The Huron News-Record, 1896-05-06, Page 7a
E'en llama tie !pu4wilnt; carpi was
beautiful,
And I had fain with lilies of the field
Danced In the sunshine. singing blithe
with blr4g,
I turned my eyes from seeing taking
hold
11 Of spindle and of distaff, and essayed
To be a virtuous helpmate to my lord,
Had but Jehovah granted me a son,
The sweetness of all sweetness crush-
ed and held
To tempt my thirsty lips, had been es
husks;
For, 0 Leonidas, he would have filled
My life, love hungry and disconsolate.
But no child came, and Eleazar's heart
Was newly hardened to the barren
wife;
Naught had he ever cared for her
beyond
The purposes of his espousals. Dark
And desolate was all my way; but, to !
Swift in the' darkness didst thy pre-
sence flash,
Dense storm -clouds piercing, doth the
mountains make
To laugh, rejoicing in its golden light,
My heart was gladdened, though I
knew not why,
I thought not I should love thee; ah
no more
Than now I think to love the sun.
Thou calmest
A stranger, and didet sing me many
a song
Of thy sea -girdled and blue -vaulted
land;
Of love that fires man's heart to poesy;
Of homage given to woman; and of
art
That blossoms from warm love, as
flowers unfold
In summer; and that honeyed tale
which held
My heart enspelled, of her,
one—
Whose name hath slipped
remembrance now—
Thou dost a goddess call—and her fair
son.
If thou hadst wooed me then, or called
to me.
For evermore I should have veiled
myself.
Wise wert thou In thy luring wiles,
my love.
To lead me to thee .by an open path;
Freely I listened to the melodies
That floated to me from the land of
Greece.
And held me tranced for thee. I saw
Greece first,
Then thee—its fine and culminating
fruit,
Yea, love, thou art delightful to my
heart;
Thine eyes like fish -pools on a sum-
mer night
That hold the stars far down; thy lips
like grapes;
Thy breath like spice of Araby; thy
soul,
0 my Athenian ! more like to God,
Although thou knowest Him not, than
any man's
In Judah's tribe,—strong, fearless, un-
defiled.
Leonidas, I love thee- My new life
Is but one throb of love beneath thy
power,
Now doth my soul rejoice that I was
made
A woman, that I might be loved by
thee.
O stay me, comfort me; for when at
last,
Thou bldst me let lore's willing hand-
maid, Night,
Lead me to thee, I could not choose
but come—
I came. Behold me ! Take me to thy
heart,
Close—close—and fold me from the
whole wide world.
What seemed a sin, when thought of
from afar,
Here, by thy side, doth seem a sacra-
ment,
The care for Eleazar stayed me long,
And held me from thine arms—my
rightful home;
Taught by the subtle suasion of thy
kiss
I know thy reasoning, and I yield to it.
Now will I go with thee where'er thou
wilt;
To sunny Greece, to Egypt's exile
shore:
Yea, love, to Sheol, if thy place be
there."
MORNING.
The sun -crowned morning woke Jeru-
salem
To busy life. The mountains round
about
Were fresh with dew; the gray -green
olive -trees
Upon the verdant hills gleamed tre-
mulous,
Serenely azure arched the boundless
sky,
Save for one fleecy cloud on Oliver,
That staid to mark the hallowed place,
apart,
4 Where, In the earlier morning, Christ
had prayed,
The holy Temple, on its lofty hill,
Exceeding white, flashed back the
sun's bright rays,
Lo ! on a sudden, up the narrow street
That led from the high market -place,
arose
A swelling murmur of discordant
cries;
And spurred by sharp reproaches and
harsh blame
Walked Miriam, defiant, beautiful—
Led by a rabble; men who threatened
her,
And women, flinging taunts—more
hard to bear,
The men had retribution in their eyes;
The women hatred, merciless, severe.
For she was very fair to look upon
From their unsparing and condemning
gaze
Her lustrous hair veiled her unmantled
form:
Tet feared she not; all petty fear was
slain
By mighty love, triumphant, unafraid,
Her hand was held in rapture on her
breasts,
As though she guarded there a me-
mory,
Like one who dreaded neither foe,
stern judge.
