The morning call., 1892-02-07

tive of annie Lee ." whose father was A wrecker
on the North Atlantic coast The sailor how lover
OF time but the memory Of heir Tate still fingers IN
loving hearts.
Resting on crag gaze upon the deep
While ocean zephyrs luIl the waves TO sleep;
And wild birds screaming In their homeward flight
Hasten the shadows OF returning night
The sun is sinking in the lonely wave,
The cricket chirps beside the grass-grown graves
The harvest moon is rising into view,
Sad and alone I'm thinking dear, OF you.
Your bark is bounding DER the deep blue sea,
Your heart Is thinking now OF home and me,
While fairy messengers impart the charm
That cd will watch and save you from all HARM
The winds are up and ash the ocean wild,
The sky has changed and the stOrmclouds are piled
Upon the bosom Of the rolling sea
That chants requiem back to Annie Lee
Ny heart Is sinking like the sun at rest,
Whose light is smothered in the distant west;
Yet hope is prompt. and fondly turns to say
The darkest night brings in the brightest day
Wait til the morning when the sunlight breaks
Upon the ocean tide, where orion shakes
HIS glory on the world in peace and love
Thy soul shall bash in glory from above
Sleep, lovely Annie. dream OF Harry Moore,
Who wanders lonely foreign shore.
And sends across the deep phantom sigh,
Still sounding tn thy oul ms last goodby,
As the beach he clasped your angel form,
Ten years roll by, and Annie waits so true
For him who wauders DER the ocean blue;
And In her heart the light Of love still giows
For Harry Moore. who lost to friends and foes,
Long since Dame Rumor buried down at sea-
Only thought OF now by darling Annie Lee,
Who. through the creeping years would weep and
lag
At sunset hour upon that mountain crag
Where last she saw the ship that held her pride
Vanish like dream upon the bounding tide.
A parents opportunities at last prevailed,
And Annie. as bride, in heart bewailed
The hour that tied the silver knot in haste
Upon a soul repeutant; like waste
Where sun ana sand shine out against the SKY
And only one green spot in memory nigh
Arrayed in spotIeSs white fair Annie stood
With Charlie Cooper. innocent and good,
Whose heartfelt futtcr rose in love aud life
With Annie Lee, the beauty bride and wItei
MOI not wife to him. The parson just began
The marriage service when, strange and lone, man
Stepped on the scene claimed sloud-and sw0re
That Annie Lee wife to Harry Moore.
Who then and there produced the legal prize
That ten long years he worn in foreign skies;
That voice and parchment brought to Annie's mind
The fondest mortal, always true and Kind.
She raised her eyes, with 0utstIetched arms she few
To harry Moore. who casped her form anew,
And kissed the lovely lips OF Annie Lee,
who only Knocked the marriage-5uU 10 see
how fate would eud the trOu bic and the STRIFE
OF one who knew herself loving wife.
Charlie Cooper gazed In Wild alarm,
with bounding steps he rushed into the storm,
And left the cot where oft the fires OF loVo
Shone his soul like glory from above.
Throug bout the n light he wandered far and wide
A ravlng maniac with phantom bride,
That lIred him TO the top OF Ocean Cave
And leaping high In air sank meath the wave
That wrapped him In lonely watery grave
Annie Lee would often stroll upon the strand
With Charlie Moore and Harry, hand In hand,
And to her budding boy would tell how-ong ago
The ocean drank poor Cooper and his woe.
Seventy years have passed and yet is
The tragic rock with living forests green
Wanting its head. and signing to the
That huns a requiem DER CoOper's grave
And as the stranger wanders to the spot,
Where love once nestled In the glowing cot.
The broken hearthstone only meets the view
And tangled wild weeds mlngle with the few
Sad relies that time and tide have set
On memOry's altar-neYer to forgetl
Two lonely graves upon the hill we meet,
The sad signing loud, while at our feet
The blue-bels peep In modest radiant charm,
The brier runs-neglected is the form
That once supported Harry Moore and Annie Lee,
Asleep in purest love down by the sounding sea,
AidHeda, Jan. 10 1899.