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Ai.exandejr-Armsi'rong TORONTO : IMRIE, GRAHAM & CO. 31 Church Street 1896 i\ ^ fiiMAOiAftA Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-six, by J. Alexander-Armstrong, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture. HONOR LYNNE. A TALE OF NORTHERN MEXICa Part I. By Zenel's brim the li^ht is low, More faintly flushed his waters glow Where sinks the dusky eve. From Boca's crests the shadows grow, The West's red flames are ebbing slow, Light takes a lingering leave. Ho ! harp and tabret hither bring, And rest and tune the magic string, While sets yon sun afar. Reign silence all around the ring, We have one tragic song to sing Before the rising star. Let music breathe her witching spell, So rest we till yon convent bell Proclaims the vesper prayer ; And ye shall list and we shall tell The varying fortunes which befell Our little Golden Hair. Sing of a parted household band, Of will all fortune to withstand Some two score years ago ; And nearer to the Rio Grande, In this old, strange and warlike land. Romantic Mexico. A land by legend peopled o'er, Richer than wealth of magic store By fiction self-designed ; "With mystic wonder-world of yore, More wild than all the fairy lore That charms the infant mind. A lonely land, whose solitudes Make music for my wayward moods, And I will kr .»w again Her twilight depths of ancient woods, Her rush and roll of summer floods, And bounding tropic main. And ^ofty peaks adorn that clime, Grey ledges of the ancient prime, And valleys fair to see ; With names too rude for measured rhyme> Too harsh for tune — too long for time, Too strange for memory. And such a scene did yonder lie, Make glad the heart and soothe the eye ; And up where streams begin Soared such a peak through ambient sky» And such a vale went winding by. Where dwelled our Honor Lynne. "My daughter, take this flask with thee. And at the fountain fill the same, A rood beyond the walnut tree. And bear it deftly back to me, As Honor is 'thy name." And she hath heeded what she heard, But strangely is her spirit stirred. While all obediently. Still pondering on each parting word, As to the fountain forth she fared, Thus ^o herself said she : ■ « I do remember when I try, My brother Hubert said that I — Before he went away— . . He said for Honor, he would die, For she had fallen from the sky Like any summer day." In lonely state this maid had grown, For friend or playmate had she none To prompt or answer how ; Her heart was formed to ^port alone, A year, a month, a day agone, The bly thest she — but now ''' How changed her manner — how subdued, ; Nor sighing wind, nor rustling wood Can wake her fancy's play ; 'Tis truth, though darkly understood, Thatjchange of fate brings change of mood To children of a day. Where wild flower nods, and trailer sweeps By bush and bloom, her course she keeps ' With meditative mien ; And where the sparkling water leaps, ' By yon low rock she stays her steps And gazes round the scene. That scene all nature doth ehdower. All heaven aglow — all earth a bower, Yon sky s deep sapphire hue ; Now blooms neath summer's crowning hour, Whose wand has touched it into flower, One mighty bell of blue. • O winsome world by care unworn, O radiant day of hopes unshorn, And thrilled with light and song How glorious rose that summer mom, Another heir to brightness born 'Mid days remembered long. When broached the fount of wretchedness^ When bitter mingles with the bliss, Such days we call to mind That gladsome rose but sank amiss In storm and shade ; and such was this. The one we have defined. Low murmurs from the brooding day, Faint echoes borne from far away, A wandering voice^a tramp — a neigh. Are backward borne, and then Far down yon way in swift array Qo armed and mounted men. And upland now she turns her gaze And marks the noon's diminished blaze Without one thought of ill, Though one by one his ardent rays Are lost amid the banded haze That gathers round the hill, ^ Where deepening through each varying freak, In long dun bars of trailing reek, A sombre bank of cloud. With many a vapour-shaded streak, Has foldea round yon towering peak His storm-presaging shroud. And strangely hushed hath nature grown. And as the bubbling flask of stone Within the fount she fills, "IT 5*g '^^Ct^,2,JiiJiLAi^^iillM Faint echoing from the far unknown The solemn thunder's cloud