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HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 DIALOGUES AND OTHEE POEMS, 
 
 Descriptive of Mankind, the Mind and the diversities 
 of Nature. 
 
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 Adorn the prosy theme, with flowery trace 
 
 Create a world of beauty, 
 
 For 'tis thy charming duty 
 
 To spin the gauzy, delicate web of lace. 
 
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Singing rosy Love's confusion, 
 Or that beautiful illusion, 
 
 Cause of all our mortal woe; 
 Blooming beauty, gay and smiling. 
 Thus to mirth or love beguiling — 
 
 Man creation's lord we know, 
 Frequently will trouble borrow,. 
 Tossed about by gloomy sorrow^ 
 
 Brilliant qualities of mind 
 Sparkle forth their scintillant graces, 
 Brightly intellectual faces, 
 
 Glow with sentiments refined. 
 Far we stray o'er flowery meadows, 
 Charmed by changing lights and shadows. 
 
 Lovely flowers we fain would cull; 
 Rhythmical .delineation 
 Limned by light imagination 
 
 Makes the theme all beautiful. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 [Illiuju Fail.) 
 I sing no Trojan feats of arms, 
 Nor stratagems, nor war's alarms 
 That human heroes and divine 
 Engaged long centuries a^o. 
 The gods, while wandering to and fro. 
 
 Upon our earth, their powers combine, 
 To aid or thwart their friends or foes; 
 But when the deities oppose 
 
 Each other, then such fury reigns 
 That only Homer's pen can tell 
 Within our world, as envious Flell 
 
 Could equal on her burning plains. 
 Or covet for her dolorous realms; 
 While Hell's grim monarch shame o'erwhelms, 
 
 That such unfaith and stratagem 
 Were not his planning. Thus it was — 
 That lovely woman was the cause 
 
 That Grecian troops around did hem 
 The far-famed city, ancient Troy, 
 And all their skill and strength employ. 
 
 To batter down beleaguered walls, 
 The beauteous Helen to regain. 
 Brave heroes combat on the plain ; 
 
 There valiant Hector fights, and falls 
 A victim to his brother's love. 
 While far away, Imperial Jove 
 
 From towering Samothrace looks down. 
 With wondrous wisdom flaming far, 
 Quaint Homer sang that ancient war, 
 
 And won imperishable renown 
 As king of poets and of men. 
 His works admired now as then. 
 Those scenes they rarely represent. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 (Dum Vivimus, Vivamus.) 
 Our heroes being comrades dear, 
 They battle not with sword and spear, 
 
 In the broad fair field of argument, 
 For armed, with logic's mail, they roar; 
 Adorn with gems of classic lore, 
 
 The thoughs they utter now and then. 
 And, being trained by mental toil, 
 Judiciously they fence and foil. 
 
 Their weapons though but tongue and pen, 
 Effectual are as David's sling, 
 With which he did the pebble fling, 
 
 And, huge Philistine braggart slew. 
 Their thoughts flash out as bright and keen, 
 As fercer's swords of glancing sheen 
 
 Yet gentle as the falling dew. 
 The gay retort and repartee. 
 With all their generous rivalry 
 
 Of satire wit and ridicule; 
 There is an undercurrent still. 
 Of courtesy and kind good will, 
 
 A little like the golden rule. 
 
 And as a valued painting hung 
 With reference to light and shade, 
 That all its beautits might parade, 
 
 Thus be their bright effusions sung 
 With modicum of ecstacy. 
 Until the last posterity 
 
 As frequently as best shall seem. 
 The mind so fraught has gayly wrought 
 With intcrtexture of rich thought, 
 
 Imagination's blissful dream. 
 That like the glowing bright sunbeam, 
 Enlivens with a spajkling gleam, 
 And lovely woman is the theme — 
 And man the lord of earth supreme. 
 
HECTOE ^^D ^CHILLES. 
 (Non bellum, sed amor.) 
 Sing not to me of battle's rolling drums, 
 
 And war's delirious fever ; 
 1 quote the chat of two poetic chums. 
 
 However, not forever. 
 Nor cannon's sullen boom nor bullet's whiz 
 
 Nor war's wide desolation, 
 The theme; but love's delusive witcheries 
 
 And desperate flirtation. 
 While they among earth's favored ones may ride 
 
 In Fortune's gilded carriage, 
 Their qualities of heart are true and tried, 
 
 Nor slanders can disparage. 
 Abundant wealth upon them Fortune laid, 
 
 The goddess kind disposes 
 Her lavish gifts; indeed they could have made 
 
 Their home a bower of roses. 
 But Fortune's grand munificence was spared 
 
 By common sense and prudence. 
 While bravely through the sciences they fared, 
 
 Two merry, jesting students. 
 To discipline, develop mental powers, 
 
 Those youths did go to college, 
 The classics to peruse through weary hours, 
 
 And other tomes of knowledge. 
 Not always wrestle they with themes abstruse 
 
 To win a just approval. 
 They read love-letters, all important news. 
 
 And frequently dime novel. 
 But each an ornament haS proved to be 
 
 Unto his Alma Mater; 
 And more, an intellectual prodigy. 
 And still becoming greater. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES 
 
 (Gradus ad Parnassum.) 
 "From grave to gay the poem varies, 
 
 As indicated by the poem ; 
 .At times they sing lil<e sweet canaries, 
 
 Again recite a 'prosy poem. 
 With voices clear as the birds in the morning. 
 
 They sing you carols sentimental 
 With tropes and figures fair adorning, 
 
 Like flowery song of Oriental. 
 And, as in all the beau'eous phases 
 
 Of verse, they turn and twist and double 
 Awhile the fire of genius blazes, 
 
 And then o'erwhelmed by waves of trouble. 
 They float upon the limitless ocean, 
 
 The stormy sea of public opinion ; 
 And yield to every bright emotion. 
 In glowing Poes)*s dominion. 
 
PART I. 
 
 ■WOMAN. 
 
to HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 PRELUDE 
 
 E'en as the golden haired Aurora, 
 
 With chrystal dew the fields impearls. 
 As bright adorned with radiant beauty, 
 
 Appear the merry, blooming girls. 
 Upon the heart made wreck by sorrow, 
 
 Their words fall soft as balmy dew, 
 "Whose dulcet sounds will ease our troubles, 
 
 The sunshine of our lives renew. 
 An angel to this world is woman 
 
 With all her bright and winning ways, 
 Refining sympathetic Nature 
 
 And justly worthy of all praise. 
 Couleur (ie rose. 
 In"a lovely bower of roses 
 
 Doth a fair maid dwell. 
 With the delicate complexion 
 
 Of the pink sea shel. 
 ■She is blest society, 
 While she sriiiles so preUily, 
 
 And I love her too ; tuo well. 
 Lawn, and lea, and w )»)dland echo 
 
 To her birdlike song. 
 At soires th' attractive centre 
 
 Of th^' proud gay throng ; 
 "So supremely beautiful, 
 Kot with beauty day makes null, 
 
 Like a goddess trips along. 
 Tripping over lawn and meadow. 
 
 Heart attuned to joy, 
 And may sorrow's gloomy shadow 
 
 Never thee annoy. 
 Loving pet and maiden fair. 
 JLovable beyond compare, 
 
 Praises sw«et my songs employ. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. U 
 
 THEME, LOVELY WOMAN. 
 ACHILLES : 
 
 Dear woman, thou wert given to man, 
 ' In Eden fair a happy pair ; 
 
 And whom perpetual zephyrs fin, 
 That waft sweet odors on the air, 
 Preserved by heavenly powers, 
 The fairest of the flowers 
 In Eden's blooming bowers, 
 
 Was madam Eve. 
 And woman Heaven's best gift to man, 
 
 A helpmate fair, to banish care. 
 And soothe our sorrows, while to plan 
 Our dear home pleasures is thy care. 
 To prove a cheerful wife 
 Through all the toil and strife. 
 The bustle and whiil of life, 
 With fond caress 
 Her husband bless. 
 
 Hector . 
 
 Oh, yes ! oh, yes ! 
 To ply llie needle. 
 And husband wheedle ; 
 Hut fliriing when she may 
 With all the beaux so gay. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Dear woman's noble deeds have won 
 
 A cavalier to wield the spear 
 
 Of argument. A champion 
 
 Of woman's more exalted sphere. 
 
 God bless my darling girl ! 
 
 With every shimmering curl 
 
 And ringlet's spiral whorl. 
 
 Where sunshine glints 
 
 In golden tints. 
 
12 HECTOR AND ACHILLES 
 
 With girlhood's pleasures life begins 
 Care free to roam. Then lovers come^ 
 While one her parent's treasure wins 
 And brings her to their future home. 
 In all thy maiden bloom, 
 Thy wifely cares assume, 
 And wed thy faithful groom 
 Or jealous fool. 
 
 Hector: 
 
 And Jealousy you are my theme, 
 A pale, sad gentleman you seem. 
 And always trouble borrow. 
 With livid hue, 
 Of bilious blue, 
 Yon hobnob slill with sorrow. 
 You kill poor woman's trusting love 
 With gloomy frown and ever prove 
 An object of derision, 
 With scowling brow so threatening now. 
 And verdant orbs of visit^n. 
 Achilles: 
 
 Women are like the Tiding flowers 
 
 The stormy rain has cruelly slain, 
 And yet their equal mental powers 
 
 Has raised them to that higher plane — 
 Equality with man 
 In every work or plan. 
 For since the world began. 
 Women have been the slaves of men. 
 Along the paths of Literature, 
 
 Like flowers strewed by zephyrs rude^ 
 Are thoughts that ever shall endure 
 
 In silent praise of womanhood. 
 They gleam with radiasice pure 
 That time cannot obscure ; 
 And shall for aye endure 
 Rare flowers of thought 
 Their minds have wrought. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Of Homes' dimimutive empire queen, 
 There woman reigns with silken chains 
 
 In conscious innocence serene ; 
 By love pre-eminence maintains. 
 
 Her subjects blithely sing 
 
 Like birds upon the wing, 
 
 Or streamlets murmuring, 
 
 Sing like the lark 
 
 At daydawn's spark. 
 
 Hector: 
 
 Rara arts. ' 
 Oh, yes ! I judge you are a lark, 
 
 No doubt I am another ; 
 Let's go and stroll about the park, 
 
 My brother, oh ! my bother. 
 Perhaps the claim to me belongs 
 
 To be that "rara avis." 
 There's slight reminder in your songs 
 
 Of Robbie Burns' svreet mavis. 
 Come let us, then, go out and soar, 
 
 And skip o'er bush and bramble, 
 Our sweetest wnrbles softly roar. 
 
 As round we flit or ramble ; 
 And then our wearied selves repose. 
 
 Where cool refreshing shade is 
 There chat about your darling Rose, 
 
 And all the blessed ladies. 
 Perhaps we may old ballads croon. 
 
 To rouse us from our stupor, 
 Thus while the sultry afternoon. 
 
 Until, tecum et super. 
 
 Achili.es: 
 
 Lucicio ordo. 
 
 Admitted now we are two larks, 
 Our blithesome ditties blend ; 
 
14 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Then why not also ditto sparks, 
 
 The ladies to attend, 
 Then lay your bashfulness away, 
 
 Your prejudice as well 
 And don your holiday array. 
 Come visit charming Nell. 
 We'll find her in her cottage bower, 
 
 If I can rightly guess. 
 Her own sweet self a blooming flower 
 Of super loveliness. 
 
 Achilles: 
 
 There's nought can cheer you bashful boy. 
 
 Like chatting with the girls, 
 The sweet, bewitching maidens coy. 
 
 Like Ocean's glimmering pearls. 
 Yes, I am weary of school and book. 
 
 Of boyish play and roundelay ; 
 I gather from your brightening look 
 
 That Beauty wins the day. 
 
 Hector: 
 
 En route. 
 Since you advise me so, 
 I will not say you no 
 
 Bnt journey with you there. 
 And while we walk along 
 Pour out my soul in song. 
 Sing, Nelly, gay and fair. 
 
 Song — Nell. 
 Tomava la por rosa, mas devenia cardo. 
 
 All in her happy home, 
 
 Sits lovely Nell, a blooming belle 
 
 Whose mind afar doth roam. 
 To cause the witching spell 
 
 That draws her capLives thither» 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 15 
 
 With beautiful bouquets 
 
 Collegians cumc to Nelly's home. 
 Adorned with jewel's blaze, 
 Kidgloved and gay they roaro, 
 The Siren sings "come hither." 
 Entrancing nightingale, 
 
 Come sing to each, a lesson teach. 
 And Love's delusory tale. 
 
 Thy cheeks have stol'n the tint o' the peach 
 
 There dimples ever dally; 
 Frizzed hair and laughing eyes, 
 Bright orbs of blue the soul streams thro* 
 
 In radiant surprise, 
 Hast tender heart and true, 
 
 Sweet flower of the valley. 
 Symmetrical of form, 
 
 With pretty pose she charms the beaux 
 And carries their hearts by storm, 
 Or sparkling glances throws — 
 Rare queen of all the beauties ; 
 I ken the mysterious power — 
 
 The mazy spell which she uld forelel) 
 We near the enchanted bower, 
 Where maiden fair doth dwell— 
 Performs her daily duties. 
 Achilles: 
 
 Behold her bower of bliss, 
 
 O, ring the bell and ring the belle, 
 Well, if you can that is. 
 
 (Nelly comes to the door.) 
 But here comes dainty Nell, 
 Here comes the little fairy 
 With step as light and ujry 
 As Ijuskined Dian's tread ; 
 She is beauteous as the morning, 
 
16 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Auroral hues adorning, 
 Her cheeks as rosy red. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Ruse de amour 
 Embassadors, we come 
 
 From yonder stately college 
 Of universal knowledge, 
 To Beauty's b )wer home. 
 Kelly : 
 
 Plenipotentiaries? 
 Hector : 
 
 Well, 
 The college Prof.s send greeting. 
 Admission we're entreating, 
 And how d'ye do. Miss Nell, 
 How have you lately been ? 
 
 Nell: 
 
 Quamdiu se bene gesserii. 
 O ! thank you^ very well, 
 Young gentlemen come in — 
 Forsooth, those poems rare 
 Sink to oblivion there, 
 ''Nor waste their sweetness on the desert air.** 
 
 (All go in.) 
 Nelly: 
 
 Be seated gentlemen. 
 
 And rest yourselves, and then 
 
 Grand poetry I hope to hear, 
 Culled pearls of classic knowledge, 
 Acquired in yonder college, 
 
 Whose towering dome does skyward rear. 
 
 I never, I believe, 
 Had honor to receive 
 Poetic gentlemen before, 
 
;hector and achilles. it 
 
 AVho in the halls of learning. 
 Diplomas have been earning 
 The sciences abstruse exploie. 
 
 Achilles: 
 
 I bring you a prince, fair maiden lone, 
 And music's sweat, enrapturing tone 
 
 To poetry will inspire. 
 
 And there piano stands, 
 
 Awaits thy lily bands. 
 Fair goddess of the lyre. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 That is the game, but all the same, 
 At your request, I hither came 
 
 To visit fairest of the lilies. 
 You feel secure, we might suppose, 
 Wi'h b'esi iffeciions of Miss Rose, 
 
 Invulnerable Achilles. 
 
 {Nelly plays.) 
 
 •Achilles : 
 
 Emunctae naris homo. 
 Delicious'y the music Hows 
 
 The billowy waves of melody, 
 And with ecstatic fervor glows 
 The operatic symphony. 
 
 Did ever mortal being wake 
 
 Such music in continual stream. 
 For music's purling ripples break 
 
 Delightful as the poet's dream. 
 
 Through all the labyrinths of song, 
 Gay turns and windings intricate, 
 
 "The blissful music glides along 
 
 As it were in Heaven's pearly gate, 
 
IS HECTOR AND ACHILLPLS. 
 
 To Il(aven's diviner symphonies 
 
 The angel harpers stiike their strings, 
 
 Her flying fingers sweep the keys 
 As rhyihmically as siirit wings, 
 
 When roars the grand melodious storrrsj 
 They paticr like the driving rain, 
 
 The gay bravuras to perform 
 And visitors to entertain. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 ye vis en e'poir. 
 
 In dreamy waliz or schottische gay. 
 
 The music rolls along, 
 And now, Miss Nell, if tired of play 
 
 Please carol one sweet song. 
 
 And one of rare bewildering strain. 
 
 Like those delicious airs, 
 You did not know you ( ntertain 
 
 Two angels unawares. 
 
 Nelly : 
 
 Ars est cclare art em. 
 
 Excuse me, plenipotentiary, 
 I go to pet my liitle canary, 
 And you shall hear him sing 
 With sprightly caroling. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Occtirrent Nubes. 
 
 No, not indeed, the captive bird, 
 Whose sweetest strains are never hear d^ 
 
 But music's dulcet tones doth garble. 
 I know one of whose simplest strain 
 Excels the songbird's sweet refrain. 
 
 I much prefer to hear her warble. 
 
HECIOR AND ACHILLES. 1& 
 
 Nelly : 
 
 iVon seqtiiiur. 
 Indeed you do canary wrong, 
 
 At present leave my darling mute ; 
 I grant you too, a simple song, 
 If you will only follow suit, 
 
 SONG— TRA LA LA. 
 Bizarre. 
 Nelly. 
 
 With h?, ha, ha; 
 
 And tra la la. 
 
 Gay laugh and song, the hours slip by. 
 The cheering power 
 Of music's shower 
 
 Will make dull ceremony fly. 
 
 We chat at ease, 
 
 While thoughts that please 
 
 Are traversing the memory 
 To light discourse 
 We have resource. 
 
 Ami bandy wit all merrily. 
 
 When merry Mirth 
 First came to earth, 
 
 The mimic grinned at gloomy Care. 
 On Humor's gale. 
 The flowery dale, 
 
 She made her genial thoroughfare. 
 
 Sweet songs we sing, 
 Flower garlands bring 
 
 With Pleasure's gaudy flag unfurled. 
 Sing tra la la, 
 Or ha, ha, ha. 
 
 While traveling round the humdrum world. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Ad Captandnm. 
 Now, gentleraen, would hear from you, 
 The valorous Hector comes to view 
 
 A gallant plenipotentiary. 
 O, sweetly will he ballads troll 
 Upon Pegasus caracole. 
 
 And fly as fast as dromedary. . 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Cen est fait de lui. 
 I dare not be so bold. 
 Indeed, I have a cold, 
 
 And harsh discordant voice ; 
 These facts, if I must prove, 
 I sing the power of love ; 
 
 Naught else. So take your choice. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 £ re nata. 
 Our hearts with pity move. 
 
 You kindly offer Ilobson's choice, 
 Tune up that soft, concordant voice, 
 And warble songs of love. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Ardeniia Verba. 
 Yonder dwells a gay musician, 
 And the marvelous magician 
 
 Takes her stand and waves her wand. 
 Thitherward come the requisition. 
 
 To the loveliest of villas 
 Journey Hector and Achilles, 
 Call upon that elegant one, 
 Beauty and pride of all the lilies. 
 
 Fairy form and faultless feature 
 Render her a charming creature, 
 
 Who can give, I do believe, 
 Lessons in love, an able teacher. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 She is fair as the queen of roses, 
 Which just now from the bud uncloses 
 
 Beautiful as one can cull, 
 When she assumes her charming poses. 
 
 Fairy from the fields Elysian 
 Mischief hides, and mild derision 
 
 'Neath the hinge with velvet fringe, 
 Guarding the azure orbs of vision. 
 
 To her cheeks the blushes sally, 
 There the merry dimples rally, 
 
 And her smile will core beguile, 
 Prettiest damsel in the valley; 
 
 O'er her features smiles are flittirg, 
 On her brow care lightly sitting, 
 
 Of Love's freaks, each feature speaks. 
 Tell tale blushes the facts admitting. 
 
 Hark the tone that gayly wavers 
 Into demisemiquavers 
 
 Birdlike vuice,and they rejoice 
 Whom with delightful song she favors. 
 
 With a voice of wondrous flexion 
 
 And a blooming rich complexion. 
 
 Dare I tell ? I love Miss Nell ; 
 
 Surely, she wins my predilection. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Vojfaire $' acheiuine. 
 
 Bravo Hector, valiant Trojan, 
 Mildly too, you sound the slogan. 
 
 Victory perches on your banner ; 
 Would I could warble a pleasing ditty 
 Honoring Nell, the maiden pretty; 
 
 Would I could sing in acceptable manner. 
 
22 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Nelly : • 
 
 V hommes propose et le fcnimes dispose . 
 Nay, you must sing, a song we'll have, 
 Haply I'll say you are as brave 
 As Homer gave you credit for, 
 In celebrated Trojan war. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Ah, the theme is loo fad 
 And the sentiment bad. 
 
 Idle fiction the conscience so warps; 
 If I happen to fall 
 In the battle at all. 
 
 Please to pay some respect to my corpse. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Apercu. 
 
 There was never a maiden so fair in the world 
 
 As ma belle, dainty Nell. 
 Round her head silky ringlets of aul)urn were 
 curled. 
 
 Golden tinged tresses fell 
 
 Low adown,as if veiling her delicate form, 
 
 Rippling masses of curls. 
 She is fair as the rainbow attending the storm 
 
 Blooming lily of girls, 
 
 SONG. 
 
 Improbe amor, quid non mortalia pcctora cogis, 
 
 Lilian. 
 
 O, dimpled blushing Lilian, 
 
 Thy loveliness who can express, 
 
 And who shall be the happy man 
 
 That thou with Love's dear boon will bless. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Ah, love my heart completely fills 
 
 With bliss supreme of Love's sweet dream. 
 Thy beauty all my being thrills 
 
 And is my one delightful theme. 
 
 Thou art the pink of elegance 
 
 O, Lilian sweet, a fairy fleet, 
 In promenade or merry dance 
 
 I list the trip of my dear one's feet. 
 
 When I perceived in glad surprise 
 Thy Ijvely face and angel grace, 
 
 Fair being strayed from P.ira(li>e, 
 I thought thee; nut of moriai race. 
 
 Thy perfect symmetry of form, 
 
 Impelled by fate to captivate, 
 Kow takes my tlinty heart by storm 
 
 As features fair I contempia:e, 
 
 Athwart thy features mischief glints, 
 
 There dimples come, and cheeks abloom 
 
 Have boi rowed daydawn's crimson tints 
 That rosy slreak the shadowy gloom. 
 
 And to bewildering graces add 
 
 A most refined exalted mind 
 I sing thee, Lilian, gay or sad, 
 
 The most admired of woman kind. 
 
 Would praise by apt similitudes. 
 
 That trip along, a merry throng 
 So like the pleasing interludes 
 
 That vary and enliven song. 
 
 Thou art the dew-drop jeweled rose. 
 Or queenly flower reviving shower 
 
 Has startled from its calm repose, 
 Bright ornament of morning houi. 
 
 I dream I am in Klfm land 
 
 Where fairies rove, thou pretty dove. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES^. 
 
 Can I but clasp thy lily hand 
 
 And whisper tender words of love. 
 
 O Lilian, darling of my heart, 
 
 That I may woo as lovers do 
 I'll school me in the lover's art, 
 
 To woo and haply win thee too. 
 
 My love thou art a princess fair; 
 
 Thy graces are reflected far, 
 And love enshrines thy image there 
 
 Within my heart, thou brilliant staiv 
 
 Neley 
 
 Ah me, the beautiful unknown 
 
 Grand eulogy obtains. 
 With brilliant sentiments high-flown 
 
 He sings in glowing^strains 
 Of radiant angel maiden. 
 With graces overladen, 
 A pink of loveliness ; 
 And sighs in great distress 
 For fear some other one her love will blesSv. 
 
 And new were I that ber uteous girl 
 To whom such honors are due, 
 
 Would set the hearts of menjn a whirl. 
 And capture not a few. 
 
 Would have a score of si iters 
 
 Both vocalists and tooters 
 
 To sing and serenade 
 
 Unto this lovely maid, 
 
 A goodly band in moonshine all displayed^ 
 
 Hector ; 
 
 Blase. 
 
 I've marched a weary way. 
 
 And fought in the battle's van ; 
 Have lounged at parties gay 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 2^ 
 
 Where Beauties flirt the fan 
 
 With dawdling chat and languid smile, 
 I calmly have admired their style. 
 And I devise this plan 
 
 The question to propound 
 What his intentions are. 
 If with uncertain sound 
 His sentiments shall jar ; 
 
 Take one whose undivided love 
 That earth's long pilgrimage will prove 
 One ever faithful found. 
 
 Nelly's Sont, : 
 
 Rira Men, qui rita le dernier 
 
 I am a maiden coy 
 
 Bewitching gay and pretty 
 And magic arts employ 
 
 To attract from yonder city 
 
 Most eligible of beaux, 
 
 Young gentlemen of leisure. 
 Who sonnets can compose 
 
 To ladies at llieir pleasure, 
 
 A sorceress I dwell 
 
 In flower embowered villa 
 Enchanting with a spell 
 
 Or murmuring ritornella; 
 
 The elegant gentlemen, 
 
 Accomplished, wise and witty. 
 Fine poetry they per, — 
 
 I charm them from the city. 
 
