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chooses to repeat echos instead of creating them , if lie does not always obev the first law of poetry , and utter in sincerity both of thought and expression what is in his mind , we—remembering the accent occasionally heard—will content ourselves with calling his attention to these suspicious facts , and turn . to those pages where he holds out better promises . .... . , Of the two grefet divisions of poetical expression—viz ., the giving musical form to internal experience , and to the varied aspects of nature , he is successful only in the former . He has known sorrow , and he can sing of it in accents of his own ; but when he tries to paint Nature he borrows the palette which has become common property . It is , however , something to find a man giving voice to that which really does move within him , and it is this something which animates with poetic life a few of the verses in this volume .
Here are two love poems , very opposite , yet both original ; the first having the accent we speak of rising melodiously above its commonplaces : — Kathleen ! my saint , that art in heaven , No griefs can cloud thy nature now ; Thy sin ( if sin it were !) forgiven , A glory girds thy guiltless brow : And thou with all the sainted Dead , Who watch God ' s throne with happy eyes , Dwellest where tears are never shed , And only Pity sometimes sighs . Ah ! turn not thy clear eyes below , Lest thou , whose human tears would roll Adown thy cheek , in streams of woe , If ever sorrow dimmed my soul , Should ' st see me where I sit forlorn , And rock and sway an aching breast , And strive in vain , while so I mourn , To lull my sleepless woe to rest : Lest thou , my darling , noting this , Should ' st feel a vague sense o ' er thee creep Of something wanting to the bliss Of Angel-souls—who cannot weep ! The second carries with it an air of reality :- — The lad , who holds his honour fast , Writhes long beneath the scourging cane In silence—but lets slip at last A little stifled cry of pain : And I—who hold this doctrine good , That Silence oft reproveth best—Send from an all-unwilling breast A little murmur , long subdued ! Oh ! rich in every charm that breathes Enchantment on Love ' s plig hted vows ! Oh 1 skilled to bind the sweetest wreaths That ever crowned Love ' s happy brows ! How is't that petty Wrath destroys So oft thy smile by frownlets crossed ? How is't thy sweet , sweet voice so oft Doth vex my heart with wrangling noise ? " Truth by true love be not denied !" ( Thou answcrest in a merry mood ) " And true is that reproach implied " In thy low murmur long subdued ; ¦ " But love , if Love a changeling be , " Now warm and kind , now cross and cool , " Love follows but the golden rule " Of pleasing by variety ! " Heaven ' s face , bo fair , knows ceaseless change , "And ceaseltssH change fair Ocean knows ; " Nature ' s fair voice delights to range , " Kiieh breeze a manifold music blows ; " All sights and sounds the Powers above " Vouchsafe us vary , and are fair ; " And those same Powers , to make Love fair , " Denied monotony to Love !" Arch-sophist ! jester ! Thou for this Sha . lt sillier , trust me , by and bye ; Trust mt > , I know ti cruel kiss ! And thou shall , sullcr by and bye ; Meanwhile the Mu . se , truth-loving IMuse , Hearing thy voice us she ; swept l » y , Paused and now prompts an apt reply , Which gives to thee and Love your dues . Wide-nutmed , manifold in change , Mngle and nightingnle and dove , Kndowed with voice of boundless range , The Powers who made him meant Unit Love , Proud king , meek wretch , or merry loon , Should cluint u million uirs divine ; They never meant that Love , like thiue , Should sometimes carol out . of tune ! Hofore Mr Pane writes again il ; will bo well ifho keep steadily in mind tin- fact that in an abundant , mid magnificent literature like ours no echo * are needed . Any feeling he has actually felt ; any inmgo thaUiiw actually formed itNclf into miwic in Iuh mind ( and not been ( alum iroin other * to fill the measure of a voino ); anything , m nUorl , that he can truly call hit * own , every one will bo tf lad to hear him pour forth in song . It is only original melodies that ourviro .
