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Markdale Standard (Markdale, Ont.1880), 8 Apr 1886, p. 2

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 â- â- â- ipw^"w^|jp^W8#:M',f^tt !^i SI )j •AA. t f m BAMEIj. t^' *» •mm sr â€" " JAMiQlK^ IhePaqaoda. Iha latter, IwUiag • f«rt IB •f •Etm ft* State of V«nnont, wm â- orptind dulBg th* »bMDM •! tlMir yooBg ofaiii Oa- lologon. Only fh« naidm Onmd «w»p«d. gh« WM oawd for by » mimkm a r j urn* by bBlttacpoem cxpIaiMi the rwfc Al Bight wlthlD thcb f«rtrMi w»U Jha FMBods hold • foottnJ. Ah, littto Aonght thoy oren bow Thrfr wktahdogo bailod tho wuy fooâ€" "OmBU," â- hriokod thoMiitfaiol, ThoB oukBy a booadfaia bout wm rtni iU firo llto fart oamo fortt with din. From Palo Faoo, and from Mohloaa, A boadrod heoioa of wbbUag flanw Jaooribodon high the glaring ahame. Among tho tont flamoo te and fro, Iho fieroo, tho tondor foogbt, in woo Xs WYO thoir woak on«a Tafai e«ay. From fiioa that flub, and oworda tfairt aiay Kor bad tho GirtatloM oamago oeaaed Wbon momfaiff lit tho miaty oaat, And lit tbo writUng hoota who ory On all their goda to lot thorn dlo. While free dom bayoneta agonlio Xbo beata thoy aenght to dTilln. Ah, to tbo heathen atained in thought. Who grioToa to find hia home ia not, What aalntly lamploa prieatarafto i»eTO Of Phn whoeo i^mbol waa the dove Yet one retired apart to pray That Ood might aave what man would aUy. While faith bii gentle tplzlt wayed, lliore oamo a ruBbiogin the abade â€" The Pcqaed nudden hoard hit prayer. And judged there might bejutioe there. Faint aa a froatod rooo, and still. Forth frcm her wonnda a orimaon nil. In wandering ripple, bright and warm. Flowed freahly o'er her neutral form. For one abort awooning moment abo Waa bathed in brief tranquility And from her face one aoarce oonld tell What fote waa bor'a, if ill or well A mingled marob of poaoe, or pain Her yeara bad gained that oosfluenoo when The midden'a faith, the woman'a fear, fio marTollonaly mixed appear. Anon her lipa eaaayed to apeak. The blood to tinge each tender oboek Baok from the aeorot dream which bath The itill phenomenon of Death ;|\ So paaaed the trance of peace ai^. And leaaon reaaanmed Its away. She aaw the Cbriatlan atonding by The Fort that could no more defy Tbo bleed bocrimaoning her breast Showed wretched memory the rest. The ghoatiy guide with tender band-. Sustained her, atriving to assuage Her f eara with tonea all understand. The brute, the savage, and the sage. Five yeara rolled on, yet abe remafaied Encouraged by that Chriatian care, ifinU overy summer added grace JkiM faitii made nature yet more fair. Her gloaay looks of raven hair In excellent profusion spread Around a face of tendeinesa For loTO disaoyered and the dead A joy the worldly never had. One evening when the mottied sky Glowed ^orioua in the afaikfaig sun, When beaven'a serene iomiensity Seemed throbbing forth the words, well done; And saored anperhuman buea Adorned each dim declivity And abaped the fnterndngling viewi Aa fair aa Eden'a landscapes be, Oramel wandered forth alone To dwell in thought on other days Aim! many a vivid vision gone Arose on memory's magic gaxe. There flaahed In all their fervid foroo The valea by which these waters came I Far by the river's reedy source She saw her early forest home The feUage flashiog In the breeze. The sparkling stream beneath the troea Uolling ita beaming wavea away Of azure, oonraing gorgeously To silent bikea of holy buea All mottied ore with white oanoeo. Again the don deer bonnd along, Agafai aba beara her dater'a aong. And teara bodim thoao sable eyeo To view her brotiier'B form ariso. So mdely aoTored in tiieir glee And he her oboaen where ia he 1 Froud Ontelogon, be whose aonl Could all her deatiny control! Ho of the darkly beaming eyea, fhe laat of Pcqnod royaltieal Who sought the frooklod fawn for her. Whose