The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-26

THE DREAM-WIFE.
BY THE REV. JOHN =. voS HERRLIcH.


In low-ceiinged hut on tine shores OF Brazil
! Where the nooLday is scorching and the midnight
is chill,
And The rank growths OF nature seem to bear OF
their breath
The poison OF fever-the shadows Of death,
Lay lever tossed patient from whose dull dreamy
LIES IRE was AckerIng-its fame passing By;
For the priest had just said my son, have fear,
/ commend thee TO God-for the end is now near
And had lett with blessing for the dying and
dead,
The last rites were over-the last prayer was said
The nurse worn with watching and shrinking with
fear
Seemed &c feel that the angel OF death lowered
near,
But exhausted and weary had fallen asleep.
And fated for moment her vigil 10 keep.
W hen into the hut there Glided form
= hose every slight movement OF culture seemed
born.
A woman whose face was OF sweet classic mould,
And her hair seemed to simmer Ike tresses OF
gold.
In her hand was goblet as blue as the skies,
When she touched the dull sleeper he opened his
eyes
With a wild eager look-with gasp OF surprise
Drink all Of this quickly for must not delay"
Hesoon drained the vessel-sae glidcd away
Next morning he woke feeling stronger and We'll
And asked for the woman-the vision-the spell
Or whatever it was-that strange beauteous sight
That had brought back his life in the dead OF the
night
His hearers they smiled for to them it did seem
But the play OF deliriun- the freak Of dreami
It was ten long years after when passing a place
In the suburbs Of Natchez--he saw that same face;
That same slender figure and same golded hair.
She stood IN the pathway-so sweet and SO fair!
My God, it Is she OF that far away land -
There she stood in the flesh. with rose in her
hand,
He spoke TO his friend who thought him quite wild
m, Il ofo h ..ltI
But he soon sought a way-they stood face to face
And their spirits went back to that first meeting
place
To that Iow-ceilinged room, where their souls had
once met,
For the light seemed TO fash--in fame-in jet
From the past. They stood for moment bewilder-
ed-amaZed,
They looked scarcely conscious, they both seemed
so dazed.
Yet never a word of thar past did they speak
Though the strange recognition seemed TO flush on
each cheek
Z hen he wooed and al the love Of her hearti
The love OF n life-which seemed a strange part
OF his past existence-hs very own life
He wooed and he won-this ideal for his wife.
1t WAS after the marriage when at last by them
selves
She went to cabinet and from one OF the shelves
She took dawn goblet. as blue as the skies.
or queer, antique pattern-and with sweet eager
She said ION this place is well of strange power
Which works wonders in feVers-Weil, one mid
night hour
Some ten years ago-in vision or dream
can scarcely tell which, so real did it seem.
went TO hut with this cup III my hand
To some distant country-some strange foreign
land,
saw you there dying or near unto death
With your eyes wild and sJarfns-with quick gasp
ing breath.
touched your pale forebead-you looked in my
eyes
AS you drank from this goblet with searching sur
prise.
Next morning 'woke-tbe dream fingers yet
And there stood this cup with the water still wet!
Oh how vivid the picture-even now recall /
Every object about you-each rude cut on the
WALL"
Amazed and dumfounded-He suddenly cried.
You saved me, my dream-wife, but for you had |
died y
Oh. marvel Of mysteries-what can it mean
The acme of wave-thought - Was it vision |
dream1
Oidher soul go to him in that far-away-Iand?
Did her soul so to him with that cup in It's hand
md though years have now passed they are Won
dering still
low her soul went from Natchez way down to
BRAZIL
IAN the mind leave this body and wander ATARI
Does it travel through space like the light from
starr
3ut whatever the mystery she had once saved his
life
lie had met years before with his precious dream
wife.
md though holy their love they are bordering
still
low her soul left her body and went to Brazil!