Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-05
PhlladelphIa PCS D

When viii they be linked again?
What to me the starlight still
Or the moOnbeamS Splendor,
If | 10 not feel the thrill
/ OF thy fingers slender?
| Summer nights in vain are clear,
| If thy footstep be not near.
| Roses. sIumbering i'm their shedths,
! DER my threshold Chamber.
And the honeysuckle wreathes
| IFS translucent amber
] Round the gables of my home
| How IS It thou dost not come!
! If thou earnest, rose on rose,
/ From its sleep would awaken;
From each flower and leaf that blows,
| Sp!ces would be shaken.
| Floating down from star ana tree'
| Dreamy perfumes welcome thee.
I would lead thee where the leaves,
| In the moon-rays glisten
And where shadows fall in sheayes
! We would lean and listen
For the song OF that sweet Dlru
| That IN April nights Is heard.
| And when weary lids would close.
And thy head was drooping'
/ Then like the dew that sleeps the rose'
Ger thy lsnguor STOPPING,
| I would till ] woke a sigh,
! Kiss thy sweet lips silently.
|
All thou hast would borrow
| I from thee would keep alone
| Fear and doubt and sorrow.
All of tender that is mine.
1 Should most tenderly be thine.
/ Moonlight Into other skies,
! [ beseech thee wander;
| Cruel thus to mock niue eyes
| Idle. thus TO squander-
Loves own light on this dark spot
/ For my lady cometh not.
THE LAST REDOUBT.
! Eacelyeyos slope still felt
| The cannon's bolt and the rifles pelt;
For a last redoubt up the mn Iemaiheu,
! By the Russ We, held, by the Turk not
| gained.
Mehamet Ali stroked his beard;
| His Inns we're clenched and his look was
Roun Ie him was ranks of his ragged folk.
| Their faces blackened with blood ana
smoke.
'CIear me the Muscovite OUT. he cried
Then the name OF Allah echoed wide,
All, the rifles were clutched and the
bayonets lowered. -, .,
Ono foil and a second quickly stopped
The gap that be left when he ieeled and
! dropped . GU, ~,
THE third. and a fourth kept up the race.
Many a fez in the mud was crushed,
| MANY a throat that cheered was hushed.
Many, heart that sought the nd cfes boyrr.
| Found Adams throne anu """'i
breast.
Over their corpses the living sprang,
And the ridge with their musket-ratue
TIL the faces that lined the last redoubt
| Could see their faces and hear their
shout.
In the redoubt a fair form lowered
THAT cheered up the brave and child the
coward;
Brandshing blade with gallant air
His head erect and his temples bare.
Oily, they are on u.s. his men implored;
| But he waved them on with his waving
at cannot be held It's no shame to go."
But he stood with his face set hard to
tie foe.
Then chung they about him and tugged
He drew pistol from out his belt:
! And fired ii blank at tie first that set
! Foot ON the edge % the parapet.
over that first one topped; but on
I Clambered the rest TIL their bayonets
As hu Tpilsi fled his men dismayed:
Of his blade.
| "Yleld" But aloft his steel he flashed.
I And down on their steel II ringing clash
ed.
Tier back he reeled with a bladelss hilt.
His honor full, but his lfe-blood split.
| Mehamet Ali came and saw
/ The riddled breast and the tender Jaw,
/ Make him 4 bier Of your arms he said.
And daintily bury this dainty dead.
They lifted him up from the daoh'ed
Ills limbs were shapely and soft and
No down on his liz. on HIS cheek no
"Bsmillahy they cried. "'tis an inildel
maid"'-
"Dig her a grave where she stood and
'Cainst the iaexars scratch an1 the vul-
Did the Muscoyste men like their maid
ems fight .
IL their lines we had scarcely suppci To-
night
So deep trench n'o~s the trenches
Was dug for the form as brave as fair.
And none. till the jiAsment trump and
Shall drive her out u the Last Re-
! doubt