New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-13
THE TRIBUNE.

ieuce rolling back sha!i icd't III" aspect sihiib
nsarhro greet the most ancient heavens. The
r.ya rolls forward slowly, and may be as long in
..,rsa,ing bat when it has retired into the eternal
,eeo il viii leave behind it refreshed world, in
xbcb there may still be many low and mean men,
,o no lorer c'asses for it will be understood tlsat
is the glory of to labor, and that all kinds
A Labor have their poetry, and that there is really
"A more lower and higher among the world OF
.so with their various spheres, than III the world
s.srs All kinds of Labor are equally honorable.
s,be mind of the aborer be only open so to under
saad them But as
"The glory ts Of Mans estate
For this his dover did he receive.
Tba, he in mind should contemplate
What with his hands he doth achieve
aObserve we sharply, then what vantage
From cOniux Of weak efforts springs
He urns his craft 10 small advantage
who knows not what to light il brings
his ,bis that has made the difference of high and
Inv that certain occupations were supposed to have
beuer influence in liberalizing and refining the
Ester faculties than others. Now, the tables are
,urpng The inierenccs and impressions to be
rsDed from the pursuits that have ranked highest
a.. for the present. exhausted. They have been
written about, prated about till they have had their
a,y and need to lie in the shadow and recruit their
energies through silence. The mind OF the time has
detected the truth that as there is nothing the least
Elected in this universe, which does not somehow
represent the whole, which it is again the whole
cope and effort of human Intelligence TO do, no
deed no pursuit fail if the mind be divinely in
tended upon it, to communicate divine knowledge.
Thus il seen that all a man needs for his educa
ion is TO take whatsoever lies in his way to do,
and do i, with his might, aud think about il with
his might. too for,
He turns his craft to small advantage,
who knows not what 10 light IL brings"
And. as mark of this diffusion of the true, the
poetic the philosophic education, we greet the
emercence more and more OF poets from the Work
ing Classcs,-men who not only have poet hearts
and ewes, but use them TO write and print verses
Bcranger, the man of the People. is the greatest
poet and in fact the greatest literary genius OF
modern France. In other nations If the lower
classes have not such an one to boast, they at
kast have many buds and shoots of new talent.
40, to speak of the patronizcd plow-boys and de
lecied merits she has now order constantly In
creasng able to live by the day labor of that good
right hand which wields the pen at night with
aims thoughts, feelings of their own. neither Dor
rowing from nor aspiring TO the region OF the Rich
and Great Elliott, Nicol Prince and Thorn lind
enough in the hcdee.rows that border their every
day path they need not steal an entrance TO pad
u n gnQrIgH
man traps and spring-guns.
OF three of these il may be said, they
swere Graded into Poesy by Wrong
And learnt in Suffering what they taught in Song
Bat Of the fourth-Prince we mean-though he In
deed suffered enough OF the severest hardships OF
work DAY life, the extreme hardships of life when
work could no, be rot. yet he was no flint that
seded such hard blows to strike ont the fire. but
IN easily bubbing naph,ha.spring that would have
burned much the same, through whatever soil II
bad reached the open air
He was born of the poorest laboring people,
taught to read and write impcrfectly only by means
oihe Sunday Schools discouraged in any taste for
books BY his father lest his time If any portion We're
tia, way bestowed, should not suffice 10 win his
bsad.-wi,h no friends Of the mind, in youthful
years except volume of Byron, and an old German
who loved 10 tell stories of his native land married
nineteen, in the hope Of mingling some solace
with his cup; plunged by the birth of children into
deeper want going forth To foreign lands beggar IN
search Of employment, returning TO his own country
be received as paupcr, having won nothing but
rental treasures which no man wished TO buy Ire
Sund his wife and children in the Work House
M took them thence home TO lie with HIM on
ssw in an unfinished garrett. Thus passed the
x half Of the span allotted on earth TO one made IN
Tod simsge And during those years Prince con
ssnIywro,e into verse how such things struck him
Saw canno, say tina, his human experiences were
orep; FOR all these things that would have tortured
%Ae' men. only panied him specifically Into The
el Of Elliott the iron has entered the llghiesi song
O Bersnger echoes to a melancholy sense OF the de-
ieeis OF this world with its Tantalus destin'es,
SeancAoly which touches it at times with celestial
prhOs Blu, life has made but little impression ON
Fnnce-Endowed by Nature with great purity OF
As'iac,s healthy vigor Of feeling more than OF
nooght be sees and expresses in all his works The
Asppiness natural 10 Man He sees him growing,
gently, gradually, with no more of struggle and IA
boz than is wanted 10 develope his manly strength.
earning his best self from the precious teachings OF
Domestic affections fully and in,elligently the son.
ne over the husband. the father He sees him
waking amid the infinite fair shows of Nature
csiy, yet companionsble. too. he sees hum
s1enng 10 his God no sacrifice of blood and iears
'oe'her others or his own. but the incense O. 4
grateful and oboden, heart. ever ready for love and
good works
ms This chidishness, rather this vircinity OF sou
Val makes Princes poems remarkable. He has no
~sn poetic power. not even marked individuality
~upression. There are no lines verses or images
Na strike by themselves neither human nor extcr
= nature are described 50 as to make the mind Of
roe' ios;er-tather to its subject. The poems are
-! easy expression of the common mood OF a
'-'ny mind and tender heart. which needs to vent
=, ~ IN words and metres. Every body should be
~ 70 write as good verse-every body has the
1e simple. substantial things To put into it On
ageneral basis the high constructive faculty,
Imagination, might rear her palaces unafraii Of
's.a rom war or time.
'as being the case with Prince. we shall not make
raf..r Il