The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-15

be expected, but there are some verses of
more than ordinary merit. For example,
the prelude:
Between the sca-clitFs and the sea shore sleeps
A garden walled about with Woodland, fair
AS dreams that die or days that memory keeps
Alive In holier light and loyelier air
Than clothed them round long since and
blessed them there
With less bcnignant blessing, set less fast
For seal on spirit and serse, than time has cast
For all time on the dead and deathless past.
Beneath the ;rellsed flowers the flowers tina.
And tighten all the lustrous length Of way
FROM terrace up to terrace bear me sign
And keep me record how no word could say
What perfect pleasure OF how pure day
child's remembrance or n child delight
Drank deep in dreams Of, or III present sight
EXuited as the sunrise i'll its might
That wind aud wander through world OF
flowers,
The radiant orchard where the glad suns gaze
Dweh-, and makes most OF all his happiest
hours,
The field that laughs beneath tho cliff that
The spleudor of the sumber that enthralls
With sunbrght peace the world within their
Are symbols yet OF years that love recalls
But scarce the sovereign symbol OF the sea,
That clasps about the loveiest land alive
With loveiiness more wonderful, may be
Fit sign to show what radiant dreams survive
OF suns that set not with the years that drive
Like mists before the blast of dawn, but still
Through clouds and gusts OF change that chafe
and chill
Lift up the light that Knocks their wrathful
VIII.
4 light mistaken of tho wind OF time.
langhs threat
or wears that thicken aud OF clouds that climb
To put the stars out that they see not set,
And bid sweet memory's rapturous faith for
Bat not the lightning shafts of change can sIay
The life OF light that dies 10, with the day,
The glad live past that canuot pass away.
The rany-colorcd oys OF dawn and noon
That lit with love a chl.d's life and boys,
And kept mans in concord and IN tune
With lifelong music OF memorial joys
Where thought held lie and dream in equi-
Even now make child and boy aud man seem
And days that dawned beneath the las. years
son
As days that even ere childhood died were done
The sun to sport in ana the clias to scale.
The sea t. clasp and Wrest.c with, III breath
For rapture more than WEAKNESS would ia!l,
A.! golden gifts OF dawn, whose record SAITH
That time nor change may turn their life 10
death,
Live not loving thOI-0E alone, though tlere
The life they live be .oyelier than they were
" hen clothed in present light and actual air.
sun. moon. and stars behold the land and sea
No less than ever lovely, blight - hope
Gould hover, or as happiness can he;
Fair a of old the lawns To seaWart slope,
The fields TO seward slant and close ana ore;
Ru, where of old from strong and sleepless
The exnit.u, fountains fed their shapely shells,
Where light once dwei; IN water, dust row
dweis.
Or this song, from act ":
Love aud sorrow met in May.
Crowned with rue aud hawthorn spray.
Aud sorrow smiled.
Scarce q bird OF al the spring
burst betw zen them pass aud sing,
And scarce enid.
Love put forth his hand to take
Sorrows wreath Tor soFsoT : sake,
Her crown OF rue
Sorrow east before her down
Even for loves sake Love own crown,
Crowned with dew.
Winter breathed sgajn. and spring
Cowerai aud shrauk Wlta wounded wing
Down out OF sight
Nav, with all her loves laid low.
Saw no flowers but flowers OF snow
That InocAedteF h'shi
Love rose m with crown,ess head
smldnS down on springt.me desd,
tn NlitFN MAY
Sorrow. Ike = cloU tha: flies,
Like c.oud Ia clearing skies,
Passed away.
Or Nabel's song in Act Y:
There's .ae lark loves the lit, nv Gear,
There's use ship loves re sea,
There. nae bca loves the heather-bells,
Tba: loves - love thee, my 4oEe.
That loves g. J .0ye thee.
The whin shines fair upon the fell,
The olIthe broom OF the lea;
The uaUirsi3e wind = ilsTry ~ heart:
rs a for love ~ thee. my love,
It's a ioE love VI sE.S.