Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1895-07-17


been able to find the leaden missile.
She NObly yPerished-AarOnB Burr's
Daughter.
In Detroit Marine Hospital cot.
All fever tossed and gaunt, an old man
lay;
His case was critical, he cursed his lot,
Delirious he muttered of some fray.
One day he started up with sudden
strength,
Eyelng a humane dame who paused
anear;
"Thee must be kin to her." he spake at
length,
cor doth her spirit lodged in thee ap-
| pear"
II shall not escape the law, the grave
yawns near,
Old dame, list to my tale, do thou re-
But let the Others all withdraw from
here"
Then prone be dropped. They did as bid
| twas plain
| Of his dark past he would disclose page;
He rallying spake, 'E'en my youth, a
| knave,
Twas then did what confess in age;
| was pirate-terror of the wave.
On North Carolina coast one Summer
day,
We gave chase to coaster, northward
| bound;
And when we overhauled, and seized our
| prey,
And boarder her, as passenger, we found
A youthful woman, oh, how passing fair
Her life size portrait hung in cabin trim,
Her little dog-a black and tan-was
there;
He made deafening din, spat at him.
Then ruthless dragged his white robed
mistress out,
Her Ebon hair uncoiled and round her
| tossed;
With starry eyes appraised, and mien de-
| vOut,
Her hands upon her heaving bosom
She paced the deck with courage unsur-
| passed,
The while we tierceIy strove with vessels
| crew;
And conquering flung them in the sea at
last,
Thus none survived to furnish any clue.
| steadied with those cruel hands, a
| plank,
Then slgned-she stepped thereon with
| dignity
Compelled walked from it's support
and sank,
She settled with low out-cry in the seas.
| Once-tWlce-and thrice-I saw the bub-
bles playl
| And gurgle heard-hair yelled the up
| turned face,
One waxen hand shot forth-I turned
away;
But never could from mind that scene
| etface.
Full soon did we ransack the vessel DER,
All treasure save the dog and picture
took;
These, we left in the cabin, closed the
door,
Set vessel under full sail and forsook,
Abandoned to her fate she swiftly bore,
| Toward dangerous bar, and struck we
learned;
About Nags Head on North Carolina
shore,
Where even her name could not be dis
cerned.
Flotsam and Jetsam pickers lent their
aid,
But save a dog, no living thing they
found;
Within the cabin trities were displayed,
That proved woman late had been
| around.
The little dog, also the portrait rare,
We're claimed as salvage by Mann OF
Mays Head;
And soon the schooner went to pieces
there,
guard this all until my life be
sped.''
Tearful-indignant ~ crazed N the dame
withdrew,
For circumstance combined, revealed to
her;
Thus-had mysterious disappeared from
view,
Her kin-the hapless Theodosia Burr.
At Heavenly Tribunal, will be tried,
His case on whom all seeing eye was
bent;
! At court supreme, will all wise Judge
preside,
And oh, the sentence must be Danish
ment!
NoTE-The picture referred to, was
given by Mrs. Mann, to the late DR.. VIM.
Poole, whose widow refused to sell it to
the grand-niece of the old dame. The
Burr descendant produced other like
nesses of Theodosia Burr AlstOn, which
were exact counter-parts of the exquisite
woman in white, who smiled from the
grand old painting above the mantle in
the parlor of Mrs. Poole near Elizabeth
City.
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