The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-29

The dropping sails about the masts were , ,Aweary of their days of tempest fight, Around the hull the waves embracing
 Aname beneath the ruddy western light That dyed the ev'ning sky in crimson In purple and in saffron, as the day
 Fled from the eager coming of the night For ere the sun was gone, from far away Arose the misty veiis of shadows soft and
 gray
 A stranger to that coast. the vessel lay
 Behind hcr stern a thousand waves. sn,w- The distance measured from the slsssy bay
 Where first she rested with her canvas
 And fsr.her still the broad Atlantic The shores of France, from whence a
 royal hand
 Before her prow-a very promised land. Where waited destiny to ripen at command Above, the hopexstar shonc. and glowing
 Sent back its gieam. for youth the tiller And vaior tried of war and enterprise
 The sailyards manned and inspiration
 welled
 Through ev'ry sailor-souI. whose pulses And gioried in the mission of those three
 One fathers sons-in daring unexcelled Among the pioneers who crossea s. s,a,, sne Sea. Three brothers. who. in fight. fair names
 When France and England strove on alien Who followed from their fathers land tho
 sun
 On distant soil new colonies to found;
 To whom the clash of weapons was a Most sweet. Before them now the ionscd-
 And quiet lowered all the shores around. And with the moonbearns that around them
 stole
 A peaceful sleep came dowr and breathe
 on ev'ry soul,
 When suddenly the veil of silence round
 Faint quivered with the echo of a call. Bienvilie's quickened senses caught the
 His scabbard- clangored in its sudden fall
 As sprinsins quickly up. the midnign.a He strove with eagle vision to dispel; But dark and silence lowered over rl. In accents sweet and clear betokened all was well. Firs; faint as when the shadows flee fir shame
 Before the dawd. appeared ;then growing And brighter. till it seemed empyreal That mocking. came and went. and wen, and came, It filled the room: then, sweet as woodland stream
 He heard again the whisper of his name; NAld by him stood form tna., iI gleam.
 Was fair, as only in the spirit of a dream A woman nobly made, whose shoulder More white than does the everlasting Upon the Alpine heights. Her tresses In jetty waves her supple waist below. And meath her lashes iurkod the laten. . That through another's spirit gazing down Draws forth the unresisting heart. and b! } Above the whiteness of her samite gown, Upon her queenly head she bore laurel crown. And as a rose exhales its perfume sweet So trembled into speech her lips soft !. .iBienviile, wherefore fearest thou to meet In form confessed, the one who on the brine Hath followed thee unseen. whose soul with thine Hath walked all unperceived. since as a child
 I saw thee long ago and called theo mine. z And lured thee onward with persuasi0ns mild
 E To face region unexplored. people crude z and wild E How often came to thy peaceful rest. : Or to thy days with sweet ambitions : fTaught. E (My voice but seemed an echo fin thy . breast) 2 And faithfully and earnestly I brought E The deeds of mighty men into thy thought; ( Thy breast with emulation did l fill. How patiently, how patiently I taught ' That fame and glory waited at thy will, That grosser feet than thine have climbed 2 to honor's hill