 Like siren by the sea, 
 
 I warble songs enchanting, 
 And hither then tome 
 
 Young gentlemen come jaunting,. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Brave Greek and Troj m too 
 
 With poetry o'erladen 
 Would seem they come lo woo 
 
 A fair and gentle m liden. 
 
 They come from lands afar 
 Charmed by resistless power 
 
 In parley's bloodless war 
 They batttle by the hour. 
 
 They fij^ht their battles oVr 
 
 just as in former ages 
 On Hi m's faed shore 
 
 They warred in history's pages. 
 
 With Poesy's sweet liime, 
 Delighting and illuming, 
 
 Those noted heroes came 
 Upon their fame presuming. 
 
 A handsome cultured man 
 And witty too is Hector, 
 
 Achilles leads the van, 
 
 Will Fate declare him victor. 
 
 If so a beauteous prize 
 To him will sure be given 
 
 In Love's light comedies 
 Boldly and well has striven. 
 
 Upon her chair of state 
 
 Much lauded maiden sittest 
 Would patiently await 
 - "Survival of the wittiest." 
 
 Hector: 
 
 Hinc illae lacritnae. 
 
 O fare thee well, my pretty Nell, 
 And bear this fact in mmd, 
 
 Achilles then will call again 
 For sake of "Auld Lang Syne." 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Bye bye Miss Nell, bonnie belle, 
 
 The truth is very plain; 
 That is your prince, a little while since 
 
 Will surely come again. 
 
 (Exeunt Achilles and Hector.) 
 
 MY DARLING. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Per ambages. 
 
 Whilst Love and Love's delights supreme, 
 
 Or Love's enchantment is my theme 
 
 I praise a very charming woman 
 
 Fairest and best of genus human, 
 
 Observe that bevy of fair young girls 
 
 Who flit around in merry swirls, 
 
 Of different types, while varying graces 
 
 Illuminate their beaming faces; 
 
 Combine their beauties all in one 
 
 Fair Nelly is surpassed by none. 
 
 Her mental gifts are all transcendent. 
 
 In loveliness she shines resplendent. 
 
 As sweetly as the light sunbeam 
 
 Will Love's bright glances softly gleam 
 
 And many different airs assuming, 
 
 The countenance with love illuni'ng, 
 
 They revel in the bloomy blush 
 
 That mantles in a crimson flash; 
 
 They lurk in smiles, or dance in dimple, 
 Play hide and seek neath vale and wimple, 
 Thus joined in Love's sweet sympathy 
 Are hearts altsned to harmony 
 Just now a charmed "inamorata" 
 Would warble in Love'e light cantata. 
 Attempt with vocal minstrelsy. 
 To laud his fair divinity. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 And while propitious fate decreeing 
 That darling Nell, the beauteous being. 
 Shall be his very, very own. 
 Then storms of sorrow ovet blown 
 Shall Love e'er shower golden spangles 
 To baffle sulks and lover's wrangles; 
 They'll trip together by and by 
 Beneath Love's rosy tinted sky. 
 And so in figured allegory 
 I sing you Love's delightful story, 
 Adorn my song with similes 
 Obtained from Love's remembrances, 
 I carol of that charming posy 
 Fair Nelly graceful, gay and rosy. 
 
 LOVE AMID THE ROSES» 
 
 Achilles. 
 Sine qua no7i. 
 O yonder is a flower 
 
 The depths of my heart has stirred^ 
 Yon jasmine shaded bower 
 
 Conceals a warbling bird- 
 Fair flower, with charming power 
 Thy rapturous strains aie heard. 
 
 My love, I ask her pardon, 
 
 Is a lovely blooming rose, 
 Society I he garden 
 
 Wherein sweet flower grows, 
 Propriety her warden 
 
 A shielding influence throws. 
 Resplendent garden lily, 
 
 Both lily and rose in one, 
 Out blooming daffodilly 
 
 Like fair-faced cloistered nun; 
 In her enchanting villa 
 
 Close kept from the burning sun. 
 
lIECTOlv AND ACHILLES. 2^ 
 
 Far lovelier than the houri, 
 
 Consoling Moslem shade, 
 In Heaven all light and tljwery, 
 
 Fair, unassuming maid, 
 Wit, culture are thy dowry, 
 
 In Beauty's bright brigade. 
 
 Love lightens all our worry 
 
 And palliates the wrong, 
 In Love's entrancing flurry 
 
 I quaver all day l(;ng; 
 My heart sings liira lirra 
 
 In merry, jubilant song. 
 
 I cannot keep from singing 
 
 ThroUi^hout tlie livelong day. 
 Joy to my heart comes winging 
 
 From Beauty's sunny ray. 
 Light-hearted pleasure bringing 
 
 With smiles and glances gay. 
 
 ROSAMOND. 
 Achilles. 
 Blondine. 
 The fiirest lass that ever was, was Rosamond, a beauty. 
 
 And belle of great renown, 
 A winning girl, a gleaming pearl, shall be my pleasing duty 
 To rhyme her praises down. 
 
 Sweet Rosamon 1, the graceful Lljnde, was not with:)u t ad- 
 mirers 
 
 Who loved the winning maid- # 
 Her molest air, a jewel rare, and grace were love in spirers; 
 
 Blue eyes and golden braid. 
 
 A gay coquette, and fair brunette attracts men to attend her 
 
 The merry queen of llirts; 
 And plies her arts to win their hearts a-id cause them to sur- 
 render; 
 
30 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 With luring wi-Ies she hurls: 
 
 hew she tries with flashing eyes that dart such spsvkling 
 
 glances 
 
 Men's fancies to beguile. 
 
 The siren sings and then she stings, O how their hearts she 
 
 lances, 
 
 With Cleopatra's smile. 
 
 Dear Rosamond was not so fond of flattery extortion 
 
 Di?play or haughiy mien; 
 For culture, worth and joyous mirth combined in due pro- 
 portion, 
 
 Made her a s-ocial queen. 
 
 1 am so glad there was a lad as handsome as Apollo, 
 Or any of his clan. 
 
 A princely youth, to t?ll the truth the fair young girl to follow. 
 And win her if he can. 
 
 I trust he will, and prove his skill. They meet — 'tis a bonton 
 party 
 Where costly jewels gleam; 
 Behold ihem spruce, now introduce, their greetings are most 
 hearty. 
 Then presto "Love's young dream." 
 
 At parties, balls, in frequent calls, he seeks for every pleasure, 
 
 The fair one to amuse- 
 His wooing thrives, with walks and driv^es; they ramble 
 round ai leisure 
 
 In shady avenues. 
 
 He calls her love, dear turtJe dove, fond epithets bestowing, 
 
 On winning her intent. 
 Her calm blue eyes, like summmer skies, with Lpve's delights 
 are glowing. 
 
 She murmurs shy assent. 
 
 And then her king with golden ring encircles taper finger. 
 And gives a fond caress, 
 
HECTOR A^D ACHILLES. 31 
 
 So rare a grace upon his face where siniles delight to linger 
 That words cannnot express. 
 
 Then close to his breast he folds her to rest, the io?e and lil> 
 warring 
 Upon her dinipltd cheek. 
 Her pearly teeth shine in smiles divinely[^swcet, and love de- 
 claring 
 Her lovelit features speak. 
 
 When time shall have sped a couple will wed, delightful 
 consummation 
 On some convenient day, 
 Then many will come to her happ<y home to feast witl^ delecta. 
 tion 
 And wish them joy a' way. 
 
 SONG. 
 Achilles: 
 
 O my dainty, liltle darling, 
 
 Smiling sunshine, pearl of beauty, 
 
 Hearts in Love's light meshes snarling, 
 Loving thee is blissful duty. 
 
 Come to me, my own, my treasure. 
 
 Come and Ind me sweet good morrow. 
 
 For thy presence brings me pleasure. 
 And thy absence bringeih sorrow. 
 
 Thou ait all in all, my dearie, 
 I am happy with thee only. 
 
 And without thee, very dreary 
 Is the world, all dark and lonely. 
 
 We my love, shall never quarrel, 
 Will in fair or stormy weather 
 
 Singing love's delightful carol 
 Journey on in life together. 
 
32 flECrOR ASD ACHfLLES. 
 
 THE BACHELOR'S LAMENT. 
 
 Hector: 
 
 Motto — Coelebs quid again? 
 
 I came into a garden gay, 
 
 The flowers bloomed in bright array; 
 
 And I said to myself, I'll entwine me a bowe». 
 
 Adorning it with one sweet flower, 
 
 If I may be .thus blest, ah, me! 
 
 As to cull me a flower with Love's dear plea. 
 
 A flower, whom Heaven its graces lent. 
 Is Home's endearing ornament. 
 
 the present is fair, the future rosy, 
 When we obtain our blooming posy. 
 With her we heed not poverty 
 
 Nor winter's stormy minstrelsy, 
 
 1 know I deserve not one of them. 
 Each flower in its style a lovely gem. 
 And all in beauty nearly equal. 
 Which one will speed the happy sequel. 
 And which will its mates forsake, ah, me! 
 My own, my chosen flower to be? 
 
 I am charmed at last, the sequel shows. 
 My love lies hid in the heart of the rose. 
 In the rose's heart my love lies hidden — 
 But Love's caress I am forbidden. 
 My pretty rose has thorns, ah, me, 
 I may not caress her lovingly. 
 
 I have roamed the fairest flowers among. 
 By the world admired, by poets sung, 
 But, whether reckoned wise or silly, 
 2[ said, I will court the stately lily — 
 And ask her to be mine ; -ah, me, 
 The lilly tossed her head with glee. 
 
;hector and achilles. 
 
 The fleeting summer's gentle sigh, 
 Her graceful head may have turned awry ; 
 O, could I please the fair geranium 
 I would deem it honor to my cranium. 
 'Tis single blessedness, ah, me, 
 Or rather single misery. 
 O, tell me, gay and pretty pink — 
 Come tell me, sweetheart, what you think. 
 Why sir, kind sir, if you were a flower 
 You might persuade me to you bower ; 
 But being only a weed, ah, me, 
 I verily fear we cannot agree. 
 Coquetting lily, thorny rose, 
 My sweet, pert pink, and no one knows 
 Just what will prove to be the sequel, 
 But death the leveler makes us equal. 
 I am afraid the result will be 
 That not one flower will gladden me. 
 
 A DUET. 
 Achilles: 
 
 Tout lui, rit. 
 
 There's naught so dear, man's heart to gladden. 
 
 As Nell, sweet Nell, my darling maiden. 
 Hector : 
 
 I'tce vei^sa. 
 
 We sing in honor of Miss Nelly— 
 
 Of fairy prince and Cinderella. 
 Achilles : 
 
 She meekly does each filial duty, 
 
 And gladly too, the little beauty. 
 Hector : 
 
 She smiles on gentlemen so sweetly. 
 
 They loose their senses just completely. 
 
34 hector and achilles. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Angelic smiles and glances ever, 
 Each follow each with light endeavor. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Capricious smiles and glances tender. 
 To captivate the masculine gender. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 O life is earnest, love is real, 
 Fair Nelly is my beau ideal, 
 
 Hector : 
 
 O love is life in real earnest, 
 
 To love's delights, thou, comrade, turnest„ 
 
 Achilles: 
 
 Her brilliant mind is all the charm, 
 Fair face that rosy blushes warm. 
 
 And lovely, elear complexion 
 Adorn her person. I extol, 
 Her grand nobility of soul, 
 That shiwes in pure affection, 
 
 Hector': 
 
 With lisseme grace my lady goes. 
 And pirouettes and trips on toes — 
 As sprightly as a Ma'amselle 
 To flusterate earth's noble sons, 
 And trots in tiny number ones, 
 A delicate, nice damsel. 
 
 Achilles; 
 
 Dover la pilule. 
 
 Ah ! lovely Nell, thou tolled the knell,. 
 Of hope to one who wooed thee well- 
 He has my kindest wishes. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 35 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Et tu, Brute ! 
 Fair Nelly, tlie ('air.ty and exquisite pearl. 
 Has disconcerted me. 
 I will have to take up with a common, plain 
 
 girl 
 If 1 would wedded be. 
 
 (Lay of the last minstrel.) 
 
 Fata obstant. 
 Poor me, to sing an air, 
 O, would my Muse enable. 
 The beauties of the fair 
 Relate in song or fable; 
 Would beg the fair to share 
 My humble home and table. 
 
 She speaks so charmingly. 
 With prattle sentimental — 
 Yet talks so sensibly, 
 Maid beautiful and gentle; 
 So very gracefully, 
 And lightly lisps the dental. 
 
 In fashion's guise arrayed, 
 
 I sing, enchanting maiden. 
 
 To win the lovely maid 
 
 The heart of man would gladden; 
 
 Coquetry is her trade, 
 
 To gladden, then to sadden. 
 
PART^II. 
 
 WOMAN. 
 
PRELUDE. 
 Hector ; 
 
 Motto; Les doux yeiix. 
 As before, we sing the alarming 
 Wavsof woman, and the charming 
 Smiles upon their lovely faces, 
 All adorned by feminine graces, 
 Nature's own or artificial. 
 Rosy-cheeked with Love's initial, 
 "With a voice all bird-song ]a(len 
 Comes the arch and merry maiden ; 
 Round her home so softly tripping, 
 Gayly in the ball-room skipping ; 
 Bright with silks and satins shimmer, 
 Costly lace and jewels glimmer. 
 Who amid the waltz' gyrations 
 Carries on her grand flirtaliors, 
 While an anxious score of suitors. 
 Love's entrancing theme she tutors — 
 Pleasing all with sly surprises, 
 Quelling jealousy's surmises. 
 List the chime of love's apt phrases, 
 Wrought in ever-changing phises — 
 Regally her squadron drilling, 
 Now and then blithe carols trilling. 
 Love-songs rhythmically ringing, 
 Happiness and pleasure bringing 
 With her graceful, smiling presence 
 To admiring adolescents, 
 Who about the damsel sprightly 
 Dance attandance, trip so lightly 
 With her in tlie merry measure. 
 Cheerfully await her pleasure. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. S9 
 
 Xovely woman, fair and smiling, 
 Mirth-provoking, care bCj^uiling, 
 Dissipating melancholy — 
 'Causing man to be so jolly, 
 Brightening with the flash of humor. 
 Trifling chat and floating rumor, , 
 
 Raying sunshine all about her — 
 Gloomy earth would be without her. 
 Man forsooth would be an eremite — 
 Just a useless, senseless hermit; 
 Woman with her winning beauty 
 Keeps him in the path of duty. 
 He with supplications fervent 
 •Begs to be her humble servant. 
 
TO THE MEMORY OF A LITTLE CHILD; 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 **« Suffer little children to come unto me." 
 And thus the blessed scripture runs, 
 Glad promise to the stricken ones, 
 Whose little babe, Christ blest. 
 Has taken to the heavenly rest. 
 
 He sought her in earth's sinful wild, 
 And carried home the darling child. 
 The dear loved baby girl, 
 Sweet cherub, precious pearl. 
 
 No sin nor worldly strife 
 Could mar thy fair, sweet life ; 
 For Christ conveyed thee home, 
 Beyond the starry dome. 
 He chose the fairest of earth's flowers 
 To blossom in yon heavenly bowers. 
 Too beautiful for earth 
 With all thy guileless mirth. 
 
 Sweet babe and smiling innocence. 
 A loving Savior called thee thence, 
 In Heaven, made thee room, 
 All brightly there to bloom. 
 
 What though thy corpse lies in the molcPg. 
 Angelic beauties manifold 
 Thy spirit will adorn. 
 And Heaven's eternal morn 
 
 Will shower sweet and golden lights 
 Rare bud of promise, with delight, 
 Shalt join the beauteous band 
 lu that bright, radiant land, 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 43 
 
 To carol in celestial bowers, 
 
 And roam midst amaranthine flowers ; 
 
 There with glad minist'ring 
 
 To worship Heaven's Great King. 
 
 In blest pavilions, fair, afar, 
 Where saints and happy angels are 
 We trust the babe will be 
 Through long eternity. 
 
 JSTELLY. 
 Achilles ; 
 
 O'er fragrant shamrock's blooming sea 
 Light-footed maiden trips the lea. 
 So like the timid fleet gazelle 
 A floweret bright is daisy Nell. 
 
 There blooms in flower sprinkled mead 
 The unassuming, daisy weed. 
 In sweet simplicity so fair, 
 Unconscious of its beauty rare. 
 I ken a flower, all fair and sweet, 
 With every charm and grace complete. 
 There is no flower ean rival Nell, 
 In garden, grove, or shady dell. 
 And when sly Cupid's subtle wile 
 Brings forth ih' enchanting blush and smile^ 
 Transfiguring her face serene 
 She reigns my heart's acknowledged queen* 
 So light my dimpled darling comes 
 From out among the garden blooms. 
 No prettier flower, more perfect rose. 
 In all the world's great garden grows. 
 Hector : 
 
 Facit indignatio versus. 
 The pretiest flower is charming Nell 
 In all the flower-sprinkled dell ; 
 
4^ 
 
 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 Like bright moth singeing flame, anon, 
 Attracting many a simpleton. 
 
 For, as she glides in gay attire. 
 
 She sets the gentkmen's hearts a.ire ; 
 
 Upon such trifling chaps as those 
 
 Her soft and heaven-bright smiles bestows. 
 
 She trips benea'h cerulean dome. 
 Or in the precints of her iioaie, 
 The beauteous maiden, merrily, 
 An amiable divinity. 
 
 The social world, her bri.;hl abode, 
 lias all gentilities bestowed ; 
 Sagacious cosmopolitan 
 Still charming many a gentleman. 
 
 FAIR GENTLE MAIDEN. 
 
 Hector 
 
 Crux 7)1 ithem idcorurn. 
 Always parade, very beautiful miid, 
 Just like a fashion plate nicely arrayed; 
 Tossing thy golden tinged ringlets and cu»ls. 
 Ever the brightest and gayest of girls, 
 Clad in apparel right out of the sh'p, 
 Winning smiles from the sweet seemed fop. 
 Dear little fellow in rigging so trim 
 Fondly imagines she's caring for him. 
 Woman or girl, we have cause to suppose. 
 Flitting around with a m.rry heart goes. 
 Now and all since the creation began 
 Leads in her train the mild creature called man. 
 Oh, and alas! it is sad for the hims 
 Hustled about by their lady-love's whims. 
 Fair gentle being to a gloomy world came 
 Angel less wing*^, gets around all the same. 
 Frequently having two strings to her beau 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. iS 
 
 How can she captivate gentlemen so? 
 Problem that is mathematics should solve, 
 Why the brave satellites round her revolve. 
 More or the fewer around her they range 
 According as whirligig Fortune shall change. 
 How do the ladies acquire their great power 
 Gentlemen please or to charm the wild giaour. 
 Sweet, pretty lass, and alas! plain girls. 
 Bright with cosmetics, paint, powder and curls, 
 Supplement Nature's most delicate hue, 
 Sadlow and fading comple-xions renew. 
 Decked with gay ribbons as they know how 
 Brightly they shine in the grand pow wow,. 
 Mapping the world wherever is man, 
 There may be noticed the feminine clan. 
 Conference is cal'ed by obscured council fires, 
 Leaders they choose to manipulate the wires, 
 Formimg their plots and arranging their plans, 
 How they shall capture the poor "zhentlmans.'* 
 Harshly they treat him as cousin or beau. 
 Always they trot him about as you know. 
 Worry and torture, then reconcile him, 
 Wheedle, bamboozle him, portly or slim. 
 Rush him around and give him no rest. 
 Certainly ma'am that is all for the best. 
 
 BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN. . 
 
 ACHILLEi: 
 
 Motto — Beau Ideal, 
 
 Beautiful maiden in Youth's merry morn. 
 Charming us all with her sweet mild ways. 
 
 Loveliest features red roses adorn. 
 
 There the light sparkle of mirth ever plays. 
 
 Gay witli the rose tint of youth so warm 
 Versatile chat and a musical voice. 
 
a HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Light of her home and society's charm, 
 
 How will the hearts of admirers rejoice. 
 Dressed in the elegant robes of a queen 
 
 Statclily stepping a proud fair belle, 
 Mid the gay throng, or walking unseen. 
 
 Tripping as light as the timid gazelle. 
 Out of the luminous depths of her eyes, 
 
 Shines the pure essence of love and there 
 Coyly glimmer Love's mute replies 
 
 Questioning glances and Love's mild stare. 
 Man is thy worshiper beautiful girl, 
 
 Ev€n the print of thy dainty small shoe 
 Hallows the ground. Over ribbon and curl 
 
 Once that was thine, he will make great ado. 
 Delicate creature, and poor dear lamb, 
 
 Gambolling gayly o'er earth's grecH mead, 
 Dreading this hollow heart world as a sham, 
 
 Home and affection mayst thou never need. 
 Coldly the wind of adversity blows, 
 
 Chills the slight frame of this sensitive plant. 
 How she will prosper the great God knows, 
 
 Happily favored, may kind Heaven grant. 
 Blossoming bud splendent graces unfold, 
 
 "While she is nearing maturity's years, 
 Amiable qualiti-es shine pure gold. 
 
 Beauty in every motion appears. 
 
 Now she is learned in all vvomanly ways, 
 
 Trained and accomplished, she leaves the 
 home rest; 
 
 Finely appareled in Fashion's late phase. 
 Bright b-rd of Paradise splendidly dressed. 
 
 Radiant woman, or fair lovely girl, 
 
 Ruling her home with the light bonds of love. 
 
 Partly involved in society's whirl, 
 
 Ever her presence a blessing will prove. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 45 
 
 LOVE'S DELIGHTFUL GAME. 
 Hector: 
 
 Omnia vincit amor. 
 I sing of Love's delightful game. 
 Sly Cupid has to bear the blame, 
 
 The merry archer god. 
 Midst Love's enchanting mysteries, 
 O then our heart entangled is 
 At smiling Beauty's nod. 
 
 Down Pleasure's flowery path Love ran. 
 There capturing the wild young man, 
 
 He led him back so tame. 
 Ah, 'tis the jollity of life, 
 Love's lottery to win a wife, 
 
 And Love's delightful game. 
 
 Involved in Fashion's giddy whirl, 
 Love finds the gay society girl. 
 
 And Fashion's devotee. 
 When Cupid whispers to the belle, 
 Sweet blushss fly to her cheeks pell mell; 
 
 In crimson revelry. 
 
 And Cupid crafty and alert 
 Will trap the saucy little flirt 
 
 With Love's bewildering game. 
 He tames the beautiful coquette. 
 Accomplished girl and Fortune's pet, 
 ^ And kindles Love's bright flame. 
 
 Long distances Love takes his flight, 
 And flies o'er hill and mountain height. 
 
 Or dances down the dale. 
 Enamoured lover seeks his fate, 
 The old, old story to relate. 
 
 And Love's enchanting tale. 
 
46 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 They say that absence conquers Love, 
 Alas, the mesh is tighter wove, 
 
 By Love's mild stratagem. 
 "While far away the lover goes, 
 Though leagues or oceans interpose. 
 
 Love's bands encircle them. 
 
 Enrapturing Love's rhythmic chime, . 
 And all the pretty pantomine 
 
 Of hearts in unison. 
 Love seeks the maiden fair in thrall 
 A captive kept from lover's call, 
 
 By cruel guardian. 
 
 And Love breaks down each barrier. 
 And Cupid's silent messenger 
 
 On spirit wings will fly: 
 Anon the rosy gleams of hope 
 Will cause the maiden to elope, 
 
 Stern parent to defy. 
 
 The humble cot will Love invade 
 To whisper to the lowly maid, 
 
 Then seals her happy fate. 
 "With fine or superfine display 
 And courtly phrase Love wends his way 
 
 To mansions of the great, 
 
 And revels there in fine array, 
 
 In broadclochs, silks and satins gay, 
 
 The gently promenade. 
 Among the merry belles and beaux 
 Invisible Love lightly goes 
 
 To capture man or maid. 
 
 Most warily Love lays his plan 
 
 To trick the poor sad gentleman 
 
 With many a gewgaw sham. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 4T 
 
 Till Cupid by his witching art 
 Has' wiiitcn deeply in his heart 
 Seme fair one's monogram. 
 
 Thou, Love, most pleasant company. 
 Hast earned this fine apostrophe, 
 
 And also more beside. 
 Would give those Llesfiirgs of our lives 
 To gentlemen deserving wives, 
 
 Fair ladies will t rcjvide. 
 
 THE MENTAL QUALITIES OF WOMAN. 
 Bel esprit. 
 I laud the sentiments refined 
 Of lovely woman's brilliant mind, 
 
 And unol'trtisive wit ; 
 Whose coruscations baightly sparkling. 
 At intervals, now flashing, darkling, 
 • From Mind's light temple flit. 
 
