % eL aUe sIlFN fNIEfl
s'Iook r'-and from among some thirty
Arrow barbs OF quartz and ebert he
Takes the hlnf-htAd of q batchet, and the
gi;ls grow huzhed ana mute. grVll
"Oid, y he says, tart thou. sfr&nge stone. Nor
Lees antique Shy primal owner kr
When the ferns were drained this axe was found
beneath two forests sunk.
"UnderneAsh bed Of sez clay
And two forests this relique lay
Where some Allophylian savage lefk Il In a half
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