The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1901-12-19

chain OF the bear 10 wound around
him; that Orion's club is torn away:
that worlds and consultations are
swept with him.
The scenes before him are but as
strings Of gold and blue. flowing from
his eyes as he turns.
Ills brain Ia more confused, for he
dreams that he 10 the plaything Of .
child; . giant top. The sky-dwelling
child has lost him. and through un.
known realms he has spun eway. in
dizzy circles, never to be found again.
Now once more he feels the net
about him, and he begs for sleep. A
little sleep for the love Of Heaven.
He dreams that he has shot the al.
batross and 10 desolate on y wide,
wide sea.
He forgets the wish for sleep. In
yonder dark corner Is a spy. He pen.
etrates the mans thoughts and
catches them in his hands like
little birds. They will grow In time
and testify against him. He shrinks
and tries to fee. The spy follows
They traverse vast deserts, and lonely
seas, and always there Is no hope OF
separation. The man turns In anger
and seizes the spy, tearing him to
fragments. Each fragment becomes
. man.
| A wall closes around them all, the
man and the thousand spies. He
rushes madly at his enemies, and all
the great hands grasp him. He
strives to give battle, and behold the
walls and floors and ceiling are hun
cry mouths that would tear him.
lie thinks to bury his secret. and
beneath his feet, crushed as he steps
upon them. lie eyes as the sands OF
the sea.
Only q little sleep. he cries, and ther
dreams again.
The net Is hung upon q star. II has
a rope as long rs hate, as strong a.
love.
The net swings, pulled by mighty
forms. 1t rushes through unfathomed
depths. down, down, forever; II 10 .
million years for every change. and
every change 10 thick with fear.
There 10 blackness everywhere, and
he hears the sunlight 60 screaming
past him, searching for worlds un.
known.
The great visions have ceased.
A room lies before the man. dark
within its center. Along Its edge he
sees q woman's form. She bears .
child that cries for food. The mans
eyes fix themselves upon her. He
thinks he goes to meet her. Then he
starts back with a cry. All around the
woman and the child are pits set hick
with points Of steel. The child cries In
terror for Its lips are red with blood.
1t slips from his mothers hands. for
they are slippery and red. He falls
towards the steel swords, and the
mother gives a great cry and would
fain hold her little one. The man
springs to her side. Together they
seize the child, who has become as
lead and who. crying for aid, still
slips towards the cruel pit. The man
cries In agony: "Oh. Mary. wife OF
ny hearth" and behold she, too, has
fallen upon the piercing points. The
woman and child cry to him for help,
and he stands cropping wildly, for oil
the eyelids from all the eyes he trod
upon have closed upon his own.
He thinks he Is torn away from
those he loves. and as he falls through
space their cries follow him like black
sunbenms, and stunt all the flowers oi
his soul.
He comes 70 strange lands and sud.
denly hangs suspended above the
world.
He dreams that a giant power racks
him so that across the entire frma'
ment he lies stretched In agony. Amid
the mighty sky masses OF color who
rule and govern the realms come to as
sail him.
Through his veins how currents oi
blue, his arteries pulsate with torrents
that seem drawn from the wells oi
the sky. The golden summer noon
and he are one. and through his skin
the drops Of molten sunlight drip.
, Then the color changes to green. He
feels the trees springing to life amit
his tortured frame, the lank grasses
are growing from his eyes; . tangle o,
rushes 10 around his heart, and tn,
agony of awakening leaves and how
: ers 10 rising within his blood.
NoW Uscs 1ess SseePs uPon "".
II edges .ts slow way seeking for en-
trance. and II slips beneath his nails
Il mounts and writhes within him.
Oh the horror Of III The load h'
carries within his veins would bio,
: out . thousand suns. II lies soft and
: heavy upon his lips, and the angel
who see him turn from this blsckenet
, soul Of niRht.
He would cry aloud. but hs 10 sosket
In darkness, II his lips open he wouis
> die. the world II gone, he must lie Their
forever where the black rain burie
!. him ever deeper In the bottomless pi
Of night.
Oh listen how the drops fall upoI
!. him. dreadful. desoiate. unspding.
9 The mans brain is darkened, and