worda would atraago enwtlou atir. Whatanddan atep arxeata bar eaial A real form from vaniabed yeara Caoao to bar lon^g ai^t appeara Q^sk aa fta memory of the heart. By taadar intoaatioaa«tainad. The remnant of war'a fatal wrt Stood gaiiag on bar form pnf etrod. Aawlienaa aagteliii^ alMiva Tho orag oo ntoming aU bk loja, Potaen hia wingatnuMlaBtwhila, ToeaoifaiighthaBdaradtopon Hto nnalina iB their geatia Mat, So gaiadhaloclk from yawa of qoaat •• Oramai. ft«i ' ^^ I aaw It by tbyflaahia| gan. Whaa oa tUa Hilltop aaddmly I Btood. tiv fri»d of ottiar daya 1 iIiM«2y oi-ak'a Mood apaka Bi« yt* tiiy lipa the worda oaa maka." « O, Sviag lover, •*«7 Of «Un« raaowa Mm pad Of thia* raaowa wo gwHâ€"i^ Oaoa moro below awroadai waa Ilaaltfaeawoaiagewreaasa.^ Aa eft baiew my ip«» '*!^_ I watehad «»•*»*• "J-Nr Thy NokteWL iaeaahadbeasa,aad rate bhakeaii ten How fiereatiia wMto maa^ tiary falL Aad from all root baknr «M btaM Thy foo my f ootstepa atOl puima. And even now, aboald It ha kaowa Myfeot were oa my falher'a aad. Then is BO ChrMiaa bat woatd owa My death a doty to hia God. I oome to load Ooo to tho load Wbeie BMB are bravo at my ooauaaad. The Pale Faoo baa no portiaa thore, AadnoBO to follow oa shall da ra, Our moona will move In akiea seioaa. And thou ahah be a wantor'a quaaB. Help aw to harbor mighty bravee To kiadle war, aa awelling wav ee^ Roll down the mooatain and destroy All who those valea and bomea enjoy. Oramel ndaed her humid eyea, Aa miats bedim soft aaora Aiaa, " The deaolatimi of oar race Finda teara faadllar to my face Bat, 'till tbia hour, I did not know Out fatbera* suxbad sot ao low. And now another grief la mhM, This bomaleaa lonellneaa of tbiaa I Yet curse aot thoae who ndght have brought A blight OB me, but peace have given They taught my spirit life, they taught Patience, and hope, andfdth, and heav- en." •• And ia the white man'a God and thea At peace f the gloomy chief replied « And can our wrongs forgotten be By us whom they have sundered wide, Butobered, and bumeu t and canst thou thus B«qalte our race'a wretohedneas T Tb»ir softened lies have filled thy ear Till truth can find no entrance there. Their hateful bearta have hardened thine, Once full of tondemesa for mine. Were not thy love te me aa light. The only moonbeam of my night, I could have spumed e'en tiiee, when then Didst own thy wlllingnesa to bow Before their God who lota them do Deeda mournful to our Manltou." " 0, Ontologon, I oonld leave The kindness of my Christian home, Once more the freo-bom air to breathe, And follow where thy feet may roam. To bo the solace of thy fate, Aa dwells tho wild dove with ita mate. No tonea like thine my heart baa heard Since sitting by my mother's knee She knew not how my soul was stirred When listening to her pnise of tiiee And still I hear my besom toll Ita willingness with thine to dwell. Oft have I longed to hoar thy voioe Fall sof tiy over early air Oft in my dbreams, which hold thee oboioe Our infant Innooence I share r Surely thy mere than friend can be Qod'a servant true, and true to thee t And oft when gazing 6ii the aun Shed hia last beams from bill to hill, I wished my day, like his waa done. Then bade mv aching heart bo stUl For I have at Hia altar sworn. And from my vow I dare not turn I Yea, Ontologon, I have awora My feet may not f oraake Hia road And tho' with thee I gbKUy turn May He not be our guide and G^ Our faithful love He will not aiar Ib whose h^h charge onr spirito (ure." Aa when by winds an ash is shaken. Ere fall, of many leaves forsaken. More storms can bear when theae have left. So stood he still of love bereft. ' Meet me, Oramel, yet once more I I cannot lc|kvo thee to thy fate. But for thy safety yon dim shore Shall hide me, near the bauata of bato Then turn agidn thy tender feet And meet mo where thoae watera meet' When In the stream ita atar is