MS ELL ANE Gus.

i From the Ladies' Garland.
SaIOme; or, the Daughter of


uHnn.nEn
{"newspaper_name": "The Yazoo City Whig.", "edition": "01", "page": "pNone", "byline": "n HePOaiOs,"}
{"character_count": 2761, "word_count": 479, "ccnet_language_score": [0.8944000005722046], "ccnet_perplexity": [1914.300048828125], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
AACA7ONAAG46o


II was midnight! A holy calm seemed
resting on the earth and DER the heavens
broad tapestry of cloudless blue; the silent
stars, (like midnight sentinels, ever watchs
full were keeping their lonely vigils; and
the bright moon rode aloft in her airy car,
like some queen of fairy realm triumphing,
throwing foods Of soft and silVery light over
mountain. vale, and murmuring streamlet;
while not breeze famed the brow of night,
and nature herself seemed bowed before the
azure throne of Deity in silent reverence.
How holy is such an hour as this! and still,
lhow full of awe when the unnumbered lights
which fill the vaulted armament on high
shine forth in all their dazzling glory, and
the Hvesper hymn of natures alteration"
lpeaIs, blessed calm from heaven itself falls
upon the wearied breast; and the soul, cloth
led in the halowed garb of Immortality,
Isoars far away from earthly cares, and mounts.
las on eagles pinions, to hold high converse
with its God. Faith reads immortal truths
from nature's page, and listens to the music
of the rolling spheres, as on--onward they
wheel and burn. swept BY the mighty arm
of the Great Omnipotent. Yet man, low,
IgroyelIiDg man-all unconscious of the glo-
Iry of such an hour as this, and dead to its
living beauties, will fly from communion with
smiling God, and bow bis spirii-his sky'
born spiTit--to the polluted shrines ofearth,
amid the haunts Of men, in wanton revelTy
profaning the deep brooding holiness oI
might.


The sound Of Bacehunalian mirth rane


from the halls of the princely Herod. Re


clining upon damask beds at the full board


bright with the glare Of golden gOblels-
IpuTpled 10 the very bFim with sparkling win,
were the lords, high captains, and chief es


tatss of Gallilee. They were there, the old
4 the young, the noble, the flied, the gay
] land the beautiful; men 10 the early days o


manhood, with the ires Of genius siampe


upon their brow, and the hopes that cluste


aIound the morning Of life, dancing aroun
: their hoarts; and the marble pavement echo
ed to The martial step Of Judoa.s proudec
i warrior; be who had irod many battle fel
3 unscathed. All, allhad assembled tOcele


brate the birth day of Herod,


The wooing melody Of thousand golde
: harps, touched By anseen minstrels' hand


rose and foaled On the air, redolent vii


perfumes, and awoke the sou cstacJ


while the full and Joyous laugh D bur
: forth from hearts oseldoWing witt eIadnes
= rang full and free, and bFeathed fsselfinth Il
g. distance, Hlike the melting, Of music upc
,n the moonlight Wategsn Golden lamp


wrought with the quaint devices peculiar


the ape, and fed 8ilh alomalic oils, vel
6 Suspended from ihs centre of lie roof


chains 81 che same metal, and threw sfcuI