The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1894-11-24

Showing the whole world a new miracle
wrought by the magic OF our woman-willW
Just as a statue that some master hand
rad modelled perfectly and, loving so
HAD prayed from his poor frenzied heart that
would
The gods but give it life, he then would die;
VINO, answering, had breathed his dream and
more
Into its matchless form and wondrous face,
she stood, quIvered, fell and by tender hands
was through the somber portals borne away.
We sat While all the people left the grounds,
ana night came down to coffin up his heart;
lie, IKE ShIpWrecked sailor furnishing;
l, silent Friendship cannot pay Tor love!
ana, waiting in that cruel passion-hour,
A servant Sliied out and pertly placed
a letter in his hand and SAT- 'sINfu Won
Observe n rules and quietly withdraw"
"hlle Wlih the lights an hundred curious
eyes
Peeped out to see the culprits pass the gates
1t was on perfumed paper, golden-tipped-
A dow IS keener lot an ornament
tearing the uniyersty's great seal:
"A inquire With TWO heads; one looking down
Inc past. ashamed, ambitionleSs. Other
T ITO defiant, confident; looking beyond
Inc level vision OF the times unto
A castle plendid III its majesty
mus, underneath the light that capped the
gate,
He broke the massive seal with scared, white
hands
To in the fitIul light drink in his doom:
1t is my duty, I must be freedi
The river hath run both long and deep:
The upland waters have filled our need;
Kissed by the marginal lilies sWeep
hesting tween landscapes that fade and
grant this passion-swept idleness
Dear TO the sense; but this love-life flow
fallefs ana faints from too much caress!
''Is it strange to tire of establishments
Are the birds nests not in one year dead 4?
Would you Kill me with love? Or content
Trust loves wild rival the burning head
OF woman Just waking TO fame!
This thing, Love, will 90 where there's no
work
To be fearlessly done, and no name
10 win from out the vapid-land Shfrki
But truce to this picturing,
| shall wed Dutys work-above you!
fling
Up your arms, just for once-its your
While our lover-Iips touch, and the ache
Floods into my heart, so fast! so ia L!
There, sweetheart Be brave brave for nv
sake
And let these, my poor words, be the last?"
He pressed it to his lips as if his heart
Though breaking, would absolve the blow,
and said
well, It's past" AS when dead mems ewes
are closed.
81 curse her with my I1ps but my poor heart
forglves' HOW could she know how deep
And when /, quoting: mot worth your
lover
He throated me with hell-lit eyes and hissed
IN brain you for another word like that =,
And quick as hate or love, cried out: .For-
give!
What have left on earth but Won. nv triendr,
While from the trees beyond crept out a moan
S1lencing the goodnight cooings of The birds
AND thrilling him with hope OF loves recall
Until said: "The bleating of some tawn
Entangled in the dense, dark shrubbery!
Come, Chambers. let us try our oars awhile ~
And so we left the university;
And-through the tree-girt avenues whose
sides
Glittered with lights from homes which love
had built,
From which came laughter tender heart
And breaths of flowers blending perfectly
l, dumb and leading; he, as one withheld
from death to suffer LIES full mockery =
In silence sought the dear old murmurous sea
or which the round moon mirrored with a
smile,
And the far city's lighted beacon cleaned
Across the waters like golden hair!
We reused the boatman from his little hut
Where, all the world and all its cares shut
out,
Half sleeping, half awake. he wooed just
dreams
IN lazy smoke-clouds from humid nine
And grumpled so at our rude Wakeninty
That Chambers almost wild berated him.
"a curse on you and on your filthy piper'
We're on for heaven-or hades ~ finished I.
81 don't know where that last place is NV lads
But if it under water you'll get there!
My pipe burns SLOW; your young blood hot
and fast;
Both of them hint of squalls. DON'T vantura
But if you do why then, God give YOU luck y,
And while thus muttering, brought forth our
blades, "
Strong, 1.-the and slender as his art couId nIao
And launched our tiny craft which arrow,
like,
Cleft the cool water with it's polished nrow
To wake III whipping whispers at its keel.
Over to the westward purple curtains
Shut in the summer sunset lovingly:
While IN the east an hundred ghoStlv sails
Crept slowly 10 an hundred waiting ports
Beside us, miles of circling shore bathing
In the trefpulous, stlllicidic pulse
OF waters tuning ceaseless rythms Above
The quiNerIng sky with all it's MYSTERIES
The mysteries we reverence and love.
Below, the molten silver, vast and deep.
Our thin, light craft a dainty faith between.
And, over all, strange, delicious hush
Was it faint call from the weird, far shore >
Love wakened pleading exiled loves return >
tier thrilling voice? The proud, remorseless
queen
A child TO moan regrets for breaking hearts ,
Could his Keen eyes, with loves swift i'm
agery,
Form through the distance magic picturipg
10 link MS soul TO something piteously
Dragging Itself along the skirting woods.
AND crying out repentance for tie words
That crushed his whole life so relentlessIvq
God help me that called him coward. fool.
10 wreck his whole life on this whlmful
thing!
God help me that 1 raiied and scoffed at him
And drove our little boat so wildly on
Coo help us all, that what we deem the right
Ana oaltIe 10 accomplish, may be wrong -
For, out across the waters came a voice.
rant, SAD ana tender as "a helpless babes:
Nalling ana moaning as u faluished soul
Lost on q deSers vast would strain hlS eyes
out toward a speck on suiIen. sky-met earth
Bringing glad succor or a swift simoon
Ana IN that moment OF mad agony
Plead with his God Tor help or sudden deotb.
GONE back, my love, come back!
true heart that l cheifsh
The night grows dark and long.
Come back l ialter perish.
Let thy great heart it's love renew:
viii De true! l will be true!
"Come back, my love, come backt
did not weigh the sentence
From Night bring back loves Day
TO witness my repentance!
On, take me 10 thy heart anew;
will, viii be true, SO true!
"Come back, my love, come back
And feed me VITA caresses!
knew not that loved thee So
My bleeding heart coniesses!
My life, my soul, floods out to you:
will before all earth be truer;