Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 9, Number 3, September 1999 Page: 181
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The Writings of Fannie Amelia Dickson Darden
So diminished in size, that it seems but a brook,
While all objects below from my airy outlook
Seem dwarfed as we pass them, in swift loco-
motion.
And now o'er the broad spreading prairie we
glide,
And the free spirit feels that 'twere joy to abide
Near its verdant expanse, where the grass lightly
bending
Seems like billowy waves, which now sink, and
now rise
As the soft southern breeze with Eolian sighs
Tells its tales of the sea and its moan never end-
mg.
And the echoes which wake to my engine's shrill
scream
In the shadowy past, were not roused from their
dream
Only when at long intervals wildly and madden-
ing-
The war whoop of Indians startled the plain,
Or the cry of the ravenous wolf o'er its slain
Or the song of the whipperwill plaintive and sad-
dening.
But I see in the distance the faint blue outline
Of a wood on the edge of a stream serpentine
We must cross, and the culvert has need of re-
pairing;
Be alert, then, each sense of thy sovereign the
brain
For the safety of those who are borne on the
train
Has more need of the skill, than the soul's deep-
est daring.
For our freight is more precious than gems of
the mine
For 'tis human, and deep in some heart's sacred
shrine
Each hath holiest keeping; I saw ere we partedMany phases of character opened to view,
The grave and the gay, the perfidious and true,
And the soul melting anguish of some when they
parted.
And for me, there'll be waiting at soft even tide
One I love, and I deem her, my own cherished
bride,
The fairest whom beauty delighted in gracing;
Come, I'll put on all speed, now the danger is
past,
And we'll shame the wild deer, who with looks
all aghast
Never thought to have been so out-rivalled in
racing.
47. In Loving Memory of Mrs. M J. Young,
of Houston, Texas (dated February 13, 1883,
published in Colorado Citizen, March 8, 1883,
with sub-heading: "Thoughts are heard in
heaven, " reprinted in Texas Prairie Flower,
vol. 3, no. 3, September 1884. Matilda Jane
Young, who, after she was left a widow when
in her early twenties, began producing po-
etry, fiction, and essays, and who, like
Darden, maintained a romantic attachment to
the Confederacy long after its defeat, died
on April 15, 1882.)
I seek to write of thee, my beauteous Jane,
But words abashed would turn, nor strive to tell
Thy varied charms, where lined as in a chain
Beauty and intellect abiding dwell.
Supreme in each, and gladly brightened oft
With that transcendent light of love which makes
E'en homeliness a beauty, brilliant, soft
Like the auroral light which evening wakes.
I could not write ere this of thee, my friend,
Because too tender are the thoughts that rise
Within my heart, too sacred to be penned,
And then to meet the gaze of careless eyes.181
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