The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1844-11-09
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THE POETS BRIDE.
BY MRS. MARY v SMITH.
CHAPTER /.

NV asass
In rich and luxurous apartment,
where crimson cu,ia,us, costly carpets
rare cabinet pictures, and v,rlous and
| Irch furniture attesled The taste of the
owner, sat young man, apparently be-
tween twenty five snd thirry. Bu',nou
withslanding The womany love of beat
'iful furniture which characterized hi,
chamber, there was nothing efieminat
in his appearance. IL form ne wa,
8 ieht, though well propor,ioned, above
The medium height, ahd with lhroa,,
which an open ollar displayed, of grea
o'auty, Tne lace was not, perhaps.
5aodsome, bit there was som tong l.
| it thai al once arrested the eye. Tn,
forehead broad aud masSy; eyebrow,
with The bold, classic sweep; nos
chlselled finely oul as Il from marble;
small mouth; well cut lips; chin like
The Apolo's; and lhe head set on The
neck and shoulders with grace and
soIidily that emnded you Of the bes
lays Of Grecan scul plute. Hiscoun,e-
nance in repose wore an air OF singula'
lcslmness, but as he sa, musing, playf
smile would now and then shoe, W
'cross i,,Iike summer lightning playi ng
|up the firmanenl. In the smile as wei
as in The placid though fnlners of the
brow you saw thai men were not al fault
when they called Horace Vernon ge
MUS; and though as yet he was know
only as the frs, orator tor his aye it
Congress, yet he was also poet, an
one of no meHn repute. But he exsr
cised his vocation in secrei, and not ever
MS mos, intimate frleuds knew ihal tht
sarcastic orator and the nels,- .ybilt.,-as
known poet, whose anonymous vol
INES every body was talking of wer
me and the same person.
Horace Vernon indeed was a strang
compound. In b'yhooi he had been
generous to q fault, frank, trusting and
nil of feeling, Bur,lke most sensIy,
persons, he had received many real an
f,ncied REBUFF, uni at length he sough
refuge in an affected GOODNESS Of heart,
and in a sarcastic demesnor, as if hi,
whole nature had been changed. IL
soon won a reputation !or want Of feel
inL, and even when he entered public
/ te b6came celebrated more for his sat
irlc,l vein of oralorv than for an Impas
stoned style.
Bu, though he thus concealed HI
feelings, there beat, in few bosoms, r.
more loving heart than that of Horace
Vernon. And it yesr9ed for sympaihy
and companionsbip with an undyin.
longing Ever since his boyhood he
mad lhirsled for some one TO love, bur,
amid The fair, and fattered;he had look
ID in vain for a kindred spirit. Fastid
Gus to a fault he saw none who realized
his ideal, Wanting personal sympathy
he found vent (oI his cravings in the
creation of fanced being to whom hc
secretly poured out his soul in poetry;
AMI, at length, when a volume had sc-
cumulaled on his hands, he gave it anon
ymously 10 The world. The tenderness
and Imagination, the lofty notions of the
female character, and The love for all
men that brea,hed through his poems al
once secured the unknown author wide
spread tame. None suspected Vernon,
for what could be more unlike the feel
ings Of the sarcastic orator than the
glowing emotions that burned on every
page Of the anony nous poet? Many,
howevr r, were The enquiries made after
he author, But even the publisher was
ignorant OF him, for all communication,
between The two passed through secret
channel.
The publication OF these poems mark
ed an era in Veruons life, because III
was the beginning of romance that al-
fected his destiny, a lew weeks sf'eI
his volume had issued from The press ;ht
received letter from 40 unknown lady
breathing all those sentiments which
Vernon would have looked for 10 a wo-
man. The writer said she wrote be-
cause it was improbable that they would
ever meet, and because in The sentiments
he had breathed she had found an echo
TO those which long filled her breast
The letter was followed by Others, at
various times, which raised still higher
Vernon's estimation of her intellect and
hearl, for Of all men he adored the lat p
ter in women, He soon grew lntereste d