The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-09-13

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nearer my spotted leopard cool your tongue my
hand,
am faint with tful fever, and filled with fancy grand
Lie close de and lend passion that poison tains
While ponder the peued picture the world Of your mistress
paints
The features and life it painted chiseled and
and sung
OF Egypts Cleopatra in every land and tongue
On canvas crystal china in bronze and brass and go!d
In malachie and marble, coins and medals old
In mosaic and murrhine, in coral, copper, clay
On iron and in ebon, in syenes granite gray;
In opal, ophite, onyx, in sapphire chrysolie;
In topaz, turquoise jasper; in alabaster white;
In and prose and ballad in history manifold,
The face and life Egyp queen drawn and carved and told
In this galaxy of artists in this gallery of art,
Where ch brush and pen have Wed do their perured part
see shade shadow, sign semblance see
OF her who stood at Actium with Roman Anthony
fail to find the features the force spirit bold,
Of her who sailed the Cydnus in her galley wrought god
In the character they give me trace sign mood
OF hers, who chose destruction to a life Of servtude
Who barred her bosom proudly and persisted like Queen,
Preeng death to Caesar and the Roman spleen!
But see the sptefu venom that guided steel and hand
That tarnished tinted, and poisoned planned
see the jealous envy that shaped each and
OF chse, brush and pencil; but not Of truth discern
And see what they have made me, cannot help but
For what the senseless stone omits is found in history.
The stal they set upon of sumpuous sin and shame
They stole from fra Apasia brow ard Gan Phynss
see the perured picture see the wanton vile
They show tor CleOpatra-"tte Serpent OF the Nlle;'
And the eager word in earnest the lying trick respects
And down through coming ages truthful type rejects;
But the semblance in the picture that they draw
OF her who held Rome captive and whose wish Egypt law
would bid them go remember that she whom they revle
Spurned the love of aued Caesar when he sought her by the
Nile,
And offered fame and station and the sovereignty Of Rome
If she would yield the conquest and say she his
That she him back with Others in their legal robes
manned
Who had come as hopeful uitors for Ceoparas hand,
And bid them lay their the feet Of free
Than the spouse Of Rome's Trumvrhe Godke Anthony!
would tell them that the pious prude Octava whom they
Upon the highest pinnacle of purity and praise
Is not worthy Of the worship they offer her shrine
For she Antony's; he always had been minel
He took her from her regal home carry his part
But never to his bosom, and never to his heart
And all all, all of Antony this naughty dame claim
Is the sacrifice be offered when he gave her his name
He has by Eros that their hands have
And that bis star in Egypt when here Rome had set
would tell them that Octavla knew his spirit and his heart
His e his soul, his destiny, his mind, his every part
Was moored upon the Nius, together with mine own,
Before he her-by Caesars wish alone
And she knew the gods Of Egypt had smiled sereny down
On the union Of Romes consul with Egypts starry crown
would tell them she they blemished with the brand Of sin and
shame
Would have gave
And had that naughty Roman dame the spirit Of dove
She'd sent him back to Egypt to her who owned his love.
weary me- leopard you change yonr skim
Nor the naughty spirit showed to all save him.
And thank the gods Egypt for their mercy which
In giving me Mark Antony for all all, all mine own
And thank the god Of waters for yielding the tide,
That flooded old Niles BOSOM where rode side by side
And to those who call Soeress and "Sepen Of the Ne
And those who dubbed "Tgess everything that's
vie
would say your shafts fell harmless for wholly one
And when the pulse Of did the others life run
So Danish bitter feelings for all who did magn,
For twas but human nature to envy bliss like mine;
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And tell them that the Western world knew naught
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