Isles of the Amazons, Part III [pp. 393-401]

THE
OVERLAND MONTHLY
DEVOTED TO
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY.
VOL. 9.-NOVEMBER, I872.-No. 5.
ISLES OF THE AMAZONS.
PART III.
Thatch of palm and a patch of clover...
Breath of balon in a field of brawn..
The clouds blew u and the birds flew over..
And I looked uward: but who looked down?
Who was true in the test that tried us?...
Who was it mocked?... Who now may mourn
The loss of a love that a cross denied us,
With folded hands and a heart forlorn?.
God forgive when the fair forget us...
The worth of a smile, the weight of a tear,
Wyhy, who can measure? The fates beset us.
We laugh a moment; we mourn a year.
Sing songs, and pour wine in oblations,
Be glad, and forget, in a rhyme,
Mutations of Time and mutations
Of thought that are fiercer than Time.
As a tale that is told, as a vision,
Forgive and forget; for I say
That the true shall endure the derision
Of the false till the full of the day.
I forgive as I would be forgiven;
I forget, lest the ill I have done
Be remembered against me in heaven
And all the days under the sun.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by JOHN H. CARMANY, in the Office of the
Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
VOL. IX. -26.