Nor executioner, her sandalled feet
Trod with a firm Imperious step the
way:
Her eyes—rebellious, unashamed—
flashed keen
On her accusers through her dusky
hair,
Was this the Miriam who, one year
alone,
Had weilnigh swooned with timorous
shame what day
Leonidas had touohed her flnger-tips;
Had hid herself from very thought of
him ?
Now live had led her on by devious
paths
To love's supreme surrender. She, the
proud,
The pure, the peaslonlese, Who nothing
know !,
AND MORN
E1USALE3J.
r i±l irltx�slic,
' NIGHT.
Chin deep night enwrapped Jeru-
410
t,11'8 p #ii'}ttg feat unfolding frpm the
;`dales.;
,tlral!lquil .Bleep beneath its ebon
Whigs
n ltad forgot awhile his weary toll.
Q t s}lenee reigned; the busy earth
,Was hushed.
E'le:• frowning fortress of Antonia
ithted grimly on its battlemented
hIll;
Ili Some few furlongs 'from its base
,..f_there stood
a.'liouse of Eleazar, of the tribe
-Judah, a most rigid Pharisee.
i;; a Open Court was odorous with
-$•". flowers:
3i palms and spreading cedars made
a shade
Veer* watching moon and penetrating
,17 -stars.
Prom' time .to time the amorous nlght-
•klgale
Poured .forth his poignant melody of
-Stela,land riplashing water echoed in the
dues.
Here, ell hid in shadow from
the
Ireonidah, e brave imperious Greek,
-,;And laughter -loving, rosy Miriam,
The Wife of Eleazar. Tender words
-Were murmured softly to the waiting
l
•Inlariguorous pauses from each silent
"Beloved Miriam, the gods be praised!
,.'iter long years beholding from afar,
Mlle arms enfold thee; my impatient
heart
'Doth' leap like a young roe at touch
of thee.
Thou fairest of earth's daughters light
and life
Were mingled in thy making; yea,
great Zeus
Rath dowered thee with heavenly
heritage.'
Leonidas, my love the silent night
Seemeth to shut me out from all the
world.
In the vast universe with thee alone.
I feel at one with the Eternity,
Redeemed from passing nothings of
To -day.
I, trembled as I stole from out the
house,
In answer to thy call, my friend; but
here,—
I tremble only lest I had not come.
'Long have I prayed and wrestled with
my Clod
' obbniis from my heart this fatal
ve
Yet hath He heard me not, nor
-�_ ,deigned reply;
rToskight my love o'ermastereth me;
;dead now
My cause, beloved, with my soul, that
cries
Jlganiajtmy Doming, and my thirst for
Hilae,"
"0 stared, violet -fragrant Miriam,
Then shduld I plead but for true
righteousness!
Love hath high warrant for all deeds
on earth;
Great Zeus himself defied all laws for
love.
And mighty gods have followed in his
course."
"Peace, my Leonidas, I hush thy lips;
I may not hearken to such blasphemy,
There are no gods in heaven or earth
" save one,
Jehovah, Lord, the God of Israel,
Whose work is absolute. He cutteth
down
The wicked In their sin—I fear Him—
nay,
I'dare not linger with thee; let me gor
4 thou whom my soul loveth, let me
go!"
He caught her lips, retreating with a
Wes
That held her in a tremulous sweet
trance
Of rapture, as he whispered tenderly,
"Jehovah—Zeus—yea, call Him what
thou wilt,
",Thy god—or mine—or both, have led
thee forth
'From bondage to the liberty of love,
e. Remember, 0 my pure and priceless
'' pearl,
!j`•r =What says thy Hebrew song, 'Can
waters quench
Or &ads drown love ?' I trow not. Can
::.s We fire
'Consume, or aught destroy ? Nay;
. love is life,
' ,:Wilt thou then forfeit It for formal
} bond ?
. That were a sin. King David was a
: r• :. man
i:,+^;,Wade in the manner
` i` heart,—
Thus have our wisest
' °led:—
i =lie, too broke low for
him '
„,,'Was born your mighty
mon.
?rem whom you boast
"a. ?• come. •
.Consider, my beloved, what
- . Was given to thee from thy
° sacrifice?"
"My lite," she answered, In a voice of
stern.
