New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-07
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| Mead was the chosen drink ST the Northern
gods. And this essence OF. the honey Of the
mountain bee was LOT though, unworthy 10 re-
viye the sJus of The valiant who had left .Aeir
bodies on the fields of strife below.
Nect@r should combiac the v;r.ues OF the ruby
wine, the golden mead, wi,hou. thci7 d;fec.s or
dangers.
Two high claims our writer can vindicato on
tho attention OF his contemporaries. One from
his sincerity. You have his thought jsst as it
found pace il the life Of his own soul. Thus,
however near or relatively distant its approxirna-
tion to ab:clute truth, is action On you cannot
fail to be hea!,hful. It is part of the free air.
He belongs to that band Of whom there may
be found few in every age, and who now in
known human history may be counted by nun,
dfeds who worship the one God only, the GOO
of Truth. They worship, net saints, nor crceds,
nor churches, nor Ieliques, idols in any firm.
The mnd Is kept open TO truth, and life only
valued as tendency toward it. This must be
illustrated by acts and words o. love, purity and
intelligence. Such are the salt of the earth 1t
the mnu!est crystal o! thu. salt be willingly by
US held in solution.
The other is through that part o. his life,
which, If sometimes obs:ruc:cd or chilled by the
! critical intellect, is yet the prevalent and the
main source Of his power. dis that by which
he ;mprisons his hearer only 10 free him again as
g "ioeraling God' TO use his own words. But
indeed let US them altogether, for none other,
ancient Or modern, can more wortbily express
how, making present 10 US the courses and desti-
MICS Of nature, he invests himself with her Sc
rcnity ard animates US with her Joy.
"Poctry was all written before time was, and
whenever VIC arc so tinely organized that we can
penetrate into .hat region where The air i- music,
VIC hear those primal warnings, and attempt to
write them down, but ne lose ever and anon
word, or verse, and substitute something Of our
oxn, and thus miswrte the poem. The men o.
moro delicate ear write down these cadences
more faithfully, and these transcripts, though i'm
perfect, become the songs Ct the nations"
GAS the eyes Of Lynceos were said 10 see
through the earih go the poet turns the world to
glass, and shows US all things in their right Sc
ries ard procession. For, through that better
perception, lie stands enc sep nearer to things,
and secs The flowing or mstamorphosis; pcrcciyes
that thought is muliifo:m, that within the form
OF every creature is eimpelling it to ascend
into higher form; end following with his eyes
the life, uses the forms which express that life,
and 50 the speech flows with the flowing of Da-
ture."
Thus have we in brief and unworthy man.
ncr Indicated some views Of these books. The
only true criticism of these, or any good books,
may be gained by making them the companions
of our lives. Docs every accession of know
ledge or a jusler sanse of beauty makes us prize
them morcl Then they are good, indeed, and
more immortal than mortal. Let that test be ap-
piled to these; essays which viii lead 10 great
and complete poems somewhere *