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The Queen of Connaught.
HOW THE HEART OF AN TRISH PRINCESS WAS Mé<ED BY A LITTLE CHILD,
[From the Halifax Christmas Mail. |
erent Connavght Queen ?
Which deepened in its fierceness, as she passed to vomanhood.
Scorping her sex’s character of loving and caressing,
Her nature found completeness in ruling and possessing !
Relentless and aggressive, by warfare’ sharden- ing toil
She filled her halls with plunder, not always lawful spoil.
An AmazZonian figure, guise,
Her voice rang like a trumpet, as flashed her dark set eyes—
In rich brocade and jewels she rode before her host,
Won from the Spanish galleys wrecked on the Irish Coast.
These golden brvidered velvets of rare Casti- lian dress,
She wore, a sister sovereign at the Court of good Queen Bess ;
There the stately dames and gallants drew back and looked askance
At the tall barbaric stranger who had daggers in her glance.
Right royally Elizabeth received her haughty guest,
With dance and feast and tournament, the gayest and the best;
Soon the fierce Irish chieftain of such soft dalliance tired
No harpsichord or madrigal her Celtic spirit fired.
With eye presents laden, fit dowry for the
rave,
To Envgland’s Queen and courtiers, a curt fare-
well she gave.
arrayed in soldier
Once on hey own soil landed, free as her native air, °
She proudly rode to Castle Howth and claimed admittance there,
The stout Earl sat at dinner, the gates of hall and bower
Not even for Grace O’Malley could open at that hour !
like a fury stormed the lady, *‘Had I my soldiers here,
_|I would slay him at his table, his hearth
should be his bier !
Out on the surly craven, who grudges bite and sup,
May his feasts be full of hunger, and thirst be in his cup.”
As her curses fell like hail stones, in his nurse’s arms she spied
The baby heir of Castle Howth—Tristam his father’s pride !
She caught him from the woman, to her ship she hurried fast
Spread sails, and loogened canvas, and ran before the blast.
Not till the Ear! had feasted could the tale of loss be told,
That his noble boy was captured by gfon- naught’s rovers bold
So while he ate and lingered, nor turned the
wardens key,
The child and Irish princess were far across
the sea !
The little lord was winsome, his years were
only two,
A brave aud lovely baby with sweet soft eyes
of blue ;
Surrounded by strange faces as on the rough barque swept,
He watched his home receding, and passion- ately wept.
No offered toy or plaything, no sweetmeat,
childhood’s joy,
No crooning song of slumber could soothe the
gentle hoy;
The stero hard lady softened, she took him in
her arms
Love’s frozen fountain meited before his baby charms !
With soft voice like caressing she soothed the noble child.
Some kindred feeling stirred him and through his sorrow smiled !
Clasping large brown hand, his tears upon
it fell,
The holy drops were gifted with miracle or spell.
Like pure baptismal water, they seemed a cleansing flood,
The darkened hand to whiten so often stained with blood !
She wes . soft and tender, the little baby
or Clung to the stern dark woman and in his turn ~ adored,
Til! Grace, who in her freedom had never en» vie? aught,
No monarch’s crown or treasure, as gift or ransom brought,
Longed with a love so covetous, so passionately
wild, And envied Howth’s proud chieftain his beautiful brave child !
The stout earl came with ransom, Grace spurned his proffered gold,
Making her terms of treaty within her fortress old!
That never more Howth’s master to either
friends or foes,
The strong gates of his castle at dinner time should close,
And here, in brief parenthesis, this scquence we relate
That till this day that castle has always open gate.
The earl gave willing promice; then to his arms once more
She gave the little Tristram, and weeping closed her door,
The blessing which he brought her, a tender softened-heart, >
Still in her household brooded as love’s diviner
art.
She a more kind and merciful, no longer swept the sea
But gave her golden treasure in alms and charity,
And every yearin splendor a pilgrimage of
JY; ; She made to castle Howth again to see its princely boy,
hands to fill,
/Of the fair child of rromise, heart loved her still.
| The year he entered manhood, a cruel sick- ness came,
Leaving the lonely weman a prostrate, tered frame.
whose warm
sore to sail or travel—a galley went
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With gifts and treesures laden, sent from her dying bed ; ' And faithful Tristam hastened, o’er wave and rugged sea, _In answer to her pleading, once more bis face
to see.
1est in December;
Wrapped the stone walls in dampness, the gloom was denser still,
_» @aalors stand Watdé their dying mistress pass to the Veuéht land.