 In thought's magnificence bedight 
 They thrill the soul with sweet delight 
 
 Ai d g >fden imagery. 
 So wjmrtr, while afar, discerning 
 The ihreaiening gloom to sunshine turning, 
 
 Br'ng- greii sagacity. 
 
 Perception's briglit ideas glint. 
 
 Of cnanging shade and delicate tint, 
 
 To d c rate ihtir themes. 
 Even >o i:;e wit of woman shining, 
 In coiivcvsatiiin still entwining, 
 
 With fnr reflected splendor gleams. 
 
 She will the challenge freely give 
 To chnthng aigumentative, 
 
 Oainis fan colloquial powers, 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Will queries ply, decis'ons render. 
 With charming tact and musing tender. 
 Creates life's sunny hours. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Bas bleu. 
 She does not use bold metaphors, 
 As do the lordly gentleman sirs, 
 
 Their learning to parade, 
 But still goes on with sprightly chatter, 
 Promiscuously her thoughts will scatter 
 
 The question to evade. 
 
 And just as sure as I'm alive 
 Will lovely woman still contrive 
 
 To have the latest word ; 
 Will shatter reputations bubble, 
 Or kindly pilot over trouble — 
 
 Sings lightly as the bird. 
 
 With merry quips will court applause, 
 Her first, best reason is Because — 
 
 In talk or argument. 
 If gentlemen are so presuming, 
 A patronizing mien ass,uming, 
 
 Will have good cause to repent. 
 
 And so shall woman have her say, 
 For woman still will have her way, 
 
 As long as the world turns round, 
 O, won't she git her way by coaxing, 
 She suxely will prevail by hoaxing 
 
 Will win, now, I'll be bound. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Beau tnonde. 
 A group of girls, say what you may, 
 Is just a beautiful bouquet, 
 In youth's bright, rosy bloom: 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Bright roses, dimples, coming, fleeting, 
 •Contrasting t^eauiies, strangely meeting, 
 We give tliem welcome room. 
 
 O, yon the showy pageant comes, 
 They gather from their happy homes — 
 
 Blest social influence. 
 A galaxy of gay young beauties. 
 Escaped for the nonce their round of duties, 
 
 So parley sentiments. 
 
 In smooth-toned speech their languaged thought, 
 With sparKling gayety is fraught. 
 
 And charming naivete. 
 The fairest, loveliest of creation. 
 They strive with gentle emulation, 
 
 Superlatively gay. 
 
 Their voices clear run up, run down, 
 Will earth's 1 md hurly-burly drown 
 
 In rhytlmiic cadence sweet. 
 So lightly, gayly and piano, 
 They trill along in sweet soprano, 
 
 With melody .eplete. 
 
 Hector: 
 
 Around the everlasting theme 
 
 The gems of wit and wisdi m gleam 
 
 And make continual whir. 
 Yes, woman transcends— as cur own inother. 
 As sweetheart, is belter than tbe other; 
 
 No one can equa' her. 
 
 Full well she will discriminate, 
 And woeful tronb'e can create, 
 
 Amo g the gentlemen. 
 Bewitchmg girl and fair enslaver, 
 Relucanilv bestows her favor. 
 
 And bafil.s once and again. 
 
50 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Woman is shrewd, yon may believe, 
 And trots poor man upon the qui vive — 
 
 Weuld seem, 'tis her cheerful toil n 
 To keep a fellow in suspension, 
 And over anxious kind attention, 
 
 She knows just how lo foil. 
 
 But first,- the mischief to begin, 
 
 She gently allures the young man in 
 
 Society's gay whirl. 
 Then courting her is pleasant labor, 
 For man can surely love his neighbor 
 
 If she is a pretty girl. 
 
 ASCHILLES : 
 
 When Beauty becks with jewelled hand. 
 Or lightly waves her myrile wand 
 
 While weaving to and fro; 
 Irradiate flashes and Circean, 
 The heart then chimes in a blithe, glad paean, 
 
 The brain is turned, I know. 
 
 When love's mirage we ne'er discern 
 The senses sorrowing return 
 
 Unto the cynic state, 
 My comrade here is good example. 
 Had test and observation. 
 
 As he did circulate. 
 
 MY LOVE. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Ma chere. 
 Attracted to a fairy's bower 
 I culled the very clioicest flower 
 
 That blows in fairy land ; 
 Kind F^ortune and the Fatts agreeing 
 That I might win the beauteous being, 
 With wooing phrases bland. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 The loveliest of earth's fair creatures, 
 Of faint rose tint and heavenlit features, 
 
 With footfall like the fawn j 
 There blooms the pink of maidenly faces, 
 Aglow with raidiant girlhood graces, 
 
 Like splendors of the dawn. 
 And there the smile and dimple dances, 
 To revel in the sunny glances, 
 
 That ripple merrily, 
 And gayly flash in mirthful sallies, 
 Awhile the bloomy flush there dallies. 
 
 And love's dear sympathy. 
 Love's crimson hues the face illuming, 
 Still come and. go, and still resuming. 
 
 Alternately they flit; 
 And while gay laughter's preludes glimmer 
 The sparks of misclucf faintly shimmer, 
 
 Then flash in gleams of wit. 
 O, there the love-light softly shining, 
 Love's roses round her face designing, 
 
 And Love's soft, tremulous glance, 
 Htr heari's afleciions, pure and tender, 
 Shine foilli in sweet and radiant splendor 
 
 Upon her countenance. 
 Among her curls the sunshine glinting, 
 liestows resplendent golden tinting, 
 
 Like nimbus-circled saint, 
 Should seem that candor, gleaming faintly, 
 Would shadow foilh a being saintly 
 
 Without sin's guUeful taint. 
 Her features fair as the rosy morning, 
 Willi mental graces rich adorning, 
 
 Resplendent. y appeal. 
 A lovely fay from land Elysian 
 Has come to earth, blest angel vision, 
 
 This gloomy vale to cheer* 
 
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52 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 ANGEL WOMAN. 
 Achilles: 
 
 Belle et bonne. 
 O, fairest of that Heaven loved race, 
 
 Inhabiting the earth, 
 
 Thy beauty and tliy worth 
 Seem suited to more heavenly place. 
 Than earth, our sin disfigvired sphere. 
 
 Where toil and trouble wear 
 
 And grief and anxious care; 
 Without thee there is naught to cheer. 
 Amidst the world's solicitudes, 
 
 And while despondence glowers. 
 
 To cheer life's gloomy hours — 
 Would sing enchanting interludes. 
 Thou, dear, attraction of the world, 
 
 All loveliness thou smiled 
 
 On earth so rude and wild, 
 And Peace's bright banner hast unfurled. 
 Thou prayed and mourned to the an^el Peace, 
 
 With hovering wings she came, 
 
 Allayed the battle's flame. 
 Her gentle beams caused war to cease. 
 Peace stilled the world's tumultuous jar 
 
 To list thy lenient plan. • 
 
 Thou charmed the heart of man, 
 And smooihed " the scowling front of war." 
 Hast softened war's asperities 
 
 While earth, defaced and gloomed, 
 
 Anon has brightly bloomed, 
 Beneath thy soothing ministries. 
 With fond and loving tenderness, 
 
 Where war's red rivers ran, 
 
 Thou calmed the dying man, 
 Alleviated death's distress. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 "With merry smiles would lightly go 
 This dreary world upon, 
 "When sorrow comes anon, 
 
 All sympathizing, sooths our woe. 
 
 53 
 
 TO AN UNKNOWN FROM HER PHOTO. 
 Hector : 
 
 Mutum est pictura poejna. 
 
 Fairy one, upon 
 
 Thy charming photo, 
 Amazed, I gazed — 
 
 Where shall I go to ? 
 
 O, where, my dear, 
 
 Shall ever I find ihee? 
 Love's art, my heart, 
 
 All round entwined thee. 
 
 Sweet i^earl of a girl 
 
 With cheeks all roses. 
 Hast fair lif^ht hair 
 
 And dearest of noses. 
 
 Delighting spright. 
 
 From fairest of missel — 
 O, breeze, if you please, 
 
 Waft me sweet kisses'. 
 
 To trace thy face 
 . Shall be blest duty — 
 Bring joy to this boy 
 Rare smiling beauty. 
 
 Away I stray 
 
 Upon my mission, 
 To seek bespeak 
 
 The radiant vision. 
 
S4 UECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Fair youth, good sooth, 
 With her as painted, 
 
 I would if I could. 
 Become acquainted. 
 
 Would woo and coo, 
 Full soon beginning, 
 
 If thou, just now. 
 
 Art worth the winning. 
 
 Excuse love's ruse 
 
 If not alaiming, 
 O pretty pet 
 
 And maiden charming. 
 
 Thou darling star 
 I would discover 
 
 Thy home, and come 
 To thee, gay lover. 
 
 LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. 
 Hector : 
 
 A tenebris annis. 
 O, once I courted a sweet sixteen, 
 Then boasted just a faint mustache. 
 I dreaded not the final crash, 
 For I was young and likewise green . 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 And verdant still remain I ween. 
 
 Hec. 
 
 I waited on the lovely miss. 
 
 Her charming company 
 
 Brought happiness to me, 
 With welcoming smiles and often a kiss. 
 
 ACH. 
 
 Not often, I trust, he attained to that bliss. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 55 
 
 eEC. 
 
 I took her to balls and parties gay 
 And to the theater, 
 Foreven I went with her, 
 While life seemed all a holiday. 
 
 ACH. 
 
 But all those pleasure have vanished away. 
 
 Hec. 
 
 My own susceptibility 
 
 Did prove the cause of my woe, 
 I courted too much you know, 
 Brought ori the i«ad catastrophe. 
 
 AcH. 
 
 And also imbecility. 
 
 Hec. 
 
 Just how it was I should not tell, 
 
 That trouble upon me frowned. 
 
 For the old man came around 
 Aud bade me rather a sudden farewell. 
 
 ACH. 
 
 Perhaps his foot he did propel. 
 
 Hec. 
 
 O, no, no, no, he wasn't so rash — 
 
 But she was his only child, 
 ^ That made him roar so wild, 
 Besides, you know, I hadn't the cash. 
 
 ACH. 
 
 You might have alluded to your mustache. 
 
 Hec. 
 
 So now I trip life's journey alone, 
 
 Romancing too is done, 
 
 Fair ladies I mostly shun, 
 Reminding me of that fierce cyclone. 
 ACH 
 
 By which my poor comrade was greviously blown. 
 
56 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 TROJAN WAR RENEWED. 
 
 DUET OR SOLOS. 
 
 *' Two heads are better than one." 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Two comrades chanting praise enduring, 
 Achilles : 
 
 Two mates, it seems, tell love's bright dreamSj, 
 Hec. 
 
 W^ould warble now of Love's alluring, 
 
 ACH. 
 
 Discussing all related themes. 
 Hector : 
 
 They sweetly sing duet or solo, 
 
 ACH. 
 
 They jingle rhymes to love's sweet chimes,. 
 Hec 
 
 Sing low or merrily, whoop and hollo, 
 
 ACH. 
 
 Undoubtedly tliey have good tinaes. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 At first they sing with soft preluding, 
 Arch. 
 
 Trill up or down with light roulade,. 
 Hec 
 
 The burden of the song concluding, 
 
 ACH. 
 
 Conclude to take a promenade. 
 Hector : 
 
 They boldly argue in the domus, 
 
 ACH. 
 
 Concerning Love's phenomena,. 
 
 Hec 
 
 Inspired by Cupid or by Momus,. 
 
 ACH, 
 
 And mythologic genera. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 5"^ 
 
 Hector : 
 
 And so they raise a great commotion, 
 
 ACH. 
 
 They roar in argumental strife, 
 Hec. 
 
 Deflected by each quirk or notion, 
 ACH. 
 
 *A11 as they journey on in life 
 Hector : 
 
 They scout around, they borrow trouble, 
 ACH. 
 
 They turn the world all upside down, 
 Hec 
 
 While seeking after Fame's bright bubble^ 
 ACH. 
 
 To bring them honor and renown. 
 Hector : 
 
 And nil about the world they travel, 
 ACH. 
 
 Transported in a train of thought, 
 
 Hec. 
 
 Love's mysteries they would unravel, 
 
 ACH. 
 
 With Love's enchantments richly fraught. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Thty whir, they whiz, upon their journeys, 
 
 ACH. 
 
 B)rgaseous vaporing propeled, 
 
 Hec 
 
 They bandy words like skilled attorneys, 
 
 AcH. 
 
 From flaming thought linked phrases weld. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 They skirmish in sarcastic battle, 
 
 ACH, 
 
 Retorts they fling and satire sling. 
 
5s hector and achilles. 
 
 Hec. 
 
 And wooing love-song sofily prattle, 
 AcH. 
 
 Midst mizy themes meandering. 
 
 WOMAN. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Fama setnper vivat. 
 Congenial mate, angelic spirit, 
 
 A fair consoler, woman cime ; 
 Came to a world of gloom and silence, 
 
 There kindled Love's attracting flame. 
 O, lovely woman, gentle woman, 
 
 In treilised domicile emboweied, 
 Bright star, afar, thy beams are shining, 
 
 With Peace and Love the world hast dowered, 
 Resplendent in her quaint designing 
 
 She improvised bright pearls of thought — 
 Has woven them in flower-garlands 
 
 With wisdom and with beauty fraught. 
 With elegant, acute perceptions 
 
 And fine discriminating sense. 
 She, silently her thoughts arranging, 
 
 Will startle the world with eloquence. 
 Her speech abounds with ornate phrases, 
 
 Apt tropes and glowing figures fine. 
 Is gemmed with beautiful allusions, 
 
 Whose blended beauties sofily shine. 
 In kind, refined and pleasing language 
 
 Will woman's voiced opinions fall, 
 Are spoken with a charming manner 
 
 And conscious grace spreads over all. 
 She throws a gauzy veil, translucent, 
 
 Beneath there gleam rare elegancies, 
 While part concealing, part disclosing 
 
 The texture of fine-spun theories. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Construing Thought's most substile essence, 
 
 Arrayed in glossy garniture 
 Of delicate and bright expressions, 
 
 Like soft, enchanting, clare obscure. 
 
 Sweet sentiments, like thrilling music. 
 
 They startle from our reverie, 
 Are floating in the realms of silence, 
 
 Like vvildwood warbler's minslrelsy. 
 
 Fair woman wrought the delicate phrases 
 Of charming poetry and prose. 
 
 While over eloquent compositions 
 
 A soft and luminous splendor throws. 
 
 In all intelligence man's equal 
 Has wjman on occasions proved, 
 
 According to her education 
 
 The pertinacious world has moved. 
 
 Abundant proof of woman's wisdom 
 Her written sentiments endure. 
 
 Composed in many a charming poem 
 And varied works of literature. 
 
 Man storms and fumes like angry tempest. 
 Attempts to rule but often fails. 
 
 While woman wins by gentler methods, 
 By persevering will prevails. 
 
 She wins the world l)y mild persu.\sion, 
 Then ruling with persistent will, 
 
 Her gentle inlluence occasions 
 
 The busy world's chief pleasures still. 
 
 She rules the gaudy world of fashion, 
 
 A rainbow-colored butterfly, 
 While politicians court her favor, 
 
 Nor woman's opinions dare defy. 
 
 And woman, wise, with nice decerning, 
 Can read aright the future's signs. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 While far adown the faint perspective 
 She kens her life's converging lines. 
 
 When first svi^eet womanhood is dawning, 
 If then the brain is rightly trained, 
 
 The mind reveals soft, seintallint graces 
 That flash from stores of learning gained. 
 
 Their lucent rays, afar illumine 
 The corners of the world remote, 
 
 Impalpably bright thoughts diffusing, 
 That "gleams of sunshine" softly float. 
 
 WOMAN'S MIS.SION. 
 
 Hector: 
 
 Le monde est le livre desfemmes. 
 
 In her best bib and tucker fair woman arrayed, 
 
 With her ribbons a flying, she is all the while trying 
 Poor man for to capture with smiles of s^weet rapture. 
 Bright creature and ribbons will gayly parade. 
 
 Resplendent wiih jewels, the lady comes near, 
 
 Bright ringlets a streaming and gewgaws a gleaming. 
 With scintillant glitter and elegant titter, 
 With giggle and glitter will beau'y appear. 
 
 In her splendid attire comes the pattern of girls. 
 
 With plaits, frills, and flounces, round the wide world 
 she bounces, 
 And with beautiful frizzes, in the ballroom she whiz- 
 zes, 
 O, she flounces in flounces and whizzes in curls. 
 
 To her blooming companions disburdens her mind, 
 
 With her chatter so chipper, (hen proves a spry tripper, 
 But she steps all the brisker when she notes the 
 trim whisker 
 Of the elegant youth of the gentleman kind. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. «jl 
 
 Of gentlemen folks she is not much in awe, 
 
 Being both judge and juror, she creates quite a furor. 
 By dissembling she can set them a trembling 
 To Love's meiry trill or with Jealousy, Pshaw, 
 
 What a bustle she brings to this sublunary sphere'. 
 
 As she trots in the fashion will embolden the passion, 
 Of Love keeps a blazing with coquetries amazing, 
 With her jolly or piquant flirtations; oh, Dear. 
 
 As she sails on her cruise to instruct and amuse, 
 So beautiful, wiihal sentimental. 
 
 With continuous prattle, all the gossip will tattle; 
 She will tell you the news to discourage the blues. 
 
 And she glides like a goddes with her long, sweeping 
 trails. 
 Trips with ribbons a flying, and her bright glances 
 shying, 
 Glosy ringlets a streaming, and with smiles ever 
 beaming. 
 Then we w'sh her bon voyage, dear girl, as she sails. 
 
 What a grand consolation she is, dear sir, 
 
 With her kindly caresses the great world she blesses. 
 Were it not then for woman, there wouldn't be a 
 human. 
 To that postulate, man, now you dare not demur. 
 
 A LOVELY FLOWER. 
 Couleur de rose. 
 Hector : 
 
 In Earth's lovely garden, my darling, my own. 
 
 Where beautiful flowers are blooming, 
 The light of thy countenance on me has shoiac. 
 That roses of youth are illuming. 
 
 The prettiest flower in the garden, my dear. 
 Thy own charming self, modest flover, ^ 
 
.HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 The loveliest, sweetest, that mortal can cheer. 
 When clouds of misfortune shall lower. 
 
 The blest recollections of youth's happy days 
 No pleasanter mem'ries are bringing, 
 
 Than a beautiful face flecked wilh smile's sunny 
 rays, 
 Into ripples of laughter, aye ringing. 
 
 There's no one can soothe life's sorrows, dear 
 heart, 
 Like the loved one, the heart's dearest treas- 
 ure. 
 There's naught so bright gladness can ever im- 
 part, 
 In the flower-spangled pathways of pleasure. 
 
 SOME ONE'S DEARIE, 
 Achilles: 
 
 Snarm cuique. 
 Comes the sprightly little maiden 
 Gay with beauties overladen, 
 Surely you are some one's dearie, 
 All your songs are light and cheery. 
 
 Favors winning, love compelling, 
 Lovely spirit in clay dwelling, 
 Fair the dwelling, bright the spirit, 
 Grace and beauty should inherit. 
 
 Maiden in your cool, bright bower. 
 Art the most attractive flower. 
 Both an ornament and blessings 
 Skilled in love and love's finessing. 
 
 Thee, fond suitors come a wooing, 
 Haply to their own undoing; 
 Thrilled by soft coquettish glances 
 Victims are of circumstances. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 SOME ONE'S DARLING. 
 
 Lauda la moglie e tienii donmilo. 
 
 some one's darling dearie, O, 
 So charming, gay and eerie, O, 
 
 Ami that some one, darling come, 
 We'll brave the gossips cheerly, O. 
 
 The one who thus digresses, O, 
 Would pay thee his distresses, O, 
 
 Bestow, fair girl, a glossy curl 
 And pardon Love's addresses, O* 
 
 Come, be my little lady, O, 
 And do not be afraid ; no, no ! 
 
 We'll trip this life, come be my wife. 
 But never be old maid, heigh ho ! 
 
 Thou fair desideratum, O, 
 
 1 wait thy ultimatum, O, 
 
 'Tis my employ to sing for joy, 
 Should I receive the datum, O. 
 
 O, Love's brave generalissimo, 
 So chatty, gay and lissome, O, 
 
 Her pink tinged cheeks, the lovelight freak^ 
 Would be nice treat to kiss 'em, O. 
 
 With me you might be happy, O, 
 As erst with your kind pappy, O, 
 
 I'll love you young, as has been sung, 
 And when you're old and cappy, O. 
 
 Begrone, dull care, and sorrow, O, 
 To mirth we bid good morrow, O, 
 
 Midst love's fond strife, this life, good wife 
 We'll live, nor trouble borrow, O. 
 
 List, charming, dainty maiden, O, 
 With beauty overladen, O, 
 
 We'll find bright isle where life's short while 
 No ships shall come a trading, O • < 
 
 With comforts few or sundry, O, 
 Will have no fears of Grundy, O, 
 
 Till Death shall come with visage glum 
 "Sic transit gloria mundi," O. 
 
04 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 THE UNION. 
 
 Warble, O Muse, in a sprightlier rhyme, 
 Merrily, merrily carol the lays, 
 Cheerily sing of our forefalher^s days, 
 Memories dear of that perilous time. 
 
 We sing of thee our country, happy, fair and free. 
 And when perpetual peace shall reign, 
 Oh ! then we'll chant the grand refrain, 
 Hushed is the roar of battle, over land and sea. 
 
 Hail to thee. Liberty, loveliest one, 
 
 Goddess thou dwelt midst the pinnacled Alps, 
 Lifting up heavenward, venerable scalps. 
 Silvered with snows of the centuries gone. 
 
 Beyond Atlantic's wave, then kindled Freedom's 
 hres, 
 Thou left the mountain haunts of Tell, 
 For that far land thou loved so well. 
 To strive for liberty's bright joys impelled our 
 sires. 
 
 Gay, with her beauteous banner unfurled. 
 Fairest America sparkles a gem. 
 Beautiful, beautiful ocean shall hem 
 Shores of the happiest realm in the world. 
 
 Yea, prosperous and blest then shall her peo- 
 ple be. 
 O'er mountain, vale and prairie plain. 
 Shall echo far the g*lad refrain. 
 Hushed is the roar of battle over land and sea. 
 
PART III. 
 
 MAN. 
 
6G HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 PRELUDE. 
 
 Achilles: 
 
 Alise en scene. 
 Lord of our planetary sphere 
 Man has but brief existence here. 
 A few score years is Life's short day. 
 And then he moulders into clay; 
 To lifeless clay from whence he came 
 With fine and well-proportioned frame^ 
 Of bones and muscles, sinews, nerves, 
 And body formed for graceful curves 
 Of motion in each changing move, 
 And which a wise creation prove. 
 The graces of man's brilliant mind 
 Exalt him to the angelkind, 
 Immortal mind with which he soars 
 And Nature's mystijries explores. 
 By powers of body or of mind, 
 Perhaps by aid of boih combined. 
 He manages by years of time 
 On Fame's high pinnacle to climbs 
 With stubborn and resistless will 
 He struggles up fair Science's hilL 
 Or tossed about by Fortune's gale^ 
 He strolls in Poesy's green vale, 
 Or flowery fields of Literature 
 Which ever way the Muses lure, 
 Hector : 
 
 Quantum viutaiu ab ilia. 
 With moustacheor imperial. 
 All neatly waxed, Man courts his gal. 
 With lovely Burnsides or goatee, 
 But like a rover of the sea, 
 Full bearded, never known to shave. 
 Man labors like the galley slave. 
 Supports a fashionable wife 
 And drudges on through weary life. 
 Man toils m field or busy shop 
 That Avife may shine at fancy hop. 
 And trot in Fasl i >n's gaudy stream 
 That throngs gay hall-; with jewels gleam. 
 Man tills the s( il, or delves the mine 
 In politics his talents shine, 
 And with extempore harangue 
 He dtfily mingles sense and slang, 
 And lingers round the gay saloon 
 Then homeward plods by the light of the moon. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 67 
 
 THEME— LOVELY MAN. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Delce far niente^ 
 O luxury of leisure, 
 
 With light and happy song, 
 The primrose paths of pleasure 
 
 "We gayly stroll along 
 
 O happy doing nothing, 
 
 Luxuric us idleness, 
 There's many a jolly dandy 
 
 His lucky stars may bless. 
 
 Within a world of beauty 
 We jonniey as we please, 
 
 No care or humdrum duty 
 T© worry from our ease» 
 
 To carol, flirt and tattle, 
 
 W'ith beauteous damsel, 
 Soft speeches there to prattle 
 Where merry maidens dwell. 
 
 With birds their matins singing 
 To stray at early dawn, 
 
 Melodious echoes ringing 
 O'er dewy lea and lawn. 
 