seen To gUd tho doom of reedy green. My bhcii c^oe shall wait for thm Below yon shady alder tree And we will saU to safer olimea. Unknown to Cbriatlana or their orimea." Fet aia r'râ€" art left to laoiaatlmt He turned, and vanished In tiie abade. And night retnmed around the aiald. You who have borao the blame, and blight, Of soorafer love of God aad right Tortured by lovea iaoertftude Wblob ia tho aoul'a meat fatal mood. Have found aaoogh to make a fate Unatterably deaoukte. If not upheld by that wblob glvaa Thy heart the hope wherein It Uvea. He who had plaated la her bnaat The th"""g raptarea of oaraat Whom abo in thoui^t, to daalii realgBad, Had aoddenly retuaod to fiad Heaoeforth her joy aad his amat ba The snaaat of their daattay. Agda aaoOar day baa mMk Aad sOaat avealagB florid gkw la lovely la tta aky above, Aad lovdy Ib «w vala bdaw, Aabomhar orlsat abode Tbo moan awvad up hsr BMHiad read. A^^ aaattorday baa gaaa, The baate of ataixy qpaoa appear EMbasslBag frsai Ua aaeiaBt i As if thsM w«M aaaoRmn Agaia Oa waviag grovaa reesiva The aitvar vaatoraa mnnnhsaiiis waav*. Aad, ba!f levaaiad by lUttaad akda. So aeftiy aiftdi •'m AtomtT^ Stood Oatolagon aad tha maid Psasalb an anbar aider Ha bald bar head bolj IbUdahi Mywafiril Tb iMaa to fia tti •««» P*^ Aad aid aa raiaa my lall« lar- Bat now ««ina ey«^«» «â- Â»Â« way aball aot ba trod akBN Far Oaa ahatt ba tha aanaar Tb my ohiUad apiiil^i kebooBd TiM hills. Oaaftcaoau Oat wa behold ^aeadforfh la maoalight mMly. Our^atoberad bralbraa awajd of old. From all their aouroea to the aaa. Oa many aa aneiaat monataia brow The oonaoa Area are qaeaobod, aadaow No Pequod spaeda hia piae oaaaa Along the laaea of liquid bliw. GawrUketbafish when floods ara diy. Like flowera whoa rala forgata f^^i Goao ai« the flags whoa froata begmâ€" Our whito foe bribed the Mohloaa To bide by night amid the brake. As liters Biaro the prey, or nako. They aprang among ua in our aleep. And none romaiaed at mora to weep. ThefUaoaa jofaied the Chrlstfw f oa, And gave us worda wblob and m waa They brougbt ua firo-driak, aad thoy gave The red mea drangbta to mak e them rave They renaed our paaaioas Into wroag Then slanghteredna when they grew nroag. Botaaw tho abadowa laager grow. Ami OatologoB too muBt go. An ontoaat to another land. With none to take hfan by the band. With none, when aick, to give hfan bread. Or over bfaa the blaaket apread With Boae to bury him, or teU Where Ontologoa'a aahea dwell. "I wHI go with thee, yea, forsake My heme, thy future path to make Loss desolato o'er many a UH But hinder aot, let me attll Bow, tho' I bow alone, to Him Whoeo eyea with love were often dim. Or where the weatem rivers roll. To keep hia Sabbaths In my tool " 'Oramel, I moat not deoeiva Thy Bj^t, tiio' my aaawers grieve, For well I know the whito man'a vow la vacant as tide moealit glow; His word is fidr but never binds More than the passing summer winds. My heart is happier in Ita gloom Than thou oould'stmake it, if to oome With thy foe's plague spot on ity breast To break my father's future rest. If thy green pathway joina with mine, The Christian God shall ne'er be thine. Maid of the darkly tender eye. Our days are rolling awiftiy by Drear as a shrub f oraaken plain, A leafless landscape In tho ndn. Ago-bended men, with moonlit habr. While waiting in tbo valley where Death's sea reoeivea the troubled stream. Look baok and call it all a dream I How oft we find the crooked path A sudden temdnatton bath Oramel, hear I our hunting grenads, Beyoad the addnight thunder aonnda, VnOk aU thebr berda, or fielda of light. Without thee, would not reat my nght. Orund, ones again I plead â€" lead me, let^y whito feat lead Back to the Multon, my guide. In this world and the next, ihy briide. He will forgive that thou dida^ apeak Of wandering, for the heart is waak. ' Yon moving moon begins to