New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-04-24
PASSAGES FROM coRsE DE LEON.
Ely q. z. X. JAMES.

P. It.. JAMES
THE MGssoS OF LovE.-The observation may tri-,
that TO every period life is assigned by the Almighty and
Munlccn Being who creation adapted TO each part
of material form the functions that 1t was 10 execute and
the abors either peculiar powers OF endur
councrlaancng feelings which render the incYita-
bic cares and apporoncd every epoch o be-
ing lighter and more easy To be borne The woes OF child
hood are, in themselves speedily forgotten lie pains are
succeeded by pleasures and the gnawing care the
rack of afcr-lif, is then unknown. Boyhood cnhu
sa>c hopeful beyhood the Of acquisition and eNpcct
ton though it may know from time to time bitter pnS
scarcely less in Is degree than those that aict mature tc
has compromising enloymc;s lis own sunshine Is so
bright the light that shines upon from the future daz
zling, that the grcs but preparation and warn
ing little remembered when once they are past Old
age with decay with the extinction of earthly hopes with
the prospect of the tomb has also dued cnbiltcs that
allow us feel of the painful things OF carly
The buncd edge of appetite not give so keen
pleasure but the apathy which accompanies it
tends grc we'll joys, and ii wisely used, is one OF
the best preparations for resignation of that of being
which have tried in the balance of experience and have
found wanting wanting in all that satisfy high and
ethereal spirit wanting all thing. but its grand purpose OF
trial for a life But, besides all this unto that Pc
rod of old age thus prepared and sdnoni>hcd for another
state God himself has also given comfort ana consolation
promise and hope; promise brighter than NIL the prom
of youth hope brighter than all those that have With
cred away upon path OF HE.
There still another age, however; age the most per-
loIs often the full OF pains age whom the eager
aspirations of youth reach the hand toward iton when
the rrca, truth, of disappointment break upon when we
first learn the bitter lesson that hope has told ~ idle tales,
that fortune of tickle favor that friendships are too often
false that our hearts do ourselves wrong that ENJOY
ment itself often vanity and often vision, that we must
suffer- and srcvc aid repent IN the midst OF world which,
shortly before, tlucicd composed o nothing but
brightness and beauty and happiness speak OF the time
of lifo when We FIR, put on manhood and all It's
Mt the when expect nothing but its joys
L,r briru
there sustaining principle implanted in our breast COM
the highest and the lowest the savage and the civil
izcd principle that furnishes balm to many wounds, that
surrounds with atmosphere OF consolation hope ard
iov and enables lis live in splendid dream, even IN
the midst Of hard and dark realities That pflnsipe Is love
The ri y,est part of confidence. Its that per-
feet that anhesating reliance, that interchange OF every
idea and every feeling, that perfect community OF all the
heart, secrets and all the minds thoughts which binds two
beings together closely dearly than the dearest OF
than tic of passion or the oath OF the
altar. 1t is that confidence which, did we not deny its sway
would give earthly love pclnancncc that We md pt sell
dom in this world
TFr SPtr1r's G1ooM-Tlicrc n thousand small and
apparently accidental circumstance, which, IN osr course
through p bring temporary gloom upon US render our
from the future fearful and cheercss and d.
mni,h our confidence in all those things whereupon man
either rashly relies builds his reasonable trusts Strength
YOUTH wealth. power the consciousness OF recttde the pro-
violence of God all these will occasionally lose their sus-
tanning influence, upon the most hopeful mnd from
causes too slight to Justify such an effect
These accidental circumstances these mental clouds,
s-nb those other clouds which sometimes, the close OF
bright ay landscape previously warm and si-
ing cast gray shade its rich hues shut out the re-
doubled glory OF the setting m and make gloom and shadow
spread over the summer scene Though nothing changed
but the light in which things dwell though the color OF the
tree and the form of the rock the same yet the bright
ness OF the whole departed and the lutre forever
There are times however, when gloom which seems to
have no counterpart in the physical world comes over the
mind; when all has gone fairly with u.s. when every OBJECT
around Is full of brightness and hoPe when the horses OF
Fortunes car have never stumbled their way; and
not sorrow rough enough rub the down from the wing OF
butterfly has fallen upon hearts for years; and yet
deep and shadoyy dependence steals upon our spirits as
the immortal within telling the mortal OF aNlete ana
scfs and dangers by the me SYM
atics Of the higher part Of being with things und'o
cred by the mere materla! creature. nib
Care. sorrows and perils, corporal agony ana I
Of the heart are bu, the fire which 'ein .h
iron into the fsc steel proving and str.
shirt The last grand lesson which ieads se -!
,coro,,s ma ohood which confirms our ho"et'' anu 5 W
o, ,,r mastery over Fate il 10 endure ana am HI
I'll ., i;-o ,b, .,,ct sudden and unaccounfabe feelings
- ,T do not mean the ordinary FITS OF gloom
,. bd,r moody and hayward spirit but, on the con-
h III impression. the heavy shadow that once or
- - the midst Of bright lifetime, iresistiby
mon a cav or placid mind am inclined to think, say,
that such dependence Only given the hghminded and
the great prophetic voice, announcing not 10 the ear but