 To loll in trellised bower, 
 
 Where ?un can never shine. 
 At noontide's sultry hour 
 Beneath yon mantling vine; 
 
 Or in the dell reposing 
 
 Beneath a bowery tree, 
 
 The languid senses dozing 
 
 In dreams and reverie. 
 
 In fairy land of pleasure; 
 
 Then should ennui oppress. 
 Trip light fantastic measure 
 
 And sing with sweeter stress. 
 
 For joy will vanquish sorrow. 
 And song will care beguile. 
 
 While rare delight you borrow 
 From Beauty's rosy smile. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 MAN. 
 Hector : 
 
 Genus irritabih vatum, 
 
 man, why wast thou given to woman, 
 Posterity, prosperity — 
 
 Perpetuate the species human, 
 
 And with the same fair company. 
 And thou deluded Patriarch, 
 Why didst to Eve's persuation hark, 
 Or wer't thou longing for a lark. 
 
 Now all thy sons, black, white or dapple. 
 Are doomed to wear ihe Adam's apple. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 There wags the brazen tongue anon, 
 Of sly fantastic fanfaron, 
 
 Who never has been given to woman, 
 
 1 truly wish that one spare rib 
 
 Would bless my comrade, speaks so glib. 
 That marvel of a mateless human. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 I think that Adam did his duty 
 
 While tending flowers in Eden's bowers, 
 Till coaxed away by smiling Beauty, 
 
 He yielded to persuasion's powers. 
 His sons still list the siren song 
 Of Beauty in the giddy throng. 
 And Pleasure's gleaming paths along 
 
 She tempts the rosy wine to tipple, 
 
 Though ruin glints beneath the ripple. 
 
 The beauteous maid attracts the lover, 
 There" many a wile lurks in the smile 
 
 That on her countenance doth hover; 
 Poor man, to spark plods weary smile. 
 
 Alas, alas, with strengthening chain. 
 
 She fascinates the rural swain. 
 
 Who sighs in Love's delicious pain ; 
 That charming being's smiling presence 
 Will make a fairyland of pleasance. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Now, most assuredly, the trouble 
 With Eve began, no wiser than, 
 
 She was to discompose hec double, 
 Undoubtedly a gentleman. 
 
 Who couldn't refuse his wife's request, 
 
 Although he knew it was not best 
 
 To disobey the high behest, 
 
 Which proved that he was loth to leave her 
 The only dupe of the Arch deceiver. 
 
 Were our first parents happy ever, 
 And roamed at will in Eden still, 
 
 Till they by disobedience sever 
 
 'B'hemselves from Eden — doomed to till 
 
 The weedy soil, both early and late ; 
 
 And happy was their first estate. 
 
 In Eden blest, until they ate. 
 
 From tree of knowledge, of good and evil, 
 _, Persuaded by the crafty devil. 
 
 From Eden barred mkn flies the missile 
 
 To slay the deer in covert near. 
 Eradicates the thorn a'-id thistle 
 
 That fruits and grain may flourish there. 
 And man compelled to labor now, 
 Along the furrow guides the plow, 
 And earns his bread by sweat of brow, 
 
 While at his toil he whistles cheerily 
 
 Or sings of the girl he lores so dearly. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Attempting to elucidate 
 
 That very ancient problem great, 
 
 And learnedly discuss this question, 
 Why nothing could surprise me so. 
 That one so much gibberish should know, 
 
 Now, sciei'ice is my next suggestion. 
 So let him when by marriage double 
 Be vexed by matrimonial trouble. 
 
 A DISSERTATION UPON PRIMEVAL MAN. 
 
 Motto — Beaiae immemoriae. 
 Hector ; 
 
 Rertim primordia. 
 
 A hundred centuries ago, 
 If I shall be allowed to tell. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 To chase the- deer and twang the bow — 
 vSir Darwin's ancestors did dwell 
 
 Within this little world of ours. 
 
 The earth was younger then and newer, 
 
 They roamed unconscious midst the flowers; 
 Of their magnificense be sure. 
 
 Then man was very like the ape, 
 
 From whom he had no doubt descended, 
 Of shambling gait and clumsy shape, 
 
 With characteristics stranj^ely blended. 
 Wherever he his game espied, 
 
 Persued through gloomy canon narrow, 
 Ran up the rugged mountain side, 
 
 With sinewy arm propelled the arrow. 
 
 The primitive man in limited garb 
 
 Through wilderness then used to go. 
 Awhile he shaped his arrow's barb 
 
 Then bent the tough elastic bow, 
 Perchance to shoot the cavern bear, 
 
 And kill gigantic mammoth woolly. 
 Or rout the reindeer from his lair. 
 
 And understood his calling fully. 
 
 If game was scarce on herbs indeed. 
 
 And roots or bark and browse could feast, 
 No doubt like Nebuchanezzar feed, 
 
 On grass, as any other beast. 
 We find his foot-prints carved in stone, 
 
 Once plastic clay, so say our teachers, 
 And human bones and weapons strewn 
 
 Along with bones of fossil creatures. 
 
 That lived in immemorial times. 
 
 Remote and prehistoric age, 
 When earth was turned to different climes, 
 
 No date of change is on history's page. 
 What caused the extremes of heat and cold ? 
 
 When were the great climatic changes? 
 Far North the tropic creatures strolled, 
 
 jbar South the Arctic reindeer ranges. 
 
 My statements may not believed, 
 
 Geology will bear me out, 
 That men in those past ages lived, 
 
 We find their relics all about. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 7L 
 
 With fossil bones their primitive tools 
 
 Are found in deep alluvial strata, 
 When formed unknovn to the wise or fools, 
 
 Unfortunately we have no data. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 Observe the wise, sublime philosopher 
 
 And hear his learned and wonderful dis- 
 course,. 
 From his derived conclusions I demur, 
 
 Till further n )tice, considering the source. 
 I judge he is, in fact could guess right well, 
 
 Descended from the ''Lias'" strata — 
 By accident of birth in big hotel 
 
 He might have been a "cuUud waitah." 
 
 Far f imed geolog'st then stir your stumps, 
 Until you prove what you would represent, 
 
 Go turn phrenologist, examine humps ; 
 
 With those bright faculties which nature lent 
 
 Keep muzzled, let no bright ideas escape. 
 In science he has learned to dabble, 
 
 Inherited, perhaps from chattering ape, 
 
 The grand magniloquent gift of gabble. 
 
 Consider what the deluge may have done. 
 
 Earth may have changed her own porlarity ; 
 In devious ways the ocean's currents run, 
 
 And probably were borne alar at sea 
 The animals, that once inhabited 
 
 Our earth, while some on shore were stranded. 
 Yet some repose on Ocean's fathomless bed, 
 
 Some deep as time and tide demanded, 
 
 Were buried in th' alluvial soil, 
 
 Utensils, weapons, animals and man ; 
 But then it is a vain and needless toil. 
 
 For truth sublime, the sciences to scan. 
 For science yields no glimmering of light. 
 
 Unless it were indeed a libel, 
 That every moral purpose puts to flight, 
 
 I am inclined to trust the Bible. 
 
 I verily believe that some learned man 
 Will science and the Bible reconcile. 
 
 The proofs produced just praise he shall have 
 earned, 
 Then so-called science can no more revile 
 
•72 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Sweel Bible truth. The mysteries to solve 
 Some buried city's hieroglyphic 
 
 May help, or some chance cause will trutib 
 evolve, 
 But now dismiss the theme prolific. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Diveriissement. 
 
 "Well, 1 never ! hear him preach, 
 
 O, so clever, howsoever, 
 Raillery begins his speech, 
 
 Ending very like a fizzle. 
 Try again, cosmogonist. 
 
 Superstition and admission, 
 Arguments involved in mist. 
 
 Or dismiss your theme and mizzle. 
 
 Minds me of gay banners flung 
 
 During holiday, so jolly. 
 Speeches made and earols sung, 
 
 Great parade and fuss and powder; 
 Walking o'er the grassy lea, 
 
 Soon the bumble-bee doth rumble, 
 The wicked bee will stop our glee. 
 
 But we sing so much the louder. 
 
 Well, admit 'tis a theme for thought^ 
 
 And a question for digestion. 
 Science really proving naught. 
 
 True remains were found in strata. 
 How and when may not be known, 
 
 (A mystery man's faith to try). 
 From each fossil life may have gone. 
 
 We have not sufficient data. 
 
 THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD 
 
 Achilles ; 
 
 Magnum opus. 
 
 The OmRiscient Creator said. Let there be light I 
 At his word a new planet developed from night ; 
 
 Then the universe rang. 
 
 For the morning stars sang 
 A glad anthem of ptaise, so supremely sublime. 
 In the dawn of creation, the morning of tim.e. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 73 
 
 Through the ages then forming our fair surface 
 
 world, 
 Round the tenantless shores were the ocean waves 
 curled, 
 Down the cycles, then range, 
 With a gradual change, 
 "While the translucent gems, with the coal in the 
 
 mine. 
 Were then formed for our use by the Author Divine» 
 
 But as God had decreed our abode it should be, 
 Then the earth oft submerged brightly rose from the 
 sea, 
 
 And fulfilling his plan 
 
 For the pleasure of man, 
 He aiorned it with flowers and scenery grand, 
 All in order arranged and mo^t lovmgly planned. 
 
 What a wonderful world the Creator has made. 
 With its changeable tintmgs of sunlight and shade, 
 
 And the bright, heatnin_ ray 
 
 Of the sweet, gladsome day. 
 Or ths stars glancnig down, as have angels eyes- 
 
 bright. 
 From the beautiful realms of ethereal light. 
 
 Ever since our proud sphere was from chaos evolved^ 
 And at last when the elements all are dissolved, 
 In a moment of time, to tuat rapturous climt-, 
 Shall the godly be wafted; while sinners are borne 
 To the torturing regions where lo-t spirits mourn. 
 
 Glide along in thy grandeur, O beautiful world, 
 Just as wh-n by the power of Omnipotence hurled 
 
 Into limitless space, 
 
 On thy annual race, 
 Far around thy vast system's great center of light. 
 Midst the glistening oriis thai illumine the night. 
 
 And revolve on thy axi<, thou swift gliding sphere. 
 Give to all thy inhabitants -unshine and cheer ; 
 
 Be ihe bright fv "ing star, 
 
 To tlie plane s, afar. 
 Or the pale star of iawn, to the far distajit worlds^ 
 As their crimson Au ora shall scat er dew-pearls. 
 
 And thou happily join in the spheres' wondrous song^ 
 Journey on in ihv orbit the fair worlds among, 
 
 That so tranquilly shine 
 
 On thy blue, rolling brine. 
 
HECrOK AND ACHILLES. 
 
 While uncouth monsters revel in dark ocean caves. 
 Far below thy blue billows and storm-shaken waves- 
 Splendent mountains of ice glitter far in the North, 
 While the southerly breezes soft blowing pour forth 
 
 Their delicious perfumes, 
 
 From the tropical blooms ; 
 To the farthest extremes, are the products conveyed, 
 With the white sails of commerce in beauty displayed. 
 
 From the universe, down to the atoms &f space, 
 Distant orbs that revolve, or the molecules we trace, 
 
 And the bri>^ht suns aglow, 
 
 All iheir origin owe 
 To the Being Supreme, their Onnipotent cause. 
 And are governed by Nature's immutable laws. 
 
 GOD. 
 
 Detis magno est. 
 
 God made the world and all therein, 
 The mountains, vales and billowy sea, 
 The vatious inhabitants 
 That live in water, air, on land. 
 He (ramed it and on nothing poised, 
 And sent careering through far space, 
 To whirl in orbit round the sun, 
 The great ecliptic once a year. 
 Bright day comes after gloomy night; 
 Bland summer follows winter stilly 
 And ever has, since time began, 
 And shall till time shall be no more. 
 God rules with wise, mysterious laws 
 The wide extended universe. 
 Of which our sphere, so small a part. 
 Is like an atom to a hill. 
 He formed the monstrous, blading suns 
 That glimmer from the depth of space, 
 And their attendant planets too, 
 With asteriods and satellites. 
 The flaming ccmiets flying bar. 
 Through vast immensity of space. 
 And God made man tl'.e lord of earth. 
 And ia the likeness of his God 
 Was man created ; so to live. 
 An honor to himself and God. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 75 
 
 But man is fallen and debased, 
 Low fallen from his higli estate. 
 Has God in words of holy writ 
 Revealed to man His will divine, 
 By miracles and prophecies. 
 By speech to man in ancient days, 
 Declared himself to be I Am, 
 The Great, Eternal, Living God, 
 And Ruler of the Universe. 
 Creation's works declare His power. 
 Reveal the Atchitect's -design 
 And wondrous workmanship divine. 
 He reared the mountains and the hills. 
 To tower above surrounding plains. 
 He formed the rivers and the rills, 
 To glide midst valleys and ravines, 
 In rippJing streams or bright cascades. 
 Formed Nature's sweet diversities 
 Of fair, enchanting scenery, 
 To beauiiiy the external world. 
 "Consider lilies of the field, 
 They toil not, neither do they spin. 
 And yet the great, learned Solomon 
 Was not arrayed like one of these." 
 
 GOD'S VOICES. 
 
 Vocfs Dei. 
 
 Gods speaks in the deep rolling thunder. 
 Or whispers with still, small voice. 
 And pouring the mild, vernal showers, 
 The valleys and hills rejoice. 
 Continual process of Nature 
 God's presence does clenrly define. 
 The plant and the fair living creature 
 Reveal the Supreme design. 
 His power is shown in the lightning 
 As it leaps through the vaulted sky. 
 He warns in the terrible cyclone 
 With ever inspiring cry. 
 He murmurs along in the zephyrs 
 Of fair summer lands overpassed ; 
 Then uptears the proud forest monarchs 
 As He rides on the wings of the blast. 
 
76 HECTOR AND ACHILLES, 
 
 In the earthqnake and fiery volcano 
 
 He speaks with a sorroM^ful moan 
 Of death and ruined cities 
 
 Devoured or with lava o'erstrewn. 
 God speaks in the solemn sweet silence 
 
 Of the starry and beautiful night 
 As the mind in deep contemplation 
 
 Is lost in its heavenly flight. 
 There are mysteries never unfolded 
 
 Nor can we the problems solve 
 How the sun the far worlds illumines, 
 
 Why the planets around him revolve. 
 Infinity of duration! 
 
 The limitless realms of space, 
 With numberless orbs revolving 
 
 Round suns that we dimly trace. 
 God speaks with an infinite sweetness 
 
 In the song of the bird and the rill, 
 The beautiful poems of Nature 
 
 Are written on dale and hill. 
 He smiles in the clear golden sunshine 
 
 Or weeps in the life giving showers — 
 As the dry parching earth is moaning, 
 
 And wither the sweet, fair flowers. 
 He shines in the beautiful rainbow. 
 
 Where colors delightfully blend, 
 And to every work of creation 
 
 Doth Almighty wisdom extend. 
 In form, and rich grace, and rare beauty j^ 
 
 He speaks to the murmuring soul. 
 Nature's scenes aptly blending together 
 
 As parts completing the whole. 
 He speaks with tenderest pathos, 
 
 Of a world given ov^er to sin, 
 While away from the dim vales of sorrow 
 
 Fair Nature is trying to win. 
 God tells in Divine Revelation, 
 
 Of a Heaven so bright after death, 
 'Tis the happy abode of the Christian 
 
 That he may obtain by faith. 
 Though we gaze with a rapt admiration^ 
 
 At the wonderful Universe, 
 We must turn to our Maker repenting 
 
 To escnpe from sin's dread curse. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 71 
 
 MAN. 
 Hector. 
 
 Animal ijnplume bipes 
 
 O, rude, uncultured, then was man 
 When first humanity began 
 
 Their earthly pilgrimage. 
 With simple weapon banged each other 
 Nor could they wicked passions smother, 
 
 But warred with deadly rage. 
 
 With sling or swift unerring bow. 
 The primal man did kill his foe 
 
 Wlienever it behooved. 
 But through successive generations 
 And with the rise and fall of nations 
 
 Has warfaie much improved. 
 
 Destructive implements of war 
 
 Has science formed to maim and mar 
 
 The human frame divine. 
 Genteel and Christian ways of killing ; 
 Huge gaps the cannon calls are drilling, 
 
 Athwart the battle line 
 
 And shot and shell midst flame intense 
 Annihilate whole regiments 
 
 Where sulphury vapor rolls. 
 There valiant troops to death have striven, 
 Their spirits blest or unforgiven 
 
 Flit to the land of souls. 
 
 With primitive tools man tilled the soil, 
 The women had to cook and broil 
 
 With cheap utensils too. 
 With those they had to toil and tussle 
 Keep ever in a busy bustle 
 
 At what they had to do. 
 
 But now machines will do the work. 
 And maa oan often labor shirk 
 
 To have a leisure day. 
 And like the gayly blooming flowers. 
 Or butterflies in shining hours. 
 
 See Beauty's bright array. 
 
 In boats men paddled round their coasts, 
 Now sail and steam; old Ocean boasts 
 A thousand argories. 
 
78 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 They sail in calm or stormy weather 
 That people may enjoy together 
 The luxuries of ease. 
 
 What every whim of trade demands 
 Those products bring from foreign lands, 
 
 Strange lands beyond the sea. 
 They lightly sail across the brmy 
 To trade with India or China, 
 
 And there they all take tea. 
 
 With desert crossing caravan 
 
 They trade buy trinkets from Japan, 
 
 Rich silks from Indian looms. 
 With pesrls and gems across the ocean. 
 To bring us many a longed for notion 
 
 The old ship cheerily booms. 
 
 At first our man his burden bears 
 Along the ancient thoroughfares, 
 
 And then employs the horse . 
 While over sandy tracks and gravel 
 The patient camel has to travel 
 
 For trade, the great resource. 
 
 But now the cars will carry freight 
 From Boston to the Golden Gate, 
 
 O'er mountains steep ascent. 
 Impelled by power of steamy vapor 
 The iron steeds do wildly caper 
 
 Across the continent. 
 
 From inland towns, from shore to shore. 
 By slower transit heretofore 
 
 With stage or wagon's aid, 
 O'er Alleghanies and the Rockies, 
 By favor of the teamster jockies. 
 
 Were goods and men conveyed. 
 
 Of earlier days we little know. 
 Perhaps alas, 'tis better so. 
 
 The antediluvian world 
 Was deluged with down-pouring water 
 That brought about a mighty slaughter 
 
 And earth in ruins hurled. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 79 
 
 MAN. 
 Hector : 
 
 Materiam superabat optis. 
 
 God made our swiftly whirling world, 
 
 And in perpetual motion hurled 
 
 This fair, terrestrial gliding planet. 
 
 To dwell on earth through life's brief span 
 
 The God of Heaven created man, 
 
 A little lower than the angels. 
 
 Then gave to him a clear, refined 
 
 And deeply contemplative mind, 
 
 To solve the mysteries of nature. 
 
 A mind so capable and great, 
 
 Adapted to appreciate 
 
 The beauties of the vast creation, 
 
 With all the mental faculties 
 
 To ponder o'er the ologies. 
 
 Acquiring thus superior wisdom; 
 
 Famed books of learning to peruse. 
 
 In pleasing reveries to muse. 
 
 And soar in gay imagination. 
 
 For home protection may create 
 
 Communities and rules of state, 
 
 And regulations for the nations. 
 
 For purposes of government 
 
 The ablest men may represent, 
 
 Their towns in halls of legislation. 
 
 Majestic form and yleasing mien 
 
 And comely countenance serene, 
 
 To man were given by his Creator, 
 
 An agile tread and easy grace; 
 
 Expressive features and a face. 
 
 On which the ihoughts are clearly written. 
 
 With mobile features wreathed in smiles, 
 
 By passion or by crafty wiles 
 
 Are lineaments divine distorted. 
 
 Distortions so appropriate 
 
 To cunviing malice, envy, hate 
 
 And all the wild ungoverned passions. 
 
 But love lights up the countenance 
 
 With rosy blush and sparkling glance, 
 
 Enchanting smiles and chargirg dimples. 
 
 Sweet gayety and guileless mirth 
 
 Will make Elysium of earth. 
 
 Delightful borderland of pleasure. 
 
so HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 O pleasant is the ingle side 
 
 Where calm content and peace abide. 
 
 Delights of cheerful conversation. 
 
 And merry is the revelry, 
 
 Of bachelor society, 
 
 Where wit and humor brightly sparkle. 
 
 Delightful humors, music's hum 
 
 Of liglit and gay symposium, 
 
 The lingering hours of time will slaughter. 
 
 Far pleasanter where ladies gay 
 
 Are blooming like the flowers in May, 
 
 Enchanting is their sprightly chatter. 
 
 Their clear toned voices blend in song 
 
 (While mingling in the merry throng) 
 
 And glide along in sweet soprano 
 
 Though turns and trdls they glide with grace. 
 
 Contrasting with sonorous bass, 
 
 Sweet barytone or screeching tenor. 
 
 With earliest history man 
 
 The heroes fabled deeds began. 
 
 Then Genii earth and ocean people, 
 
 Each stream and mountain wood or vale, 
 
 They murmured in the gentle gale 
 
 Or clamored in the raging tempest. 
 
 The furious storm or lightning stroke 
 
 The earthquake or voleanoe's smeke 
 
 Would signify of Jove's displeasure. 
 
 And Neptune in his briny home 
 
 Oft lashed ihe waves into foam 
 
 And doomed the ships to sure destruction. 
 
 The deeds of great Olympian Jove, 
 
 Caprices of the god of love, 
 
 Are wo;^en into classic poems. 
 
 Great Juno, Pallas, Jove and Mars, 
 
 All mingled in and managed wars. 
 
 The Muses and the fair Apollo 
 
 Taught mortals music and the arts — 
 
 And some excelled in chosen parts. 
 
 For Phidias was king of sculpture. 
 
 While Homer reigned supreme in song. 
 
 And sages to those fimes belong. 
 
 The seven, Socrates and Plato, 
 
 The founders of the different schools. 
 
 Created wise men out of fools. 
 
 It often happens, though, vice versa. 
 
 For instance bold Diogones, 
 
 Who never learned the art to please, 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Was impudent, sarcnstic critic; 
 For he could sit in his tub and growl, 
 As grave and solemn ns an owl. 
 But prior to the classic ages 
 Then, skilled in Architecture, man 
 Was given wit and brain to plan 
 The mighty pyramids and temples. 
 
 THE BIRDS. 
 Duet by Achilles and Hector. 
 Achilles: 
 
 Enchanting is a stroll at morn, 
 Afar sweet varying -ounds are borne. 
 And laden with perfume of flowers, 
 The morning air; and harken there, 
 Birds carolling in silvan bowers. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Listen to the whoop and hallo 
 Of that sup'ircilious lellow,. 
 The delightful mocking-bird 
 Trills his joyous exdam.tions 
 With as many variations, 
 As a mortal ever heard. 
 
 -Achilles : 
 
 And deep within the branching tree 
 The j tunty bird sings merrily. 
 There perched upon a ii. ndinj^ spray, 
 Or fluting now from bo igh to bough, 
 He warbles forth his roundelay. 
 
 fl ECTOR : 
 
 In his dainty, bright, blue wrapper 
 Flits the pretty blue-bird, dapper, 
 Singing to his ieafy h ime, 
 iVnd the humming-i)ird comes huraming- 
 Tells of golden summer coming. 
 Sylvan songsters northward rt.ara, 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 O list the blithe melo'^ioi^s lark, 
 And sweet bud-chorus in the park, 
 The sombre plumage of the turtle dove 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 With mournful coo, will sing to you,, 
 The melodies of love. 
 
 Hector; 
 
 Now I near the tinkle, clink, 
 Of the jolly botjolmk, 
 With his merry music box. 
 And hopping red-breast robin 
 Quiver witn melodious throbbing 
 To amuse the feathered flocks. 
 
 Achilles: 
 
 Afield the whistling Robert White, 
 
 With cheery tune, all gay and light. 
 
 In his brusque, brisk way would seem to say. 
 
 Oho, Bob White, we're here all right. 
 
 But now we're gone, whiz, whiz, away. 
 
 Hec TOR : 
 
 And he glides among the stubble. 
 As he whistlts over iroucle. 
 All protected by the laws, 
 While the sombre-coated cravens. 
 Crafty robber crows and ravens 
 Chant their weird delightless caws. 
 
 Achilles 
 
 And jays and daws all chattering, 
 Must join their voices in the sing 
 With wild, discordant melody. 
 Would rouse despair from out his lair 
 To hear their liendish reveliy. 
 
