Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-11-30
For the y,Gazetie. ]
DANIEL BRYAN.

Anu ofiefS,lS tDls weary WORKING Gay Wofiu,
We have just received from the gem
tleman whose name stands at the head of
this notice. his preface to the "Appeal
for Suffering Genius" &c. SC. for the
Boston Bard. Mr.. Brya is already be-
fore the public, and it may be said with
out hattery, that he sustains a distin-
guished rank among the poets of our
country. His Preface does, great honor
to head of uncommon intelligence,
and heart of uncommon humanity;
and we venture to predict that bis song
will be worthy OF his subject, which is
Genius-ill- starr'd Genius. -. 49,
| There is, forsooth, a kind of romance
about those being of superior senslbility
they are sometimes ruled by the night
mare Of the storm; they are pressed on
by ideal vampy res that gather round the
heart, and when they escape the shad-
ows Of their creative misery, it is to
rise mot TO the genial caimness of con-
tent, but) to regions Of extacy, to lakes
of unrufiled spIendor, skies where no
storm spirit prevails and to mansions SO
divinely just, that even merit herself is
rewarded.
If it were necessary or expedient TO
honor Mr. Bryan, we should refer rather
to bis own works than TO our comment;
but we must be permitted to say, en- pas
sant, that even the yerdanr laurel of his
brow is surpassed by the living sympa-
! thy of his bosom. His heart, like his lyre
responds to all that is good or beautiful,
he deserves success, and should he for
moment desire to release that harp
from his sway, the switch Elm" uf
Scott would never furnish picture So
divine as the melancholy, "Bard's''
Horn, suffering, soither'd frame, or the
heather of his lonely grave.
lfpatriotism belongs TO political, Il
is also the boast of a poetice world.
Shakespeare is ours by inheritance, but IL
behoves us together, by conquest or dis
covery, Poet of our own. Where the
wind is absent, the haunted strings Of
the harp of Eulus are mute: the wind
as to The bosom Of the harp, what patron
age is 10 the bosom Of the poet. There
is, however, too frequently desire
perhaps an inherent desire) to forget
all the wild flowers of the forest, to fore
go lis early majesty, and to lose its sub
limlties in the fretiulness of complaint
or the twilight of abstraction. He who
reads as task, will find it task 10 read
and let the bounds of his mental obliga-
ton be ever so splendid, he will never
feel nnsbackled till he overleaps them.
These remarks are elected by Mr..
Bryan's Preface where, with raw of
that enthusiasm which burns upon the
breast of genius, he is alive to all the IL
terary renown which must here after be-
long to his country. He is all ardor and
when the temple Of fame is reared-up-
on Its sunbeam torrents commune with
the skies, aspire to our o1c1 heavens-a
column shall be found with an acanfhus
Of Freshness, marble regetation furnish
ed by his own creative hand.
The Boston Bard-alas! If we have
seen him in our dreams, he was pale
and sad-he was not solitary, for the
muse, with her crown Of lhorns, MUIR
INJURED her legends Of him. there was a
wild rose in her brier chaplet, It resem-
hled beauty surrounded by distress, and
spirit of the moon-beam whispered.
that this emblem rose was enventuHly
to be placed upon bis grave by Daniel
Bryan. HENRY T. FARMER.
simple Improvement has been made
in Churcs. 4 new daSher, without holes
is placed about four inches above the
other, which by'forcing the cream down.