The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1850-02-09
Hotthpotohery,

.r you Ha Wutl BOO iVtfJ number. Bot no
rluifTa devil h9s ur,ir some lameniable mis-
.Hhca 40 drciphcrug ny chirogrsphy, which
wauld baye y"u BY na means charge upon
ur Hereafter, vhrnryrr you drlrol 90 an.
grammatical sentence n,fPellcd word, ~ q
mfp4rrd elmma, sct IL down % mistake Of
IAr m1p of typr. lir viii hy the blame ~
ron my b'rbarous chiIoRraphy, aud thus NY
taow'fdge will not BE- questioned. ! am very
icplDus II that, most Of all would Il wound ny
,.,,4, ,ale Gale q a bad sPellrf When went
80 district school IL used 90 be my hobby that
mld "sprll lhc whole school dawn
Thosr two words, "dltiriet school have
called up crowd ofIee, Elections "Therr -
chord Ia The harp Of the soul, which, WHEN
1lurhrd BY mgmofy's genge hand, y,brates 10
meet sweet yet moufnfii auiso +" Whru "lhe
lalo orihc light Of other days galbers around,
Aow Il sire the deep founlfins of feeling -
The present, aud It's realities arc fofgolIen,
uad We, live again Va the past We walk ~
thc paths where IN childhood We slrnyed, the
sound Of wcll remembered voices 10 again IN
ouf ebfs, familiar faces are ofowdlng around
us, the light ofh1ppy eyes sbeaming upon us,
aDg for moment, aye for hours We forget that
a,gr ~ slraliug on, and gray hairs are upon
our brow, How distinctly, Ia ny minds eye,
| can see that old school house with ia fat
roof AZ II stood by the rohd side, Its "mouse
culofcd" salls, high and small windows, ila
long sraisfsing oue above The other like those
"a an nmpi,hcaife, TO compare small things
with FrcnL--lhr te0ohcT's table aud chair 10
one eotner o. the small area in front Of Ihe
tcate, are pa well defined, and distinctly yis'
hle 10 me NJ the dimensona Of my own room.
And the companions who used 10 20 IN, aud
come ont with me are there in the old seats,
all aLl- GaGE LlgIc -lmang ll2ln.--a- all1lY.I
light hearted, hoy,
Where now IL that band Of Joyous youth
Scattered, scattered. Some have gone down
into the grave ia the flush Of lifo aspiring time,
before iA eark, and ogse, Ind wcurcd their
souls, or the seorncr'H Tcproueh, and the proud
man eonlumcly, had scared, and hardened
their spirits The rest are plotting their barks
az best they may ndown lfc'rrver, May they
an be safely moorcd at last in The port dieter.
nifty, where hope shall be changed to sight,
aud faith TO glad fruition,Nn no storm or ten,
pest ever come
Poeia naseeiWr, non M-lloRAeE.
-A-lt'aa-oa az, t-Inake- hiuiaglia paci----
No moro n a sherp eau make ituclfa goat.
SFoKEsnANL.
Horace, uht prince Of tHtin poets, never
uttered trucr sentiment than the above,
thungh 1t may have lost some Of its original
forcd and beauty, In the hands Of the transla.
tor The translation 'is not literal, by any
means, yet no p5c.ieal translalions that am
acquainted with are any more so The "dggcr"
Is quite an addition ia this case, and helps a.
moringiy in calculating the text. This re-.
minds me that was intending to discourse
while on Poetry, when revived my knowl- !
edge Of latin enough to quote a verse in the
original
An poetry is not written. Tho trucst high. |
est specimens are found in the outer world 49,
The univcrR' hath voice, which, with it's
cycryarying modulatons, speaks TO the soul
with the purcst sentiment, the most icrvld ell. !
oqucncc. When the hand Of Omnipotonoe !
Grsi swept the Tyre Of erenton,nnd the morn.
ing p'ars commenced their swelling anthem,
che worlds that wheel their ccaBclcss rounds |
in space, joined the eSordum ofthat eloquent
speech, which having neither tongue nor ut
tcruncc, has ever in the cireing ages past, and
viii ever in the revolving cycles of coming
years, STR IN ThJ Fptrrt NJ 44Ate4a
functions deep, lasting and sublime. ltisthc
only speech, the only poetry, that il lasting,
md thrs-- eieRt- can write fat-ete FRityr who
have. in moments ofinspiraton, caught strains
from this everlasting pman, and transferred
them 10 the living page IN the rirnpie iahgaage
of nature. But fow, and those only natures
noblcmcu, have ever penetrated this arcanum,
this holy Of holjes, in the temple OF creation,
and received from the goddess of the temple
WIN < bieBErug thu fsyrr whUsr thrilling ru-
SIC nations have heard entraneed. Melesig-
vurB. that s'biud Md bard of seo ky isir, q
played upon the instrument with n thousand
stops given him By his cherishing mistress,
and the muse he walked hNs echoed from gen.
Grafton 20 generation, and from age TO age, Till
now, aftcr the iapsc Of three thousand years,
ears from the shndowy past We wake from
our ccstacy al the marvellous beauty ofthe song
Wondering that The world has seen but one
Honey, sc much does his lay eeem an echo Of
our own spirits; while, in reality, our rapture
arises from beholding portrayed with mas.
jef q hand thaBe visions OF beauty which have
melimra flashed like suniigbt on our souls,
which we have felt but could never tell -
Homer was emphuticnlly the poet of nature,
the interpreter of the heroglyphic characters
stamped all over the pnge unroled before us.
In the far of past he is alone, standing like
his own rock bound isle, in the midst of the