Year: 1877

'ritten for the Herald.
HE or DORONS DREAM


PRELUDE.
ANY that hail to-day with joyous breath,
o-morrow will be wrapped in palld DEATH
The sun rose fair upon the morn
That eat in darkness and in storm;
And many q ship spreads all her sall
In JOY to catch the prosperous gale
That never will reach port again,
And many an eye will watch In vain.
shin lay fhuarod in Pascagoula bay;
father ard son act sail tor home that day;
The freight on deck and freight on shore,
And hustle al stir both aft and fore,
And songs that rose upon the air
Spoke of hopes and JOY and prospects fair.
Right early that morn the sire awoke
And with kiss of joy the slumbers broke
)f the youth, who halt awake the holy name
IF mother spoke and then shudder came
)f fears. So oft in sleep we dream we tal
And tost IN vain alarm for help we call.
Then the sire addressed his son. to dispe the dres
If frightful dreams these joyous words he said:
t'Arise my son, and hail the day
That speeds us on our homeward way;
The rosy rays Of the morning sun
just peep across the dewy lawn.
Who does not feel enlivened power
That strolls abroad this early hour,
While the stir and hustle of the day
Has not yet driven the lark away7
Come! haste, my son, and etroll with me
This pleasant hour along the sea;
And hear our sailors always gay,
AS they sing their songs, and 'heave away
What! art thou sick? or dost thou fear?
Whence comes that sigh, Doron, my dear?
All! dost thou leave behind some one
For whom thy heart has tender grown?
O, we shall all right merry be
As we sail tor home over the eea!
To-day our bark will safely glide
Safely DER the bounding tide.
That brave old ship THE Ocean Breeze
Has sailed DER many stormy seas.
All, when did nobler vessel ever
Stem the tide of sea or river
To-day thy mother looks for thee,
Hang thee DER the bright blue sea-


Then Doron said: 81 cannot tell
Why am go sad, except it fell
That all night long heard the sea,
And drcamt my mother came to me,
And that we sailed on a white winged bark
Out on sea all rough and dark;
And soon the dark waves bole the form
OF angry breakers in storm;
Then there was no one left with me,
And the vessel plunged down into the sea-"


And the sire made quick reply,
Tho from his breast there came a Sigh,
For dangers monitor q ever nigh,
And the i'll we fOrefeel we may not descry:


''Son, think of ugly dreams no Hore,
They are for women to brood DER.
Cheer up, my boy, to-day be gay;
See. now we sa, away, away"


And now the good ship, 'Ocean Breeze"
Well clears her port for open seas:
And now from every creaking mast
All sails are given to the blast;
Now as gaily she skips as the tawn,
So gaddened by the breezy morn;
Or as the deer by hound pursued,
bort from his sylvan solitude.
Reused by the sound of beying hound,
Spring forth with fleet and easy bound,
Now glancing every rise and swell,
Now crossing over hill and dell,
Till some deep cave or cliff is sought
Retreat from hound and hunters shot;
mus doth the bark, each swell and wave
Touching, glide DER or smoothly cleave.
NOW every shore is left behiad,
SAFE rides the bark thro storm and wind!


Now, fair was ocean, breeze and morn,
And hearts beat merry,-all, save one,
And sailors songs rose ON the air,
Nor cause was there foreboding fear;
But Doron would not Join the gay;
lie could not sing, or laugh, or play;
lie gazed as one who dreams that life is DER,
ana sighed farewell to the last receding shore.


1t was the hour of approaching night,
far III the west the orb of light,
Had kissed the wave and sunk to rest;
sti!i round his couch mingled crest
Yet shone, of gold and purple fold:
So bright an eve to the sailor told.
AS plain as signs in the heavens are,
The night would give them every star.
All! oft the seas profoundest calm
TO the wary sailor bodies alarm;
Sometimes the sky keeps camest face
Till just before the storm has place.
That day had been lovely day,
sim on the deep a sweet calm lay,
"hile the lingering twilight died away;