Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-25
Moonlight gliding Ger the dew.

Moonlight gliding Ger the dew.
Wander where l may, or tarry,
Hangs my heart alone on thee,
Ever in my breast 1 carry
Thoughts that burn and torture
me.
Unattainable and peerless
In my heaven a constant star,
Heart o'erfiowing, eyes all fearless.
Gaze l on thee from afar.
The exquisite melody, the pathOs
Of the scene, the poetry Of the words,
were more than Eve could bear, and
tears rolled down her cheeks. Mr..
Coyshe looked around in surprise; he
heard her sob, and asked if she vera
tired or unweu No! she sObbed out
| of excess of happiness. The com
bined beauty OF scene and song op-
pressed her heart with pain, the
pain Of delight greater than the
heart could obtain.
Eve saw Alonzo come, disguised
as a hunter, having abandoned his
! father, his rank, his prospects, for
| love of Prec Osa. Was not this like
Martin?-Martin the heroic. the self
sacrificing man who rushed into peril
that he might be a. her feet-Mar-
tin, now laid up with rheumatism
! for her sake.
She saw the gipsies assemble, their
tents were taken down, bales were
collected, all was prepared for de-
parture, Alonzo was taken into the
band and fellowship was sworn,
The moon had set, but see-what
| is this? A red light smites betwiXt
the trees and kindles the trunks or
ange and scarlet, the rocks are so
| flushed and simultaneously with a
burst. joyous, triumphant the whole
band sing the chorus OF salutatiOn &c
the rising sun. PrecOsia is exalted
on litter and is borne on the shout
| ders of the gipsies. The light brigh1
ems. the red blaze Deryades, trans
forms the entire scene, battles every
actor in red: the glorious SONG
euddenIv. when it seemed to Eve
that she could bear no more, the
cur ain fell. She sDrarg to her feet
unconscious Of everything but what
she had seen and heard, and the
whole house rose with her and rOared
its applause and craved for more.
1t is unnecessary for us to follow
Ewes emotions through the entire
drama, and to narrate the plot to
say, how the gipsies arrive at the
castle Of Don Fernando where he is
celebrating his silver wedding, how
his son EugeniO, by an impertinence
offered to Preciosa. exasperates the
disguised AlOnzO into striking him,
and is arrested how PreciOsa inter,
cedes, and how it is discovered that
she is the daughter of Don Fernando,
stolen seventeen years before. The
reader may possibly know the drama;
if he does not, his loss is not much
it is a drama Of little merit and no or
iginality, which would never have
| lived had not Weber furnished it with
a few scraps of incomparabIy beautt-
full music.
The curtain fell, the orchestra de
parted the boxes were emptying.
All those in the stall around Eve
were in movement She gave a long
sigh and woke out of her dream
looked round at Jasper then at Mr.
COyshe, and smiled; her eyes were
dazed, she was not fully awake.
Very decent PERFORMANCES said the
surgeon, but we shall see something
! better in London.
Well, Eve said Jasper, are you
ready? l will ask for the manager, and
then we must be pushing home
HomeH repeated Eve, and repeated
it questioningly.
Yes, answered Jasper, have yon
forgotten the row up the river and
the ride before us?'
She put her hand to her head.
oh, Jasper she said, I feel as if
I were at home nowhere. where I
ought always to have been, and was
! going again into Punishment