v groan, Rolls o'er the distant hills. The flask is filled, and still she stops Between the fji'Ttain and the copse, And fofazes round the scene, When battering through the verdant tops The racing dash of heavy drops Fall few and far between. Deep darkens all the west amain. And yonder wakes the warning strain, A wild and shrieking wail ; It swells and sinks and swells again, The courier of the hurricane That runs before the gale. Before the rain cloud's heavy dash. Swift down the glen through pine and ash^ It came, that rushing moan. Preluded by one blinding flash, And near her, with au angry crash. An oak was overthrown. Between her and her home — alas. Just in the weary straightest pass Of all the straight ravine. In one defaced and mangled mass His lofty crown came to the grass With all his honors green. Get thee to shelter, dreaming maid ; She fled, and met the barricaide — The fallen oak-crown gay ; An instant's pause must here be made For an impromptu escalade. But swift she wins her way. . -,'*j^ 8 For over banks and fallen trees, And loftier bars than even these, Her steps have been before. The topmost bough she grasps with ease. Now will she turn and deem she sees : Her parentis at their door. No, they have died as thousands die, They perished with that warning cry, 'Mid nature's waste and woe. For ere her mind take thought to fly, While yet she kneels with startled eye Against that topmost bough, The torrents'from the bursting sky All landmarks overflow ; And giant trees are swayed on high, And rocks ar 3^ rolled below. The floatwood bars the torrent swift, The f r^i^het gains, its barriers shift, The piling waters strain That tangled boom to rend or lift. And loaded w^th the gathering drift, It bends and brejEiks amain. And sweeps away her. verdant raft. And floods on floods are rolled abaft, Amid the stormy race That all but overwhelms it oft, Yet bears the swaying crest aloft. And drags its,cuichored base. And blind amid the beating spray, And on and onward and away And farther from her home. Through scenes of chaos and dismay, O'er toeing floods that rock her stay, And dash her steps with foam. 9 Away, away, by cove and rock. Torn wood and crumbling hill, With fears that hauut and hopes that mock Through scenes that daunt, and sounds that shock. And dreams of deadly ill . Part II. Far on before that watery trail Another fate hung in the scale, A youth had wandered there. And riding fiercely down the vale A troop had gone before the gale With warrant not to spare. For he had borne his modest might ' To aid a cause he deemed the right And fallen in the fray. Stunned captive,, carried from the fight, And 'neath the shadows of the night, Brok6 bond and slipped away. . Now all in forms like fallen man The dauntless dogs of Santa Anne, Were ranging for the prey . As down the vale he thus declined With faltering step and troubled mind , He cast his glance afar, Where only half a league behind, And riding like the mountain wind, Came down the narrow vale. Came down the heavy trail. The toiling dogs of war. Again he gazed and sore dismayed Beheld the storm king's ambuscade, Beyond his mountain fence ; All cloudy hosts are there alaid. And rank on, rank in gloom arrayed, , They mingle in one awful shade ■ Of darkness lULOst intense.. 10 And whirled above yon frowning brow In swiftly rising might avow Their purpo&e as they grow ; Dread portents they proclaiming how The wrath of storms is garnerd now And brimmed to overflow. < Dead walls of rock on either hand, Behind ride storm and storming band The onward path alone. In deepening dread of death or bond, He faltering traced and just beyond A jutting curb of stone. He bent and breathed one fervent prayer^ For shelter from the closing snare, Above, around him spread ; Then hooves of thunder shook his lair, And rolling thunder and the air Came blackening with their tread. For soaring from yon frowning ledge. The far-rolled storm with tattered edge Comes flaunting all abroad. And human might will bow like sedge. Or tremble as a withered hedge Before the breath of God. And human wrath might well forbear When that red ray with vivid glare In broad and blinding flame. The mysteries of the gloom laid bare, Undammed the torrents of the air And tenfold darkness came. And as the beam in darkness bowed, A peal of thunder long and loud Shocked down through clifl* and slty. 11 There swept the land