Litchfield enquirer., 1829-04-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
ON LOVE---by Shelley.

ss What is Zeve |? Ask him whO EUes wh0t is life; ask him s0hO 0d0res a0hGt is God.
 ~ knOso ret the internal constitution Of otAer men, ,nor even of thine vhom Inoa0 ad- dress. I see that is some external attributes they yresemble me, but sOhen, misled by that appearance, have thought to appeal to something im common, and unburden my inmost soul to them, / have found my lan- guage misunderstood, like one in distant and sauage land. The more opportunities they haUe afforded me for experience, the aoider has appeared the interval between ws, and to c greater distance haUe the points Of sympathy been s0ithdrawn. WIith spirit iH- fitted to sustain swck proof, trembling and feeble through cts tenderness, 4 have every 0here sought, and hdve found only repulse and disappointment.
 '' 7Nou dem0ndest vhat is love. H $ th0t powerfuL attraction towards aNs zoe con- ceive, or .fear, or hope, beyond omrselves, aoken sOe find sOithin our Oa0n thoughts the chGsm of Gn iHsM0cient void, aud seek to awaken in aH things that ere. e commu- nity s0ith what COG experience scithin Our- seIUes. If zoe reason s0e OOuld be under stood; zoe imagine, zoe scOutd that the Giry children cf our brain soere born ane,O Oithin Gnother's i; # sce feel, zoe soould that znotker's nerves should Uibrate to our 0scn, thGt the beams cf their eyes should kindte at once, and mi1 and melt into our osOn 1; that lips of mot;enless tee should not reply to lips g,.ivering and burning soith the hearts best blood :-tkis ss LOve. This is tAe bond and the sanction schich connects not Only man Uitk man, bat s0ith eUery thing sChick e1;sts. We are born into the aOorlH. 0nd there is something Uitkim Ms, sokick, from the ;astGnt th0t zoe Eive, more and more th;rsts after its likeness. A is probably in correspondence sCsth tAis t0s0 that the infant drains milk from the bosom of its motker: this propensity developes it- self s0ith the deUelOpement of Our nature. We dimly see Within Oar intellectual nature q m;niGtuve as it scere of ow entire self, get depriUed Of 0lI that ve c0ntema or des- p;se, tks ideal prototype of eUery thing er- ceiEent ard loUely that zoe are capable ef conceiUing as belonging to the nature of man. Not onIy tke portrait of our e1termdl being, but an asssmblage cf the minutest pGrticIes cf s0kich Ov nature is composed !: q mirror wkose snyface rejects Omly the forms of purity and brightness: soul aCitAin Our o,On sOal that describes e circle around its proper Paradise, which pain and sor7Oso and evH dare not overleap. IO this zoe eagerly refer aH sensations, thnst- ieg tkat they should resemble and corres- pond witk it. The discovery of its anti- typc Me meeting with an understanding capable Of clsarly estimating our o,0n; anl imagination ,chich should enter into and seize apOm the subtle and delicate peculiGri- ties whic6 we have delighted to cherish and unfold in secret, with e frame, whose nerves, like the chords of t0o exquisite lyres strung to tAe accompaniment of one delightful Uoice, UibrGte With the Vi6rat,on. of our o,on and combination of al these in such proportion as the type ,cithi, demGRds: this is tke iaDisible and anat- tGinable point to ehich Love tends and tt GttaiR wkick, tt urges forth the Eovers oJ man to arrest tks funniest shadov of thaf ssithOat tke possession of achick, there is nt rest .or respite to the heGrt OUer whick d rules. Hence in solitude, or tkat deserted ssGte wken Ue arc surrounded by human