Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-01-17

and testify against him. He sbrinks ]
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
a man.
A wall closes around them all, the
man and the thousand spies. He
rushes madiy at his enemies, and al
the great hands grasp him. He
strives TO give battle, and behold the
walls and floors and ceiling are hum
grv mouths that would tear him.
He thinks to bury his secret. and.
beneath his feet, crushed as he steps
upon them. lie eyes as the sands OF
the sea.
Only little sleep, he cries, and then
dreams again.
The net is hung upon a star. II has
\ rope as long as hate, as strong as
love.
The net swings. pulled by mighty
forms. II rushes through unfathomed
depths. down, down. forever; il is a
million years for every change. and
| every change IS thick with fear.
There IS blackness everywhere. and
ne hears the sunlight go screaming
1 past him, searching for worlds IN
| known.
| The great visions have ceased
A room lies before the man. dark
within its center. Along its edge he
sees a woman'S form. She bears
child that cries for food. The man
eyes fix themselves upon her. de
thinks he goes &C meet her. Then he
starts back with a cry. All around the
woman and the child are pits SCI thick
| with points OF steel. The child cries In
| terror for Its lips are red with blood
| Ii slips from his mothers hands, foI
they are slippery and red. He fails
| towards the steel swords. and TIT
mother gives a great cry and woulC
fam hold her little one. The mar
springs TO her side. Together the,
seize the child, who has become a
lead and who, crying for aid, still
slips towards the cruel pit. The ma
cries in agony: "Oh. Mary, wife o
| my hearti" and behold she. too. ba
, fallen upon the riercing points. Tn
woman and child cry 20 him for hell
and he stands cropping wildly. for a
the eyelids from al the eyes he tro
upon have closed upon his own.
He thinks he is torn away fror
!, those he loves. and as he falls throug
space their cries follow him like blac
: sunbeams, and stunt al the flowers c
his soul.
ii He comes 10 strange lands ard sue
denly hangs suspended above th
world.
He dreams that a giant power racl
him so that across the entire firm.
ment ne lies stretched in agony. Am
the mighty sky masses OF color wi
l. rule and govern the realms come TO e
sail him.
Through his veins flow currents
blue. his arteries puisate with torren
that seem drawn from the wells
the sky. The golden summer noe
=, and he are one, and through his SIX
the drops Of molten sunlight drip.
Then the color changes 10 green ]
feels the trees springiDg to hfe am
his tortured frame. the lank grass
are growing from his eyes; a tangle
he ruShes IS around his heart, and &
agony of awakening leaves and 40
* ers is rising within his blood.
~ Now blackness creeps upon him.
an 1t edges its slow way seeking for {
"a trance, and IL slips beneath his mai
ea IL mounts and writhes within him.
Oh the horror Of ST. The load
carries within his veins would b
AZ out q thousand suns II Lee soft a
- heavy upon HIS lips. and the ang
who see him turn from this blacleer
IN soul Of night.
20. He would cry aloud. but he IS scsi
no In Darkness II his hps open be vol
IKE die. the world Is gone. Be must lie th'