a drenching shroud^ And like a cloud within a cloud The horse went drifting by. ^s scourged along by viewless arm, As cloudwrack blown before the storm, Besistless in career. So veiled from view and bar'd from harm,. Thus did each armed and mantled form Speed on to disappear. While hailed the shattered rock around, But harmless all — one thought profound Of thanks to the Most High For danger past and favor found. Yet while the world goes round and round. Can danger never die. Another warrant for the tomb. Another shaft the archer doom Sends with as deadly aim ; Far-borne across the breaking gloom. He heard the freshet's sullen boom Give warning where it came. Upward and down the narrow vale He gazed and then began to scale With faltering foot and hand, A slippery stair with steps of shale And brambles for his guiding rail, To station of command. A yawning cleft each splintered shred. Hurled downw£ 1 to the ravine bed, All newly traced and scar'd ; Torn by the bolt above his head That instant of his deathly dread. When light with darkness war'd. w 12 Here loftier bluffs the tempest mock/ Beneath him many a fallen block, Amon^ the driftwood lay ; With a sullen plunge — one mighty shock, "White-breasted waters round the rock, And roll them swift away. And more, yet more, those waters win A vaster depth^-a wilder din, j When storming their rMreat ; • The upland floods come roaring in That wrecked the home of Honor liynne. And roll them past his feet. But he has gained this transient goal By one swift effort pf the soul, Till danger's frowii was o*e^; As far beyond his calm control As that dark torrent's rush and roll, Then linger here no more. He heard an eagle's distant scream. He saw the west give forth one gleam; And " haste," he said, "or die;" So, half alert and half adream — He raced beside the racing stream' And saw thie waifs go by. He left the torrent's stormy flow Across that wooded cape to go, By those wild waters bound ; '., In fashion like a bended bow — A league across as wings the crow — But twice the distance round. Through awe-inspiring forest dells, Where silence wed with grandeur dwells, And years their offerings fling ; 13. O'er tangled dips and pillar'd swells, With dog-rose starr'd and wild blue bells Like gallant walks of spring. Those mighty woods — he owned their charm ^ For nature's wrath — in other form- May nature's face renew ; With glorious fragrance, .wet and warm. The scattered fringes of the storm Had drenched the forests through. Swift onward — though his heart misgave. Firm as the bravest of the brave He pierced that densest wood ; Far past the ancient Bandit's Cave, And saw the light and heard the wave. And reached a shelving ledge that gave Upon the lessening flood. Beyond were springs and rills that fed A constant brook whose waters sped Through scenes that well he knew, And — by some signal tokens led — Beneath an elm's weeping spread, He found a light canoe. Yon smouldering trunk the lightning rays In his dry heart hath blown a blaze. And there he made a meal Of fragrant mast and roasted maize (For there were tourists in the days Wherewith those records deal.) Then passed an hour, reclining low, Or stepping lightly to and fro As rolled its course, and then He saw the sun when sotting slow. And marked the radiant afterglow That flooded all the glen. w »1 i! 14 A thought of kindred claims his care, Whose fortunes dark or fate unfair Do deeply move his mind, They perished there — — But where, oh where Is Honor of the golden hair, The maid we left behind. Part III. Away, away, by cove and rock, Torn wood and crumbling hill. With fears that haunt and hopes that mock, Through scenes that daunt and sounds that shock. And dreams of dea^dly ill. Thick dizzying as the flakes that seal And fleck the waters hoar. That thread their thousand handed reel, Where sweeps the millman's tramping wheel, Hard by his cottage door. Here, gathering to the ambient race. All fearful forms, as if in chase, Dart from unf athomed deeps To banish hope that wanes apace, And there with wings that fan her face, ' The thirsting eagle sweeps. And long his tireless pinions arch In measure with the stormy march Of that wild torrent's sway ; And long his thirsting glances search The shadows of her dipping perch, Before he drifts away. And now the untiring foe is gone, But swift the shades of eve roll on, And dark the forests loom ; w,-'.^