The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-09-10
LFrom tne oreenvale Mountalnser.
LEGENDS.
rhe Legena Of cesar,s Head.

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ny PROV. v. NUEscH, PHI. d.
The Legend of Caesars Head.
Like giant-kIngs. linked band in hand
And twined by one long yerdant band
rhe-tnountains Of the Blue Ridge stand
As guardians DER the enchanted land
That cast and west lies meath them.
Their gorgeous canopy on high
The dome is of the sapphire sky
With diamonds spangled over
while silyery clouds, ! now far. now nigh
Or circling round them hover.
Each giant-king,s right hand a],pheayes
The b~nldachin's pavilion
While Atlas,,hke his faithful reeves
Upbear the lofty ceilings caves
On testers of vermililon.
Rich gowns these monarchs and their thames
Wear clasped by massive rings and chains
Around their necks and shoulders:
In graceful folds to wales and plains
Their mantles fall whose gorgeous trains
Arc borne by moss-clad bowlders.
withdrawn behind Nights sable SCREEN,
Each day they change their wardrobe's
As seasons may determines;
In spring and summer emerald green,
In autumn brown with crimson sheen,
In winter spotiess srmine.
Unlike earth's kinglets whose delights
Are petty feuds DER fancied rights
For causes small and trivial
Or childish p~ageants, pompOus sights
Or festive banquets with their knights,
acknowledgements
These monarchs stand in peace profound
by awe and silence hcdged around, Is
And majesty's true grnces;
Loathe to transgress their Ringdom's bound,
They keep their lofty places.
And yet, in case they once should meet
There stands prepared one common scat
Right noble, gorgeous, royal,
With every purtenance replete
To entertain each king and suite
or vassals brave and loyal.
Like fountains, frozen into stone,
whose Jets of spray branch ut the cone
In graceful fans
The columns of that kaiscr-throne
Rise plumb into the ether's zone
BY capitals s~urmountcd.
Which, strong Atlantcs, bear n Hall
CUT chiselcd from the living wall
Upon their tablets shoulders,
With ante-chamber court and mall
= And crested arm-chaiIs, broad and tall,
\ And desks and candle-holders
Mere. from the beetling verge, the gaze
Sweeps Ger shelving woodland-maze
Nigh 10 oceans Limit,
Save when the summers noonday-haze
Or frowning storm clouds veil the glaze
OF ay'n clear blue or dim it.
Full many sculptures decorate
This rOCh-Ou1lt royal Hall of State
Surprising those of Babel
1t boasts II Lions Mouth and Pate
A Dragons Fang, their fitting mate,
And Satan's D~ining-Tablc
AND yet of all the strangest freak
a Head is, jutting from the peak,
OF features weirdly plastic;
With Roman nose like eagles bcak,
with d~ecp-sunk eye and hollow check,
With mouth drawn decp-SarcaStic.
Thc sphynx colossal by the Nile,
The mask on Elephante's Isle,
Placed by that Face of Nature,
Would seem like dwarfs and pygmies, while
Its pallor shames the glaciers pile
That wells the Jungfrau's stature.
With awe profound, the Red Man viewed
That CHASTITY Face whose eye pursued
His footsteps whercsoever,
Would on his wigwam's peace intrude,
Would go with him to hunt and feud..
would never leave him,-nevcr!
From where the wild Chatooga's stream
Aud Tugaloo the mountains seam
10 whore down in the Lowlands
The Broad and Tigers waters CLEAN
That pale, white Face would on him beam
AS on the Moors frowncd Roland's.
And with the progress of the years
We're moro and more the Red Mans fears
OF that Pale Face augmented,
TIL from an nll-respccted Seers
Wise lips these words rang to their cars
And were with JOY assented:
a danger grave o~'crhangs our race;
We know not what, yet feel its trace
And fttlngly ascribe it,
M%cthinkcth, to that Pall'd Face;
And hence must tr,,-tO win its grace
by sacrifice to bride It'll
IS have your sage appoint through light
From Manitou II maiden bright
Atoncmcnt for the Nation;
And let him hurl her from the height
Beside that Face, when day and night
Join hands In like DURATION"
II wasa balmy night in June
through grove ana maze the Silyery Moon
Shone down from Heav'n's high ceiling;
Fit night for lovers to commune
In sympathetic feeling.
That night two lovers, young and true,
Away from eyes of spying
upon u clin where stood II ycw
Beneath its dark shade to renew
Ihefr VOWS of love und wing.
Twas Falcons Bill, with record rare
For one so yOung-Of glory's share
In battles trying slaughter,
And Evcn-Dew, n maiden fair,
or winsome lips and raven hair,
Chief Otter-Tail's sole daughter.
TO meet they oft haG sought this hill;
Their tryst Tonight though tingedU u thrill
Or deeper sway, of sorrow;
Fora grave mission to fulfil
On far-oif journey, Falcons Bill
Must leave her i'll the morrow.
Yet when they brought to end their tryst
They knew not of the angry glist
From Two dark eyes behind them;
And as they parted, nought they wfst
How from tHc thicket one small fist
10 dread revenge consigned them.
Twas Ratticsnakc, the Seer's pet " Bird"
Who1nad the lovers overheard,
Their foe'and arch pursuer,
BY jealousy and hatred stirred
AS Falcons Bill she loved, demurred
TO be her swain and wOOer.
The third day after, round the Seer
The nations sachems met, to hear
Great Manitou's decision,
And every father quaked with fear,
Lest he should name his daughter dear
AS victim of remission.