The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-07-07

! Dankment and gave ROSalind a half
dozen Easter lilies She had these in
her lap as she sat in the hack. The
glamour (get on the "o-u-r) of the
play was still around Rosalind | was
| thinking, even when one of the hack
horses broke down, of verse l, even
little Harry, what Albert NJ. William.
son says looks like frog, of a verse /
wrote, beginning:
THE lily plant, dark green, is twice
odored;
Not vainly to the misty life that flies
The dim nighttime she signals Para
disc.
In ivory flowers maddening ! hoard
And yield TO pollen-laden lovers. Lord,
The most High God, He loves her,
otherwise
Her holy lily was not His disguise
AS beautiful as midnight or a sword.
Twice worshipped also in my sweet
heart; she,
Disguised in white, the lily of the
world
Blooms in this painless universal
blur
Immortality alluring; Turing me
| am hurrying through the twilight
hunting her"
That is also the ending of the verse.
| was thinking of the verse and
noticing the lilies which she had ar
ranged in her arms in a Rosalind,
manner, and wondering if she was the
Lily of the World At this moment
the hack horse fell down and Syn
enormously l got a wireless from Mrs.
Harry Floyd that Rosalind was GER
tainly not said Lily of the World
Really, I want to get out of that
hack and get back to the legislature,
but is difficult to do so. Funny,
amt it, that we roar and squat about
the legislature (and this and that be-
ing Heaven, and then some Rosalind
or Celia shows up in the forest of
Arden and we re-discover that there
is no Paradise except where Eve is.
My uncle Walt Whitman tells in his
Leaves of Grass" of trip he took to
New York City to study in the great
libraries all about Assyria and the
Sphinx and the teachings of Zoroaster
and Hannogobalus; also profoundly
cape at the painting by Raphael and
Tintypenutty in the Metropolitan
Art Gallery. He testified that he
bought a couple of books by Plato and
Plotinus and a screed by Nebuchad-
nezzah; also translation of the code
of Hammurabi; that six years passed
and all he remembered of his educa-
tional jaunt in Mannahatta was a wo-
man who put an arm casually around
his, Waits neck
Help! Police! Habeas Corpus. Ger
tiorari! Writs of Replevinl Judge Ma
lone! Judge Parkhill! got me out of
that hack on its way to the depot!
Hello w. c. Hodges! Frank Winth-
rop! John L. Belius! sue me out a
Writ of Habeas Scorpion! Lay against
the hack-driver a writ of River juno
ton! Get me out of this hack A
spell is on me- The lilies and the
glory and the dream of one Shakes
peare have me fastened.
About six years from now all r
will remember, as I sit in the halls OF
congress just after having nubbed
Bill Ellis and Ed Love by having the
sargent at arms drag them out of the
hall, on the ground that they are anar-
chists trying to pick an acquaintance
with me, as l sit there having pages
hop about and bring me ice-water, and
addressing seed to the dear registered
voters. About all l will remember
about Tallahassee will be half a dozen
Easter lilies and a comely lady hold
ing the lilies in her arms as though
she were the frontispiece of the April
number of Scribners magazine.
I wonder if the Apalachicola Times
is read in Tampa. Poor McNamee!
but | am ruthless. here goes: Mack
told me that a certain lady who hap
pened in Tallahassee for a week or
two and was in attendance upon the
legislature lobbying for state uniform
ity OF school books, and Jacksonville
Sunday baseball, 7 believe-that this
lady was the brightest woman in
Florida He did not even say except
six" He did not leave the question,
to judge W. H. Price I wrote
a verse to her which I am trying to
get the Mobile Register to publish.
Here is the verse:
ITO Miss Dizalynski.
SidOn, Damascus, Tyre, Bel.
and Israel,
And names of many a Jewish bard
And that forgotten name of God,
You make me think of these; of Ruth. |
OF Oleanders, stars and truth
1t is reported that Miss Dizialynski
is seeking to be court stenographer