"'Until thou earnest was a Peverel
l' drought,
'1 was not like the woman of my land,
,c'Coitent to be but handmaiden to man,
Tt0.sit iii close seclusion at his feet;
3,`heayryt rebelled against the law that,
- ... shut
, lliy being in a garden, wailed for him;
}Wheile'er I heard men thank God they
Were men,
f Wept that I was woman, and cried
gilt
t be delivered from my bitter lot,
Then—ere the maid a woman had he-
bome—
y Married me to Eieazar; nay,
'14e e led me as they lead the bleating
i _ latxb—
r.le.m.b!—to sacrifice at Passover,
•vet, hived him; oft I hated him;
srefore his stern just heart I strove
the More
ti, , 4i' in all; I knew no ways
',fay lamp ne'er lacked its
•
arty that I well might
8,''
iieejitold, though I longed to fly
e ;,Iii(''' Meth from the fowier's
nark
of Jehovah's
sages chronl-
love; yet unto
monarch Solo -
Messiah Is to
reward
Heart's
0,y
that royal
from my
VX' iittg i ^ose iylcj;:e41n9e9, wrilose acatfi-
lng scorn
Had served her well as weapon to pro-
sect
Her beauty, who was prone to weigh
her grace
To all men with moat dainty balances --
When living forces overswept her soul
Thought not of less nor more, but
gave herself
With might love's' consummate un*
reserve,
Perchance, if one had sought herr yes-
terday,
To question her well -being -.-though, as
yet,
She had not sinned—she
then confessed
To (lark temptations warring in her
soul:
But now, at bay, led on to stony
death,
She helot high counsel with her throb-
bing heart
To vindicate and justify her love,
The sole redemption of her desert
state,
The day -spring beauty God had grant-'
ed her,
Could any gift she gave for this be
sin ?—
She looked her fierce accusers In the
face,
And smiled in mockery that fired their
wrath.
would
have
Up the long slope, to the great Tem-
ple's gate,
O'erlald with silver and with beaten
gold,
The cruel crowd surged on to find the
Christ,
Cool were .the polished cloisters where
they passed -
Into the court of Israel, and paused,
There faltered Miriam; in the inner
court,
Behind the mystic-broldered veil, the
Ark,
O'ershadowed by the Cherubim, re-
posed;
Thus thought she, knowing not, as yet,
that here,
Without the veil,, the Mercy Seat was
nigh. .r
Straight was her weary, storm -tossed
soul
Hiished to a listening silence, at the
words
That rang'out with a vibrant power to
rouse
From Him who sat and taught the
multitude,
In tones that brought her, even in her
woe,
A memory of girlhood and her home,
When softly from the Galilean Sea
A wind had swept to murmur through
the pines.
She well divined He was a righteous
judge,
A man beyond the petty throng who
played
With law and justice for their own
advance.
A swift ory of
lips;
He turned His calm face, as He still
spoke on,
And looked upon her, Godhood in His
eyes:
Then, in her own—while wonder -awed
she gazed—
The fierce dbfiance slowly ebbed, and
died.
appeal broke from her
As one who gainet the mountain sum-
mit high—
After climbing through the hiding
mists—
And sees the stretch of valley and of
trills
Beneath his seeking eyes unroll itself,
So, on a sudden, Miriam saw clear
Life, Love and Immortailty, without
The clouds that cling on human ques-
tionings.
Her sin was manifest, true knowledge
came
Like a two-edged sword, that pierced
her pride,
Dividing it asunder; she perceived
The harmony of wisdom; righteousness
And truth stood forth revealed to her;
she saw
That life was wholeness, and that An
was death;
That law was law—whatever love
might say—
And law was clear, deep -graven 00
man's heart;
Obedience was more than argument.
Jehovah the Omnipotent was Just;
He knew whereof He spoke, and why
He gave
His statutes for man's guidance; who
could know
His plain, or what His purposes might
be?
She quailed before the insolence of
lust
That for desire she had dared to strike
law:
'Yea, more than this, bey and, above it
al i—
Swift as an eagle mounteth to his
Crag,—
Her spirit comprehended in that glance
The symmetay of right of beauty's
sake,
Unmindful of command; she saw that
life
Hath vaster issues than of flesh alone;
Its glory Meth in the victory
Of soul o'er flesh; and vaster Issues,
too,
Than one small sphere. Her little
round had seemed
Of so great measure in her own es-
teem,
Her love of such deep import; now, an
last,
She compassed larger places to her
thought;
And saw beyond the confines of her
love.