 YOUTH. 
 Achilles: 
 
 Eheu^fugaces labunitir antii. 
 Pearly day dawn's brigltening ray, 
 Heralding the king of day, 
 Who sublimely heavenward glides until, tea 
 
 soon. 
 Our far longitude he gains. 
 Thus to manhood youth attains 
 When he basks in splendor so rare of life's 
 brief noon. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES, 83 
 
 As the bright Auroral Morn 
 From the (Jritnt is borne, 
 And reclining in her chariot of gold. 
 Flashes down upon the world, 
 Flecks of sunshine, dew impearled, 
 Gilds with glowing, golden tints the cloud's dark 
 fold. 
 
 Thus, through Life's rose dappled dawn, 
 
 Tripping nimbly as the fawn. 
 
 Youth is led in Pleasure's flower-enameled ways. 
 
 Impulse warm the heart doth thrill. 
 
 Earth's gay scenes or music's trill, 
 
 Or bewildering ecstacies of Love's sweet maze. 
 
 Youth is life's mild vernal day, 
 
 Changeable, now sad, now gay. 
 
 Sad till "singing birds" our childish griefs have 
 
 lulled, 
 Happy in the golden hours, 
 becking sweetest, fairest flowers, 
 Sparkling gems of thought from Wisdom's garden 
 
 culled. 
 
 While we now the future scan, 
 Or, unfolding our life-plan, 
 
 As through vapors shimmenng sunbright hills appear, 
 So midst childhood's happy dreams. 
 Tinged with Hope's empurpled gleams, 
 From remorse and sorrow free, oh, life seems 
 dear. 
 
 Youth is joyous in the flower, 
 
 Physical and mental power. 
 
 Statesmen, warriors, famed writers of the day. 
 
 Rouse the world with mighty arm. 
 
 Or with magic, subtle charm. 
 
 Poesy's fair phrase or eloquence display. 
 
 Youth will cause bright thoughts to flit. 
 
 Gleam the polished gems of wit. 
 
 Gleam the pearls of thought and sparkling humors 
 
 gay- 
 Vigor rare of heart and brain. 
 Thrill tl e corps on battle plain, 
 Marching with mijesiic column's grand array. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Thus begins our life's fair morn, 
 We, midbt youth's illusions l)orne 
 Up to man's estate and manhood's brilliant prime; 
 Step within the golden door 
 To return, ah, nevermore, 
 
 Haply, though, in memories dear of youth's bright 
 time. 
 
 THE STREAM OF LIFE. 
 Vgiis et re mis. 
 
 On life's bright stream we launch our barge. 
 Soft lights along the r'pples gle^m, 
 
 "We float along the pebbly marge. 
 Or gaiiy glide aduwn the stream, 
 
 "With merriment and song we glide. 
 Our streaming pennants tloating gay, 
 
 Exultingly adown the tide. 
 
 All thoughtlessly, up.n our way. 
 
 Care free in youth's delightful morn ; 
 
 In later life our ardor cools. 
 As down life's rapid stream we're borne, 
 
 We diead the wrecking rocks and shoals. 
 
 "We glide by streamlet's flowery fringe. 
 Or drift along by hidden rocks, 
 
 So often pleasure's rosy tinge, 
 
 Is rudely marred by trouble's shocks. 
 
 OLD AGE. 
 Senex bis puer. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Old Age comes on midst gathering gloom 
 
 Along the pathway to the tomb, 
 
 And slowly nears the dark and shadowy land 
 
 of death. 
 Unfading flowers most beautiful. 
 Youth's fairy scenes, doth memory cull, 
 Grim car^ and grief to lull, restore the fleeting 
 
 breath. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 85 
 
 O, garrulous age delights to tell 
 
 Of boyish scenes remembered well 
 
 The pleasaut games and talks in childhood's 
 
 happy home ; 
 And marvellous fests of agile youth, 
 Ere man was prey to care and ruth, 
 To childish dreamy age what pleasing memories 
 
 come. 
 
 And children gay with life and glee 
 
 Delight to sit on Grandpa's knee 
 
 And listen to enchanting tales of long £.go. 
 
 On scenes that failing memory brings 
 
 Old Age a rosy glamour flirgs, 
 
 As from a hill we gaze on sunlit vales below. 
 
 O Grandpa's growing young again 
 
 While chatting with these little men 
 
 And throws his crutches by and romps with 
 
 childish glee 
 He teaches them the merry plays 
 And games of happy childhood days, 
 Joy lights the wrinkled face and sorrows 
 
 quickly flee. 
 
 Alloted threescore years and ten 
 Will old a;_^e surely bring to men 
 For with adv.mcing age ihe faculties decline. 
 Old men there are who yeais agone 
 liright stars in social circles shone 
 And bowed at Fame's or Riches' or at 
 Beauty's shrine. 
 
 And then at last comes dreary age 
 
 When man is passing from the stage 
 
 For feeble now and wan with cire the old 
 
 man i^;. 
 Bent, wrinkled and with silvery hair 
 He totters down Life's broken stair 
 Then falls at last in death's dark fathomless 
 
 abyss. 
 
8S HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 THE CLOSING SCENE 
 
 Achilles: 
 
 Pallida mots. 
 As sinks the sun beyond the purple hills 
 
 While golden glow of eve'n 
 The Western sky with purest splendor fills, 
 Like borrowed light from Heaven. 
 
 Then overall dim twilight gently steals 
 
 As day is fast declining, 
 While many a rift among the clouds reveals 
 
 A gold and crimson.lining. 
 
 So goes the good man to his final rest 
 
 With countenance all smiling, 
 While angels beckon inm to mansions blest 
 
 No earthly cares beguiling. 
 
 And life's long battle bravely fi ught and won. 
 
 Where angels bright are roaming, 
 Midst splendors lair of life's declining sun, 
 
 Would wend in the quiet gloaming. 
 
 And thus obtains his souls desired release, 
 
 The mortal, now immortal. 
 Is happy in the blessed realms of peace 
 
 Beyond the pearly portal. 
 
 The cold still bodv wreathed with immortelles, 
 
 In beatific bowers 
 The freed enraptured spirit ever dwells 
 
 Midst amaranthine flowers. 
 
•HECTOR AND ACHILLES. «? 
 
 HEAVEN, 
 In caelo quits^ 
 
 There's a realm that is fairer than day 
 
 Where the sanctified ever shall rest. 
 Richly robed in resplendent array, 
 
 In felicitious bowers of the blest. 
 
 Through the gates of their blissful abode 
 
 Shining portals of city of gold, 
 They have gone by the narrower road, 
 
 Never sorrow can come in that fold. 
 
 There the angels in brilliant attire, 
 
 Bid them welcome to Jesus their king. 
 
 Music sweet from the an<;elical choir 
 
 Through the heavenly arches shall ring. 
 
 Tnere the harps of celestials resound. 
 And the saints carol Zion's glad songs, 
 
 That shall echo to Heaven's farthest bound. 
 Blissful melodies rolling along. 
 
 By the river of life they may roam, 
 
 All embroidered by beautiful flowers. 
 To adorn their delectable home 
 
 Up in Heaven's perennial bowers. 
 
 In the blessed pavillions of light 
 
 There are mansions for spirits forgiven. 
 
 Never sorrow, nor anguish, nor night 
 Can annul the pure rapture of Heaven. 
 
 THE BLISSFUL REALMS OF LIGHT. 
 
 Resurgnm. 
 
 When my work is done here, 
 'On this sorrow-veiled sphere. 
 
 And I'm borne over Death's chilling wave. 
 Father give me that faith 
 That will triumph o'er death 
 
 And will banish the gloom of the grave. 
 
HECTOR AND At HILLES. 
 
 Savior teach me to pray, 
 That in Heaven I may, 
 
 More acceptably worship my God. 
 Waft my spirit away, 
 Though my perishing clay, 
 
 Shall lie mouldering under the sod. 
 
 If to me shall be g'ven 
 
 The sweet rapture of Heaven 
 
 In a land that is brii;liter than day,. 
 I will join in the si.ng 
 Of the biood-sprinkltd throng 
 
 As the heavenly harpers shall play. 
 
 Under tall waving palms 
 
 We will sing the sweet psalms 
 
 Of the propheis and sages of old. 
 Thither all nations come 
 Under Heaven's high dome 
 
 With its frescoes of crimson and goldl 
 
 As the martyrs shall sing 
 Will the arched heavens ring 
 
 Sounding on thiough eternity's years. 
 While the grand chorus swells 
 SofL as sweet silver bells 
 
 More sublime than the song of the spheres. 
 
 In glad union of voice 
 Saints and angels rejoice 
 
 In a concert of song and of praise. 
 On His bright shining throne 
 Sits the Infinite One 
 
 And the crucified Ancient of days. 
 
 Singing worth} the Lamb 
 Great is God, the I Am, 
 
 Are the angels in shining array. 
 And the saints rob.d in white 
 In those realms of delight 
 
 Chant the sweet songs of Zion for aye.. 
 
PART lY. 
 
 MIND. 
 
PRELUDE. 
 Achilles : 
 
 Motto : A' ens divinior. 
 O, once asjain my busy brain, 
 Leafi forth the glowing thought in train, 
 Thy wondrous talents use. 
 Sublime, mysterious phonograph, 
 Thnt causes one to weep or laugh, 
 Bring sorrow or amuse. 
 Ring out each happy combination 
 With wonderful delineati<in. 
 And sleights of light inngination 
 Thy rose tinged dreams diffuse. 
 In bright imagination's rea'm 
 Enchanting fancy at the helm. 
 Most beautifully gilds 
 Our thoughts and dreams ; gay coloring 
 Imposing, with her waving wing. 
 Or grand air-castles builds, 
 And, adding still a finer polish. 
 Th^n cares those structures d^th demolish, 
 Our sweet emotions stills. 
 Or like the honey sipping bee 
 The brain doth cull sweet imagery 
 
 From Nature's brightest page. 
 
 For vale and hill and flowery slope 
 
 May image sorrow, joy f>r hope, 
 
 Our raptured souls engage. 
 
 Earth seems so fair to mortal vision 
 
 And typifies the fields ely?ian. 
 
 The fading flowers, the strange transition 
 
 That comes to feeble age. 
 
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 yESTHETICS. 
 Achilles : 
 
 Chiaroscuro to kalon. 
 
 O, I sing of the beauties of Nature and Art, 
 
 All the graces that please the aesthetical heart, 
 
 Of the flowery vale and the bowery dell. 
 
 Or the jeweled attire of the light-stepping belle. 
 
 And she trills the gay*song with melodious voice. 
 
 That will make the faint heart of admirers rejoice ; 
 
 Then the bright regal beauty will glide 'mid the 
 
 throng. 
 Sing the flower's bright bloom and the bird's happy 
 
 song, 
 E'en the rapturous lay of the sweet nightingale. 
 And the forest-crov.ned hill and the stream threaded 
 
 vale. 
 There are paintings that imitate Nature's rare scenes 
 With delightful commingling of dt-licate greens. 
 Softened splendor there shines on the delicate lines 
 That are copied from Nature's consummate designs. 
 There are steep, rugged hills that wild Nature sub- 
 lime 
 Has up-piled and eroded by ages of time, 
 Now -ire checkered with fields by the culture of mani 
 Verdant slopes, flowered terraces, gardeners plan. 
 As the far-reaching, beautiful landscape we view, 
 All the fair, smiling scene, will our spirits renew. 
 There is hill above valley and bill above hill, 
 And the beautiful picture lies dreamingly still. 
 Sing the elegant phrases of Literature, 
 May the quaint, pithy epigrams ever endure. 
 There are poems that ripple and murmur along 
 Like the clear, tinkling rivulet's beautiful song. 
 List the murmuring songs of the bright, gliding rills, 
 As they hurry along from between the green hills. 
 And their tortuous ways do they merrily make 
 
9iJ HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 O'er the broad pebbly shoals where the bright riuples 
 
 break ; 
 Purling onward forever, the rivulet goes, 
 Gentle Poesy's rill, or the still stream of Prose. 
 Hear the orator utter fine ^ihrases at will, 
 With appropriate gestures, rhetorical skill, 
 And the speaker illuming the theme he explores, 
 With the beauties he borrows from Memory's stores. 
 Proper flexion of voice, with qjight rise and fall, 
 In a soft rippling cadence, is pleasrng to all. 
 View the colors applied to the artist's bright dream 
 In their differing shades will the rare tintings gleam. 
 So the tintings of thought ai-e thus often unfurled, 
 To enliven and brighten our working- day world. 
 
 GAVE 1 Y. 
 
 Hec. : In Gayely's salubrious clime, 
 We pass a life-long summer time ; 
 A proper shaie of pleasantry 
 VVill surely cause longevity. 
 There trips along tlie verdurous earth, 
 The merry laughter bringing miith. 
 And noiselessly she glides the while, 
 Calls forth the gloom-dispersing smile ; 
 At last the boisterous ha, ha ! 
 Or, frequently the li>ud guffaw, 
 But when the orgies do begin. 
 Anon, the mild benignant grin 
 Illuminates the countenance. 
 While furiously the dimples dance, 
 To drive the shadows from the face. 
 And all the lines of care erase. 
 So merrily on we fare, 
 And bid good-by to glo )my care ; 
 As clouds of care are vanishing, 
 Then Hope, the harbinger, doth sing, 
 And pleasure, from her gleaming gates 
 
HKCTOti AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Would welcome to her fair estates, 
 And as of Midas, vve are told, 
 VVhate'er he touched was turned to gold ; 
 In jollity's enchanted land 
 Another Midas waves his wand. 
 Our thoughts are tinged with drollery 
 Or burnished bright with piquancy; 
 The sparkling jets of subtle wit, 
 And humors light m\ke trouble flit, 
 Afar the flashes scintillate, 
 As from great minds they emanate. 
 And e'en the goKlen beams of thought 
 Within the mind's deep caverns wrought. 
 Are interspersed vviih fantasies, 
 And colored with bright imageries, 
 In warm, rich dnts from Orient lands, 
 With quaint conceits the brain expands. 
 They fly from realms of roseate mom 
 On thought's electric pinions borne. 
 They flock in Fancy's fiery train, 
 To occupy the poet's brain. 
 
 93 
 
 IMAGINATION. 
 
 ACH. . Extol the splendors of the Mind, 
 
 That marvellous workmanship, designed 
 By God. The various faculties 
 Have wrought the golden sentences 
 That round the brain are interposed, 
 Till speech, her pearly bars unclosed, 
 Shall ripple forth in pleasing voice, 
 To make the list'ning world rejoice. 
 Thus gems of fine discourse are wrought, 
 From deep, unfathomed wells of thought; 
 Ideas grand und phrases fine. 
 In glowing sentences combine; 
 They, panoplied in brave array 
 
94 HECTOll AND ACHILLES. 
 
 As for a summer's gala day, 
 Flash forth in brilliant arguments, 
 Or streams of fiery eloquence. 
 In oratorical discourse ; 
 Which, like a rivulet, from its source 
 Grow broader, as they onward flow. 
 To decorate the vales below ; 
 And oft the stream of learning winds 
 Through channels, shoals of feebler minds. 
 While Memory her legion pours 
 Of thoughts from out the ivory doors. 
 As armed battalions on parade, 
 March foith upon the esplanade. 
 Hec, : From the light and airy nothings, 
 From the sparkling realms of fancy, 
 From the flowery fields oi romance. 
 And the fairy-land of fables, 
 Has the bright imagination 
 Wrought in Poesy's sweet verses, 
 Or, in Prose's enchanting pages. 
 Here find pleasantry and humor, 
 Ridicule, and lively satire, 
 Richly ornamented stories, 
 Similes and allegories ; 
 Form delightful tales of fiction. 
 Polished bright with ornate diction, 
 Or, in ruder style of Nature, 
 Minds all unadorned with learning, 
 Oft express their thoughts in language 
 Awkwardly, with quasi culture. 
 Though they have a clear conception. 
 Cannot speak their thoughts so clearlv. 
 O many a wild pliantasmagory 
 A dwelling makes in the upper story ; 
 There do Reveries sweet musings 
 In the brain's recesses linger. 
 Images of gay conceptions. 
 Dart about like motes in sunshine. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 95 
 
 ACH. : Or, like the gaudy butterflies 
 
 And cloudlets tinged in sunset skies, 
 
 And still those vagaries obtain. 
 
 They traverse all the mazy brain ; 
 
 And evermore their presence there 
 
 Will make for us Life's sunshine fair. 
 
 So when our bright day-dreams begin 
 
 The fantasies flirt out and in, 
 
 Like birds in leafy labyrinth. 
 Hec. : Rosily the dawn begins. 
 
 Letting golden sunshine in ; 
 
 Bringing light and joy and mirth, 
 
 To the gloom-beclouded earth. 
 
 So do pleasing memories 
 
 Form delightful images 
 
 Charming scenes ef other days, 
 Are now wrought in rhythmic phrase. 
 Life is all a pleasing dream, 
 While recurring memories gleam. 
 Reverie air-castlts builds, 
 
 Which imagination gilds; 
 Round them golden beams will fling. 
 Diamond sparkled, glittering 
 Showers, the light of memory. 
 Lustre emitting fantasy. 
 Ligtitsome preludes memory sings. 
 Culled by far meanderings, 
 Merrily will fancies chime, 
 Sweetly, sweetly join in rhymes, 
 Like the bird's gay caroling, 
 While it would blithe matins sing. 
 Come, enchanting Imagery, 
 Link with joyous Memory, 
 Merriment ait welcome too, 
 Gladness bring, and'youth renew. 
 Come midst sorrow, gloom and din. 
 Let the golden sunshine in. 
 
HIiCrOiJ AXD ACHILLES. 
 THE MUSES. 
 
 HeCIOR : • 
 
 Epulis accumbere divufn. 
 
 Thrilling strains of rare music, enchantingly sweet, 
 
 Oft in reverie or vision around me will fleet. 
 
 Then my brains throb and flutter with the thoughts 
 I must utter 
 
 And I thank the kind Fates for the marvelous treat. 
 
 Shall I then poetize if the Muses inspire 
 
 And accompany Muses Apollo's sweet lyre. 
 
 Yes, the charmers I'll follow and the graceful 
 Apollo 
 
 And will listen with joy to the lyrical choir. 
 
 Then be sure, song-inspirers, if welcome to come 
 
 To the Muse-haunted mountains, your bright sylvan 
 home, 
 
 Where the godesses rambled and Pegasus has am- 
 bled 
 
 Mid bewildering beauties, sweet fancies shall 
 roam. 
 
 On the steed of the Muses to mount I will try. 
 And away to the realms of the Orient lly, 
 To the heights of Parnassus bear me gently, Pega- 
 sus, 
 Lest my balance I lose as I whisk tli rough the sky. 
 
 O. then, hasten along, like a yac-ht in a gale, 
 Like a telegraph message, or ghost at full sail, 
 Flit across the wide ocean with the easiest motion 
 Over towering mountain and flov/ery vale. 
 
 Not by Capreati coast where the venturous wight 
 By the siren's sweet song is entranced with delight . 
 Resolution relaxing unless tympanums waxing 
 Me must fall a sur,- prey to the death dealing spirite, 
 Where the gay smiling Hours with the Graces ad- 
 vance, 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. ^ 
 
 -Or the fairies and elves meet by moonlight to 
 
 dance, 
 While each fair or grim spectre 'sips Ambrosia and 
 
 Nectar 
 Thither waft me Pegasus and there lightly prance. 
 When the banquet is over thy travels resume. 
 Fan the ether with pinions of glossiest plume, 
 And among the ornamental, showy folk, Oriental, 
 Haste to Ind's sunbright vales or the isles of per- 
 fume; 
 
 And from Araby blest unto heathen Cathay 
 
 Through the land of fierce Ghebers, through Cash- 
 mere we stray, 
 
 And in ancient Damascus perhaps they will ask us 
 
 To examine the scene?, and to stop for a day. 
 Achilla. s : 
 
 O the dear docile steed, how like lightning he goes. 
 
 Fare thee well frisky creature, take thy needed re- 
 pose, 
 
 Who this poem peruse will perceive that the 
 Muses 
 
 Might have helped very greatly these rhymes to 
 compose. 
 
 CHATEAUX EN ESPAGNE. 
 
 Buildint; castles in the air. 
 
 Is delightful occui-»tion. 
 Reveries wiJl conquer care 
 
 Exercise imagination. 
 Wrapped in dreamy revery, 
 
 Or in most profound abstraction, 
 Surely then light fantasie 
 
 Guarantees mild satisfaction. 
 As the soapy bubbles rise 
 
 Blown aloft for children's pleasure, 
 
98 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 So the. clialeaux leach the skies 
 
 Filled wilh luxuries and treasure. 
 Thrilled by fair euchantrtss Hope 
 
 Merry youlh goes castle building, 
 Glides down Pleasure's polished slope 
 
 All deluded by the gilding, 
 Chateaux gleam with brilliancy 
 
 Like the opal's sweet chatoyment, 
 So will youth's bright gayely 
 
 Yield abundiince of enipluyment. 
 Bound by musing nau^^ht we note — 
 
 Far in fancy's bright dominions, 
 Leisurely with ease we float 
 
 Borne away on downy pinions. 
 
 MEMORY. 
 AcH.: 
 "While retracing our way through the vista of years^ 
 To a mental review, what a pageant appears; 
 And anon into revery falling, 
 Pleasant hours of childhood recalling, 
 With the pleasurts ihey bring mingle sorrow and 
 
 tears. 
 Blessed Memory, thou inexhaustible mine, 
 "^ here we delve and cbiain precious jewels that 
 shine, 
 In our youth's fairest dia(ltm gleaming; 
 And we, buikling air castles and dreaming 
 Of our childhood's glad time, journey down Life's 
 
 decline. 
 Lovely scenes, as if circled wilh radiant sheer. — 
 As it were, blissful glimpses of Heaven are seen — 
 Where the spirits a?e happiiy dwelling ; 
 Of the past, so enchantingly telling 
 Pleasant talcs with our friends, are in memory kept 
 green. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 99 
 
 And the far-away scenes we do moiirr,fully view, 
 While ihe trifles of youth fairest rose tints imbue. 
 
 Thus so often our childhood renewing, 
 
 The illusions of Hope still pursuing, 
 We will roam amid -wrecks adverse Fortune may 
 strew. 
 
 FORGETFULNESS. 
 Hec: 
 
 Next we carol of careless forgetfulness, 
 That will banish the demon cf fretful nessj 
 As our trials oft worry us frightfully, 
 Then forgetfulness comes so delightfully; 
 Kind oblivion, balm of the srrrowirig, 
 Comes to those who are trouble still borrowing. 
 And forgetfulness, kindly oblivious, 
 Favors many whose natures are bivious. 
 Though their statements are oft contradictory. 
 By forgetfulness they gain a great victory. 
 With their quibbles and equivokes numerous,, 
 They are subject to jesls of the humorous. 
 By forgetfulness, persons convivial 
 Are relieved from their tioubles so trivial,. 
 As if lulled into sluniber by Morpheus 
 Or enlianced by the music of Orpheus. 
 
 iiorE. 
 
 Achilles, 
 As the sunbeams refracted, di?;ohed in lie rain, 
 On the oppc'site henvers are mirrcred most fair j 
 So the sweet light of memory reflected, again 
 
 In the future the rainbow of hoj.e's imaged theres 
 
 And thus memoiy, forming the bcw's brilliant span, 
 
 Is the warp through which imagery's shuttle still 
 
 plies, 
 
 "While she weaves the desigrs in the future of man 
 
100 UECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Willi a weft that is tinted with hope's rainb»w 
 dyes. 
 And 'tis hope, the bright angel, that beckons us on ; 
 With a bland, winning smile she persuades us along. 
 While she promises pleasure and treasure anon, 
 And enchants by her presence, enraptures with 
 
 song. 
 She portrays the gay splendor of riches and fame 
 
 Where the luxuries, titles and plea«urcs abound. 
 
 And were Love in the heart, she increases the flame, 
 
 For an aureole bright doth the fair one surround . 
 
 While the blest scenes of memory hallow the past. 
 
 Smiling hope's sheeny veil o'er the future is 
 
 thrown ; 
 
 And if sometimes with gloom are the skies overcast, 
 
 Yet the clouds shall depart or afar shall have 
 
 fluwn. 
 
 DESPAIR. 
 
 Hector. 
 Grim despair, in doubting castle sits, 
 Or round about, a gloomy shadow flits. 
 The sullen giant gathers up his wits 
 
 To bother mortal man. 
 His beetling browa assume a surly frown, 
 With ominous glances ever flashing down. 
 He would the earth in fljods of sorrow drown, 
 
 Our merry world to ban. 
 He angles with Misfortune's cruel snaro 
 And magnifies each large or trivial care 
 To worry us in Life's long thoroughfare. 
 
 And gloom the fleeting hours. 
 He tarnishes lairFame's bright garland wreatl 
 While sweet young lives extinguished by his breatl 
 Put on the cold and pallid hue of death, 
 
 And wither like the flowers. 
 
