Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-25
children Of the Pen.


silver girl.
children Of the Pen.
Orchard Henry Savage. IN Boston Ideas)
They came az night a shad0Wy band. 10
haunt me once again!
lhorc EtulGS-mONlgd shapes We kno"n-
"1he children OF the Pen
Their tcuiCrcst memories light the Past,
where foudly once they smiled,
And wove their weird entertainments
round me--a dreaming child.
Dear shapes Of more than mortal gracel
There fingers IN your eyes.
The light each hesven-horn genius gave
o. sull inm0rtIlizc.
Prom ethcan fires Your pulses thrilled
torn from tho Penmaus breast,
Whose children live. while pen and brain
are s,iLcd in "Ihe Long Rest
All Backward rolling Tines gates swing,
and. 90 my mothers knee.
In pictured grace those infant wonder
ments / Still can seei
To-day. ia cast vain gold away ana
HonOrs wreath refuse.
To liUger by that vanished iorm-and
dream Ger Mother Goose
\ restless boy ! roved afar. on Crusoe's
With Robin hood. the outlaw King. I
huri "a defiance back
Arabian Nichts'-their splendid visions
lent magic gulse, e.,.-
heIazadt's eyes,
Paul and Virginia, Sweet Undine anu
Cirderella's nights -.
Swept past me- in q shadow dance, Iii
with cold Romance" lights
All Me. My heart can never feel that
once heroic glow.
Which fired NY loyish puises-as ! rode
with lvanhot.
There. in the fulness Of the spring, shy
shapes. all shrued apart
Awakci the trembling unSWept strings
mid in my boyish heart
For music Laughter. lite. and love at
tended ou that train
OF tender ones. with shining eyes, who
lived in Loves sweet pam!
4 masque Of Beauty. story-song. The
Pantheon Of Art.
Bewitch.nE and immortal shapes-aN
proof against Deaths dart
Whits-armei and breasted Helen.
Esther. conQuering queen
And Cleopatra. re1-god crowned, in her
imperial meln.
All. srrIte and Fay crowd on the way,
I.creiei. Kilmeny fair
Queen Nab in dainty robes or state-l!-
tania. too is here.
As4uga's mystic beauty sh.nes-AstaTte's
And In a misty. golden cloud bright
Venus claims The prize.
With banner. scarf. and armor decked
the knights Of Ola sweep by
Brave Richard OF the Lion Heart, the
star of chival.y;
Bayari sans pcur ana sans iepioche-
james Douglas dauntless one
The OLA Campcador rides fOrth-beneath
a Spanish sun.
The ,issque goes on apace. see all Sor-
Thexia. and chuduke Marguerte-and
Amy R1bsart fair
Cord ua. true ard loyinG-sweet lmogen'
And rais Ophelia. love-dis,raught, wan
Gers with wistful face.
Laura. beloved Of Petrarcn-Dante's Bea-
The witthinr Marie. Queen Of Scots.
sweep past en- sad review;
The fac. ina, smiled on Ellen's Isle-the
Lady Of the Lake
Aud-Burns's sweet Highland Mary,
yearns her parting vows 10 'aAe'
charlotte. Cosette. and Adrienne-lght-
hearted Frou-Frou. too!
The lost Lenore-Evangaline, who lived 20
Thai Woman ' win her loving heart. In
shame-frozan % rest
Who's palrd lips were mute-thc crimson
a upon her brcast
Eva smiles up al Uncle Tom! brown
Mlnnchahas there.
And Little N,lW on English meadows
breathes the inCcnscd air.
There's EsmOni leading Becky Sharp
out an mlnuei ,,,
THE rose upon her balcony" In diamond
dewdrops set
Eemont and Anna Kareniua-the noblest
shades ] see
Nathan lie wise and Faust pass by. in
loving harmony.
Shvi0ck bends 10 King Arthur-WhO
stoops his suit 10 hear
While peerless Launcelot steals the rose
that's kissed by Guinevere!
The Pathfinder and Merlin-quaint Long
With Prospero. dainty Ariel's flight to
ether depths remote.
Armand with Candles withcred rose,
near Monte Cristo stands.
Where Fabien de- Franchl beckons WIN
his ghostly hands!
The Wandering Jew and saladin, Rienz'
sup with Lucrczia Borgia-in Farrara's
And. hen TIE Masque. before them all. In
pageantry sweeps by
wakc-aud lose the strangest dream,
that haunted nay minds eye.
For on the table there before me, lies
Whose magic Inns these airy shapes
that never fade again.
The bell sounds midnight and | sigh 10
lose them from my sight
Those graceful Children Of the PEN
The Seraphs Of Delight
All, Mortal child has never borne those
eyes below the wreath
Immortal charmed by genius sres-in>
,lsph6od IS stained! Bold Caesar smirks
beneath tho laurels lies
The real Napoleon pcn-disguised, Is hid
den from our eyes.
The children of the flesh betray! Then
youthful promise gone
But lime and blight can never touch these
who ,roop changeless on , 49,
The loving maiden. pure and Tue-the
sun wander on in Penland. beneath its
sunset gold!
AM SIN NAV hold the ancient charm-the
pictured mimic page,
Where Love rs sweet. whore Woman true,
and wrinkled Wisdom; sage. 49,, ,..
where heroes pay the villain on WIN
interesi-in kind.
And Cupid fingers rosy-Npped, ana al
ways goes it blind"
The night IS stilll My beating heart is
thrilling yet eia'e
with elimpses Of these royal Ones-the
Children Of the Great,
Loved in my youth they still are true,
and never viii betray,
For theirs Is Immortality! We I've but
for Il day.
mind me loving lips I've kissed. and
ewes that fonGly shoDe
The lips are silent long long years. 1 lin
ger here alone
A sh idow just within the gate, thing
OF dust. I know
We sink beneath dark Lethes stream, but
they immortal glow,