She on her rade couch lying, piled up with skins of deer,
Curtained by crimsoned drapery held by Elk antlers near,
An aged priest with Crucifix was kueeling by her side,
In humble prayer beseeehing--help from the Crucified
But pain and prayer were silenced, as through the open door,
She saw her darling enter, and clasped his form once more.
From his face she wiped the rain-drops, wrung out his soft brown hair—
“God comfort thee, Mavou neen, my pearl £0 bright and fair;
Bless thee, my own hearts’s jewel, who feared no lowering skies,
But came through storm and tempest to | less my dying eyes!”
Then the s'‘rong spirit wandered, he seemed a child once more
As om played in beauty beside his father’s
oor.
She drew his bowed head closer, and smoothed the shining hair,
And sang the olden lujlaby that so-thed the baby fair—
Her silver tresses shrouded his tear-wet tender face,
But stromg the arms that held him in love’s intense embrace.
It was a strange, wierd picture, the fierce retainers round—
The dying Irish princess—the trophies crowned,
Of many a hunt and battle—the gallant strip- ling pressed,
With more than woman’s tenderness, close to her straining breast.
The full, strong voice is falling, the falcon eyer grow dim,
The fierce, brave heart can only breathe out a prayer for him,
And cold against his forehead he feels her pallid face,
And knows the proud old chieftainess has died in his embrace.
hall with
Oh! self-crowned Grace O'Malley, a woman's heart was yours,
A love that conquers nature, but softens and endures.
Here in the Christmas season, when song and story strive
To gatherup the legends and keep the past alive:
We—as we fill the stockings that hang beside the bed
Of many a soft-eyed darling, with brown or golden head
Know in its perfect fulness, how you, untrain- ed and wild—
To heaven itself were lifted—led by a little child
M. J. K. L, Victoria Road, Halifax, Christmas, 1853,
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EQ. fer YE
By Charles Reade.
CHAPTER XXVIL. . (Continued. )
He assured her, on the contrary, that she might be of great assistance to him, and now, with doubled alacrity he ran out the little vessel and leaped into the prow as she danced over the waves. He taught her how to bring the boat’s head around with the help ot an oar, and when all was snug, left her at the helm. On reaching the mouth of the bay, if it could so be called, he made her remark that it was closed by reefs, except to the north and to the west. The wind being southerly, he had decided to pass to the west, and so they opened about half a mile from the shore.
For about three miles they perceived it consisted of a line of long bloffs, cleft at intervals by small narrow bays, the pre- cipitous sides of which were lined with dense foliage. Into these fissures the sea entered with a mournful sound, that died away asit crept up the yellow sands with which these nooks were carpeted. An ex- clamation from Helen attracted his atten- tion to the horizon on the northwest, where a long line of breakers glittered in the sun. A reef or low sandy bay appeared to exist in that direction, about fifteen miles away, and something more than a mile in lengtb. As they proceded, he marked roughly on the side of his tin baler, with the point of a pin borrowed from Helen, the form of the coast-line.
An hour and a half brought them to the northwestern extremity of the island. As they cleared the shelter of the land, the southerly breeze, coming with force across the sea, caught the cutter, and she lay over in a way to inspire Helen with alarm; she was about to let go the tiller, when Hazel seized it, accidently enclosing her hand under the grasp of his own, as he pressed the tiller hard to port.
‘Steady, please ; don’t relinquish your hold, it is all right—no fear,’ he cried, as he kept his eye on their sail.
and then, judging with a lomg tack he could weather the southerly side of the island, he put the boat about, He took cecasion to explain to Helen how this operation was necessary, and she Jearned
‘the alphabet of navigation. \end of their little land now lay before them; | With gifts «f grace and beauty the tender’ jt was about three miles in breadth. ltwo miles the bluff coast-line continued
The western For
\unbroken; then a deep bay, a mile in ‘width, and two miles in depth was made
| by a long tongue of sand projecting west-
‘palm, well recognized as Helen's landmark. Hazel stood up in the boat to reconnoitre
ithe coast. He perceived the sandy shore lottetown.
He held this course for a mile or more,
was dotied with multitudes of dark objects, Ere long these objects were seen to be in motion, and pointing them out to Helen, with a smile, he said :
‘Beware, Miss Rolleston, yonder are ‘your bugbears—and in some force, too.
