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Full Title	Beadle's monthly, March, 1867.
Date Added	3 February 2017
Format	Journal
Language	English
Publish Date	1867-03
Publisher	New York : Beadle and Company
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Topic	Popular literature > Specimens.
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OCR BEADLES MONTHLY. . ‘MARCH, 1867. THE ICEBERG. OVER the curving hollows Of the drearily-swellin v sea. Far out from reefs and shal ows, Our craft danced blithesomely. The mists of night were drifting Away from the dim expanse. And the morning's light was rifting The depths with its flushing glance, As in from distant verges, )Vhere the vapors of air unite 1th the circling whirls of sur es, ere floated :1 glittering sig t. An iceberg tall and stately, All shceted in ghostl spray, As it‘ it had sailed bl1LffltcIy The ‘night of the North away. A mass of lucent splendor, It dazzled our eyes to gaze‘ . As the sun-rays warm and tender Illumincd its gauzy haze, That melted to rainbows wreathing, Yivid and lustrously tleckcd , With the froth that, dashing and seething, us forever freshly wrecked. An opnline sheen was streaming Vcr. its pallid front, A5 oft had the liwhtninvv's gleaming hen it bore the wlupx-lwtnd‘s brunt- What dreams of northern darkness Answered its awful breath, 0! emit with their icy starkness Bound in wastes of desert and death. S1"'"k“nL' as past it went swinging Trill the wztves that stink and rose. , , ‘I ‘at scoo mgr and swonpim; were flinging it Such :1 s ‘Hing storm of snows. t 1tFgemod,some fairy vision, ' .VIth its crystal walls and dome, Pm: into climes elysinu, ‘ Wrapped in a. glamour of foam. 1' the frost-kino"s home that shimtnered T. Sfhe mightybcurrents drew, til it faded and only glimmered Epot on the sea-line's blue. . F. P. Newmarch. ll“ ft‘ . . E v I t l t fNcW 1 exam of the District Court for the southern D 5 T 0 " VOL. III.--13. .9 V m. in the Clerk 8 ntercd accomino to Act of Conn.-C55, in the year 1867, by BEADLE AM’ om“ ’ orlz.