Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-07-12
varietles oil EnglisIa Lie. I.

ExtTactfrom ''VArieties Of English Life, " in Black
woods Magazine. Z. n
yet most men marry, and most men sur
yive the operation" f.fs
IF it were only necessary to live, that
would be aiconsolatory and encouraging re-
fiection. But to live with peace, 70 hveiini
harmony with your thoughts, your habits,
your aspirations -andl this in the perpetual
companionship Of person to whom you have
given the power 10 wound your freedom, to
jar on each thought and each habit. and bring
you down to the meanest details of earth
when you invite her poor soul to soar TO the
lspheres-thaI makes the to be, or not to be
which is the question:
sHIwere you. Harley, would do as /
have heard the author af iSandford and 1sr-
ton did-choose out achild and educate her
yourself after your own heart i s. afloii
You have hitis' answered Harley serious
| ". That has long been my idea--a very va
que one'I confess but fearI shall be an
old man before / find even the child. aras7g
| eAha he continued, yet more earnestly
while the whole character his varying eouni
tenance changed again-'ah if indeed could
discover whatI seek--one who with the heart
| of child has that mind of woman; one who
beholds in nature the variety, the ,chaIm,the
never feverish, ever healthful excitement that
others vainly seek in the bastard sentimenta-
| lities of life false with artificial forms; one
who can comprehend. as by intuition, the rich
poetry with which creation is clothed--poetry
so clear TO the child when wondering at enra-
ptured with the flower, or when wondering at
the starl If on me such exquisite compan-
ionship were bestowed-Why tben"-The
paused, sighed deeply and covering his face
with his hand, resumed in faltering accents
@But once-but once only, did such vision
of the beautiful made human rise before me
amidst golden exhaltation of the dawn y
only-you nly-how-hoB''--,,. ''s,ss.;6,..4
!, He bowed bis head. and the tears forced
themselves through his clenched fingers.
$50 long agop said Aubrey, sharing his
friends emotion. ears so long and so weary
yet still thus tenacious off mere boyish mem
Ory."1 .,.,.,.-..e ,-uss.
ing to his feet and with a laugh of strange
| merriment. "Your carriage still wants; sci
me home before you go to the Honse..,.,
Then laying bis hand lightly on bis friends
shoulder, he said, as it for you, Audley Ed
gerton, to speak sneefingly boyish memories
What elselis it that binds US together p
What else warns my heart when NEE
| you? What else draws your heart from
blue books and beer bills, to waste them on I
yagrant like me? Shake hands. Oh, friend
of my boyhood recolleet the oars that We
piled and the bats that we welded in the
old time, or the murmured talk on the moss
grown bank, as we safe e-together, building in
the summer air castles mightier than Windsoi
Ah! they are strong ties, those hoyish mem-
/ ories believe me! remember as if it were
Yesterday my translation Of that lovely pas
sagein Persius beginning let me see-2ahi-
.'Quum primuum pavido custoS mihi PhrPnri
~ fGa 's1af cesSit. - 2titg2sTsl en- /
| that passage on friendship which gushes ou
SO lovingly from the stern heart Of the satirist
| And when Old complimented me OF
the verses my eye. sought yours, Verify
/ now say as then. 80 '@a :. Etfeg ts'itfs
t'NesciO quOd, certe est quod me tibi temdetes
~ O." }sfI s5io astram m''f iltf't1ii3j jiSfsti5 f
Audley turned away his head as heretuFn
ed the grasp of bis friends hand; and whil'
Harley, with bis light elastic footstep, deseen
ded the stairs. Edgerton fingered behind.an'
there was no trace of the worldly man upol
his countenance when he took his place in th'
carriage by his companion's side. @7a2'
4 = 'tWhat was the star know not, but certainly
II .a,,a star il Vyaa ,lant attnned me unto thee."