Have you heard of Grace O'Malley, the an- | The night was bleak and stormy, the drear- Those dark masses moving upon those
| hilloeks of sand, or rolling on the surf, are
| In the ruddy glow of Christmas, we will keep | In the old castle chimney glowed many a/sea-lions-—the phoca-/eonina, or lion seal.’ her memory green; _ ruddy ember, Helen strained her eyes to distinguish A frank and fearless maiden, with a dash of| But in the ark dim corners where shadows the forms, but only descried the dingy
savage biood, ghastly ehill objects. While thus engaged she allowed
the cutter to fall off a little; and ere Hazel
. (had resumed his hold upon the tiller, they In the wide bails her servants, warriors and |were fairly in the bay; the great palm-tree
lon their starboard bow.
‘Y:u seem determined to make the
tacquaintance of your nightmares,’ he re-
marked; ‘you perceive that we are em-
| bayed.’
Helen consternation amused him; she saw that if they held their present course, the cutter would take the beach about a mile ahead, where these animals were densely crowded.
At this moment something dark bulged up close beside her in the sea, and the rcunded back of a monster rolled over and disappeared. Hazel let drop the sail, for they were now fairly in the smooth water of the bay, and .close to the sandy spit; the gigantic stem of the palm-tree was on their quarter, about half a mile off.
He took to the oars, and rowed slowly toward the shore. A small seal rose be- hind the boat and followed them, playing with the blade, its gambols resembling that of a kitter, He pointed out to Helen the mild expression of the creature's face, and assured her that all this tribe were harm- less animals, and susceptible of domestic- ation. The cub swam up to the buat quite fearlessly, and he touched its head gently ; he encouraged her to do the like, but she shrank from its contact. They were now close ashore, and Hazel throwing ont his anchor in two feet of water, prepared to land the beam of wood he had brought to decorate the palm-trees as a signal.
The huge stick was soon heaved over- board, and he leaped afterit. He towed it to the nearest landing to the tree, and dragged it high up on shore. Scarcely had he disposed it conveniently, intending to return in a day or two, with the means of affixing it ina prominent and remarkeble mavner, in the form of a spar across the trunk of the palm, when a ery from Helen recalled him. A large number of the sea- lions were coasting quietly down the surf toward the boat; indeed a dozen of them had made their appearance around it.
Hazel shouted to her not to fear, and, desiring that her alarm should not spread to the swarm, he passed back quietly but rapidly. When he reached the water, three or four of the animals were already floundering between himand the boat. He waded slowly toward one of them, and stood beside it. The man and the creature look- ed quietly at each other, and then the seal rolled over, with a snuffiing, self-eatistied air, winking its soft eyes with immense complacency. Helen, in her alarm, could not resist a smile at this conelusion of so terrible a demonstration; for, with all their gentle expression, the tusks of the brute looked formidable. But when she saw Hezel pushing them aside, and patting a very small cub on the back, she recovered ber courage completely.
Then he took to his oars again; and, aided by the tide, which was now on the ebb, he rowed round the southwestern ex- tremity of the island. He found the water here, as he anticipated, very shallow. _
It was midday when they were fairly on the southern coast; and now, sailing with the wind aft, the cutter ran through the water at racing speed. Iearing that some reefs or rocky formations might exist in their course, he reduced sail, and kept away from the shore about a mile. At this distance he was better able to see inland, and mark down the accidence of its for- mation.
The. southern coast was uniform, and Helen said it resembled the cliffs of the Kentish or Sussex coast of England, only the English white was here replaced by the pale, volcanic grey. By one o'clock they came abreast the very spot where they had first made land; and, as they judged, due south of their residence. Had they jianded here, a walk of three miles across the center of the island would have brought them home.
For about a similar distance tne coast exhibited monotonous cliffs unbroken even by arill. It was plain that the water-shed of the island was all northward. They now approached the eastern end, where rose the circular mountain of which mention has already been made. This eminence had evidently at one time been detached from the rest of the land, to which it was now joined by a neck of swamp about a mile and a half in breadth, and two miles in length.
Hazel proposed to reconnoiter this part of the shore nearly, and ran the boat close into the land. The reeds, or canes, with which this bog was densely clothed, grew in a dark, spongy soil. Here and there this waste was dutted with ragged trees, which he recognized as the cypress; from its gaunt branches hung a black, funeral kind of weeper, a kind of moss resembling iron-gray horse-hair, both in texture and uses, though not so long in the staple.
This parasite, Hazel explained to Helen, was very common in such marshy ground, and was the death-flag hung out by Nature to warm man that malaria and fever were the invisible and inalienable inhabitants of that fatal neighborhood,
(To be continued.)
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