 1, 
 
 'i, 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 MIND. 
 Ach: Great thoroughfare of fancies fond, 
 
 There sweet contrasted thoughts combhie, 
 And faculties as facets shine. 
 The mind is like the diamond 
 That gleams in kingly diadem, 
 Or like the iridescent gem 
 Whose colors change with changing light. 
 The beauteous opal's varying hue 
 New combinations biings to view. 
 Bright colors come and take rheir flight, 
 And others ever c me instead ; 
 And so, when thought to thought is wed. 
 Like a panorama, there unfolds 
 The pictures imaged on the brain, 
 They throng in Voice's voluminous train, 
 As ThouglUs resounding vehicle rolls, 
 While luminous conceph'ons binn, 
 Impatiently await their turn. 
 In mindofmun (])ou haust thy birth 
 O wisdom, daughter of the skies. 
 Wast taught on soaring wings to rise 
 Above the vanities of earth 
 And in thy wildest ihaphsodies 
 Hast heard celestial symphonies. 
 There Wisdom dwells in bright aljode 
 * The mind ; her path from d()ubl to clear. 
 Sweet I earnim^ is her cavalier. 
 Along the wny has flowers strowed. 
 Thus Learning furnishes the mind 
 With ornaments of varie<l kind. 
 Still delves among antiquities. 
 The restless spirit ever roams 
 That searches nil the classic tomes 
 Peruses ancient histories, 
 The mind is all a plot of weeds 
 That thorough cultivation needs 
 
 lul 
 
102 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 To check the wild luxuriant growth 
 
 And Learning is the gardener. 
 
 The bright attendant minister 
 
 Performs that duly nothing loth 
 
 And everywhere that Learning goes 
 
 *'The desert blossoms as the rose." 
 
 While Learning works unceasingly. 
 
 Encumbering weeds fir thought make room J 
 
 Then flowers spring and*roses bloom. 
 
 Reposited in memory 
 
 Are beauties intellectual 
 
 To brighieu every interval 
 
 Between the hours of daily toil. 
 
 Poetic thoughts like birds will sing 
 
 Or like the vine's soft tendrils cling 
 
 In many a lu^lrous shining coil, 
 
 As learning qualifies ihe nund 
 
 To rise to sentiment refined 
 
 So Poesy's diviner glow 
 
 To towering altitudes would climb ; 
 
 From pinacles of thought suMime 
 
 Surveys the plodding world btlow. 
 
 Ab )ve the world's incessant hum 
 
 Sweet Posey deli;^hts to come ; 
 
 To view the battle from afar 
 
 She wings her grand aerial flights 
 
 To rest upon the mountain heights 
 
 And lingers there a gleaming star. 
 
 Like thistle down by air upheld 
 
 Are Poesy's light drear«s, they weld 
 
 The links in thoughts unending chain, 
 
 That overhangs the world beneath 
 
 So like a woven flower wreath. 
 
 A circling ever shifting train 
 
 Has wrought in brightest imagery 
 
 Translucent pearls of Poesy. 
 
 And thus progressing ever on 
 
llECTOIi AND A( IIILLES. 103 
 
 Has Wisdom flourished for a'l lime, ^ 
 
 flas written David's psalms sublime, 
 
 And proverbs wise of Solomon ; 
 
 Has taught sublime philosophy 
 
 Or principles of libeiiy 
 
 While Wisdom and Philosophy 
 
 £Iave wrought with strange materials, 
 
 And by the aid of chemicals 
 
 Have won to constant mini«;try 
 
 And servitude the elements 
 
 That fl )od the world wiih affiuence. 
 
 THE MERRY FACULTIES. 
 
 Ach: Ar )und the brnin s > lii^htly H it 
 The merry mirthful faculties, 
 Faiitasiic humor, lively wit, 
 
 A thronging troop of pleasantries. 
 
 We smile at many a happy turn 
 Of humor, that never goes by rule. 
 
 Or checks in strange confusion burn 
 At satire's jeers or ridicule. 
 
 Like beauteous tint of dawning day 
 Shines Wit's supreme felicity; 
 
 Or like the Northern streamers gay 
 Plays humor's light machinery. 
 
 Bright humors causing mild su- prise 
 Amuse us by their oddity. 
 
 And while the conversation flies 
 They come forth unexpectedly, 
 
 They revel in continued change 
 Adopting every model phrase ; 
 
 Around the wide creation range. 
 Perambulate in diverse ways. 
 
104 . HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 They come from silent realms of thought 
 
 Of varying shape, chameleon hue; 
 With many a mental medley wrought 
 
 Of changing fancies bright and new. 
 The mind attuned to thought's sweet chimes- 
 
 Is like a harp of a thousand strings; 
 Wdl compass Wisdom's songs sublime 
 
 And humor's lightest carollings. 
 
 Thus changeful humor's fiequent flash 
 Diversifies the veeiing theme ; 
 
 And brilliant witticisms clash 
 In conversation's steady stream. 
 
 Within the workshop of the mind 
 Where bright conceptions congregate 
 
 There new ideas seek their kird 
 To thoroughly assiniila'.e. 
 
 The meddler of the thoughts incongruous- 
 Brings humor's eccentricities 
 
 And phrases of:en ludicrous 
 From whimsical appliances, 
 
 But when ideas aptly join 
 
 And thought is linked to similar thought 
 Concordant phrases then we coin 
 
 With wit and genuine humor fraught. 
 
 Like thoughts will glide a flowing tide 
 
 Wit's superstructure fair will rise 
 
 That gleams from every lumincus side 
 
 With scintillations terse and wise. 
 
 Shine brilliant Wit's resplendent gkams ; 
 
 So like the bright effulgent morn, 
 That throws afar the lucent beam<:, 
 
 The shadowed planet to adorn. 
 
 While humor's light serene 
 
 Is Wisdom's sweet reflected ray, 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 105 
 
 Like Luna*s light, that night's iair queen 
 
 Has borrowed from the god or day. 
 Now wit with elegance expressed, 
 
 In rare and beautiful phrase, 
 Is chosen language finely dressed 
 
 And veiled in thought's most subtile maze. 
 And they enjoy a pleasure true 
 
 Where Wit and Huniur have control, 
 A pleasing mental bai-becue 
 
 "A feast of reason and a flow of soul." 
 
 RIDICULE AND SATIRE. 
 Hec. : The marvellous song concludes^ 
 
 Alack ad ay ! 
 That biilliantly preludes 
 
 My humbler lay. 
 And he who lately sang 
 
 Bold humor's row, 
 And witticism's clang, 
 
 Is silent now. 
 With varying melody, 
 
 As we have heard, 
 He warbles tunefully 
 
 As humming bird. 
 To distant realms unknown. 
 
 The Muse has fled, 
 And whither may have flown 
 
 Has not been said. 
 Now Poesy I call, 
 
 Invoke the Nine, 
 Lest inspiration fall 
 
 On pen of mine. 
 Come pencil Poesy 
 
 Each rosy gule, 
 And sing so merrily 
 Of ridicule. 
 
lOt. IIECTOK AND A( HILLES. 
 
 Now Satire's cruel cuffs 
 Make one feel ?ad, 
 
 And ridicu'e's rebuffs 
 Sublimely mad. 
 
 So could 1 call my Muse 
 
 Upon Ihe scene, 
 The world I would abuse 
 
 With satire keen. 
 
 Or sweep a mighty swath, 
 Like reaper Time, 
 
 And make the people wroth 
 At taunts sublime. 
 
 Phillippics ronr immense, 
 
 Assume an air 
 Of seeming innocence, 
 
 As unav are. 
 
 Invectives I pronounce, 
 So fiercely hurled, 
 
 Though weighing not an ounce. 
 Could thrill the world. 
 
 And then I would employ 
 The quizzing pun. 
 
 My comrade to annoy, 
 That sprightly one. 
 
 POESY. 
 
 ACH. . Come hither Poesy, bring rare delight. 
 
 Come tripping down the fl )werfringed waySj 
 Thy pleasing numbers all my soul excite. 
 To sun me in the Muse's rays. 
 
 Yea, imitate the stately verse of old, • 
 
 Sweet lyric songs, idyllic lays, 
 Oft interspersed with streams of purest gold. 
 
 Fair jewels set in classic phrase. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 107 
 
 Hast roamed afar o'er vale and mountain land, 
 
 Of Cretce and sunny Italy, 
 Thou Virgil's eharming,elegant verse hath plann ed 
 
 And Homer's marvellous poetry. 
 
 The skalds have sung in sagas of the Nourse, 
 
 Bold sea-kings sent on forays fell, 
 Valkyrias marked them in their perilous course, 
 
 In fair Valhalla, aye, to dwell. 
 
 Hast warbled in the minstrel's lofty strain 
 That sang redoubted chieftain's power, 
 
 Anon, hath murmured in the sweet refrain 
 To serenade yon lady's bower. 
 
 Come Poesy, fn youth's bright May morn come. 
 
 And caroling with gleeful strains, 
 Sing s.vett contentment of the rural home, 
 
 Where unalloyed pleasure reigns. 
 
 Come, like the birds, and carol all day long, 
 
 Recallmg happy memories. 
 And interweave the glowing pearls of song. 
 
 To brighten Life's realities. 
 
 O, paint the beauties of the sylvan scene. 
 
 Where Nature smiles supremely gay. 
 Sweet birds and flowers, and leafy forest green, 
 
 With eternal robes of emerald spray. 
 
 The songs of warbling birds and waving boughs, 
 
 That echo o'er the bordering f.irms, 
 Our souls to blissful consciousness arouse, 
 
 Entranced with Nature's lovely charms. 
 
 COMPOSING POE'IRY. 
 Hec. : O, can you brilliant thoughts compose. 
 Arranged and set in train, 
 And manufacture poetry 
 All in your busy brain ? 
 
lOjJ HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Likewise the gentle Muse invoke, 
 
 Or pen poetic phrase, 
 Exhibiting your rhyming skill, 
 
 The public to amaze. 
 O, then you seem like one inspired. 
 
 To poetry inclined, 
 A rapturous frenzy then disiurbs 
 
 Your calm, unruttled mind. 
 
 And then you write with elegance, 
 
 The sentiments refined, 
 To set agog the wondering world. 
 
 Throughout all future time. 
 Or would you poetiy indite 
 
 To maiden whom you love, 
 And, liken her with similes 
 
 To blessed ones above. 
 Then usin.( pleasing metaphors, 
 
 As birds or blooming flower, 
 With words of tender eulogy, 
 
 Smg her attractive power. 
 To suit your poems to the pre.-s, 
 
 O, you must prune and prune, 
 And twist around until ii sings 
 
 Just like a good hymn tune. 
 Do not eliminate too thin, 
 
 For often 'us the case, 
 Nor beauty lingers in the line, 
 
 Nor styles expression grace. 
 Then exercise the faculties. 
 
 And thoroughly revise ; 
 To skillfully elaborate 
 
 Much studiousness implies. 
 
 PROLOGUE TO HECTOR AND CLAUDIA. 
 
 Achilles : 
 All in the month of roses, 
 "When the budding rose uncloses 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. W-i 
 
 And blows with fragrance sweet to zephyr's airy 
 
 tune, 
 Brisk harbinger of summer 
 There comes the gilded hummer, 
 The hum-bird round the roses flits in merry June. 
 ** I circle round the flowers 
 In this gay world of ours, 
 My love is all a rose so sweet with youth's bright 
 
 bloom ; 
 As lovely as a peri , 
 My darling girl, my dearie, 
 
 Her beauty is supreme, her graces grandly loom,, 
 Though of her favors chary, 
 She wins my heart, the fairy." 
 So sings my bonvivant with hopeful happy song, 
 T fear the great attraction 
 Will drive him to distraction, 
 I lear his brain won't bear the strain of courtship 
 
 long. 
 "In an enchanted garden," 
 Gay couple — beg their pardon — 
 
 There bandy metaphors and fond similitudes 
 
 Fair Claudia and Hector, 
 There trip amidst the nectar, 
 
 They prattle love's fond phrases, indulge in lover' «; 
 feuds. 
 
 "The course of true love never 
 
 Runs smooth," they say. Forever, 
 
 There are slight jars and wit's returning boomerang 
 
 Creates a faint suspicion, 
 
 Or laughs in mock-derision. 
 
 Then love flghts shy to dissipate the light harangue 
 
 From gay conservatory, |^ 
 
 Quite plea=.ing allegory. 
 
 He culls a gay bouquet to hint sweet sentiment. 
 
 She kens each flower's meaning, 
 
 Their purport promptly gleaning. 
 
TH> HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 She gives him only a flower with blush most elo- 
 quent. 
 
 She gives him only a flower, 
 
 Rare beauty is the dower, 
 
 She gives herself, fair girl, with cheeks all glowing 
 red. 
 
 Fair features to love beguiling, 
 
 Illumed with happy smiling. 
 
 Reflective of the thoughts contained in her wise 
 head. 
 
 HECTOR AND CLAUDIA. 
 ClaUuia : Kind Ariel, thou merry sprite, 
 Ethereal form, celestial being. 
 Who fliltest in the fields of light. 
 The fate of mortals oft decreeing. 
 
 Commiserate unhappy girl. 
 
 Descending from aerial regions. 
 
 Come circling in a flaming swirl. 
 Bring with thte all thy airy legions. 
 
 Thy many shapes thou may'st assume, 
 Enchanting warbles, sweet or eery. 
 
 Be pleaded kind spirit to resume. 
 Enlivening my world so dreary. 
 
 If thou wilt come at my command. 
 As once thou favored fair Miranda, 
 
 And brought her love. Prince Ferdinand, 
 Whilst aiding in that isle's mutanda. 
 
 Then bring, kind sprite, my loved one here, 
 To woo me fair with facile phrases, 
 
 And whisper soft delightful cheer. 
 
 While costing in love's charming phases. 
 Ariel: 
 
 I lightly fall from the empyrean. 
 Soft gliding to the sphere 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. Ul 
 
 Sad maiden thus to cheer, 
 
 That htr soul may sing exulting pean. 
 With musical mysterious humming 
 
 I cleave the eihcr blue 
 To minister to you ; 
 
 Most willingly, fair girl, ?m coming. 
 To ply my quorn'am avocation 
 
 With facinaiing lures 
 Will make him wholly yours. 
 
 To whisper love's kind consolation. 
 Will search the great creation over, 
 
 And trip the green earth round 
 Until your love be found. 
 
 What is he like, your quasi love. ? 
 Claudia ; 
 
 He is the courteous warden 
 Of gay society's garden, 
 And tends the bloomirg flowers 
 A gentleman of leisure. 
 He follows phantom pleasure 
 Amidst enchanting boweis. 
 
 C/iorus. 
 As fair as the sun wiih golden adorning 
 That gnyly illumes the beautiful moming; 
 And like the sweet sunshine's radiant glintings 
 His features assume Aurora's briglU timings. 
 Wilh handsomest of faces 
 Whereon all manly giaces 
 
 Fine Thought's descrij^tive pen 
 Hys there delineated, 
 With features animated 
 
 Comes Hector king of men. 
 His jeity curls are flawing, 
 Round features 1 rightly glowing 
 With rare intelligence. 
 
HECrOU AND ACHILLES. 
 
 And many a peail there flashes 
 Beneath his culed mustaches 
 
 In smiling eloquence. 
 Hector : {Apjr^a hhjg. ) 
 Sing merrily, sing merrily, 
 
 In flower-twined domicile 
 With music bewildering warble to me 
 
 All Nature listens still. 
 The music of the chiming sphere, 
 
 Appeared to waft me on 
 Till I came to your bower, O beautiful dear, 
 
 I floated hither and yon. 
 
 And here and there my steps pursue 
 
 By fleeting impulse borne, 
 When a far away song seemed to call me to you 
 
 And hither I come this morn. 
 
 While traversing the garden, dear, 
 
 This lovely flowery plot 
 Come greet, nie kind welcome with carolling here 
 
 Where blooms forget-me not. 
 
 Claudia : 
 
 It is not possible, kind sir, 
 
 And really you are m.iFtaken, 
 That my low murmuring thu- could stir 
 
 And one so far away should waken. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 Your song from sloth's dull dreams would rouse. 
 
 Or lighter visionary slumbers, 
 The woodland songsters from their boughs, 
 
 Aye listen to the rythmic numbers. 
 
 So now I come, all wide awake. 
 
 Attracted by a fair Aurora. 
 Perhaps I come for love's dear sake 
 
 To argue iu the realms of Flora. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 11$ 
 
 ■| Serenely in their little bed 
 ^^ The roses bloom, a fair fotilla. 
 •Pink [retaled sails are gaily spread 
 In circles round her garden villa. 
 
 ■Bright pansies and the fleur-de-lis^ 
 
 Geraniums, sweet pinks and posies, 
 A lovely garden 'tis to me 
 
 The lovely owner there discloses. 
 
 Claudia : 
 
 The birds are singing on the lawn 
 
 Or warble light in blossoming bowers. 
 And here sweet singing maid has drawn 
 
 A famous connoisseur of flowers. 
 
 As pretty as her garden rose 
 
 Fair maiden siren songs is singing, 
 Allures that paragon of beaus, 
 
 The valorous Trojan hither bringing. ' 
 Where rivaling the blossoming dell. 
 
 The flowers that bloom at her volition, 
 Shall each in Poesy's language tell 
 
 Its delicate and cheering mission. 
 In garden, field or eerie glen 
 
 There blooms the beauteous race of flowers. 
 Who can their mystic language ken 
 
 May pass away long happy hours. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 The birds, the merry little sprights, 
 
 Are happy in their green pavilions. 
 They warble forth their gay delights 
 
 And hop about in brisk cotillions. 
 And now the carol blithe is heard 
 
 Of damsel fair midst daffodillies.' 
 Jlcd roses to her cbeeks transferred 
 
 Arc warring there with pale sweet lilies. 
 
lU HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Claudia : 
 
 The blooms adorning my parterre 
 
 Outshine with varicgrcted splendor 
 The hypothetic posies fair 
 
 To silly praise would tribute render. 
 Gay daffodils and jonquil pinks 
 
 With dahlias, tulips, all the roses, 
 A gaudy miniature world me thinks, 
 
 "Where oft the fairy light reposes. 
 Hector : 
 
 There flames the brilliant Marigold; 
 
 A proverb lurks in self-samt flower. 
 The doom of thousands has been told, 
 
 Tis marry gold, for gold is power. 
 
 Wee buttercups for bibs declare, 
 
 Of sly coquetry hints Laburnum, 
 The Cypress groans in mute despair, 
 
 Forget-me-not to love will turn 'em. 
 The Tulip smacks of forfeited bliss, 
 
 When lighted on by merry Phoebus (fee bus}. 
 There would I speak Love's catechism (kiss 'em} 
 
 With many a gallant reLus (rebu&s). 
 Claudia ; 
 
 No doubt has rebui^sed many gals 
 
 With loving phrases fond but fickle. 
 Has cousined them Avith gay fallals 
 
 While cozening with wii's keen sickle. 
 The Daffodil will false hopes express, 
 
 And Batcheh'r's Button, Beauty thwarting. 
 Still twits of single blessedness, 
 
 Night blowing serious, beauty's departing. 
 
 Claud. : Those innocent but gorgeous blooms 
 Are guiltless, all, of sly flirtation, 
 Alas! that human creature dooms 
 My flowers mute to defamation. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 115 
 
 They're not so fond of rebusing, 
 
 And never learned the catechisms. 
 Their guilelessness ne'er forfeiting, 
 
 To silly love's fallacious isms. 
 Hec. : The lady comprehends me false, 
 
 "Where naught was meant but simple punning. 
 For wit still capers in a waltz, 
 
 In labyrinthine mazes running. 
 
 I would not slander one of those 
 
 Bright blooms, much less the beauteous being. 
 Fair guardian angel of the blows, 
 
 From casual imputations freeing. 
 
 And not one spark of raillery, 
 
 Will e'er escape her shrewd detection. 
 
 For all are blooming prettily, 
 Arranged with suitable selection. 
 
 Now, would I cull a fine bouquet. 
 
 Of posies for the charming owner. 
 And these my sentiments shall say. 
 
 If she will be the obliging donor. 
 
 'Of one sweet flower, 'tis all 1 hope. 
 
 The tuberose and the pink acacias. 
 The pansy and the heliotrope, 
 
 I choose, with myrtle and the daisy. 
 
 Claud. : Ah, me, most pitiable is my lot. 
 Should I not give the right solution, 
 Then take this meek forget-me-not, 
 May love ne'er suffer diminution. 
 
 Hec. : Dear Love's assurance, fond, but mute> 
 From thy fair cheek would aptly borrov/^ 
 And once and again a sweet salute, 
 Prophetic of a golden morrow. 
 
 ACH. : Bless you my children, here you are^ 
 In interesting attitude, 
 
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 No obstacles your bliss to mar, 
 Except myself, and I intrude. 
 
 We're singing psalms and clasping palms, 
 O would that I might rove incog, 
 
 Observing these two gentle lambs. 
 Recite their loving dialogue. 
 
 Ah ! now they talk the childish brogue, 
 And gushing nonsense emulate. 
 
 With Love's chimera's all in vogue , 
 Preluding marriage's honored state. 
 
 No doubt they've risked a desperate game, 
 Amidst Love's witcheries have striven. 
 
 And yet they simper all the same. 
 
 Though sealed proposals have been given. 
 
 Sly Hector, O you naughty child, 
 
 How has your wooing thrived, my boy ? 
 
 Although you smile so meek and mild, 
 The tin-horn band I must employ. 
 
 Anon, the wild chivarari. 
 
 Their first sad matrimonial care. 
 
 Shall add sweet chiming minstrelsy, 
 With wedding-bells will music share. 
 
 We'll have shrill music, weird and strange, 
 And rivaling melodious gong, 
 
 Bright variations shall arrange 
 To intersperse the marriage song. 
 
 And each by turn will signify 
 
 The joys and woes of married life. 
 
 And concord, discord, caused thereby, 
 From love's bright smiles, or silly strife. 
 
 Kind Fortune grant prosperity, 
 
 A long, long life, and pleasant days, 
 
 To live together happily. 
 
 And journey on in wisdom's ways. 
 
PART V. 
 
 NATURE. 
 
E18 • HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 PRELUDE. 
 ACH. : How beautiful, o'er hill and plain. 
 The scenes in Nature's fair domain, 
 As vegetation's forms appear. 
 To decorate the varied year. 
 Had I intelligence and power 
 To paint the many-tinted flower. 
 The rhythm of Nature's blt-nt array, 
 As eternal graces shall display, 
 Delineate the rural scene, 
 As when earth puts on her robe of green, 
 Imagination's coK)ring 
 To beautify my theme would bring. 
 An artist's pencil 1 would use, 
 But diffidence e'er curbs my muse, 
 Her grand and heavenly flight retards. 
 The lyrics of the ancient bards 
 I dare not try to imitate, 
 Nor shall attempt to stimulate 
 To rapture dull prosaic souls. 
 "While Nature to their minds unfolds 
 Her charming picture gallery 
 Of wild, enchanting scenery, 
 Their thoughts revert to other scenes, 
 Are busy with financial schemes ; 
 The varied problems of this life, 
 With all its cares and pleasures rife. 
 They cannot note the beauteous bloo m, 
 Of flowers wrought in Nature's loom, 
 Sweet verdure, too, the emerald sheen. 
 Of vegetation's vivid green ; 
 Soft carpeting of dale and hill. 
 The diamond flash of purling rtll. 
 
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 Nor list the sweet-toned warbler's song, 
 In faintest echoes borne along. 
 Bright Nature in her ga a dress 
 Awaits the zephyr's soft caress, 
 The humid breath of warm, mild showers, 
 So girdle earth with blooming flowers. 
 The myriad plants and living things 
 A gay diversity still brings ; 
 While Earth her powers has renewed 
 And biams with teaming plenitude. 
 
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 AMERICA. 
 
 AcH, : America, renowned and fair, 
 Illustrious beyond compare, 
 I sing thy free and prosperous state. 
 In liberty and power elate ; 
 Prepared whene'er occasions rise 
 For bold exploits or grand emprise. 
 I now thy present glories laud, 
 Thy past achievements would applaud,^ 
 Whose people vanquished tyranny 
 And broke the chains of slavery. 
 Magnificent America, 
 Bright land beyond departing day. 
 Reposing in the Western sea, 
 The future home of Liberty. 
 Around thy capes old Ocean curled. 
 And kept thee from the ancient world. 
 But from thy mysteries unknown 
 Our land Discovery has won. 
 Explorers sailed the seas between 
 The thousand leagues that intervene, 
 And landed on thy blessed shore, 
 Ameiica, unknown before. 
 They found a fruitful soil, but then 
 Wild woods, wild beasts and wilder men. 
 But still the people flocking come 
 To that New World, to find a home. 
 Some driven away by tyrant's stress, 
 Seek refuge in the wilderness. 
 Before the sturdy pioneers 
 The stealthy Indian disappears. 
 By these was peopled our New World,. 
 
 [ The flag of Liberty unfurled. 
 