Behold, she seemed of very
count
In that quick vision of the universe.
Her eyes were opened, and straight-
way she read, ,
In those serene but stn -condemning
eyes,
A new beatitude .transcending law,—
The blessing of a universal love,
Too merciful and wide to lay the
weight
Of any burden on a fellow -man,
Or take self's Joys, unmindful of bis
peace.
How sordid seemed to her, at last, the
soul
That measured gifts by guerdona, love
by love;'
How bounteous the soul that largely
gave
Without a thought of self, or serfs de-
light,
Fitt! to have given to the very end
That love benign to Eleazar,—then
Had idle well proved herself as
wor'thter
To wake hereafter, satisfied and bleat,
But sharpest of the lightning etrokee
that flashed
Was the keen consciousness to her
revealed.
small
ae-
..:.:�:,ifdv..."l�i,i
Tat e'ep her love'far'hei Ir onVdaf
Had failed to fulness ,t1i flt1t111 itself;
For highest love can hold tile -last 'e1-
euee
To be the cause of harm to any man;
Transfigured by its Immortality
It lighteth all the life to ways divine;
It maketh of the heart it dwelleth in
A, s,,anctuary; and !t bleseeth ail
Thal cometh near; it ,seeketh not its
own
It maketh strong to bear; and to the
end
Endureth all things, aavlgg only dross.
O fruitless folly to give more for less,
To barter a supreme and lasting joy
For fleeting moments of a transient
bliss!
Then spake to Christ the Pharisees
and Scribes—
"This woman, Master, in adultery
Hath taken been, yea, in the very
act;
Now In the law we are commanded
such
To stg,ne to death; what sayest Thou
of her?"
No answer came. Upon the ruthless
throng
Heart-searching silence fell; the
Saviour stooped,
And with His finger wrote upon the
ground.
The Scribes and Pharisees thought, as
He wrote,
He heard them not; but Mtriam's own
heart
Told her He heard, who did not need
to hear.
O that the stones might crush her
from His sight
Ere He should look upon her yet again!
Then through the Temple rang that
wondrous voice ;
"He that among you hath not sinned,
let him
First cast a stone at her."
Once more he stooped
A.nd wrote upon the unrecording
ground,
.M with bent head and veiled eyes she
stood,
Each nerve of her tense frame ex-
pectant throbbed
To meet the whizzing stones; she knew
full well
No Scribe nor Pharisee would fling
them now.
But He—this holy man who hated sin—
Would swift fulfill the stern Mosaic
law:
For He was pure and spotless; 'ah ! so
pure
She made a covenant with her own
eyes
That naught should startle them to
lifting; yea,
Still would she hold them firm, down -
dropped, and veiled,
E'en in the wrestling agony of death,
Lest, peradventure, In the Master's
eyes
She should confront a death more hard
to bear
Than that which overtook her from
His hand.
"Woman," He said—straightway she
lifted them—
"Where are those thine accusors ?
Hath no man
Condemned thee ?"
"Nay; no man, Lord," she cried,
With voice that rose in cadences of
hope;
For, in the second look in those great
eyes,
She saw, besides the sentence of her
An.
Full, perfect, and all-knowing sympa-
thy,
Divine compassion, and deep -seeing
grasp
Of the stern stress and warfare o1 her
life;
The ways that led her to this misery;
The paths she took, in blindness, for
the right;
The wrong she called, in ignorance,
the truth:
The strife with wrong—and no man
helping her;
Yea, e'en the tempting rapture of the
bliss,
The measureless delight of soul and
sense
That had o'erswept her with Leonidas,
She felt He comprehended, as she said,
"Nay; no man, Lord!"—and waited for
her doom.
No stones ! He was too merciful for
that;
What fatal words would crush her in
their stead ?
Her cowering soul shrank with a
shuddering fear
From the Anathema that now must
fall.
The Pharisees and Scribes had, one by
one,
Each slunk away, o'ercome with con-
scious guilt;
Alone they two were standing to the
court,
He the immaculate, sin -conquering
Christ;
And she the sinner, taken In her sin.
"Neither," spoke on that tender,
mighty voice,
"Do I condemn thee; go—and stn no
afore."
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