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The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The prisoners. (search)
[from the Charleston (S. C.) Mercury.]the cotton Boll.by Henry Timrod.[published by request.] Here, stretched at ease beneath This immemorial pine, Small sphere; (By dusky fingers brought this morning here, And shown with boastful smiles,) I turn thy cloven sheath, Through which the soft white fibres peer, That, with their gossamer bands, Unite, like love, the sea divided lands; And slowly, thread by thread, Draw forth the folded strands, Than which the trembling line, By whose frail help you startled spider fled Down the tall spear grass from his swinging bed, Is scarce more fine; And as the tangled skein Unravels in my hands, Betwixt me and the noonday light, A veil seems lifted, and for miles and miles The landscape broadens on my sight, As, in the little boll, there lurked a spell Like that which, in the ocean shell, With mystic sound, Breaks down the narrow walls that hem us round, And turns some city lane Into the restless main, With all his capes and isles!
Yonder bird I