Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-05-30

Ecstatic throbs the fluttering heart employ,
And all her strings are harmonized to Joy :
But why SO short is Loves delighted hour?
Why fades the dew on Beautys sweetest nower2
Why can no hymned charm of music heal
The sleepess woes mpassiond spirits feel2
Can Fancys fairy hands no veil create
To hide the sad realities of fate?-
No not the quaint remark, the sapient rule
Nor all the pride of Wisdom's worldly school,
Have power to soothe, unaided and alone,
The heart that vibrates to a feeling tone
When sepdame Nature every bliss recalls,
Fleet as the meteor DER the desert falls
When, 'ref of all, yon widow'd sire appears
lonely hermit in the vale of years;
Say, can the world one joyous thought bestow
lin To Friendship, weeping at the couch of Woe?
No but brighter soothes the last adieu,-
Souls of impassiond mould, she speaks to you
Weep not, she says, at Natures transient pain,
Congenia spirits part to meet again
What planve sobs thy ilia spirit drew.
What sorrow choked thy long and last adieu
Daughter of Conrad? when he heard his knell
And babe his country and his child farewell
Doom'd the long isles of Sydney-cove to see,
The martyr of his crimes, bun true to thee?
Thrice the sad father tore thee from his heart
And thrice return'd to bless thee, and to part
Thrice from his trembling lips he murmur'd low
The plant that ownd unutterable wo
Till Faith, prevailing DER his suen doom,
AS bursts the morn nights unfathom'd gloom,
Lured his dim eye to deathless hopes sublime
Beyond the realms of Nature and of Time
"And weep not thus" he cried "young Ellenore,
My bosom bleeds, but soon shall bleed no more
Short shall this interchangeable spirit burn,
And soon these limbs to kindred dust return
But not, my child, with fe's precarious fire.
The immortal ties of Nature shall expire;
These shall resist the triumph of decay
When time is DER, and worlds have passd away
Cold in the dust this persisted heart may lie,
But that which warm'd it once shall never die
That spark unburied in its mortal frame,
With living light, eternal, and the same,
Shall beam on Joys interminable years,
Unveird by misunderstanding by tears
"Yet on the barren shore and stormy deep,
One tedious watch is Conrad doom'd to weep:
But when gain the home without friend,
And press the uneasy couch where none attend
This last embrace, still CHERISHED in my heart,
Shall calm the struggling spirit ere it part
Thy darling form shall seem to hover nigh,
And hush the groan of ife's last agony?
Farewell . when strangers lift thv fathers bier
And place my nameless stone without tear;
When each returning pledge hath told my child
That Conrad's tomb is on the desert piled
And when the dream of troubled fancy sees
Its lonely rank grass waving in the breeze;
Who then will soothe thy grief, when mine is DER?
Who will protect thee, helpless Ellenore?
Shall secret scenes that flial sorrow hide
Scorn'd by the world to factious guilt allied?
All no; methinks the generous and the good
Will WOO thee from the shades of solitude?
Ger friendless grief compassion shall awake
And smile on innocence for MerCy's sake :"
Inspiring thought of rapture yet to be,
The tears of Love were hopeless, but for thee
If in that frame no deathess spirit dwell,
If that faint murmur be the last farewell
If fate unite the faithful but to part
Why is their memory sacred to the heart?
Why does the brother of my childhood seem
Restored awhile in every pleasing dream?
Why do joy the lonely spot to view,
By artless friendship blessed when life was new?
Eternal HOPE when yonder spheres sublime
Peald their first notes to sound the march of Time,
Thy joyous youth began-but not to fade
When all the sister planets have decay'd;
When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow
And Heavens last thunder shakes the world below
Thou undismay'd shalt DER the ruins SMILE
And light thy torch at Natures funeral pile.