Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-02-28
A Chapter on a Soft Subject.

a great many people in this world talk Of
love. School girls are most apt 10 think they
comprehend the mysterious passion. Are they
sure that they do? Is it not mere Pigment OF
their idle ances? Young gentlemen approach
ing the age OF twenty are also much given to
discuss this curious sensation. 1t is, however,
in defiance Of all these opinions, more talked Of
than felt. A celebrated ancient called it San
lnlerpostion Of the Gods in behalf Of the
young" An able modern asserts that it is ga
passion celebrated by ALL yet truly felt only by
a few lie asked not what sort of n man art
thou that canSt be ignorant of love! but what
sort Of a man art thou that can be capable OF
loye?"
1t is asserted that the classic ancients knew
nothing OF it, though some Of the eastern poets
have describe it with the most delicate touches,
Milton wrote that it
-"Refnes
The thoughts, and hearts enlarg"s: hath its seat
In reason, and is judicious; is the scale
BY which to heavenly love we may ascend"
Moore paints it thus:
There's bliss beyond all that the minstrel
has told,
When two that are linked in one heavenly tie,
With hearts never changing, and brow never
cold,
Love on through all ills, and love on till they
die.
One hour Of a passion so sacred, is worth
Whole ages orheartIess and wandering bliss
For, oh, il there be an EIysium on earth,
1t is this,-it is this,-ti is this"
These lines are surprisingly beautiful, but
their author was a sad dog among the finder
box Of women'S hearts.
Lamb, another of the ''irritable tribe" says
Of husband,
fly 18th strenuous wachCulness anticipate
All thy desires; TO show myself at all times,
| Whichever most thou wiShest me to be-
ICUnSort, protector. brother, friend or servant
Behold TO what pledge myself in this,
And this alone, my glory and my life
Will be all conferred"
But Of what authority are poets! They
write of much that they never see, nor feel
nor hear Of. Let US return TO prose. MOsl
men Judge the softer sex by their own feelings
hence, Chesteriied-a hcarlless fop-calIed
women "toys;" and many other very sensible
fellows who lacked nothing, save hearts, have
Expressed similar opinions. But what says the
better portion oil the masculine gender? One
asserts that "women are the charms and de-
! lights ofour existence. When they love, they
do with purity, with dslntcresledness, AND
with consancy. Their hearts are sanctuares
and fit to become the centres Of every pure en-
Ijoyment"
Again: "the appetite ola wenton is like the
South wind of Arabia breathing over the strings
Of lutes. The strings relax ana the lutes are
never in tune Farther:-
"Love is composed Of all that is delicate in
happiness and pleasure; it is a union Of desire
tenderness and friendship; confidence the most
unbodnJed, and esteem the most animated and
solid. Filling the entire capacity Of the soul
whether in sickness, sorrow. or in poverty, il
eIeyates the character by purifying every pas
sion, while it poIShes The manners with man
y soliness When the flame ola love so pure
and delicate as this goes out, a friendship, the
most solid and affecting, springs from It's ashes
And where love like this exists, far better is il
10 be joined in death than, by tho malice Of a
hayward fortune, to drag on years of anxious
separation"