Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-03-08
CHAPTER Nv.

With a calm, majestic sweep,
You may roll upon the shoro
With your billows calm and doep;
But whether calm or frantic,
hear you calling low,
In voice unheard by others,
In words none others know;
And YOU bid me come unto you,
To calm rest far down below.
Whene'er you roll in in splendor;
With long, majestic sweep,
Whcne'er you dash with fury
And up the high cliff leap,
know you want me, want me,
And long to be a. rest
Beneath your storms, Tor down Delo"'
In lasting calm to rest.
And hope that death will come to ms
On the river or on the sea,
That the voice that is calling me ever
Shall make my weary soul free
They are calling me, calling me, calling me,
The waters so deep and sWlIt,
That long to plunge into thelr currenV
Ard out on thoir bosom drl1F
Immediately after the trial, IS Mark
rersis,ed in refusal 10 pay the hne as
gessel against him, lie was taken ID
charge by Constable Atlee and LED away
to an unused log hCu'e in the outSKrt'
of the village, where he was secuteiy
bound and left alone, his guards taxing
good care that the one door was we'll bol'eo
from the outside.
This was in the afternoon, toward sun
set. and as the cabin YVES growing DARK
supper was brought him by his Jailer'
Then the long night set in.
NotW ithstf nding the vexatlons or tht
dav, Mark slept we'll, but toward day.
Ire k he became restless and was troub!ec
with dreams. He seemed 10 be ba * IL
old England again, and his dear wlfe's
hand was upon his head. His life there
lie lived over. half waking, half d. Q I'M
ino The causes which resulted In hi
emicra ion to the new world p'ssed II
review before him, and then lie took W
his life in Sagnauck Each event stood
out with startling dis inctness. The per
secution of the church, the death of his
loved fe, the struggle for exist nee, oil
came back as he lay bound upon thai
cabin floor.
fter a time his dream changed, or
nerhaps he fell asleep. This time he was
In old Eng aud again as before, and 1ol
some reason had been cast into PRISON.
While lying upon his narrow cot, ~ coulo
hear tho foo steps of his jailer drawing
nearer and nearer until they stopped b.
fore his cell door, The bolts we're
drawn aside. and, instead of his lailer
Ac. sab Granville appeared.
He started and half awoke. Surely nf
heard an unusual rustic about the catl1
door. lie raised himself upon one elbow
md listened, but all was still, and, 1all
ing back, he doze ag~in. He dreamed
that he was lying in the cabin sleeping
and that Achsah, the min ster's daugh
Ter came and entered the door. Every
20 MT in that dream passed tn slownes
and distinctness. He seemed first 10 se'
her coming up the path from the llage
then rause before the door OF the ca0ln
lift her hands and tug at the bolt until
was withdr .wn, then Gh. that was
dre NIL enter, draw knife from be
virdle end cut the cords which boun'
| him.
The strangeness of the dream cause
him to start and half raise up. The doc
was open. His bonds were cut, end b
was free.
For moment he sto ID in the cabii
collecting his thoughts. Then. with trn
step and nbesitating manner, he look
direct course for the river, which Woun
halfway round the village.
1t was mile away, and the woods wer
dark. but he reached it il half an hour
He knew the country and the liver well
anil in few moments cameto O rugge
old elm tree, 10 the roots OF which a Ca
noe was tied. He cut the bark whlc
bound it to the root, gave it push ou
into the middle of the stream, and bega
floating downward toward the free sea:
In all this there was not a moment o
hesitation.
The darkness of niOht began to fad
from the skv, AMI faint tinge OF gra
snread over the earth. The sun wa
drawing neal er and the forest was woA
inc up to new life. Down deep anon
the trees on either side he could see Ion
stretches of blackness like the str%gf
branches of pine tree, reaching OF
from the river. He foated on, and 0
and by these dark avenues between IL
trees grew lighter and the forest gnos'
lv. The stiffness of the early dawa W;
Oppressive. In the dense darkness
sound could Le heard now end then, D'
ns day began TO approach there wf
scarcely rustic among the limbs.
And through this the river wounC
flowing slowly but deeply to ths sea, ar
in the midst the fugitive foated.
At times the bank was low, and slope
down to the waters edge, and again
arose above the water level, and left
crumblng sides to wear away and ia
with a thud and splash into the water b
low. And sometimes the washed roo
of n giant tree stood out bare ar
re,ched down into the stream,
resting-place for fish, which the boys
Saonauck would have been CAD TO nm
And then, again, the banks drew clos
together, the stream became deeper, u
limbs of the water elms overlapped, al
the boats course was through lea
roadway of fallen autumn leaves. A tu
in the river and the current rushed mo
RAPIDLY. the leaves were hurled al
crowded back 10 the shores, clear, swl
cnrrent swept onward, and the cano
With it's solitary boatman, with 1t.
Rirds were sounding n note here al
there from the depths of the forest Gr
dawn was passing away ana tne sA'
were growing lighter: Tne early rlse
of the birds had called TO tnelI CO.
panions. and the woods on eacn 81 81
resounded with the matin song OF M
England's unbound singers. :.
The gray dawn passed away; the sK'
grew lighter; the cool autumn night
came milder; overhead the SKY W cie'
eastward, through the woods, vlstss
light were opening; and sh' dows w %
siopinp westward The morning d
come. and the fugitive was drifting Q
ward through borders Of leaves, peo
WOO llaud arche4, with song OF BIRDS
the new day, onward to the great free 81
The sea, tie sea, the open sea,
The blue, the fresh, the ever free.
A terrible mons er is it. nevertheless
10 all who bow not to lis majesty,
free is it, and free it crowns each one "
| connns To Il With merciless ca mneSs