Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

Smote on the boy till he could
bear no more.
The use of this metaphor subjected
Byron to severe criticism and the ap-
preparation of the idiom by Miss Hay
dis unfortunate.
The story abounds in vigorous flights
of fancy and the first scene is
spirited description of tribal fishing
party, where the chiefs and braves of
the Fijis go to take the great bonita,
one of the strongest sea fish
In this passage the tragic hero is
introduced:
With folded arms he gravely watched
the rest,
And gave them salutation haughtily.
Uhila was he called, and in his veins
There ran as tender stream of north
ern blood.
He bore upon his old and indolent
heart,
Scared with the sins of war, white
device
Taxa, daughter of chiefs and Fiji's
pride,
Lily of maidens was betrothed to
him.
DESTROYS eyes HINGED him with envy's
crown.
And then the bathing of the tropical
maidens, when
One with daring skill
Curved her sweet length to lie within
the palm
OF strong wave, and so was brought
to shore.
When the labor of the day began
the poet abandons for moment the
rhythmic blank verse to tell how
With little songs they pearled the
air.
Hush, it is Taxa singing,
Far away.
In a fountain dwelt maiden;
When the silver moon was high
She was glad, but heavy laden
Was she when it's light must die.
Far away
Far away
Came a stranger brave to love her,
Loved her when the moon was
high;
When the moon grew pale above
Love grew pale and like to die.
Far away
Far away
From the fountains mist he drew
her
Happy while the moon was
high;
Waning, fed she, her pursuer
Held her back and saw her die.
Far away.
Another maiden signs of Little
brown streams, slim as my fingers,
running and laughing while the tight
lingers} have you no dreams, little
brown streams"
While Uhila is making preparations
for his marriage to Taxa, and the
maidens are singing, a youthful chief,
Malua, comes from distant isle and
with passionate courtship conquers
the heart of the betrothed maiden.
u No word was said.
She knew not that she loved, he only
knew
She was the moon of women; but
their hearts,
Wiser than they, had Powered into
ole.
Uhila, "The Lightening's," return
and his discovery that his betrothed
loves the handsome young stranger,
and that his life has been injured
since the dawning and before the noon
is splendidly told, and with a strength
and masterful sweep of language and
idea
Quickly then the tragedy organizes
itself Night comes on and the young
lover wanders in ecstacy through the
scenes where he had loved during the
day. Uhila chooses his moment to
murder "Malua knew curse was in
the hands that sought his throat" In
the Homeric contest of the two lovers
the boy is thrown, but Selling a stone
kills his antagonist. Malua seeks
the maiden. informs her that their love
has been fraught with blood, and the
girls struggle, the utter remorse and
fear of the conquering lover make up
the final scene in which Taxa finally
yields, and they Children of the sun,
went forth to meet the sunrise and
the day"
The poem is less than a thousand
lines in length, but it completely en-
folds it's story. The authoress never
makes a comparison throughout the
most passionate scenes of the wooing
delicate fancy clothes the picture of
these children, SO that the tale is as