Sonnets and love-songs, and Irene; a memoir . m almost spent before theyre here :Still my thoughts find time to wander to a cottage faraway,W^here the whippoorwill its homely story tells ;And there by fairies favor I while the happy dayWhere Cecelia dwells. Through the smoky haze of distance, over ocean wildand wide,1 can hear Lake Hypoluxo lap its banks ;And can see the royal pompano leap glistening fromits tideTo fright the eddying mullet from their pranks. Hypoluxo is the Indian name for Lake Worth,Florida, a justlj famous winter resort, often calledthe Riviera of America. Jt is a body of w
Sonnets and love-songs, and Irene; a memoir . m almost spent before theyre here :Still my thoughts find time to wander to a cottage faraway,W^here the whippoorwill its homely story tells ;And there by fairies favor I while the happy dayWhere Cecelia dwells. Through the smoky haze of distance, over ocean wildand wide,1 can hear Lake Hypoluxo lap its banks ;And can see the royal pompano leap glistening fromits tideTo fright the eddying mullet from their pranks. Hypoluxo is the Indian name for Lake Worth,Florida, a justlj famous winter resort, often calledthe Riviera of America. Jt is a body of water some eij^hteenmiles long separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a strip ofland varyiuii in width from ooe-haif to three-quarteis of amile. This land is very fiuitfuland all mrnner of tropicalvegetation is ;o be found upon it; while the lishing both intue Lake and Ocean is Iemarkably good. •Mullet is themo-^t common variety and another species known as pom-pano has a peeuliar habit of leaping out of the water fromfive to ten feet in SOXNETS AND LOVE SOXGS. 187 At the Beach a dear form lingers and the very wavesgrow calm,As she reaches ia their depths to gather shells ;And dainty zephyrs gossip of her graces with a palmWhere Cecelia dwells. Tropic nighttime freights its breezes with a scent ofripening pines ;And a fragrance floats from guava groves in bloom ;As I stroll mid oleanders ^neath a moon that peerlessshines ;Or pause within palmettos welcome gloom:For methinks my arm encircles a queen of Eves fairraceAVhile all the ills of life her smile dispels :—So who can blame my dreaming of that enchantingWhere Cecelia dwells. [place But this poem was not altogether a reference toher. In fact I had no idea that Miss Irene cared forme in any other way than as a congenial, whilomcompanion. The remembrance of her desire to entertlie educational institution in Tennessee, and whichrequired as a condition precedent that the applicantw^ould devote four years to the work of th
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