The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-27

while he closed the path before me.
And he looked down into my eyes ana
said
How the leaves bent down from their
houghs o'erhead
To listen 10 all my lover said.
Oh. the leaves hanging lowly Ger me.
Had he moved aside but a little way
| could surely then have passed him.
Ard he knew never could wish to stay,
And would not have heard what he had to
Could i only aside have cast him.
II was almost dark and the moments sped,
Bat he drew me nearer and softly said
How the pure, sweet wind grew stiil IN
stead.
To listen TO all that my lover said.
on the whispering winds around MS.
/ am sure he knew when he held me fast.
That ! must be all unwilling,
For tried 10 go and | would have passed,
AS the night was come with It's dews at
last
And the sky with It's stars was filling.
But he clasped ME close. when would
And he made me hear his story.
And his soul came out from his lips and
said
How the stars crept out when the white
moon led.
To listen to all that my lover said.
Oh, the moon and stars in glory.
i knew the grass and the leaves will not
tell
And I'm sure that the wind. precious
win carry his secret too safely and wall.
Tia. no being shall ever discover
One word OF the many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips Of my lover.
And the moon and the stars that looked
over
Shall never reveal what fairy-like spell
They wove round about Us that night IN the
dell
In the path through the dew-laden clo-
Nor echo the whispers that made my heart
swell,
As they fell from the lips Of my lover.
Mr.. Raymond. in his article TO the Phila-
delphla Times speaks Of one Barton Hill.
an actor. as having recited the poem to
delighted coterie Of actors and newspaper
men that had gathered in a New York club
room In October. 1850 just after Park
,heater was out. After Mr.. Hll had COM
pleted the recitation. Dir. Raymond quotes
him as saying: 81 was in Seattle. Calfor-
Ma. some years ago-two or three-when
Mr.. c. II. Larabee. of that place. recited
this poem. / was so pleased with II that
/ obtained a copy ard committed II 10
memory. Mr. LaTabee told me that ne had
cut X from the Evening Post or New
York, some twenty-five years before. In
that publication Il was ascribed 20 Horace
Greeley Another by the name Of W. A.
up; Il remember the poem. I cut /, from
the Sun some sixteen years ago, In which
II was given as anonymous"
M Greene Is the author OF THE Blind
Brother" 1850 prize story that was pub-
hshed IN the Youths Companion; Burn
ham Breaker" and one or two other sto-
ries, the scenes Of which are the anthra-
cite coal fields OF Northeastern Pennsyl-
wanna. These hooks, though Intended for
the youthful reader. are equally interesting
@ young AID old. De Quincy's Deed" a
poem for which he also received a prize.
was published ii the Boston Courler-Jour-
n2} several years aeo.
/; might be interesting 70 add. in con-
clusion, taas Col. Kcalf, 20 whose literary
woTS Mr.. Greene so kindly refers In his
letter. enlisted IN the army In INs2 and
wrote some Of his best productions In the
field His fncst popular poems are: NY
slain An Ola Mans IGyr' and "Ind3rec-
ton Suicide in Oaks na. Cal. October
:. lS'& brought hls Giraffe and somewhat
unsteady life 20 4 melancholy end.
EDWIN TWITMYrE