Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-04-23
RODy Y MIMI

BODY AND MIND-By cALLyLr.-Two
men i honor, and no third. First, the toll
worn craftsman, that, with earth-made imple-
ments. laboriously conquers the earth. and
makes her mans. Venerable to me is the hard
hand, crooked, coarse wherein. notwithstan-
ding, lies q cunning virtue, indcfeasibly royal,
AS OF the scel tie OF this planet. Venerable,
too, is the rugged face, all weather-tanned be-
soiled, with It's rude intelligence for il is the
iacc oil a man living man-like. Oh, but the
more venerable Tor thy rudeness even because
we must pity as well as love thee! Hardly en-
treated brother! For us was thy back so bent,
Tor Us were thy straight limbs and fingers so
delormed thou vert om conscript, ON whom
the otlell. and fighting our battle vert so mar
red. For IN thee, too, Law a God-created form,
but IT was moi to be uniolded incrusted must
IT stand with the thick adhcsions and deiace-
ments OF labor and thy body. like thy soul.
was not to know freedom. Yet toll on, thou.
thou art III the duty, be out of it who may
thou toilest for the altogether indispensable,
for daily bread.
"A second man | honor, and still more high
~ him who is seen toiling for the spiritually
indispensable-not daily bread, but the bread
Oh lie. Is not he, too, in his Duty, endeavo-
ring towards inward Misunderstanding this
by act and by word, through all his outward
endeavors, be they high or low? Highest
OF all when his outward and inward endeavor
are one when we can name him artist-not
earthly craftsman only, but inspired thinker,
,lat WIN heaven made implements conauers
heaven Tor us. III the poor and humble toll
that we may have food. must not the hipb and
glorious toll for him in return. that he may
have light, guidance, freedom, immortality I!
These two, in all their degrees, / honor all
else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow
whether itlisteth.
onspeakably touching is it, however, when
1 ma both dignities united; and hope that he
must toll outwardly for the lowest of mans
wants, is also toiling inwardly for the highest.
Sublimer, IN this world, know / nothing than
a peasant saint, could such anywhere now be
m I. Such a one will take thee back TO
Nazareth itself; thou wilt see the splendor of
heaven spring from the humblest depths of
earth, like a light shining in great darkness.
Anu again; 1t Is not because of his toll that
l iamentio Tor the poor; we must all toll, or steal,
however we name our s~tcaling,) which is
worse; no faithful workman finds his task a
Pastlme.. The poor man is hungry and athirst
but Tor him also there is food and drink: he is
heavy laden and weary, but for him also the
heavens send sleep, and the deepest: i'm his
smoky crlba clear dewy heaven ofrestenve,ops
min' and hiiul glimmerings of cloud-skirted
dreams. But what i do mourn over is. that
thI lamp OF his soul should go out; that no ray
Oh heavenly, or even earthly knowledge should
VISIT him; but only in the haggnri darkness,
like two spectres, fear and indignation. Alas
while the body stands so broad and brawny.
must the SOU lie, blinded, dwarfed, supplied,
almost anmhilated! Alas! was this. too. a
breath OF God; bestowed in heaven, but on
earth never to be unfolded! That there should
one man die ignorant, who had capacity for
khowiedee, THIS call a tragedy, were il to
happen more than twenty lines in a minute
as by some computation it does.