The Hartford Herald, 1875-03-31

racing tne ueaa atx oeacn, And singing slow their old Armenian psalms, In half articulate speech; Or caravans, that from Bassora's gate With westward steps depart; Or Mecca's pilgrims, confident of fate. And resolute in heart ! These havepass'd over it, or may have pass'd: Xow in this crystal tower, Imprisoned by some curious hand at last. It counts the passing hour. And as I gate, these narrow walls expand Before my dreamy eye Stretches the desert with it shifting sand, Its unimpeded sky. And borne aloft hy the sustaining blast, This little golden thread Dilates into a column high and vast, A form of fear and dread. And onward and across the setting son. Across the boundless plain, The column and its broader shadows run, Till thought pursues is rain. The vision vanishes! these walls again Shut out the lurid sun, Shut out the hot, immeasurable plain, The half-hour's sand is run.

is my conscience; and yet I think I have entemtcd to join my entreaties to theirs, done my duty. Have 1 understood it "Our respective roles seem to me some some-right - right some-right or not? Judge for yourself. what inverted," she said: "it is J who I takeupmy situation towards Madame am detaining you, and you wish to get rid de Palme where I had left it in my last of me!" letter. The day alter our mutual expla- "Heaven preserve me from such an nation, I took wvery care to maintain our ideal but I am afraid lest you deprive relations upon the footing of good-fellow- yourself, out of kindness to me, of a ship on which they seemed established, pleasure you are so fond of." and which constituted, it, my idea, the 'Ko 1 1 know very well that I seek you, only sort of intelligence desirable and and you avoid me. It is rather absurd

namI of the desert tx as uoirit- (SL.A.SS. nr w. u. toxcriixow. A handful of red cand, from this not clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought. How many weary centuries hSi H been About these deserts blown! Bow many strange vicissitudes has seen. How many histories known I Perhaps the camels of the Ishmaelita Trampled and passed it o'er, When into Egypt from Ihe patriarch's sight His favorite son they bore. Perhaps the feet of Moses, burnt and bare, Crushed it beneath their tread; Or Pharaoh's flashing wheels into the air Scattered it as they sped;. Or Mary, with the Christ of Nazareth Held close In her caress, Whose pilgrimage of hope and love and faith Illumined tie-wilderness; " Or Anchorites beneath Engiddi's palms

You think that 1 v. ould regret it? You at the chateau, nevertheless, , a mere John-W. Hart and Edward L. are ever ready to receive visitors and 'adying bed, tS gratify the sordid de de-think - think de-think that Bome day I may again become glance at her was eVf rfrfn Ayers. of San Francisco. Ayers forged Lake them n comfortable as possible. "4 6f his Mher. likely to establish the woman I have been, the madcap you my mind the very shadow of suspicion. .fera. o. oa j a nrnr,r;ptnr and cousin. Sam. expects t7J "i.s " . . iAmm little fortune

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venture upon mingling my petty troubles feast, While we were admiring the effect to your grave solicitude. As you antici- of the drandoles that sparkled amid the paled in your wisdom and in your kind luxuriant tropical flora like the bright friendship, it was consolation and not ad- constellations of another hemisphere, sev- vice that I stood in need of when I re- eral gentlemen came to claim Madame ceived vour letter. My heart is not at de Palme's hand for a walls she refused

applied toa Boston gentleman for aid in ford railroad; unless you will run tne road Thgeari the tools. You can do much with sending a Vermont missionary to Turkey, by the Springs. And, by the way, we v , T0U are hopeless witout them. The reply was as follows; "I have in- would rather not take any more stock in f0ttD(Jat;0O . and nnieas JOu vested much in Vermont securities, and the courthouse, butl suppose our credit y . M f flagh atU;n.