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . The Ethnology of Europe . By B . <* . Latham . John y v The Ethnolo % of the British Islands . ByBG Latham . John v ^ & Michaud'a History of the Crusades . By W . Hobson . Vol . III . q . BoutWhS * A Tramp to the Diggings . By John Shaw . Richard BentW Blackwood ' s Edinburgh Magazine . "W . Blackwood and 8 r 2 l * Colburn ' s United Service Magazine . Colbutn . ana q ™" Eraser ' s Magazine . , John W . ti » lr er " Tait ' s Edinburgh Magazine . Sutherland and Knox Bcnttey ' s Miscellany . Richard BentW Bentley ' s Shilling Series- ^ Sketch es of English Cliavacter . By Mrs . Gore . Kichard Bentlev " Bleak Souse . By Charles Dickens . Bradbury and Evans Writings of Douglas Jerrold , Cakes and Ale . Bradbury and Evans " Sponge ' s Sporting Tour . Bradbury and Evans . The Soaring Lark . _ Addey and Co ' The Bookcase—The Glacier Zand . Simma and M'Intyre * The JDodd Family Abroad . By Charles Lever . Part I . Chapman and Hall " . Democratic ' Review . D . W . Holl y . " The Illustrated Exhibitor . John Cassejl ! The Popular Educator . Jolin Cassell ! The Working Maria Friend . John CasseU * The Portrait Gallery . Part IX . W . S . Orr and Co ! A Sistory of British Birds . By "W . Maogillivray . Vols 4 and 5 . W . 8 . Orr and Co . The Some Circle . W . 8 . Johnson ! The Biographical Magazine . J . Passmore Edwards .
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourage itself . —Goethe .
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III . November 1 , 1851 . f last , my dear Giorgio , I have achieved the enterprise of going to a " meeting , " and a very striking sight it was . I have not very long returned from it , and the sounds are still ringing in my ears . It was held in a large room , ordinarily devoted to concerts , hut now used for a more stirring purpose . The hour fixed was eight o'clock
in the evening , in order to give members of the working class an opportunity to attend ; for the Englishman is so closely confined to work , that he is taken away all day from life , including , of course , public life or national life . For him public affairs come out with the cats ; which latter are to a stranger not less remarkable than " the people . " The English encourage them greatly , to keep down the mice that infest their little houses , so largely built of ' wood ; and there are few homes in which the furry alien does not reside . At night , the cats stroll abroad , intent on exercise and the society of their species , and then their voices are not unheard . It is much the same with patriots .
The hour fixed for the meeting was eight o'clock , and about a quarter before eight we entered a smaller room set apart for " the committee . " Our own party comprised Edwardes ; his wife—for one does see a few ladies at political meetings , and I am told that at religious meetings I shall see a still larger number ; Margaret Johnson , who clings strongly to Mrs . Edwardes ; and myself . The committee-room gradually filled , with men la a curious condition , between bustling and sauntering . I was pleased with
the order and quiet of the proceedings , but surprised to see an air of carelessness on most countenances—a vague smile of anticipated amusement ; and if occasionally a grave face of settled purpose showed itself amidst the others , it looked strange and out of place ! Yet the object of the meeting was "to sympathize with Hungary , and the other down-trodden peop les struggling for freedom against the Absolutist tyrants of Europe . " It it had been a party assembled for a christening , there could not have been an air of gayer decorum . One source of anxiety was evinced in the constantly repeated question , « lias Lord Dudley come ? " Lord Dudley , they told is steadgoing chairman" for all meetings on Liberal foreign
subme , a " yjects . At last he did come , but I did not discover him by any personal distinction , until he emerged into the distinction of the chair . He lias occupied that post for a generation or two , and seems likely to continue mi Before we left the room , however , another source of anxiety ^ -oke / 01 " » and a whispered rumour ran round , that there were " Chartists in meeting . The announcement was met with a great show of firmness in t committee , who at once rose to take their places in a body , and we den
on to the platform . 1 - to It was a grand sight , that body of Englishmen of all ranks , roused i ^ enthusiasm , alive with patriotic fire , offering to Hungary and her le sufferers , not an unavailing sorrow , but the active sympathy of a p <> _ nation , full of victories and of resources . My bosom bounded at the b k . and I could feel Yseult cling to my arm under the same shock ol |» > excitement . It was as if a burst of light had broken once more upoi beloved Italy . And what followed was calculated to streng then
feeling of" hopefulness . which The chairman , in plain English accents , described the wrong . ^ Hungary had endured , which Italy still sustained . Ifc ^"""" V aWl cruelties , the tyrannies , the barbarisms , the encroachments ol Aus Russia , with their dependent allies ; mid other speakers that iollow ¦ ^ up the strain . The meeting responded bravely with its « " ^ wflS resolution , denouncing the tyrants , was moved by a gentleman ^ announced us having travelled both in Hungary and Italy , fr oIIl the- indignities and sufferings of the people so as to draw tears ' ' the burning eyes of the men . The Reverend Alfred Conway , a Uerfflr ^ of the rhurch of England , declared that Prot « stauti « ia was at stake
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 856, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1950/page/20/
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