lower. My bark is swaying near ashore My home beyond the bills Is thfaie, Tbenplaoa thy faithful hand In mine." "Friend of my apirit, fredy take My lowly future for thy sua More than this life I oonld resign. Or all the seaaena that were mine, Sfawe laat we parted by the still Green valley of our village hOL The waterlDy doth not ^ve Much shadow to the willing wave. Then why ref oaa that I mi^liva Ib love here aad beyond onr grave I Do rilla offend their fonntdn aonroa. For refuge rolling to tho sea? Surely to shape my ooadag oonrae In peaca can aoaroely lund^r thea. Whoa buaiiag witii thy lovlag bride T Chrisfa lovara death oan aa'ar divide, For after suoh onr aoola shall go Where ever- flaablaK rivara flow. But, in my soul I dare not be Falao to my God for even thea." 'Thaa deave to fhy deosivar's dda, Aad ba a base betrayer'a Bride. A alava to Ua Inxarieoa laat His beast, who aever kept atraak. Waaltforthiamy haarthaa boHM Darkdaya of evary aolaoo Otmn, Save tiio oaa bona my aianiory held Of Oeâ€" tooaaddealy diapallad t Waa It for.thb I bowad ^rprida 7 £w thaa, aaar hateful loea to hidat ClrandUab ^^aa dawn Us flea nnfariad. Uaia£liyU|h» laftUMweSdl^ RhUag a^ haftdl Ufa to ahiM Oaoaaatatohearthaeahrvalaa Tha* said, or a'ar oaa â- Â£ njoioa Far tfafaYdraggad fral%» tTSay n»lilaIIoaglSrtooaatn^^ WbaaoaaaaabillBaal â€" "' Ta Tiewafar tiiy dfaa â- ] YalaaoBNdtosvilia ••Oraaai livatt. U^ iMWthaa l^araaar Affera'arfoBsaftUOatosaan, I did not Iftlak laoh yoaia of pain Woald paaa bofoca wa BMft afda Bat they hava flad my ea^frie^ Aad all that ara to eotoa mil and And aaoh yaar'a aalltavT flight Seemad to ooataln leso dajr than night, UmB a mora than aortal joy Came dowa my darkaieaa to deatroy. than my |M "Pirff â-  ^^J Sl" Yowed taeaven'aa oBdnriag vow, Aad gladly would I read to Ihea Thoae worda of raptnra, •pardon aaa. The worda are wIm of which I snaka Bat ahaU ba allaat for tty aaka." At loBfftii, hia loatUag oomawbat aped. He slow addressed tiio suffering maid His voice aeemad mild, aor did unfold His deaoUtlen naoenaoled. •' 11 thou wilt make my futare thiao, Aad be forever wholly aiiae. Not evaa dreary death will dara Thy trusting scul from miae to tear But ohooae tby fatbera' murderer'a God, Aad t«ke a aoparated road." /^nA she must speak her lovcr'a doom. Tho' witbhor heart'a blood worda must come- How Ib her faithful s^it strove Her leva to God, bar human love Iâ€" A glanoe o'er life, the hopee that meokâ€" Aaoa his fate the tlleaoa wokeâ€" •• Ontolagon, apare my woe I I dare aot from my Saviour go I" Thea with a gestare slew ha drove Hia still bark from the reedy oove Of alder abadowa where li awung The mooB-forsakta waves amoag. But aooB he ceased to row, aad atlll The boat weat driftlag at ita wiU 'Twaa that reactioa wblob snooaeda The struggle whoa tbe apirit bloods. Oramel atood there oa the hill That overlooka the beadlag shore She watdied her waverlag hope, uatU He vaidsbed, to ratnm ao more. He did Bot raise hia head or band. He sought no rignal from the land. No tender rign to check the pain Of parting, ne'er to meet again. A parting farther than the grave. The wreck of all she aought to save. And o'er her soul the feeling oamo That she must bear hia blighting blame For all their future'a wreck and doom And, O, the thought I Ua life of gloom I And memory all hia worda retraced In fondness ne'er to be defaced. And round her spbit's tissues wove His laat sad words of grief and love â€" A fearful tumult of the brain 1 A mental whirl where naught waa plidn. Save that he would not oome agdn. No sound awoke the silence save The ripple of the reedy wave, A rustle of a rising g»le Among ^-he willows of the vale. And when the misty moonlight co aaed. And morning lit the mlaty Mat With emblems of returning day. She homeward took her weary way. 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