 With rapid changes ] ass the years 
 And Commerce joins the hemispheres^ 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 12a 
 
 As down the tide the centuries glide 
 Behold America, the prid^, 
 The radiant queen of all the earth, 
 A nation of exalted worth. 
 Possessed of a boundless fame, 
 Her glorious attributes proclaim. 
 Skill, science, love to linger there, 
 In wealth, refinement, equal share, ' 
 She holds with other favored lands, 
 The heart beats warm, the brain expands. 
 And stimulates the thoughts sublime, 
 In that delightfully tempered clime, 
 Where Learning's valued thought is free» 
 And Mind is more than Pedigree. 
 
 IN THE DELLS. 
 
 ACH. : In the quiet, dreamy dells. 
 Overhung by towering hills. 
 Sylvan warblers, tinkling rills. 
 Purl and ring like chiming bells. 
 Mingling music, rarely sweet. 
 Sweet the song the ripples sing. 
 As the pebbles flash and fling, 
 Drops of spray whose murmurs greet. 
 Now the happy woodland choir 
 Blending with their warbled song 
 Witching strains are borne along 
 Grand composers might inspire. 
 Birds flit down from leafy spray, 
 Pinions in the rivulet lave. 
 Skim along the rippling wave 
 Then on glancing wing away. 
 Merrily the leaf-hid bird 
 
 Trills of home and dear delights. 
 Flock around him feathered sprights 
 With their airy flights deferred. 
 
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 O deHcious atmosphere, 
 
 Lovely Innocence might dwell 
 
 In the cool secluded dell 
 Or blest spirits there appear. 
 Here I yield to blissful dreams 
 
 Where the vine Iwiaed bower tree weaves 
 
 Lattice work of lacinq leaves 
 That obscure the sun's bright beams. 
 Softened shaded rays emerge, 
 
 Shimmering sunshine sifted down 
 
 Through the linden's leafy crown 
 In prismatic hues diverge. 
 On a grassy slope reclined 
 In a dreamy reverie 
 
 Garbed in goMen imngery 
 Pleasing scenes divert the mind. 
 Fancies quaint keep jt)yful reign, 
 
 Bright and happy memories glide 
 
 In an ever-flowing tide 
 Through the mazes of the brain. 
 In the dell embowered in shade 
 
 Fancy roves on pinions light. 
 
 Winging her erratic flight 
 In the bright cloud colonade. 
 Wild and darkly beautiful 
 
 Are the scenes within the dell, 
 
 As it were enchanting spell 
 Would our restless spirits lull. 
 
 CLOUDLAND. 
 
 AcH. : Bright Cloudland's temples reach the skies, 
 And fair cloud palaces arise, 
 While through far vis?as I behold 
 The cloudy curtains wide unrolled. 
 And deep within rhe silvery lining. 
 Soft lights and richest tints comoining. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 123 
 
 There Cloudland's billowy plains expand, 
 
 There mountains rise, and castles grand, 
 
 And while dim distance intervenes 
 
 The clouds resemble earthly scenes, 
 
 They float beneath the azure ceiling. 
 
 All beauteous hues and forms revealing. 
 
 Who would not soar on pinions free, 
 
 Up where the cool cloud caverns be, 
 
 Abode of those bright beings fair, 
 
 Inhabiting the realms of air, 
 
 There joined with gay ecstatic fancies. 
 
 They whirl in swift aerial dances, 
 
 The phantoms glide in changing crowds, 
 
 Amid the silver-tinted clouds, 
 
 Their shadowy forms are often seen. 
 
 In sombre garb or brilliant sheen. 
 
 Though dimly through the cloud's embrasure. 
 
 While flitting in the fields of azure. 
 
 In azure seas, round cloudy capes. 
 
 Fantastic images and shapes. 
 
 Each basking in the sunshine floats, 
 
 Soft breezes waft their fragile boats. 
 
 Between the rifted clouds propelling, 
 
 Their cloudlet sails so airily swelling. 
 
 But when the gorgeous sunrise drapes. 
 
 The phantom forms, aerial shapes, 
 
 Celestial tint, Auroral hue, 
 
 The Morning's misty vail imbue. 
 
 Oh then the pearl tinged clouds of morning • 
 
 Aurora fills with rich adornirg. 
 
 Resplendent tapestries unfold, 
 
 Revealing through the gates of gold. 
 
 The sun-bright, pure cerulean dome. 
 
 That canopies the spirit's home, 
 
 Those happy regions light and airy. 
 
 Where flutters airy sprite or fairy. 
 
124 HECIOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 The heaven's bannered troops advance. 
 
 Parading in the blue expanse, 
 
 Their airy evolutions ply, 
 
 With march and countermarch, on high; 
 
 In fields where golden sunshine blazes, 
 
 They glide in labyrinthine mazes. 
 
 LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. 
 
 ACHi : Pale regions of the midnight sun 
 Thou land of iee and snow 
 O where the freezing torrents run 
 And Artie tempests blow 
 Is the Frost King's gli.tering capital 
 Mid the glaciers and the valleys 
 In an iceberg hollowed palace 
 There he dwells and keeps high carnival. 
 Throughout the chilly lingering /ear, 
 Through cheerless summer day, 
 The sun slants down the turning sphere 
 Oblique and frigid ray 
 
 Where the great white bear pursues the seal 
 To his home in frozen Ocean 
 As he glides with agile motion 
 ^Idly where the surface waves congeal 
 Polaris in the zenith shines 
 The constellation wheel 
 Around him while in radiant lines 
 The silvery starbeams steal 
 • And the night is almost bright as day 
 In the realm of sunless winters 
 Where the chrystal spires and splirters 
 Glisten in mild Luna's tempered ray. 
 The Frost King's magic wand doth swing 
 As sculptured forms are born, 
 The snowy draperies to fling 
 And statutes to adorn. 
 
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 As ice-germs flash in halls of the North, 
 
 Queen Aurora Bjrealis 
 
 From her chryslal carven palace 
 
 Clad in rainbows merrily issues forth. 
 
 Land where the magnet ever turns, 
 
 Enwrapped in snowy shroud, 
 
 Where the brilliant arch sublimely burns 
 
 That spans the dusky cloud. 
 
 While Aurora from the luminous verge 
 
 Darts her rainbow-tinted streamers 
 
 O'er the sky in wavy tremors^ 
 
 And they oft in bright Corona merge. 
 
 More beatitiful than dawning day 
 
 The changing colors graceful play 
 
 And streamers vivid sheen. 
 
 Swiftly gliding waves and golden streams, 
 
 Till the beautiful Aurora 
 
 Seems to mirror Heaven's glory 
 
 Blending hues and softly brilliant gleams. 
 
 THE STORM. 
 ACH. : Sultry it was in midsummer noons. 
 
 Prosiest works all mingled in rhyme, 
 Flowerets entwined in the gayest festoons. 
 
 Withered away in a moment of time. 
 For the moisture was gone from the dry, dusty earth , 
 And the drought was upon us, and pleasure and 
 
 mirth 
 Could be though^ of no more, while the people com- 
 plaining, 
 Muttered God is unjust, we are suffering and 
 fainting . 
 
 Out of the West then the hurricane blew, 
 Black scudding clouds swept angrily by, 
 
 Gathering shadows, gloomier grew. 
 
 Concealed from the earth the sun and the sky. 
 
126 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 From the summit of Heaven methought that I heard* 
 The command, ** Go, prepare ye the way of the 
 
 Lord," 
 For our God goeth down with His lightnings and 
 
 thunders, 
 To rebuke the proud people with terrible wonders^ 
 
 Suddenly flashed the electrical spark, 
 
 Roared the loud thunders over the plain, 
 Ribbons of flame illumed the deep dark, 
 
 Clouds emptied down their torrents of rain. 
 And the windows of Heaven were oped far and 
 
 wide, 
 While the waters rushed forth in an unceasing tide. 
 Till a voice cried for mercy, just faintly replying, 
 'Twas the voice of the people, with groaningand 
 sighing. 
 
 AFTER THE STORM. 
 
 ACH.: After the storm the rainbow appears, 
 
 Circling the sky with radiant line. 
 While the sun's rays, dissolving in tears, 
 
 Wept by the clouds, now smilingly shine. 
 And a voice seems to say from the gloom that en- 
 shrouds 
 I have set for a token my bow in the clouds, 
 If to-day I afflict with the tempest of sorrow, 
 Yet the skies will be brighter and fairer to-morrow. 
 
 Bright, gorgeous hues in beauty combine, 
 
 Blending in one harmonious whole, 
 Throned on the bow God seemed to recline, 
 
 While from our view the clouds onward roll. 
 And His voice we may hear from the clear azure sky^ 
 I remember my word in the days gone by, 
 And my bow in the heavens I do place for a token, 
 I will keep through all time this promise unbroken. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 123 
 
 Beautiful bow, companion of storms, 
 
 Wliy with the storm dost vanish from sight, 
 Silver tipped clouds, of fairy-like forms, 
 
 Melting away, continue their flight. 
 How serene is the hour, how refreshing and bright^ 
 And the purified air we inspire with delight, 
 Then is Nature attired in her radiant adorning, 
 As delightfully cool as the dew-sparkling mornings 
 
 SUNRISE. 
 AcH. : How sweet the charms when Nature wakes 
 
 In woods and lawns and meadows. 
 Midst forest glens and tangled brakes 
 
 Flit everchanging shadows. 
 
 Far East the pearly tints of dawn 
 
 We ken with apt acumen 
 But soon Aurora field and lawn 
 
 Will beauteously illumine 
 
 A long the sky the colors creep. 
 
 Their beauty still increasing ; 
 Long lines of red far skyward leap 
 
 And blend with hues most pleasing. 
 
 Uprising from the leafy rim 
 
 That bounds our feeble vision 
 [he smiling sun seems praising Him 
 Who gave light- bringing mission. 
 
 Bright hours when merging into days 
 
 Dim Darkness yields her power. 
 And poured abroad the sun's v. arm rays 
 
 Fall fast, a sparkling shower. 
 
 The spires and dwellings of the town, 
 
 The hills and streamlets glisten 
 Sweet sounds from from far come muinnuirg down 
 
 We would be still and listen. 
 
S28 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 In all the trees the happy birds 
 
 Their merry tunesare singing, 
 List tinkling bells of grazing herds 
 
 Their chimes in concert singing. 
 Within the bush the throstle sings, 
 
 Where dewdrops bend the daisies. 
 The blue-bird skims on tiny wings, 
 
 And soaring, chirps sweet praises. 
 Serenely smiles the morning beam, 
 
 The Eastern slopes reflecting, 
 Send back again the sunlight gleam 
 
 To quiet dells directing. 
 There's beauty in the rising sun, 
 
 In clouds the sunlight tinges. 
 Around the clouds bright colors run 
 
 With variegating fringes. 
 
 NOON. 
 
 Hec. : A vertical sun proclaims high noon 
 
 1 shun his fiercely burning beam, 
 And now a dish of cool ice cream 
 
 Would be a most refreshing boon. 
 
 Now taking my rest where sun cannot shine 
 
 Would seek repose in leafy bower 
 To dream through sultry noontide hour 
 
 In arbor green where grapevines twine. 
 
 Perhaps recline in clover-gemmed swnrd, 
 
 Where shamrock on its trefoil stem 
 AH round my glassy couch does hem 
 
 That naught in the world could make him arouse, 
 
 The sun shines fiercely on scorching plain. 
 
 The maiden flees at this sultry hour 
 To silence and her cool bordoir 
 
 To there arrange for another campaign. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLEA. 1-29 
 
 She count? her lovers by tens, by scores, 
 
 As a nun repealing Ava Maria 
 'Would count the beads in her rosary, 
 
 Ana everyone his goddess adores, 
 Sut she is as cool as the summer cloud 
 
 Now floating in the atmosphere 
 And seems a gay pavillion there. 
 
 The spirit's happy bright abode. 
 'O 'tis the sultry, sweltering noon, 
 
 I sigh for a breath from a colder clime, 
 •Or to be on the mountain heights sublime 
 
 Or soaring afar in the light baloon. 
 Then had I bird's light pinions, away 
 
 Far above to altitudes cool I would fly. 
 And be but a dot in the azure sky 
 
 Until the mild hours of closing day. 
 
 EVENING. 
 
 Hec. : Now, gentle render, by your leave, 
 I sing again, 'tis twilight eve. 
 Full soon the tender leaflets close, 
 All Nature seems to seek repose. 
 The silvery moon with tranquil ray, 
 More pleasant than the light of day, 
 •Beams tenderly on vale and hill. 
 And glimmers on the rippling rill. 
 Anon the gay mosquito comes, 
 Unweariedly around us hums, 
 He sings his droning lullaby tune 
 But, oh ! he sends his bill too soon. 
 Now list the plaintive wail of cats. 
 About the time of flitting bats ; 
 Alas ! there are two kinds of bats, 
 •One flies, pursues the other cats. 
 And borne upon the gentle gale, 
 As I have said, their mournful wail. 
 
13© HECTOR AND ACHILLES, 
 
 Ferocious felines on parade, 
 Prepared for war or serenade. 
 Bold vocalists and warriors thty, 
 And bound to follow " old dog Tray,'* 
 Grimalkins forte is not to sing, 
 But captuie mice upon the wing. 
 Around the house and field may range^ 
 For music I desire a change ; 
 A change there is, oh ! give us pause,. 
 The boy on squeaking fidd'e draws 
 His bow at random, children cry, 
 Till soothed by mothei's lullaby. 
 We soon shall hear the dulcet flute,. 
 1 he soft guitar, or lover's lute, 
 Or note of plaintive whippooivvill,. 
 Re- echo from the distant hill, 
 And list the turtle's mournful coo, 
 'Tis now the hour when lovers woo; 
 To well-remembered trysling place. 
 She comes with dimpled rosy face,' 
 A beauteous girl, by Cupid led. 
 Of graceful mien and aiiy tread. 
 Bedecked in fashion's bright array, 
 With silent foot-fall, as a fay. 
 Or angel frc m the shining sphere. 
 Called Venus' name to lovers dear; 
 Oh, yes ! and Cupid lencs her wings 
 And happiness her lover brings, 
 A bird has whispered Beauty 's there,. 
 Our hap[iy hero doih appear ; 
 A sprightly youth of handsome form. 
 And with him comes a breathing storm^ 
 Of fond affection, blushes, sighs, 
 And love's dear questions and replies^. 
 iViethinks thai should amuse an owl. 
 More mildly make a savage scowl ; 
 With heavy step and locks unshorn. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 131 
 
 There strays a bachelor forlorn, 
 Long since his hopes to zero fell ! 
 But hark ! the infant's dreadful yell. 
 Now let us hasten, Love is told, 
 And everybody 's growing old. 
 Farewell to Ponto,let him howl. 
 Good-bye to fliltermcuse and owl, 
 His drowsy song the night-bird sings. 
 And slumber comes with downy wings. 
 
 MIDNIGHT. 
 Hec. : Grim midnight now the shapeless fright 
 Within the ebon halls of night 
 Sits on his throne of deepest gloom 
 That spectral lights can scarcely illume, 
 While pale and glimmering ghosts attend.. 
 Those midnight rioters expend 
 Their wits in frightening credulous folks 
 And perpetrating solemn jokes. 
 At midnight hour when lights burn blue 
 Appears an awful bugaboo 
 Then too the fleet, light-footed ghosts 
 Come gliding to their several posts 
 With conntenances sad and pale. 
 All light and noiselessly they sail 
 Each mocking imp or fleeting shade 
 Arrayed in gloomy masquerade 
 But with the pearly tints of day 
 They canter off in sad dismay. 
 At midnight hour in fairy bowers 
 The fairies dance among the flowers. 
 
 With flower wreaths crowned mid moonlighfl 
 
 sheen 
 They lightly trip upon the green. 
 While gloomy eif or merry fay 
 With fairy song or elvish play 
 Now totter on pale Luna's beams 
 
132 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Then vanish like elusive dreams. 
 
 Hoborohlins now bei|in to scare 
 
 And witches sailing through the air 
 
 Their broomstick h';)rses they bestride 
 
 And all equipped afar to ride. 
 
 Bnt let us know what mortal do, 
 
 The visible world again we view 
 
 The dance goes on in lighted hall 
 
 Entrancing music of the ball 
 
 Gay gentleman do there parade 
 
 With ladies dance and promenade. 
 
 They exercise thsir skipping powers. 
 
 And caper in the wee sma' hours, 
 
 In light parterre or brilliant hall 
 
 We hear the ladies' footsteps fall, 
 
 Their merry laughter now and then, 
 
 And boisterous laugh of gentlemen. 
 
 Adown the dimly lighted street 
 
 With wary glance and cautious feet 
 
 A lone pedestrian doth stroll, 
 
 The placid burglar on parole. 
 
 A quiet gentleman genteel 
 
 For money mai<es his last appeal 
 
 He enter:^ some unguarde i home 
 
 About the premises to roam 
 
 Supplies deficiencies of cash 
 
 Around him deadly weapons flash, 
 
 As seen by a lantern's gleaming ray, 
 
 Departure takes as best he may. 
 
 But, hush, what sound the stillness breaks 
 
 And slumbering troops of echoes wakes 
 
 As from the hills they swiftly pour 
 
 It is the deafening roar 
 
 Of laughter or tumultuous row 
 
 Of youngsters stealing homeward now. 
 
 Or wild discordant minstrelsy. 
 
 Of gentlemen upon a spree, 
 
HECTOR AND ACHIl.LES. 133 
 
 Are bound to have a jolly lark 
 And makes the whole community hark. 
 
 MAY MORNING. 
 AcH. : Bright vernal morn, thou art mild and se- 
 rene, 
 Earth is attired in the beauty of May, 
 Bees, birds and blossoms enliven the scene, 
 Charming our senses with varied display. 
 Queen of the morning, Aurora appears, 
 
 Robed in purple, with golden-tinged curls, 
 Rising in splendor she rains dewy tears, 
 
 Night's chilly vapors condensed into pearls. 
 Shadows are merged in the brightness of dawn, 
 
 Mists glide av/ay from the sunshiny hills. 
 Lis*- in the dell, darKling forest and lawn, 
 Singing of birds, in soft tremulous trills. 
 Charming and grand are the scenes we behold, 
 
 Woodland and glade, sparkling dew-gems adorn, 
 Shrub-d >tted slopes are illumened with gold, 
 Bathed in the smiles of the baaulilul morn. 
 Birds blithely warble in leafy green bowers, 
 
 Tossing the dew from their delicate plumes, 
 Gardens and grass gayly garnished with flowers. 
 
 Fragrance emit in delicious perfumes. 
 Showers of April and sunshine of May, 
 
 Carpet the earth with a velvety green. 
 Humming-birds mver o'er blossoming spray. 
 
 Fluttering pinions of varying sheen. 
 Beautiful May, brightest gem of the year, 
 
 Wilt thou not linger our earth to adorn ? 
 No ; like the morning ju>t dawning so clear. 
 
 Passing away as our youth's rosy morn. 
 Beautiful morning of beautiful May, 
 
 Calling to mind happy days of our youth, 
 Preamble gay to our Life's glaring day. 
 Cheering us oft in Life's journey, forsooth. 
 
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 APRIL. 
 
 Hec. : Wild Winter's cruel, chilling blast, 
 With clouds and storms of winter past, 
 The wild wood warblers homeward winging, 
 Their olden melodies are singing; 
 With shower or shine and smile so arch, 
 Mild April follows stormy March. 
 
 Fair April, smiling midst her tears, 
 
 As winter slowly disappears, 
 
 The merry month of bud and blossom. 
 
 When verdure starts from Earth's cold bosom, 
 
 Revivified by vernal showers, 
 
 A summer robe begemmed wiih flowers. 
 
 With April's light and varied song, 
 Old Winter charmed, now lingers long, 
 And April with him siiil coqueling, 
 Anon, his older claims forgetting, 
 Then listens to that beauteous boy. 
 As Summer woos the maiden coy. 
 
 He comes as comes the purple Morn, 
 His chatiol by zephyrs borne, 
 With sunshine reins and gossamer traces, 
 He teaches them their proper paces, 
 With blushes stolen from tropic blooms, 
 And breatiiing out their rare perfumes. 
 
 Obeisance makes with i)ow profound, 
 
 And she with pink peach blossoms crowned, 
 
 To sweeter speech demurely listens. 
 
 Her brow with diamond dew-drops glistens, 
 
 Bright portion of he.- garland wreath, 
 
 O Summer, with your fragrant breath. 
 
 Your silken song if caroled well. 
 But courtship is a bewildering spell. 
 Although your coming is propitious, 
 Yet April, merry and capricious, 
 
HECTOR AND AOIIILLES. 135 
 
 May wish to conquer other worlds, 
 
 Aad trust you like coqu^lish gir'.s. 
 
 Whea pensive Melancholy reigns, 
 
 And soigbirds twitter sad refrains, 
 
 While Earth seems over^rloomed with sorrow, 
 
 We know there will be brighr to- Morrow, 
 
 The clouds and rain will fl nvers bring, 
 
 Returning birds will sweetly sing. 
 
 The charming ways and beauty wild, 
 
 Oh ! Nature's petted, darling child, 
 
 She still attracts, though n )t deceiving. 
 
 He wedding robis now deftly weaving. 
 
 Entwines with sunshine's golden threads. 
 
 Sweet garden flowers and blooms on the meads. 
 
 niELUDE rO NA I'URE. 
 
 .ACHILL'^i : 
 
 Come sprightly Fancy from thy fairy flights 
 
 Bring rich Imxgination's sweet delights. 
 
 From difiidence thou must recall my Muse 
 
 With bright artistic beauties to infuse 
 
 My poems, so that gilded graces throng 
 
 The dreamlike architecture of song 
 
 With all the varying rhythms of Thought's 
 
 light roundelay 
 Akin to marry music's showei-y spray. 
 And while imagination skyward skims 
 Blithe Fancy roves the realms of humorous whims 
 With flashing rays that come and go at will ; 
 The soul of man with sweet emotions thrill 
 Cause Thought's gay blooming flowers to fall in 
 
 showers 
 To brighten and make glad the gloomy hours. 
 
 NATURE. 
 Sird-song, flower-bloom, bright sunshine and the 
 rain 
 
J86 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Flower mottled verdure of mountain, lard ancD 
 
 plain, 
 Beauteous changing sceneries of valley and glen, 
 Make our sin-cursed world like Eden blocm again^ 
 From ravines amid hills there glides the purling, 
 
 lill 
 Over dancing ripples sunshine flashes trill. 
 World of beauty, world of gladness, where we 
 
 dwell. 
 All the beauteous forms of life and being tell 
 Of a metaphoric language quaint and bland. 
 Fair figures of spetch they ornament the land. 
 Ken the rhythmic cadence of Nature's Poesy 
 Sweet aswhtn the chiming spheres made melody- 
 Sunshine smiles on verduous slopes the live long: 
 
 day, 
 Flowers dot the fields in beautiful array. 
 Ripplirg rills and foaming cascades in the glens 
 Arching o'er the spiay the mimic rainbrw bends. 
 Twilight shadows there coitraslirg, daik or bright,. 
 Coming, flitting, cause perpetual delight. 
 Midst the waving boughs the blue of heaven be- 
 tween, 
 Azure blent with vegetat'on's deep rich green, 
 Sappiie skies the emt ra'd .--j.ray lias all concealed, 
 Then again bi-oad lakes of azure lie revealed. 
 Flaming sunshine coyly giimmers down the deep, 
 Shady dell where shadows cool their revels keep. 
 Rour.d cerulean skies faii.t colors flash and die. 
 Brighter colors gleam in sunshine's golden stream* 
 Midst the foliage green soft flecks of sunshire fall^ 
 Mottled rings of light pervade the glcomy pall. 
 "When the toil-worn trav'ler scales yon mountaiir> 
 
 height 
 All the inspiring scene impsrts supieme delight. 
 Kingdt nis of the world setm gathered at his feet 
 States or sovereigi s in dim confusion meet. 
 
