Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 2, February 1842 — John Shaqi
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 2, February 1842Various
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 2, February 1842
Various
Literature -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals
“The deep spirit of the wind awoke,
Ruffling in wrath each glassy verdant mound,
While onward roll’d the army of huge waves,
Until the foremost with exulting roar,
Rose proudly crested o’er his brother slaves,
And dashed triumphant to the groaning shore.”
The ocean finally passes from her sleeping vision and the winged
travellers fly into a different scene—
“We look on England’s woodland fresh and green,”
and a beautiful picture is presented of the rural scenery of Great
Britain, until the scene changes again to some romantic resting-place of
the dead, to some _Père la Chaise_, or Laurel Hill, or Mount Auburn, to
a—
“heath
Where yew and cypress seemed to wave
O’er countless tombs, so beautiful, that death
Seemed here to make a garden of the grave.”
And as the fair one wanders over the “mighty dead,” over “warriors,” and
“sons of song” and orators—
“whose all persuading tongue
Had moved the nations with resistless sway,”
and “pale sons of science”—
“He who wandered with me in my dream
Told me their histories as we onward went,
Till the grave shone with such a hallowed beam,
Such pleasure with their memory seem’d blent
That, when we looked to heaven, our upward eyes
With no funereal sadness mock’d the skies.”
We are ourselves getting rapidly to envy that “fellow” who is “wandering
with her.” In our opinion she will soon be able to answer her own
_naïve_ question about love. Her companion leads her, with admirable
discernment, as we think, into a glorious “old library.” What better
place could he have selected to impress the heart of an imaginative and
appreciating “little love.” If the cemetery and those “histories” did
not explain to her the novel psychological emotion about which she
consulted her mother, what occurs in the library certainly will. For see
how the youth plays with the susceptibilities of a girl of “sixteen”—
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