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 From that hei^iht he scans the world in minature, 
 Unto realms afar that distance will obscure. 
 "What a gorgeous panorama there unfolds, 
 What a grand, resp'endent pngeant he beholds. 
 Down ihe terraced hills the shining rivulets run, 
 Burnished lines of silver gleaming in the sun. 
 Sunshine gleams on waving woods so far below. 
 Fallen from the nDuntain top the cool winds blow» 
 Eagles from iheir eyries, grandly wheeling, fly. 
 In the atmospheiic sea twixt earth and sky. 
 On that isolated point so near the skies 
 Man a lonely sentry may philosophise. 
 Clouds bet-.eath him flo.it around the mountatrt 
 
 curled 
 Oft conceal from view the lovely lower world 
 Till the changing current^ rend the cloudy vail 
 And a burst < f sun-hine lightens hill and dale. 
 Mountain torrents flash adown their mighty wall,^ 
 Echoes fainily rii gi'g to the valleys call. 
 Over leagues afar the sweeping vision flies 
 Where the distant landsc-ipe in dreamy splendor lies,. 
 Checkered o'tr with f-rms and firlds along the plain,. 
 Fields of growing ma'z- and fields of golden grain. 
 Woods to shrubby ihickeis dwindle in the dim, 
 Distant scene that bonnd the far horizon's rim. 
 Far and far away wuere earth and sky unite 
 Real to the unreal st-ems to lake its flight. 
 As the lands unknown the imaginative mind 
 Peoples with wondrous beings like to human kind» 
 Even that leafy rim for aught the view can tell 
 Fringes the shadowy land wnere elves and fairies 
 
 dwell. 
 Forms of vegetation we may faintly trace 
 Seem so well adapted to the pygmy race. 
 At the foot of the m«>untain there sparkle the rills 
 And a rich mellow light is flooding the hills, 
 That the beautiful valleys are laughing between 
 
OS HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Robed in velvety verdare of bright vivid green. 
 How magnificent grand yet enchantingly fair 
 Is the mountain that looms in the ambient air. 
 
 SONG, 
 f Iec. : The songster awakes in the gr^en sylvan 
 bowers, 
 
 Caroling blithely away, 
 And freely exerting his musical powers, 
 
 Ever so happy and gay. 
 
 Warble away ever so gay, 
 
 Carol tliy rapturous lay. 
 And flirting the dew from his delicate plumes. 
 
 Sounds his delectable goi'g, 
 Imbibing the air and delicious perfumes, 
 
 Sweetens his gay morning song ; 
 Singing his song all the day long, 
 
 Sounding his musical go.ig. 
 The fair tints of mora on the dew spangled mead, 
 
 Follow the shadows of night, 
 Darkness and gloo;n from the bright sun recede. 
 
 Flooding the wodd with his light ; 
 
 Fervidly shine luminous mine, 
 
 Shine till the daylight's decline. 
 The song-bird retreats to the cool, darkling dA\, 
 
 Singing enchantingly there, 
 And boldly and long will he carol, and well , 
 
 Cheerily drives away care ; 
 
 Folding his wings, merrily sings. 
 
 Faintly the dell's echo rings. 
 
 SUMMER. 
 
 AcH. : Come tripping Muse, nor should'st refuse. 
 To tell us with appropriate phrase, 
 Of radiant sheen and changing scene, 
 Summer's ever varying phase. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 139 
 
 For now the sun's bright chariot runs, 
 
 Up to the Northern tropic line, * 
 
 And turning, then hies South again, 
 
 Till cold, oblique his rays do shine. 
 
 As Summer comes the brown bee hums. 
 
 In pastures white with clover bloom, 
 
 And lovelier grows the opening rose, 
 
 With texture wrought in Nature's loom. 
 
 And all in tune in merry June, 
 
 The birds trill forth their melody, 
 
 Time slips along with sweet bird song. 
 
 In shaded parks or verdurous lea. 
 
 In meadows mown witti cheery tone. 
 
 The lark springs from the rowen green. 
 
 With antics gay the squirrels play, 
 
 Beyond the forest's foliage screen. 
 
 On zephyr wings sweet summer brings 
 
 The glare and glowing warmth of noon, 
 
 Enchanting morns or night adorns, 
 
 With splendors of the harvest moon. 
 
 These summer days the lasseled maize 
 
 Bends to the gale like pliant trees, 
 
 The tall plants lean in dark rich green. 
 
 And wave and rustle in the breeze 
 
 That softly blows along the rows, 
 
 The blades and silky filaments, 
 
 The sun and rain to f )rm the grain, 
 
 Bestow a happy influence. 
 
 Fair fruitage grows on bending boughs. 
 
 And when the sultry summer comes. 
 
 Then with a blaze of golden rays 
 
 The sun tints purple grapes and plums. 
 
 And paints the peach, and gives to each 
 
 A delicate and rare pink tinge. 
 
 Out bio )ming flowers that wreathe gay bowers. 
 
 Or ornament the streamlet's fringe. 
 
140 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 » The fruits and grain their grov;th attain. 
 
 While in their cells the juicf s dance, 
 Abundant yields from fruitful fields, 
 Provide our yearly sustenance. 
 Then from the North comes bldwing forth 
 Chill Autumn's breath, that fades the flowers. 
 The sunshine glints on Autumn tints, 
 That crimson ail the woodland bowers. 
 
 NOON REST. 
 
 IIec. : Upon a low-crowned shaded hill reclining. 
 
 On veidure of velvety grass. 
 
 The sultrv summer noon I pass. 
 Perhaps may feel tlie sunbeams fiercely shining,. 
 As when the rays pervade the leafy lining, 
 And then I find a deeper shade. 
 
 1 sward sprinkled over. 
 With blos?oming clover, 
 
 At ense my weary limbs are laid. 
 
 The beautiful shrmrock on hillocks, in hollows. 
 
 Bright :^milinp from a trefoil stem, 
 
 All round my grnssy couch does hem. 
 Above me skim on glancing wings the swallows, 
 Like murmuring waters rippling o'er the shallows. 
 With melody the bird-notes chime, 
 
 The woodlands are ringing, 
 
 Where wild birds, are singing, 
 The happiest song of summer time. 
 
 Along the sky the ravenous hawk i? stealing, 
 Some heedless creature to devour, 
 
 1 view him from my shady bovver. 
 
 On flutteiing pinions poised 'neath heaven's blue 
 
 ceiling. 
 Or soaring high, in circles grandly wheeling, 
 And envy him his airy height. 
 
HKCTOR AND ACHILLES. 1*1 
 
 Had T eagle's pinions 
 1 w mid seek his dorainions, 
 And rival him in lofty flight. 
 
 THE CLOSING YEAR. 
 
 AcH. : The gloomy days and leaden skies 
 Of bleak November, come again, 
 And leaves late tinged v^rith Autumn dyes, 
 
 Are falling in the sleety rain. 
 November's chilling air has blown, 
 
 From regions cold, where Winter dwells, 
 Alas ! tlie s immer birds have flown, 
 
 Adown to milder parallels. 
 And Summer's latest blooming flowers, 
 
 Have fided in the year's decline. 
 And arbor; gieen and trellised bowers 
 
 Their pleasures and their shades resign. 
 The earth has passed her summer's day, 
 
 Once verdant flelds are brown and sere, 
 And summer's beauteous array, 
 
 With flowers and birds will disappear. 
 For Winter, from that land of death, 
 
 Where oft the strange Aurora glows. 
 Is hastening now with gelid breath. 
 From realms of everlasting snows. 
 He follows in the path of storms, 
 
 Or silver tips the twigs and fronds, 
 A gloomy wreath midst shadowy forms, 
 
 As earth her ermine mantle d©ns. 
 And lightly falls the feathery snow. 
 
 He sheets the surface of the streams, 
 The ornate boughs wave to and fro, 
 
 While sunlight on the forest gleams. 
 The frost-gems sparkling in the sun, 
 Are glittering like jewels rare, 
 
342 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 And ere the mimic work is done, 
 Is earth like fairies palace fair. 
 
 Now to renew our energies, 
 
 Kind Christmas comes with pleasant cheer. 
 
 Amidst the gay festivities. 
 
 We while away the closing year. 
 
 CHRISTMAS- 
 Hec. I sing the happy holidays 
 
 When Christmas splendid gifts displays. 
 
 A merry Christmas then to all 
 
 Upon our huge terrestrial ball, 
 
 And turbinating planet. 
 
 At parties gay on Christmas eve 
 
 The people many guests receive. 
 
 In song or chat glad voices trill, 
 
 Seme whirl away in light quadrille 
 
 To witching strains of music, 
 
 Or listen in the lighted hall 
 
 To merry music of the ball. 
 
 The fiddler in his skill delights 
 
 Upon his fiddle softly smites. 
 
 Afar sv/eet sounds are floating 
 
 While far around his arm he flings 
 
 The music glides from fiddle string 
 
 Electrifies the dancer's heels. 
 
 In walizes, schottisches and reels 
 
 Promoting mild flirtations 
 
 At change of tune or interludes 
 
 They pose in elegant attitudes. 
 
 Xhe gentlemen do lively skip 
 
 And lovely maidens gentle trip 
 
 Is as light as fairies footfall. 
 
 To wondering little girls and boys 
 
 Old Santa Claus distributes toys. 
 
 With reindeer team he comes from far 
 
 Where eager, curious children are 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 14a 
 
 Brings store of toys and treasures. 
 
 The little ones then shout with glee 
 
 And have a general jubilee. 
 
 For many wonders they disclose 
 
 While each one through his stocking goes 
 
 The contents to examine. 
 
 gladsome day when Christmas comes 
 The yule log burns in happy homes. 
 Upon the laden Christmas trees 
 
 Are cos-tly gifts and io)sio please 
 T he big and little children, 
 Who now from far to view the wares 
 Are ihrorging all the thoroughfares. 
 For people young and old a'^pire 
 To jewel's gleam and gay attire 
 Rich splendor of apparel. 
 Ah Christmas is a pleasant hoax 
 To amuse the old and younger folks. 
 The gayest time in all the year 
 When cares and sorrows disappear 
 Is merry merry Christmas. 
 A time of kind remembrances 
 When all should do their best to please. 
 And many whose hearts in love will chime 
 Will launch their barques at Christmastime 
 On the matrimonial ocean. 
 December days so crisp and cold 
 Will render them supremely bold. 
 So during pleasant winter days 
 Along the smoothly beaten ways 
 
 1 he merry sleighbells jingle. 
 
 ALL THE YEAR ROUxVD. 
 Hec. T he spectral f(.im that rules the storm 
 King Winter shrieks from his icy throne. 
 The best of globes her eimine robes 
 Of purity has now put on. 
 
Hi HECi'OIi AND ACbllLLES.- 
 
 Along the s'ream with laugh and scream 
 Each skater skims with graceful curves. 
 Gay songs and games and courtship's flames 
 For home delights will aptly serve. 
 The s^leighbells chime like jingling rhyme 
 And drown Love's wai-;pered compliments. 
 The snowstorm swirls the powdery \\ hirls 
 And Mirth has all pre-eminence. 
 ACH. The vernal season decks the lea 
 Mild airs disperse the wintry gloom. 
 While showers and shine their powers combine 
 Bring verdure, leaf and bud and bloom. 
 Now leafy spray thwarts sunny ray. 
 Mid shadows cool the warblers sing. 
 Bright blooming flowers will wreath green 
 
 bowers 
 As winter c'ouds are vanishing. 
 
 The cool, sweet air is everywhere 
 Of summer's humid harbinger. 
 Refreshing rain will clothe the plain 
 With an emerald sea. Far lovelier 
 The sylvan scene of varying green 
 Of changing shadows, shifting light. 
 For golden summer now will C( me 
 On murmuring gales will wing his flight. 
 
 While rosy dawn illume lawn 
 With radiant vermillion rays 
 The feather'd choir 'twill all inspire 
 To trill their native song^ of praise. 
 
 Delicious morn ! awhile adorn 
 The shadowed planet silvery moons 
 That float in space. Long summer days 
 Will bring the sultry glaring noons. 
 
 The summer days to fiercely blaze 
 
 Till Time brings round the fall o' the year. 
 
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 Then fruits galore we lay in store 
 All gathered for our winter cheer. 
 Now Autumn prints her beauteous tints 
 Upon the f.jresi's garniiurc 
 Resplendent dyes; while genial skies 
 Send down an atmosphere so pure. 
 A soft still mist of amothyst, 
 The Indian summer's smoky vail, 
 Hangs o'er the hills, ravines and rills 
 Till winter gaie spreads snowy sail. 
 Hec. Had I the nerve, the poat's nerve, 
 I would employ as gorgeous Muse. 
 Would sing the Mind or human kind 
 Or warble Love's bewildering ruse. 
 As round my soul emotions roll 
 Earth's beauteous scenes have lightly stirred. 
 My Mu<e should float on golden notes 
 And flaunt like gaudy trotic bird. 
 
 THE AGREEMENT AND SYMPATHY OF 
 
 NATURE. 
 ACH. : Once long ago in the ancient times. 
 Commingled with the spheric chimes, 
 
 The morning stars in unison 
 Chimed praises to the Architect 
 Of Univer-e, while Heaven's elect 
 
 hang praises to the Mighiy One. 
 As wh n one carols a charming song, 
 Accomi)anying music glides along, 
 
 Each lingering strain with rapture dies. 
 There trembles down the rhythmic chords, 
 Responsive melody of words, 
 
 While song and music sympathize. 
 So now in Nature's concert hall, 
 Sweet sounds from far do softly fall. 
 
 Upon the pleased and listening ear. 
 The bird song echoing o'er the hills. 
 Is answering to the purling rills, 
 
 The wind's soft melody we hear. 
 Hec. : Yes, sweetly at the earliest dawn, 
 Come echoing over field und lawn, 
 
 Tne woodland Wi>rblers' symphonies. 
 There rings from multitudinous throats, 
 A chime of clear, mellifluous notes. 
 
 And Nature's pleasing melodies. 
 
lie, HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 ACH. : The new-fallen snow of luminous white, 
 Will make dark winter days more bright, 
 
 Conceals the earth all brown and bare. 
 The smiling sunshine, vernal showers, 
 Will heaulify our earth with flowers, 
 
 Soft green relieves the Summer's glare. 
 
 For summer's heat the cooling shade, 
 And leaiy buwers has Nature made. 
 
 As it were a slight equivalent. 
 To cool and purify the air, 
 Relieve from drouth or sun's bright flare, 
 
 The sweet, refreshing rain is sent. 
 
 The biid-song in the wilderness, 
 A lonely traveller may bles^. 
 
 Or solitary desert bloom ; 
 With lovelir.ess may softly stir, 
 The heart of some far wanderer, 
 
 And waft to him a sweet perfume. 
 
 So singing birds and blooming flowers, 
 Wiii g'ad and grace this world ff ours, 
 
 While softest tinls and blending hues 
 Will variegate the rural scene, 
 Or clouflv cnnopy with sheen 
 
 Auiv)rai : tints that charm the Muses. 
 
 ORION. 
 
 Hec. : Sing to the glad New Year, the happy 
 dawning year, 
 The starlight glitters cold. 
 The u'orhl is blithe and merry, sorrow would be- 
 gone. 
 Gay pleasure's wing unfold. 
 
 The swee'-toned bells are ringing a merry, merry 
 chinit-. 
 
 To greet the glad New Year ; 
 Advancing gaily now with bright and lively step, 
 
 Begins his bold career. 
 
 The starlight twinkles over the busy, bustling 
 world, 
 \h\s hushed the hum of trade, 
 While gas-jets of earth rival Heaven's chande- 
 liers, 
 That the azure arch inlaid. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 147 
 
 Each constellation bright of dazzling, blazing 
 suns, 
 The spangled sky adorns. 
 While blu'tring Orion magnificently shines. 
 
 And imminent danger scorns. 
 lie h IS whirled round the world since the days of 
 patient Job, 
 The patient printer Job, 
 Fierce Taurus to distract and guard the gentle 
 twins, 
 While ending round the globe. 
 Helmed warrior of old with angular-spangled 
 head, 
 And shining beit and sword. 
 The zodias grand troupe thus started on their 
 march. 
 Ere zodias Lion roared. 
 Brave general of the zodias, Marching in the sky, 
 
 With arms and armor bright, 
 DiiLur )s Ejuacor's balance and brings such storms 
 on earth, 
 As might o'erwhelm us quite. 
 Froai iri'dst the starry realms he smiles serenely 
 down, 
 And deals the fleeting years. 
 Then beams upon our planet, spinning round in 
 space, 
 To the singing of the spheres. 
 
 '1 HE BALL. 
 Come go to the festive ball among the gay elite. 
 Where gentlemen so prim in store-clothing fleet. 
 And there the lovelp fairies trip with twinkling feet 
 In gorgeous, rairaent'sweet. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 They skip around with merry whirls 
 
 In mazy dance meandering 
 
 A jolly group of boys and girls 
 
 Till fleeting hours the mornrng brings. 
 Where shimmering silks parade and precious jewels 
 
 shine 
 There smiles will answer smiles and arms with arms 
 
 entwine 
 Anon the trained musicians tune their fiddles fine 
 Rare melodies combine. 
 
348 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 Just as on moonlit sward the elves and faii-ies prance 
 So these with merry whirls now weave the lylhuiic 
 
 dance, 
 Ustil Aurora glows with rosy counterance 
 Requiied respite grants. 
 
 FINALE. 
 Hec : By the by, gentle reader, since life is too short 
 To compose the " nice " poems we realty »< oit," 
 Yet with feeble bei^ir.ning our hty'u> we ply, 
 For, by patience, we hope to improve i y and by. 
 Our arrangement of poems is (juile an aimniaiy, 
 For they range from light song to elaljorate homily. 
 We have ransacked our biains to g;'.riush ouv 
 
 themes, 
 All according to fancied ideals and dreams. 
 And have wrought, though with rude architectural 
 
 skill. 
 With the meekness of Moses, but resolute will. 
 We expect to be slain on the aliar of ciiticism, 
 Hapiy w(jrried to death by the rude .^tr.jkes of 
 
 witticism. 
 We have sung with great pleasure the beauties re- 
 fined, 
 And the brilliant, prominent graces of Mind. 
 As I he Muses ordained, light y carolled of Love, 
 Sung of angels below and of angels above. 
 And with praises appropriate, halai ced qnite evenly. 
 We have lauded the earihlv, extolling the heavenly. 
 While the lords of creation we do not dispraise, 
 * Though renowned for thtir crooked and wandering 
 
 ways. 
 They are not classed with the angels — a little 
 
 below. 
 And are nought but poor mortals, as they ought to 
 
 know. • 
 
 We have tried to paint Nature's most beautiful 
 
 scener). 
 During Autumn and Winter or Summer's bright 
 
 gieenery. 
 Fare you well, gentle souls, you have followed us 
 
 long, 
 Down the changeable themes of this volume of song. 
 And a patient perusal should please you we know, 
 Since the Muses bestow such a luminous glow. 
 We belong to one race and the same huiniin family, 
 So we hope that kind Fortune will smile on you 
 
 ba'mily. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. Ii8 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF THE MIND. 
 
 Achilles : 
 
 The mind with all sweet elegancies, 
 
 Abounds with inequalities, 
 
 The depths of sorrow and despair, 
 
 Qft clouded o'er by gloomy care, 
 
 The sunlit hills of hope and mirth; 
 
 Like superficies of the earth, 
 
 With mounds and hollows sinks or swells. 
 
 And oft the mind's secluded dells 
 
 That unimpassioned thoughts pervade, 
 
 Are cheered by bird's bliihe serenade. 
 
 These Hope's ecstatic pleasure thrills, 
 
 They flit irom mirth's bright, sunny hills; 
 
 Thoughts ripple on to lighter themes. 
 
 Contrasting with the dell's day dreams. 
 
 The Mind brings apt appliances • 
 
 To improve the essential qualities; 
 
 And there is Wisdom's happy home, 
 
 There learning too, delights to roam 
 
 Like garden plots or cultured fields, 
 
 If rightly tilled abundance yields. 
 
 Rich freights are brought from foreign shore. 
 
 Bright Orient scenes and classic lore, 
 
 Mosaic work the mind inlays, 
 
 Her farfetched treasures there displays, 
 
 Contrasting gems their beauties show. 
 
 Contrasting thoughts all brightly glow, 
 
 Contrasting, like the gay bouquet 
 
 Of flowers culled for gala day, 
 
 That bloom with tropic gorgeousness. 
 
 The mind's light fancies opalesce, 
 
 And while their graces scintillate. 
 
 Enjoy a sparkling tete-a-tete. 
 
 Hector : 
 
 No doubt a brilliant conference, 
 
 A gentleman of much nonsense 
 
 Would rather tete-a-tete with girls, 
 
 Anon they toss their glossy curls 
 
 And chatter with great brilliancy, 
 
 Eclipsing him most utterly. 
 
 And so the chitchat trills along. 
 
 With all the melody of song, 
 
 Or rapidly as telegrams, 
 
 The darling and most charming shams. 
 
150 HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 
 
 ACH. : Resplendent graces and refined, 
 Adorn, illuminate the mind, 
 With metaphors and imnges, 
 Embellished by the faculties. 
 The mind exalts our sentiments, 
 Communicates with every sense 
 From which crude knowledge is obtained, 
 By constant observation gained. 
 The transient scenes of varied kinds. 
 Are photographed upon our minds, 
 And lovely Nature's beauties rare, 
 Are known and deftly imaged there; 
 Bright glimpses seen mid coverts green. 
 While picturing the rural scene. 
 The mind eliminates the dross, 
 Bestows an iridescent gloss, 
 The while transparent beauties gleam, 
 Eucidate the glowing theme, 
 The home of all intelligence. 
 There thoughts acquire their elegance. 
 As gems are used to polish gems, 
 Deducing brilliant theorems, 
 The deep foundations of the theme, 
 Down which the rays of Wisdom stream. 
 The mind is thronged with odd conceits, 
 Imagination's ^ath-red sweets; 
 And -traiige illusions, quaint and rare, 
 With superstitions harbor there, 
 Men's pet'.ed darling theories; 
 Called llol'bies by their enemies. 
 
 llEC. : Each man his hobby horse bestrides 
 And on to conquest gaily rides; 
 While caring not if high or low. 
 The adverse giles of Fortune !)low. 
 Just as a plumed and mail-clad knight, 
 In gleaming livery bedight, 
 Proclaims himself wi'h pompousness 
 The stuidy champion of distress. 
 But he, wno rides the luckless beast, 
 Is most tot) wise to say the least, 
 He wiil perhaps be overthrown, 
 Wh ) late midst knightly splendors shone, 
 Or prove egregious blunderhead 
 That pride has into errors led. 
 O let liim ride his hobby-horse. 
 So recklessly upon his course, 
 He liktly will fetch up somewhere. 
 Or on continually will fare. 
 
HECTOR AND ACHILLES. 151 
 
 HONORA. 
 Fair Honora, 
 
 Thou'rt surely bright divinity, 
 
 Or goddess of the olden time 
 Come back to earth ; most certainly 
 A creature strayed from fairer clime. 
 Gay Honora, 
 
 Well knows she is supremely fair. 
 
 To please a score of nice young men, 
 Those favored objects of her care. 
 Still come and go, and come again. 
 Dear Honora, 
 
 Art fair, gay girl and very dear 
 
 To those same men as thou must know; 
 Smiles, dimples, come and disappear 
 On cheeks where damask roses blow. 
 Bland Honora 
 
 Has rosy cheeks and lily brow 
 
 Beneath her wavy raven curls. 
 Where smiles of sunshine, glinting now, 
 Illuminale that pearl of girls. 
 Hright Honora, 
 
 For Thought's light image. Mind's rare hints, 
 
 Are written on thy soulful face 
 As well as beauty's glowing tints, 
 Attractive to the bearded race. 
 Pure Honora, 
 
 Down in the deeps of thy dark eyes, 
 
 That sparkle with a merry light, 
 A world of tender paihos lies 
 
 And lingers^there so calmly bright. 
 K'.ithe Honora, 
 Thy coal black orbs, whose sparkling rays 
 
 A thousand diamond glances fling, 
 All brightly in unnumbered ways. 
 The heart's delights are uttering. 
 
16? HECTOR AND ACHILLES, 
 
 Glad Honora, 
 
 "With lovely, mobile countenance. 
 
 Whose facial, soft expressions show 
 Effects of Thought's sweet variance, 
 
 Or mirror Mind's diviner glow. 
 
 Wise H«nora, 
 
 The golden beauties of whc se mind 
 Reflected frc m her speaking face, 
 From out the soul's far depths have shined. 
 With winning and becoming grace. 
 
 Grand Honora, 
 
 Whose voiced expressions musical. 
 
 Reveal the mind's magnificence. 
 Sweet glances, bright and radial. 
 
 Flash forth the soul's grand eloquenct:. 
 
 Kind Honora, 
 
 Her angel features softly glow, 
 
 Illumed with Heaven's ecstatic ligV.t, 
 As if no mortal cares could know, 
 Or stormy sorrow's cruel blight. 
 
 Sly Honora, 
 
 Twin roses from Love's garden stole 
 
 To bloom upon her dimpled cheekSy 
 And there a gentle kiss for toll 
 The ardent lover vainly seeks. 
 
 Shrewd Honora, 
 
 She glides along the sphere terrene, 
 
 With form of dainty elegance. 
 Heart conqueror, Love's reigning queen^ 
 She strives in love's light tournaments. 
 
 Skilled Honora, 
 
 There's many a gaudy chevalier, 
 
 Or cynic bachelor forsooth, 
 With drooping plumes, all out of cheer,, 
 Deserves our sympathizing ruth. 
 
 Learned Honora, 
 
 With splendors of a cultured mind, 
 
 Whence emanate the florid phrase. 
 Or brilliant sentiments refined. 
 
 Evolved from Mind's meandering mase.